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by 300bps 4y ago
…as well as the unavailability of someone to take the other side of the trade and a million other reasons. There are literally thousands of arbitrage experts working 10 hour days looking for true arbitrage opportunities. As a result they’re
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by 300bps 4y ago
Which diet will win in the long run I understand what you are saying and acknowledge there is a lot of truth in it. I think though that your binary selection is too limiting that I'll describe with an example. In 2013 I had my routin
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by 300bps 4y ago
Science calls BS That's an extreme watering down of a complex topic. Essentially the study you link is saying that PIC (Positive, Immediate, Certain) outcomes are stronger than PDU (Positive, Delayed, Uncertain) outcomes. Well, of co
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by 300bps 4y ago
schedule 20 hours of meetings per week Have had this problem so much. The problem is managers and analysts are productive through meetings. Software Engineers are productive in blocks of 4-6 hours of focused concentration. Many managers d
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by 300bps 4y ago
Yeah I felt the same way working on Angular 4 or 5 years ago. .NET though is just freaking easy and works well. It seems like the SPA trend is slipping away which I think is a good thing.
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by 300bps 4y ago
I don't think that outcome is assured. In a lot of ways, Stable Diffusion's business model creates an existential threat to Getty Images. I would expect alternative outcomes to be: 1. The requested licensing fee approaches infinit
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by 300bps 4y ago
For people that are hyper competitive and ambitious, it's a way to tackle more and bigger challenges. Fine. I agree that hyper competitive and ambitious people might do this. I would add though that curious and passionate people will
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by 300bps 4y ago
No. I'm a salaried employee. Marginal time/effort savings do not directly translate into more money for me. I am also a salaried employee and if I can save a minute of work time that’s one less minute I have to work. I have a bo
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by 300bps 4y ago
Excellent but dangerous advice. I really hope non-technical people don't read the tips here and think they're now prepared to navigate this process.
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by 300bps 4y ago
It was a mass-market Centrum multivitamin.
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by 300bps 4y ago
The assumption being that your body will just dispose of any excess safely. Well worded. From my personal experience, this assumption is dangerous. About 20 years ago I was having elevated AST/ALT liver enzymes three tests in a row i
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by 300bps 4y ago
Most doctor's offices set aside x% of time for scheduled visits and y% of time for acute visits each day. We do it similarly. We generally reserve 20% of our time for production support and 80% of time for new development. If we have f
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by 300bps 4y ago
There are pretty well understood macroeconomic causes of the hiring binge as well as of the employee purge. The former was primarily caused by the fed throwing massive money at tech companies and the latter was caused by the fed stopping.
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by 300bps 4y ago
Imagine you have a money printing machine. And the more people you have to turn the cranks on that money printing machine, the more money you'll make. Then imagine the Federal Reserve comes along and says, "How would you like a bu
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by 300bps 4y ago
This is an important question. Speaking from experience, when you're 20 you can get away without exercising. 45 is about the time when lack of exercise starts to have a significant effect on your life.
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by 300bps 4y ago
Just as a counterpoint - I have several lumps in my neck and head area that have all been fully checked out. One is a benign lymph node in my neck. The other is a very hard fixed structure to the front of my left ear. Both have been there f
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by 300bps 4y ago
I have interviewed several hundred software engineers over decades. It’s hard to get a sense of a person from a single blog entry. I’m wondering though if she’s really good at acing FAANG style interviews and maybe not so good at other type
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by 300bps 4y ago
Yes, but implementation errors-- not fundamental flaws in the theory or underlying mathematics. Respectfully, I believe you are looking at Bitcoin through rose colored glasses. There is nothing special about Bitcoin's theory or under
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by 300bps 4y ago
This is why lack of consumer protections suck Agreed, and the problem is that this is a feature . Without that feature of a lack of central control, Bitcoin's main use case is invalid.
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by 300bps 4y ago
I was buying a house many many years ago at a time I was self employed. I owned a computer company and my largest client put in an order for 20 computers. They had Net 30 terms with me so I said to them, "I'm very sorry, I am buyi
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by 300bps 4y ago
I thrived in the dotcom crash while I watched many of my friends go to companies with generic names like "Global Digital Media" with silly business plans like putting Internet kiosks in U.S. airports. It was incredible - their ent
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by 300bps 4y ago
I've studied this extensively - best book on the subject was "Solving the Procrastination Puzzle". The main take-aways are: 1. Just Get Started. One common cause of procrastinating is avoiding negative thoughts. "This
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by 300bps 4y ago
Since DaniloDias is shadowbanned and he worded his response in a suboptimal way, I thought I'd paraphrase his response: Gates and Zuckerberg publish plenty of press releases about their charitable giving: https://countercurr
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by 300bps 4y ago
I can’t relate to this feeling of giving up because some work won’t be used Everyone is motivated by different things. My strongest motivation and satisfaction comes from implementing technology to make drastic and lasting positive change
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by 300bps 4y ago
Will just focus on Uber, but I don't agree with this at all. I actually agree with both of you! If I'm evaluating Doordash and the Uber Eats services, I think the OP is completely correct that the world would be better off witho
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by 300bps 4y ago
Autonomous murdering is easier, perhaps much easier. Is it really though? One variable that autonomous driving has in its favor is nobody is actively trying to disrupt it. What happens when people put up nets around key areas? Fishing lin
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by 300bps 4y ago
To your point, I literally laughed out loud at this in the article: Based on the pace of progress with AI technology today, I believe this is less than 10 years away. How does anyone write things like this and expect to be taken seriously
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by 300bps 4y ago
Found myself simultaneously laughing and being horrified by identifying techniques used by people I've worked with. The advice at the end is spot on. It also turned out that the best way to appear generous was actually to be generous
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by 300bps 4y ago
Yeah there is a lot of space between "has savings for 8-12 months" I think there is a mentality difference here. I have savings that would easily last me 10 years of not working. But... that's kind of my plan. I will be ret
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by 300bps 4y ago
>But I'm looking at the job market and think it might be better to give it 4-6 months. I'm fascinated by this. How does one do this? Two options I can think of are being independently wealthy and being dependent on another. Are

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