amrocha

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811.
by amrocha 3y ago
Cycling is literally the fastest way to most places within 10km in my city. Trains are second, and cars are the slowest. If your city designed for cars to be the fastest way to get anywhere, there's your problem.
812.
by amrocha 3y ago
A 5000$ bottle of champagne is within reach for me but that doesn't mean it's a good decision. A car would be even worse than that.
813.
by amrocha 3y ago
There's a heavy assumption in your comment that more energy = more happiness. I'm not sure if you actually believe that, or if you just haven't questioned it, but that seems untrue to me. There's a correlation between en
814.
by amrocha 3y ago
Because the implication in this thread is an author dying of old age, therefore their kids should already be adults
815.
by amrocha 3y ago
That is literally how it works. Opportunity cost is only a thing if the private market is willing to capture the excess productive capacity, which it usually isn't. And even then, government has access to levels of scale where they can
816.
by amrocha 3y ago
You should educate yourself on macro economics
817.
by amrocha 3y ago
You know what they say about the divine power of kings and everything
818.
by amrocha 3y ago
I'd like to aim for something better than "just as bad as always"
819.
by amrocha 3y ago
1. Poverty is not a real statistic, it's an arbitrarily decided line 2. Nearly the entire reduction in poverty the last few decades has taken place in China
820.
by amrocha 3y ago
How about you give it a try and let me know how it goes
821.
by amrocha 3y ago
No they didn't. Governments don't spend, they invest. That may seem like splitting hairs but it's not. It's not like there were trillions of dollars sitting around waiting to be spent. The real tragedy of war is not that
822.
by amrocha 3y ago
Those wars didn't "cost" trillions of dollars. That's trillions of dollars of subsidies for war contractors, of jobs for troops, etc. The war itself achieves the states political goals, the spending props up the economy.
823.
by amrocha 3y ago
That's not really a reason, and it's not even true. Some people a long time ago decided that. "We" didn't decide that, and certainly not collectively. I don't think the popular consensus is that copyright is go
824.
by amrocha 3y ago
I still don't get it. Why should they profit off the work of someone else? The author is dead, they don't need to sustain themselves. Their family are adults and can sustain themselves. If they can't, then that's why the
825.
by amrocha 3y ago
Personally I don't think they should after they're adults. You gotta contribute to society to earn your keep
826.
by amrocha 3y ago
The world bank! That classic charitable organization that definitely does not make predatory loans to poor countries and force them to privatize their industries
827.
by amrocha 3y ago
Why do artists families deserve that kind of compensation compared to everyone else? What makes them so special that they can't just just use a pension or investments like everyone else?
828.
by amrocha 3y ago
Unless you're poor, in which case you just die I guess
829.
by amrocha 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35861316 Because I'm right. It's not that hard to extrapolate what people think. It's hard for the "rationalist" crowd to understand but not everyone is arguing
830.
by amrocha 3y ago
The engineers are the ones setting the bar, the life story is to avoid assholes. Clearly he got past that, so congrats on not being an asshole, but the engineers weren't impressed enough. There's a reason Shopify on your resume op
831.
by amrocha 3y ago
Sounds like you didn't meet their bar. I'm happy you're somewhere you like, and interviews are somewhat arbitrary so you're not gonna pass them all. It still doesn't reflect well on you to take that stance though.
832.
by amrocha 3y ago
Clearly didn't perform as well as you thought if they passed on you
833.
by amrocha 3y ago
You choose what to talk about and what to share. It's open ended to give you the ability to share as much as you're comfortable with. You can tell the story of your career, no need to get any more personal unless you want to.
834.
by amrocha 3y ago
If you developed an ML framework in your free time and can't tell a compelling story about it in 45 minutes then I probably don't want to work with you either
835.
by amrocha 3y ago
Being able to communicate empathetically with your coworkers is a core competency for technical workers too. There's a difference between an introvert and an asshole.
836.
by amrocha 3y ago
They pay competitively now, but it took half the company quitting during covid covid for them to get to that point
837.
by amrocha 3y ago
First time I hear that and I worked there
838.
by amrocha 3y ago
Idk I think I'm completely right, exercise is supposed to be fun and trying to willpower your way through something you hate is a surefire way to be unhappy
839.
by amrocha 3y ago
This is so tired. The problem with AIs are that they'll be used to make life worse for people right now. The US government is using machine translation to assess asylum cases because they don't want to pay for translators. People
840.
by amrocha 3y ago
That's the way to make sure you're unhappy. Exercise, and life, should never be about "embracing the suck". Finding ways to exercise that you enjoy and that can fit in your schedule makes it a default state rather than s

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