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by achenet 11mo ago
> Billionaires are simply people who play the money game best. False in the general case - with inherited wealth, someone who starts with a lot but grows more slowly will beat a fast grower who started with nothing, at least on short tim
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by achenet 1y ago
I think the solution you went for was better, you don't want to be accused of fraud, that would really look bad. Honesty is generally the best policy, imo :)
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by achenet 1y ago
The best way to predict the future is invent it. If you're looking for the next Bell Labs, why not try to found it?
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by achenet 1y ago
not the person you're responding too, but I'm writing this on an older ThinkPad L390 Yoga with touchscreen, and I gotta say, being able to scroll on the screen when reading large documents (like PDF textbooks), or to just touch th
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by achenet 1y ago
> Granted, it is weird to think about living in a country where this is a finanical product that so many institutions just have. I suppose it's like working for a company with a really weird build or CI/CD process that breaks r
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by achenet 1y ago
> But on the consumer tech market, the phones, laptops and streaming services people want? The EU has no presence. I'm working on it, give me another ten years <3
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by achenet 1y ago
indeed, I'm personally fond of using it to disparage things I don't like. It's a most excellent insult. You get the implied snobbery of an upper-class person looking down on their inferiors, whilst also maintaining some stree
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by achenet 1y ago
yep, I can confirm that many people like that exist at other tech companies ^^
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by achenet 1y ago
> I personally think that audiovisual media is far, far superior to reading. I'd be very interested to know why you think this. I personally prefer reading as a way to intake information, because I'm faster and more at least re
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by achenet 1y ago
In at least parts of Europe, 70k-100k is pretty good for a mid/senior developer.
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by achenet 1y ago
As other comments on this post have mentioned, exponential backoff would still have some issues. However, we could envision a rule where controversial bills have to be validated by a strict majority, or even a supermajority (75% minimum) of
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by achenet 1y ago
> Although being the person that does the thing is something that I find a bit of a struggle with living in the UK. In general, I feel like there ends up being a bit of a pull down mentalility - "why are you spending time doing X si
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by achenet 1y ago
The irony is that, at least in my social circles, the stereotype of the "software developer who does rock-climbing" is really a thing. To the point where, because part of my identity is being a hipster who is not like everyone e
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by achenet 1y ago
I second this "just show up" mentality. Putting too much pressure on oneself to do too much, especially in the beginning before the body has had time to adapt to the pressures of training, is a recipe for burnout. On the other han
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by achenet 1y ago
In this particular case, the guy seems to be in his late 30s or 40s (he says "until my late twenties, I could count the number of times I had been to the gym on on hand", and later "fast forward almost to a decade"). But
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by achenet 1y ago
> Yet how many of those governments were created by violent armed revolt against a previous authoritarian government? How many by "peaceful" protests? This is actually an interesting question. Many post-colonial governments, no
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by achenet 1y ago
> Do it for one day nobody cares Do it for a week, people notice Do it for a month, you've got regime change Occupy Wall Street lasted longer than a month, and I'm not sure they achieved regime change. https://en.wi
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by achenet 1y ago
yes, and he set a great example by doing so. Honestly, would be nice for modern day leaders to have that kind of commitment to collaborative institutions. I feel like some of them are just trying to openly accumulate power for personal gain
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by achenet 1y ago
er, sorry if this is a stupid question, but nowadays couldn't you just work remotely? Does location matter as much in 2025 when there are oodles of remote first companies out there?
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by achenet 1y ago
thanks for pointing it out ^_^
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by achenet 1y ago
> It's like a programming language where the equality (==) symbol has a built in 20% random number generator and you're supposed to write mission critical code with it. <bad joke> Why are we talking about JavaScript in a
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by achenet 1y ago
I'm more "capitalism good" (8 billion people on earth, 7 billion can read, 5 billion have internet, and almost no one dies in childbirth anymore in rich countries, which is several billion people), but that is really interest
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by achenet 1y ago
I believe, but have no proof, that the answer is "because it's easier to sell stock in an unprofitable business than build a profitable one", although given the other comment, there's a good chance I'm wrong about t
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by achenet 1y ago
He makes money by convincing people to buy OpenAI stock. If OpenAI goes down tomorrow, he will be just fine. His incentive is to sell the stock, not actually build and run a profitable business. Look at Adam Neumann as an example of how to
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by achenet 1y ago
Huh, here in Lyon, France, the scene (or maybe I should say scène) is quite vibrant and you've got everything from old ponytail greybeards who remember their first Black Sabbath concert to 16 year old edgy teenagers who think smoking r
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by achenet 1y ago
The classic "tolerance of intolerance" thing (not sure if it fully counts as a paradox). Basically this has been stuck in my mind ever since 2018 when I hear a friend of my aunt's teenage daughter answer the question "sh
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by achenet 1y ago
https://archive.ph/i2TSJ "An interviewer once asked James Baldwin if he’d ever write something without a message. “No writer who ever lived,” Baldwin said, “could have written a line without a message.” This is true. P
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by achenet 1y ago
Thanks for your reply. Doesn't saying that "professional arm candy" is sexist imply that it is a term limited to only one gender? Also, fyi, I'm 32, I was born in Paris, moved to Houston when I was 6, to London when I wa
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by achenet 1y ago
Counter-argument, largely lifted from Graeber's _Debt, the first 5000 years_: The US trade deficit isn't ever really meant to be repaid, it's basically the modern equivalent of the Roman Republic/Empire demanding tribute
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by achenet 1y ago
Not GP, but I suspect it's the part where you call them "sexist" - It seems like in your head "professional arm candy" must be female. "Boy-toys" are a thing, and people from the Kardashian mother to the l

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