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by FooBarBizBazz 1y ago
If you give up on unit tests and code review then the code is "yours" instead of "ours" and your coworkers will not want to collaborate on it with you. However, this has to be substantive code review by technical peers w
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by FooBarBizBazz 1y ago
Why do students need to be inside the US in order for Harvard to issue them a degree? Surely there is an international network -- collaborators abroad who could host students, etc, etc. For example , Harvard already has an infrastructure of
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by FooBarBizBazz 1y ago
The article has absolutely nothing to do with "hashes vs. PRNGs". Literally nothing. It's all about the linear algebra and floating point operations that happen (in this case) to be used to transform those numbers. It has not
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
Really the way to do it, AFAIK (say, per How Asia Works ), is to apply selective subsidies , not tariffs, and to subject the subsidized industries to substantial export discipline . That's what gets you South Korean world-beaters. A
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
Why not 1 because 2?
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
> what Britain did was import massive amounts from India and made high value goods at home and provided high value services that couldn't be provided elsewhere Does this story really describe a trade deficit? Trade is measured in un
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
This word "fascism" is unfortunate, because the symbolism of the fasces is actually good: We do all need to bundle ourselves together if we are either (a) to accomplish anything, or (b) to resist capital. The only question is whet
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
Can condo or co-op (legal) structures solve this problem?
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
Honestly that seems high enough, yeah.
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
People are overthinking this. It's about power, and inculcating fear. The CEO who "cuts" people at a company is like the Aztec priest who plunges the knife in atop the pyramid. The bloody spectacle is the point. It's as
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
When I go down this chain of thought, I eventually end up at -- Legs. I have legs. They are built in. I can just use them. I can always bring my legs onto the subway. If they don't go fast enough, then I have two options: 1. Give mysel
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
When today's children are old, "house" may well imply "billionaire" in many places. At 11% appreciation, it only takes 67 years to gain a factor of a thousand. Then we will be ruled by trillionaires.
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
You have to assume that anyone wearing these things is filming you. It's creepy. People who use them are creepy.
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
Your point #3 is concerning. It is almost saying that people are now unable to assume other peoples' points of view. That the skill of empathy -- in a narrow technical sense, not even loading it with positive moral associations; hell,
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
I ascribe to the Rent Theory of Everything. People can afford to be weird, where they don't have to be perfect corporate people in order to pay rent.
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
Just get a bus pass and you'll be in the biggest passenger vehicle on the road.
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
This monopoly right is roughly equivalent to a bond (it is a bond in the archaic sense of "law"), given by the Falklands government to the satellite company, in exchange for the satellite infrastructure. The Bond's "co
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
> convert to my usual funds as ETFs Do you mean that you sold mutual funds at Vanguard, and used the cash to buy ETFs at eTrade? This means you had to pay tax on capital gains, right? Or is there some trick I don't know about, vis-a
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
Just over half of Castle Bravo. Not the end of the world. And the Earth's surface is 71% water.
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
I suppose that's true normally, but I was pleased to read that you can probably reverse it if you make radical enough changes: https://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/ask_the_doctor_i...
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
Spreading "cope" hurts other people who read it and believe. Bomb-calorimeter energy is an upper bound on what your body can extract from the food, and limiting an upper bound works. But ok, there is a problem with "CICO&qu
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
He's saying that, in the places where people do work harder, they don't actually have more/larger/better houses. Rather, the work just becomes part of a zero-sum competition that bids up the price of the (fixed) quanti
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
Many people, myself included, are skeptical of "therapy" and do not automatically consider its practicioners to be legitimate authorities. These are people who need a job just the same as you, and this is the one they landed in. W
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
Moreover, when this kind of attitude prevails, there are costs to the society at large. In a low-trust society, everyone needs to invest in walls around their house-compounds, and to avoid going out at night. You need to keep your wits abou
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
Interesting points about those calls: "Go shorter but deeper in the money, and roll more often". Would be a pain to do by hand, unless you enjoy it as a hobby. Makes me think about moving to Interactive Brokers so I can play with
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
I don't have a great way to think about the distinction between computation and communication. It seems to me that the "bits/s" measure they're using doesn't even have the right units? That said, information se
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
> You can back door around $70k per year into a Roth currently I believe. You can only backdoor $7k/year into a Roth IRA. That isn't much. If you have access to a qualifying 401k plan, you can mega-backdoor $46,000 into a Roth
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
A retirement account is a ship in a bottle. You can't put much into it. The only way to make it huge is to take huge risks inside and have them work out. Which isn't a plan. And -- options? The most leverage I can think of reasona
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
I know SALT went away, but there's still 1031 exchanges, which mean that "capital gains" can be tax free, which is a big deal in an inflationary environment. So long as the government keeps printing money (which it will), the
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
A 20% down mortgage is a 5x levered bet. Plus you can roll capital gains into new real estate. The S&P 500 cannot offer these advantages.

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