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Two Sigma, xoogler.
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skj··on Amazon illegally fired activist workers, Labor Board finds
Not clear what stereotype you're invoking here.
skj··on A Bayesian Approach to the Simulation Argument
The compression algorithm is that reality only has to be simulated for one person: you, the reader of this comment.
skj··on Richard Stallman Removed from the GCC Steering Committee
Yes, individuals who cause problems and generally abuse their colleagues should be excluded. <Insert identity selection here> should not be.
skj··on Richard Stallman Removed from the GCC Steering Committee
Calling "freedom to be yourself" a political idea is really sad and pathetic.
skj··on Richard Stallman Removed from the GCC Steering Committee
Ah yes, because welcoming all regardless of irrelevant background details precludes quality software.
skj··on Improving large monorepo performance on GitHub
Sounds like something to store in not-git.
skj··on I reverse engineered Google Docs to play back any document's keystrokes (2014)
Yes.
skj··on Post Mortem of Google Outage on 14 December 2020
GCP rollouts happen over four days, and don't run on Friday. So, Monday it is!

(there is wiggle room, exception granting, and grandfathering on this policy but it's true for many things)

skj··on Poor evidence that Q-tips are harmful
Physiology varies quite a bit.
skj··on Poor evidence that Q-tips are harmful
Use an ear syringe. So much more effective and, to my knowledge, no one has raised serious safety concerns.
skj··on Undergraduate Math Student Pushes Frontier of Graph Theory
Hopefully he doesn't read this and develop a complex :)
skj··on Vitamin D insufficiency may account for almost 90% of Covid-19 deaths
Rather, a control group who does not take vitamin D supplements. Choose them randomly and you can find causation (or lack thereof).
skj··on To do politics or not do politics? Tech startups are divided
Google, which is not known as a bastion of right-wing thought, will indeed match dollar-for-dollar donations to the NRA. Up to a threshold, just like it does for any other charity.
skj··on How much is YouTube worth today?
I don't know, but if so, is that relevant? The question was whether or not it was a good deal for Google. It's not zero-sum.
skj··on RIAA Takedowns Backfire as Pirated MP3s Now Surface on GitHub
In what way are you buried? I can see your comment.
skj··on RIAA Takedowns Backfire as Pirated MP3s Now Surface on GitHub
Does one imagine that the RIAA is substantially worried about this? I don't. I'm sure they see it as a total win.
skj··on When X-Rays were used at the Shoe Store
Would require taking your shoes and socks off, smothering them in sonic gel, and having someone who knows how operate the wand.
skj··on Cellular immunity to SARS-CoV2 found at 6 months in non-hospitalised individuals
It's a new virus each time. Each time, it diminishes to zero.
skj··on Is a billion dollars worth of server lying on the ground?
The implication is that they had already solved these problems and redoing the stack has its own cost to consider.
skj··on Background Features in Google Meet, Powered by Web ML
https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/deprecations
skj··on Get $15k to move to Michigan and work remotely
Somewhat less expensive than $15,000.
skj··on Google employees are free to speak up, except on antitrust
A ban on politics is not neutral.

Talking about politics provides no liability to Google.

skj··on Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued (2012)
If the tax brackets are 0% for the first $5, and 50% for the second $5, then if you pay one person $10, $7.5 goes into worker pockets. If you pay two people $5, then $10 goes into worker pockets.
skj··on FB to curb internal debate over sensitive issues amid employee discord
Betters, haha
skj··on FB to curb internal debate over sensitive issues amid employee discord
Being pro "treating people with basic human dignity" should not be a political stance, but here we are.
skj··on Study suggests that fresh asphalt is a significant source of air pollution
Heat, probably.
skj··on Two more restaurants in Toronto just got rid of tipping
That's fair. To be clear, I wasn't denying the claim, just asking for your thoughts around it.

I tip 20% rounded up to the nearest dollar every time, unless I'm really disappointed with the service which is quite rare.

skj··on Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q2 2020
Briefly, any drive (floppy disk or tape drive) has some likelihood of failure. You can minimize loss of data (the reliability being discussed) by replicating data in more than one storage item. It just becomes a matter of how many you buy (and how good you are at keeping them all properly organized).
skj··on Two more restaurants in Toronto just got rid of tipping
Racist/sexist in that it allows racists and sexists to express their biases via poor tips? Or something else.
skj··on Two more restaurants in Toronto just got rid of tipping
That's correct.
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