FinanceAnon

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by FinanceAnon 5y ago
I am a backend engineer and recently had to improve my CSS to work on a side project. I highly recommend book "CSS in Depth" by Keith J Grant - it helped me to build a solid foundation.
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by FinanceAnon 5y ago
I think that the media is overusing the term "whistleblower". There are many of wrong things happening at big companies (FB, Google, Amazon) and you are not really a whistleblower by bringing this up. Media labelling those people
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by FinanceAnon 5y ago
Is this the same guy who recently posted about trying to bluff Steve Jobs, getting called out on it and losing a deal? I wonder how many more stories like these he has lol Edit: found the link for those interested https://news.yc
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by FinanceAnon 5y ago
What happened later? Did they manage to get out?
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by FinanceAnon 5y ago
How can a government ensure everyone's safety without sacrificing people's privacy or imposing on their lives? I would like everyone to be and feel safe, but at the same time I wouldn't want a CCTV and a policeman on every co
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by FinanceAnon 5y ago
I feel that wisdom is a very overlooked trait. Especially in the younger generations it is associated with being "boring", which is a shame. I think not that many people care about being smart, and even less care about being wise.
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by FinanceAnon 5y ago
I agree. I see being smart as the ability to learn some things quickly. However, you have to apply this in the right way and that's why other character traits are important - such as wisdom, kindness, patience. If being "smart&quo
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by FinanceAnon 5y ago
Could it be similar to imperative vs functional languages? Imperative style being closer to the hardware instructions and having the first-mover advantage in gaining popularity, while functional style being more abstract, but trailing behin
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by FinanceAnon 5y ago
People believe what they want to believe. For some people, any scientists whose words can be twisted to agree with their worldview are the "real scientists", while others are just "bribed scientists" who just write what
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by FinanceAnon 5y ago
On a similar note, I like to keep a work journal at my personal computer that I update every few months with what I've been doing. It helps with the interview preparation, as one of the most common questions is "what did you do at
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by FinanceAnon 5y ago
Even if it's not, they could get hacked or acquired by someone else along with all the personal videos and data
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by FinanceAnon 5y ago
Awesome idea and nice looking UI! I will definitely visit when I am looking for new books to read. One thing that I've noticed is that when I select another book, the scrollbar in the comment section doesn't automatically scroll
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by FinanceAnon 5y ago
If many managers are onboard with an idea, one engineer saying "no" doesn't have much weight. Also, if you keep saying "no" to things, you might be perceived as "negative" and it might come up in performan
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by FinanceAnon 5y ago
I like this article: “Venture capital money kills more businesses than it helps” https://www.vox.com/2019/1/23/18193685/venture-capital-money...
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by FinanceAnon 5y ago
I don't think human-defined moral value has much to do with consciousness. A sacred object (or animal), might have a high moral value in certain cultures, but it doesn't mean it's highly conscious.
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by FinanceAnon 5y ago
What defines something's "moral value"? What is "suffering"? Is it not just a signal that triggers certain pathways in the brain? Could it not be built/simulated? Is suffering necessary for something to be cons
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by FinanceAnon 5y ago
After a year of using Firefox on Macbook, I've switched back to Chrome. The laptop was running really hot just from having a few tabs opened and Youtube playing in the background. It's been much better after I've made the swi
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by FinanceAnon 5y ago
Part of me doubts that it's a permanent shift. There was a hippie movement in the 60s and 70s in the US, but conservatives are still going strong 50 years later.
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by FinanceAnon 5y ago
I think ability to walk upright is a bigger achievement
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by FinanceAnon 5y ago
I agree that some people might under/over-estimate their abilities. However, I am not sure if drawing is the right way to test it. I can visualise a straight line or a perfect circle, but I wouldn't be able to draw them perfectly.
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by FinanceAnon 5y ago
That's very interesting and the term "aphantasia" only got coined in 2015, so it looks like a fresh area of research. Do you think that there are some advantages to being this way? For example, being able to live more "i
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by FinanceAnon 5y ago
I thought about something similar in the context of "dangerous" AI. In a hypothetical scenario where super-smart AI got control of the internet and all the devices, would it be able to start controlling people?
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by FinanceAnon 5y ago
It's impossible to be absolutely rational. I feel like there is so many different levels and viewpoints that there is no right answer. Simple example: Let's say the same pair of shoes is available in two different shops, but in on
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by FinanceAnon 5y ago
Pursue excellence, not perfection. Try to be the best that you can be, but accept that you will make some mistakes.
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by FinanceAnon 5y ago
It's like in that episode of Friends where Joey discovered Thesaurus and turned his sentence "They're warm, nice people with big hearts" into "They're humid, prepossessing Homo sapiens with full-sized aortic pu
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by FinanceAnon 5y ago
I am not an expert on Swiss politics/demographics, but if you search for "the most liberal countries in the world" they consistently come up in top 10 (for example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_
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by FinanceAnon 5y ago
True, Switzerland (who I view as a "green" and progressive country) recently voted against those taxes in a referendum. I think it would be much worse in other countries. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-
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by FinanceAnon 5y ago
That would be a fairer format, but I've read that the football governing bodies aren't introducing it as it would be more confusing for people.
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Arbitrary - based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system (first definition from google) I think that reasonable and technically-informed deadlines are fine. But arbitrary deadlines are not a good long term appro
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by FinanceAnon 5y ago
That's not what I am saying. The parent post makes it sound like, if a developer doesn't have a deadline he will just work on a single feature forever. I am saying that most developers intrinsically want to complete features to mo

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