RhysU

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by RhysU 6y ago
How fast is fast can be known, but how important are tradeoffs is a better way to test an engineer.
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by RhysU 6y ago
What's the polling location where you anticipate being attacked?
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by RhysU 6y ago
> If your employer doesn't take it seriously, you can send an anonymous note to the candidate, which could support a lawsuit or complaint to the labor board. Unless your concern rises to whistle-blower levels with external agencies,
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by RhysU 6y ago
I mean, how does a couple make the third when there are already two car seats installed in the back? /s (I buy the hypothesis. Just too much fun to not make that joke.)
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by RhysU 6y ago
Well, we were all told that Python was easy and, lo, so it was. And that Perl was line noise and, lo, so it was. But I still find basic Perl to make as much sense as basic Python when I put my mind to it. And both to be painful in the wrong
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by RhysU 6y ago
Someone who wants a guaranteed pension, most likely. Those are rare and of non-trivial value.
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by RhysU 6y ago
There are definitely unpleasant quant shops. But there are pleasant ones, too. Interviewing with shops is like asking people to dance. If you stop after the first rejection, you're doing it wrong.
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by RhysU 6y ago
Please make the HN title match the external article.
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by RhysU 6y ago
Quite a strong statement that. You would argue that buying medicine for a child is immoral under capitalism? Assisting an elderly family member with their rent? Purchasing canned goods for a food bank? Military spending to assist an invaded
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by RhysU 6y ago
How should negative net worth and/or no income be handled?
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by RhysU 6y ago
Given progressive taxation, it already takes higher income persons more pre-tax income to come up with $1000 post-tax.
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by RhysU 6y ago
That's a nice summary and better said than I did it. I don't claim the state is an evolution, just different and impossible to undo once the concept is brought into existence. Think nuclear technology. Nuclear can't be undone
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by RhysU 6y ago
I want pictures if that fraction of the population population riots.
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by RhysU 6y ago
You are spot on in where we differ. I take only the 10,000 year historical view because I see the rise of states as a massive regime shift in human society. I don't think humans will go pre-state ever again. I can see us defeating deat
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by RhysU 6y ago
What's sexist? I appreciate that my wife is employable and tries to do her best in competitions. That's why I said "spouse". The divorce thing is true for men specifically: https://journals.sagepub.com/do
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by RhysU 6y ago
45 hours in an EV vs sub-26 hours for an ICE? That's like: "Punch It, Chewie!" Then, the Empire wins.
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by RhysU 6y ago
Like motorcycles?
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by RhysU 6y ago
Effective for whom?
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by RhysU 6y ago
You never drove to Florida with a couple of friends on I-95. It is possible to simply keep moving around the clock.
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by RhysU 6y ago
That's the average new car that people can buy. I assure you there would be demand below that number.
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by RhysU 6y ago
Kings and pharaohs accumulated capital even if they didn't use the word. We're something like 10,000 years into amassing resources at scale in the hands of the few. This growth coincides with states, incidentally, and is the subje
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by RhysU 6y ago
My hunch: His wife likely still wants him to be capable of material success and competition. She just doesn't want him to prioritize those endeavors past some particular threshold. Said another way, one's spouse probably finds it
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by RhysU 6y ago
> My competitive streak and desire for material goods is in direct conflict with my wife's desires. I find it hard to believe that your wife would prefer you to be a materially/economically poor individual who doesn't stri
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by RhysU 6y ago
Throughout most of human history wealth/power has been wildly skewed into a small number of hands. The historical anomaly is that equality today has become pervasive to the point that we find inequality to be noteworthy. Current trends
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by RhysU 6y ago
Hypothetically, Bezos could own all of the bars in NYC, decide they are now a bad bet, and not pay their rents. He could invest elsewhere while those businesses go bankrupt. It would be wise of him, in this hypothetical, to deploy capital t
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by RhysU 6y ago
They are still using the property. If one has an empty barn one pays property tax on it.
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by RhysU 6y ago
Yes, when he's had about 3 decades of growth on a solid nest egg in equities, fixed income, and possibly real estate is a good time. Any money he wastes now doesn't compound with time. Time is his best advantage now. And time take
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by RhysU 6y ago
Don't touch any of the fun stuff above until you have a considerable safety fund. Don't touch it with anything but money intended for entertainment. Yeah, it's possible to do well. It's also an easy way to set a pile of
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by RhysU 6y ago
> I think it would be more appropriate for you to supply some basis to it. Sure! What word do you see over and over and over again on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_totalitarian_regimes ? Of the current count
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by RhysU 6y ago
"Extending democracy into the economic sphere" is a funny way to describe theft by the majority. Today, under capitalism, we already have democracy in the economic sphere. Each of us already has single-use votes proportional to

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