ReaLNero

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by ReaLNero 5y ago
A half-life of 10,000 years means the fraction (0 to 1) of healthy bonds at year t can be modeled by (1/2)^(t/10000). To have 1% bonds broken, it would take an expected 145 years. EDIT: Fixed the numbers, my bad!
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by ReaLNero 5y ago
I feel like TeamBlind is the exact opposite of LinkedIn -- no positivity, no one cares about mission or whatever, the #1 thing is TC and WLB, and everyone is anonymous. And yet its posts are much more honest, candid and just overall useful
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by ReaLNero 5y ago
A firm can be net-negative in societal value, while profitable in the value it captures. E.g. oil companies
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by ReaLNero 5y ago
How long did your GC take from start to finish?
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by ReaLNero 5y ago
A well-timed X (stop page load) click can let you read as many NYT articles as you want.
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by ReaLNero 5y ago
I've worked in 3 companies with the classic Silicon Valley starter pack consisting of Slack, GitHub (not part of Office 365), and GSuite, and found it overall pretty good! What features did you find missing? Personally I shudder at the
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by ReaLNero 5y ago
It's catchy, it attracts attention, and it makes people learn what the movement is about. It's one thing to say "defund the police", and it's another to say "penalize police brutality, take police funds and use
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by ReaLNero 5y ago
> bloody The red liquid isn't actually blood! The blood gets drained out at the slaughterhouse. It's a protein called myoglobin.
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by ReaLNero 5y ago
Unfortunately, you still can't trust someone who's been correct every single time. Considering that there's thousands of people giving predictions, there's likely going to be one person "winning" the coinflips.
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by ReaLNero 5y ago
I doubt PG is hastily rewriting all of YC's investment agreements as we speak to resolve this loophole! This very much depends on the contract that was signed between the company and YC. Most likely, the founder has a fiduciary duty to
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by ReaLNero 5y ago
the GP's 14k a month salary would put them above Roth IRA income limits. The only option is a backdoor Roth IRA contribution.
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by ReaLNero 5y ago
PCA applies an orthogonal linear transformation, while FA uses a series of coefficients to scale a sequence of functions, which are then integrated. They are similar in use but very different in method. Calling one a generalization of the o
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by ReaLNero 5y ago
> why MS Edge and Google Chrome do not have native bookmark tagging A similar feature is lacking in file explorer GUIs, so it's likely a different reason. My guess (from anecdotal experience) is most people don't use bookmarks,
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by ReaLNero 5y ago
Post-Soviet countryman here! In my country, elections are fair. If you ask people on the street -- they will say they believe in democracy. Which is reasonable since the concept of voting is easy to understand. Offering free food for in exc
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by ReaLNero 5y ago
There is a background cleanup process for SSDs called trim, but it does something different. I mean magnetic hard drives are very similar to vinyl recordings, so it's clear why contiguous file placement has lower latency, and thus why
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by ReaLNero 5y ago
So since a 10-sigma event could result in a 200-yr old person, there is no real limit? There is no hard limit, but clearly the age distribution drops suddenly (for developed countries) at 70. There are a bunch of single points of failure in
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by ReaLNero 5y ago
run a Digital Ocean droplet hosting the server? It's up to you if the costs justify the benefits.
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by ReaLNero 5y ago
A transaction incurs one-time electricity costs for the miner, but also permanent storage costs for miners (who must have a full blockchain copy). For a miner, currently the latter is negligible. Increasing block size implies more storage s
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by ReaLNero 5y ago
Do you mean strip malls?
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by ReaLNero 5y ago
If you draw the line at country, sure. But America is huge compared to European nation-states. NYC is very public transportation-oriented. The Northeast corridor Amtrak line also is a big boon!
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by ReaLNero 5y ago
I've always been interested in writing my own Unix-like kernel! Could you share what resources you used to write it? How long did the whole thing take? Just to understand the scope of the work, did you implement any of the following: m
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by ReaLNero 5y ago
I always stay away from /r/popular. The subreddits that appear there like /r/PublicFreakout are selected for display so you can get angered, join the echo chamber in the comments and boost engagement metrics. Watching ma
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by ReaLNero 5y ago
I'm making a distinction between mnemonic names (du = disk usage) and just vague names (convert = ???).
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by ReaLNero 5y ago
With good autocomplete, I wouldn't mind it! I was honestly thinking of stuff like `du` (disk usage), `cp`, `mv`, and the like. Like I sort of mnemonically remember them, compared to mentally mapping `convert` -> imagemagick.
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by ReaLNero 5y ago
They are pretty common verbs, but they give 0 context to the user on what they do. I don't think these names are in any demand -- there's always a better name than "import" for your command line utility.
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by ReaLNero 5y ago
I think polyglot IDEs like VSCode serve a different niche to PyCharm, CLion etc. In a professional context, you usually end up doing 80% of your coding in one language, so it only makes sense to use an editor that semantically understands t
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by ReaLNero 5y ago
The notes are stored as .md files on your computer.
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by ReaLNero 5y ago
How did you manage to card count without attracting attention, even after playing for hours?
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by ReaLNero 5y ago
(Not a Google engineer) Google's engineers are notoriously loose-lipped (which is a good thing!!!). There's no way they would be able to keep a secret like this. Anytime a customer's private data gets accessed, you either a)
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by ReaLNero 5y ago
I only have one 4k display, and I don't notice any difference in performance.

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