SeanAppleby

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by SeanAppleby 7y ago
Bareburger has both, if you're ever around one. You could go with someone, order both and cut them in half.
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by SeanAppleby 7y ago
I don't think the problem is that people don't want to go through the mechanics of having kids, it's that they have other priorities that trump wanting to commit the massive amount of time and resources necessary to raise kid
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by SeanAppleby 7y ago
I agree with your point on power consumption and agree that probably doesn't warrant the investment. I don't work on cellular infrastructure, and don't even work on IoT anymore, but I could imagine that as far as IoT infrastr
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by SeanAppleby 7y ago
This doesn't appear to have been updated since 2014, but I'd also add the now much more mainstream Seaboard to the list. It's somewhat more conventional, as it maintains the general shape of a keyboard, but that is an advanta
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by SeanAppleby 7y ago
I don't think medium-term future (like decades) job stability is clearly going to draw along lines of education. I think it would be far easier to automate certain kinds of labwork by doctors (particularly anything that looks at a seri
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by SeanAppleby 8y ago
$50000 is not a fancy degree, that's just about the floor for an in-state public school without even accounting for cost of living. >If you're not willing to work your way through college, or get a loan, or get one of these ISA
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by SeanAppleby 8y ago
Is this your first semester? The waitlists clear up shockingly aggressively when the semester starts. I'm always surprised when I get into a class from position 300 on the waitlist, but it always happens.
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by SeanAppleby 8y ago
AI can infer information about data that does not appear in the training set, depending on the actual tech being used and what you are calling "new data". An easy to grasp example from a while back in NLP is word embeddings. We st
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by SeanAppleby 8y ago
I would bet that those businesses will tend to die at higher rates, whereas businesses who let technical people have input into technical decisions will survive at higher rates, reconstituting the market over time around companies that make
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by SeanAppleby 8y ago
SALT caps really screw a lot of people though. My effective federal tax rate is higher after the tax "cut" than it would have been under the previous tax laws. It really depends on where you live. Some blue areas have had effectiv
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by SeanAppleby 8y ago
No one knows what consciousness is. Every neuroscientist I've talked to has agreed that consciousness has to be an emergent property of some kind of computation, but there is currently no way to even interact with the question of what
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by SeanAppleby 8y ago
That depends on whether or not the machine has a conscious experience, and we have no way to interact with that question right now. The reason we care about slavery is because it is bad for a conscious being, and we have decided that it is
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by SeanAppleby 8y ago
I'm drawing a line between "software developer" and "high tech" By high tech I ideally mean a company building novel and innovative software using new ideas and techniques, but implicitly I pretty much mean FAANG&#x
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by SeanAppleby 8y ago
That's an ironic claim on this platform. If you make $200k/year (normal high tech comp, probably not far from the average person here), save $100k/year and average 6.5% returns over 10 years, you have $1.4M. You can then on a
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by SeanAppleby 8y ago
My thoughts exactly. My understanding is that Tesla plans on including a clause to prevent their autonomous cars from being used on other ridesharing platforms and simultaneously launching their own service. I believe Lyft has significant f
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by SeanAppleby 8y ago
eh, I read a paper a while back that argued that ridesharing in a world with self-driving cars will be a hyper-competitive commodity market akin to the airlines, and it made a lot of sense. I don't think there's a pot of gold at t
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by SeanAppleby 8y ago
> It's rare (though possible) for someone to turn from a lazy, self-entitled dilettante into a hard-working ace coder. Is it though? In my experience people are good at building things that they care about and bad at building things
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by SeanAppleby 8y ago
I'm not saying that everyone trading has idealistic, altruistic reasons for doing so, but products are built on the back of capital markets. At least ideally, successful trading makes markets more efficient, and making markets more eff
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by SeanAppleby 8y ago
I can't really say for sure, but some things that stood out: People skewed older than I expected for a startup. Most people were in their 30s, and the C suite people were mostly in their 40s. No one other than me was below late 20s, an
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by SeanAppleby 8y ago
Anecdotally, I worked as a software engineer at a very small (10-15 person) startup that just got acquired by FANG, and I, as well as almost everyone else there, generally worked 40 hour weeks. My relationships were fine, I went to the gym
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by SeanAppleby 8y ago
Your quote very clearly says "in the investments of" Investments is clearly and completely unambiguously the subject of "interested in" that sentence.
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by SeanAppleby 8y ago
Jeff Bezos isn't necessarily more important than other people that also invest in impactful things, but he is the wealthiest person in the world and invests in speculative things that impact how the world works, which is kind of a big
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by SeanAppleby 8y ago
He doesn't mean it's particular to Bezos, but that wealthy people throwing massive (to anyone but them) amounts of money into extremely speculative bets on large issues for the long run of society is a big deal. The government and
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by SeanAppleby 8y ago
Holding cash had higher returns than index funds over the last 6 months. That's not a high bar when the market is going down. VTI is below where it was 12 months ago.
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by SeanAppleby 8y ago
"The Case Against Education" by Bryan Caplan suggests a framing in which this makes sense. He more or less argues, with data and some interesting points, that the barriers to education are not a bug, and not only a feature, but pe
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by SeanAppleby 8y ago
He's saying they've been transgressing in ways, like human rights violations (social credit and the Uyghurs in Xinjiang are a couple examples), undermining democracy outside of its own government (undermining Hong Kong's cont
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by SeanAppleby 8y ago
I think there is also a distinction in the granularity of the data harvested and what it was used for. Knowing someone's location, age, etc and using that to classify whether or not someone should reach out to them to remind them to vo
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by SeanAppleby 8y ago
Hackernews is probably also an extremely skewed financial cross-section. Most of my friends from my higher education and career, as well as everyone I know who I've heard mention hackernews, are like you said, making more than their pa
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by SeanAppleby 8y ago
I listened to a longform interview with the head of their HR strategy which referenced the company consistently citing talent attraction and retention as the number one limitation on company growth. They invest extremely heavily in minimizi
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by SeanAppleby 8y ago
Not endorsing, but allowing is aimed at letting people feel like they aren't being handled like children by their employer, and, as alcohol is a very common component of social interaction in western culture, is meant to make it easier

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