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rmacqueen
·3 mesi fa·discuss
> This is why the marginal difference between your median engineer and your P99 engineer is comp is substantial, while the marginal comp difference between your median pick and packer vs your P99 pick and packer isn’t.

That's an interesting analogy.
rmacqueen
·anno scorso·discuss
6k a month mortgage for a family of four seems low. It's at least double that in any major metro area.
rmacqueen
·anno scorso·discuss
How do you ensure the same user always gets the same treatment, even on subsequent visits to the site? You need the bucket sizes to be consistent for consistent hashing.
rmacqueen
·2 anni fa·discuss
> Marxists, after having removed all of the bullshit from Marxism, discovered that there was nothing left but liberalism.

This is not true. Marxism deals with much more metaphysical questions than liberalism does. The issue is not just that some people are poor and others are rich and that that's unfair. That has been true since time immemorial, but Marx's object of inquiry was specifically the economic system brought into being by the industrial revolution and other material changes. That system by its nature produces specific classes of people (proletariats and bourgeoisie), and Marxism is really about an analysis of those classes and the ethical questions brought about by their interaction.

So for example a big issue Marx is concerned with that is totally absent from liberalism is this concept of 'alienation'[1], whereby a worker becomes wholly estranged, in an artificial way, from the product that he creates; and whereby labour, normally a self-realizing and delightful undertaking, becomes instead commoditized as merely a means to existence.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation
rmacqueen
·2 anni fa·discuss
"Just be yourself and the right person will come along!"
rmacqueen
·2 anni fa·discuss
Yea this is a good point. Same with "lean forward" during skiing. It's only really helpful for someone who already knows why you need to lean forward (and is able to do so) but just had a momentary lapse.
rmacqueen
·2 anni fa·discuss
Something I've come to realize is when someone gives advice, especially career related, it's usually directed at a young version of themselves rather than to anyone else. The motivation, even in subconscious, is usually therapeutic from the standpoint of the advice-giver rather than helpful to the advice-receiver. It doesn't mean that it can't still be helpful, but it should be understood in that light.
rmacqueen
·2 anni fa·discuss
Yea this was more accurate for me too, at least for the one route I checked (NYC-LON)
rmacqueen
·2 anni fa·discuss
I'm not sure if you would call it 'agency' but the host is following it's own specific door-picking policy - a policy which will never result in a car being revealed. It is precisely this policy and no other which makes the contestant switch the correct move. But the original wording doesn't say that - it just says the host opens a door and it happens to have a goat behind it.
rmacqueen
·2 anni fa·discuss
I swear this problem only ever causes confusion because the original wording is ambiguous about what the host's motivations are. Once you realize the host is trying to get you to lose and knows what's behind each door and must open a door, then it's clearer that you should switch.