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by GDC7 5y ago
> The concept of valuing companies based on quarterly earnings growth Maybe not quarterly earnings but there was always some sort of financial metric. Because financial metrics cut through the BS. If you read HN and reddit you'd th
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Waymo is sure about their thing, but sometimes corporate America looks more like high stakes poker than a scientific lab or a scientific publication. Sometimes bluffing and faking it till you make it...that makes you win the race.
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The billionaire tax would just restore things to normality. Throughout human history people with money they have always hid themselves, lying low, slowly distribute their riches across a myriad of heirs and nominees in order to conceal thei
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> and it's STILL super hard to raise a child It's super hard because you want your child to have a better life than you, and from the get go. Parents nowadays want the trajectory of their child to be transposed upwards from the
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by GDC7 5y ago
> It absolutely is. My wife and I have spent a good few hours strategizing how to ask people to do various activities, and making lists of people to invite to various things. This is a lot of work that few are willing to do. Even mention
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It will become culture wars central. Also I am curious to see how will moderation work and if they'd be able to find moderators at all. Will they allow blasphemy and nudity?
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> In general if you're making the argument that A is easier than B, and B keeps happening at a much higher rate than A, then you're probably missing some very important detail to explain that difference Visiting a prostitute is
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> But I have been horribly wrong also, so I'm not so inclined to lead boldly I think Musk spews a lot of BS, but one thing I agree with him is that if you think you have an edge you want to bet frequently because as the high frequen
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trust in self. For example Conservatives don't want to raise taxes on billionaires because they think they'd be one some day. Not much to debate here. If you can keep this mindset until death and avoid the crashdown , then yes, yo
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> well, we can expropriate the wealth of billionaires if we need to” been an opinion The fact that it's not an opinion, doesn't mean it's not an option. People other than the far left don't want to do it, just like pe
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> than it is to suppress the wealth of an individual That's because it's not an immediate concern due to the fact that you always have the optionality to do so , if needed be.
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It's all about the potential of violence to repossess said wealth. Bezos and Musk are just dudes, if society decides that their net worth has to go to zero, then sure enough it will. Even if they wire money out of the country you can c
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I love you too, Joe!
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> My failure to convince others makes it _appear_ like I am skating where the puck is going, when I was simply following it down an obvious path, and no one else was. It's not like there is a difference isn't it? Gretsky probab
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The hard work is concentrated in the process of betting your life on a very unprobable outcome
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> It always was a way to easy money Tell me again how Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Apple and Facebook were "easy money" The devil personified in here, Mark Zuckerberg turned down the most "easy money" ever. 1 billion in
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The biggest difference is that Switzerland has some quality of life to show for because they are/were smart enough to provide some banking together with their empty buildings filled with anonymous P.O. boxes . Hence it benefitted the b
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Again, you are assuming that math is only done at the frontier. I don't care about the frontier, I care about improving standards of living and quality of life, and that you can do by moving the needle in a concrete manner for HS and c
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by GDC7 5y ago
> A kid can learn the notation for whole, 1/4, 1/8, etc. musical notes and their positions on the staff very easily. An immediate relationship is created to the key on the piano or the fret on the guitar I don't know about
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Well, one of the GOAT mathematicians of our time, Jim Simons thinks math in America is in a bad shape. And same goes for Terence Tao as he was unsatisfied with the low degree of collaboration between mathematicians and stepped up saying (po
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Yeah, it's like there is something in their brain which differs from non-mathematicians. Non-mathematicians discover something and then want the largest number of people to understand that thing as well, and they want to be the ones ex
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It's self imposed because mathematicians love to use their own notation. Math is at its core philosophy and logic, they are both hard too, but they don't get the same level of hatred that math gets because unlike mathematicians ph
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I think you'd be surprised if you gathered data on amount of cursing which goes on in colleges when students have to face math vs. English or history Also cortisol levels spike before a math exam compared to again English or history. N
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> It took less than a minute to explain that this just means a sequence of sums, maybe ten seconds. I just wrote down something like: "(a0 * b0) + (a1 * b1) + ... + (an * bn)" and said: "This is what it means. Summation&qu
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_logic_symbols Among all those symbols only ">" and "<" are somewhat intuitive, all the others you have to learn what they mean. Even "=" is
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Math will only emerge as a field when people will stop treating it as something that one only has to do at the frontier. In other competitive fields such as banking, basketball and football you have the higher ups caring about the pyramid b
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To me it's the language. You have to learn a whole new alphabet and signs. This is done for the sake of quick communication between mathematicians, but it's necessary to make a study and see the pros and cons. While it's true
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by GDC7 5y ago
Somehow people will find a way to spin this as a positive thing and a rightful thing that lord Musk is doing for the future of humanity™. But Zuck is the devil for giving you the option (but not the obligation) to watch pics of other people
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well last time I checked longer runways are infrastructure, so it's not like money won't be availible to make that a reality.
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Generalized hatred is not real hatred. Only hatred aimed at a person counts. Generalized hatred at unknown private jet owner doesn't count because it's not actionable . It only counts if you can congregate on that person property

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