TimPC

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by TimPC 7y ago
Any individual session of poker is mostly luck. I say this as a winning poker player. The edges are very small and the variance is quite high. There is a reason it's so rare for the best players to make deep runs in the WSOP Main Eve
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by TimPC 7y ago
I have a better house rule. Properties don't have prices and when anyone lands on an unowned property it goes up for auction. Reflects more of a realistic property market and makes the game far more strategic. We also find the proper
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by TimPC 7y ago
Reading random GPS coordinates in an essay without a map in a has high precision but terrible understanding. While it's highly accurate, it's almost useless to the typical reader who would have difficulty knowing that the GPS coor
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by TimPC 7y ago
I think there is plenty of good and great writing that isn't timeless. Especially when it comes to essays, where the nature of what we know and care about changes so dramatically. An essay written to convince a slaver of the moral er
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by TimPC 7y ago
I experienced this too. I'm trying my best to unlearn it because I'm writing a novel. I'm not so adept with flowery prose as to write literary fiction, so I want to have more practical sentences that have better pacing.
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by TimPC 7y ago
Robert Morris's solution is wrong for most of us about casual conversation because it's valuable to be wrong sometimes. But in terms of deciding which essays you publish it seems quite valuable. Out of all the media I produce f
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by TimPC 7y ago
I think this varies a lot by subject. Certain fields reward ambiguity and vagueness quite heavily. Good academic writing tends to be the exception rather than the rule. This may be true of essays as well as good writing is quite rare. I
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by TimPC 7y ago
Zero to One was very contrarian at the time it was published. The majority of the start-up world was obsessed with lean and thought ideas were so cheap that you should try giving them away.
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by TimPC 7y ago
Starting a sentence with But is perfectly fine as long as it's actually starting a sentence. We get to not to in grammar school only because starting a 'sentence' with But often turns that 'sentence' into a phrase.
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by TimPC 7y ago
You actually agree with him then. He's referring to publication bias coming from only publishing your best essays.
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by TimPC 7y ago
A very small portion of video's are video essays even if content creators are turning out 30m on a single topic. The organization and structure of the argument is completely different. Usually the goal of videos are primarily enterta
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by TimPC 7y ago
I think this deletes an important sentence. The comment about saying Pike's peak is in the centre of Colorado being inaccurate and that you can only say it's near the centre is showing an example of precision and correctness bein
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by TimPC 7y ago
There might be some hard to account for factors. Many immigrants end up in worse jobs than they had in their home countries. Some doctors end up driving cabs for instance. If your parent is a doctor with the income of a cab driver I&#x27
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by TimPC 7y ago
Out of consideration for people applying for the job you should seriously consider doing the culture fit first. It's not right to have someone do a weeklong project well when you could have got to a no by a 20m phone call.
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by TimPC 7y ago
Most tech people know very lot about very little. Most programmers know next to nothing about neural nets. Most neural net researchers know very little about self driving cars. Most self-driving car researchers are experts in incremental
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by TimPC 7y ago
School is great if you enjoy dabbling in lots of different things. One of the great challenges of life is that most humans are inclined to generalization but work forces us to specialize on one thing and spend a huge chunk of our life on i
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by TimPC 7y ago
I've always thought the legal should be restricted to stuff you do in your job for the company rather than stuff the company does. I think it's fair for a company to say a person who does X for the company can't work on X in
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by TimPC 7y ago
The point they are making is that the inflation index doesn't properly account for increase in quality that these technological innovations are offering. In fact many measures treat a 1992 cell phone as an interchangeable good with a 2
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by TimPC 7y ago
I prefer the first one if the functions are well named. Especially if there is any potential for A, B or C to be reused by another part of code. Even with no reuse potential function names are more likely to be kept up to date than comments
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by TimPC 7y ago
Or setup a contracting corporation, accumulate your consulting income in the corporation. Have a home office. Pay yourself as little as possible to cover living expenses during the 5 year period and accumulate all the capital in your corpo
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by TimPC 7y ago
The big difference between debt taking 18% of budget at historically high interest and 8% of budget at very low interest is that if the low interest ever becomes very high again (say around 9x what it is now, which has happened historically
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by TimPC 7y ago
Using company equipment gets complicated pretty fast. Some 'contractors' have to use company equipment because the company won't allow proprietary or regulated data on machines they don't own. Is that enough to make some
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by TimPC 7y ago
Loans and Mortgages predate fractional reserve banking and loans in fact predate institutional banking. They are in fact created by lending out capital to other people. In institutional banks this capital was initially depositors money.
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by TimPC 7y ago
4.2M not 420M. 10% of 42M in options.
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by TimPC 7y ago
MTG is pay to win (or at least has a very high table stakes) because most of the skill comes in deckbuilding not in play. There aren't enough play decisions in the game to gain a large piloting edge consistently. When most of the ski
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by TimPC 8y ago
I think the problem is Amazon makes a lot of Revenue at very small margins so they have built a culture around squeezing out every last drop of margin they can. Historically they've had a lot of negative profit years and some very tin
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by TimPC 8y ago
Be very careful investing with loans that aren't cleared in bankruptcy. If you misbalance a portfolio and get overexposed to a downturn you might be throwing away your entire financial future. Restarting from $0 in bankruptcy is very d
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by TimPC 8y ago
There is a huge selection bias in these groups. 3.5 years without graduating is likely to be students who are doing poorly since if you were a top tier student you aren't going to quit 0.5 years off from a degree under most circumstanc
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by TimPC 8y ago
I think the point is they don't know in advance what the query is and they didn't think they had a good solution to optimize all user entered variants across the range of possible groupings so they wanted a solution that was easie
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by TimPC 9y ago
Sales tax might be lean in 1 jurisdiction but if you make companies pay it globally it's not. Huge amounts of complexity and many many jurisdictions. In some countries, even cities have sales tax not just counties or states. It would

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