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by anon7725 2y ago
> A 25% raise today is not the same thing as a 25% raise over the course of 4 years. And is also different than 25% over 4 years while also removing a 4% per year annual bonus.
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by anon7725 2y ago
There are plenty of us in our late 40’s and above who work as IC engineers.
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by anon7725 2y ago
There must be a difference between the stress experienced by a financially independent CEO and a marginally-employed gig worker. One is the stress of essentially playing a game or working on a challenge and the other is existential.
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by anon7725 2y ago
IIRC the GLP-1 drugs have a black box warning for thyroid cancer, as well as some other potential side effects. Still, I think NNT < NNH all things considered.
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by anon7725 2y ago
I’m not exactly sure what you’re saying here, but I will note that even if you think you’re the world’s greatest Spock-like rationalist, you still have beliefs.
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by anon7725 2y ago
I guess the difference is that there is a social dynamic at play between a student and an instructor. The student may tire of some aspect of the relationship before they tire of learning the material. For example, unless the instructor has
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by anon7725 2y ago
Plus it has detailed files.
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by anon7725 2y ago
Everything else being equal, you almost always win when buying a house in inflationary times. Even if you pay a high initial rate you can always refinance to a lower one later. If rates stay higher for longer than anticipated your income is
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by anon7725 2y ago
> If it's actually just the seeing of a musical instrument being crushed that is so upsetting, then what are we to think of the countless instruments thrown in the trash after our elementary school kids give up on being guitarists,
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by anon7725 2y ago
> debt for housing, which is a depreciating asset in normal times (housing wears out, land may become more expensive) is not a great idea, but it has been normalized and when you have negative real rates & inflationary policies, as w
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by anon7725 2y ago
There are lots of ways that stock in food and energy companies could go down while prices go up. A drought or pipeline disruption come to mind.
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by anon7725 2y ago
A couple of other good points vs Canada: most fixed-rate US mortgages don’t have a prepayment penalty, and many offer the option to “recast”, which means you can make a lump-sum payment and reamortize your loan while keeping the rate and en
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by anon7725 2y ago
> We're not on the earth to "do great things" or "achieve progress" or any of that crap. That's for people who have some special enthusiasm which the rest of us need not share, or, as Bertrand Russell says,
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by anon7725 2y ago
It’s a piece in the popular press. People connect more with writing that is evocative rather than something that reads like a navel-gazing journal article or TPS report.
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by anon7725 2y ago
As a species, we’ve never been paid more or worked less.
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by anon7725 2y ago
There are multiple dimensions in the latent space that is contemporary white collar management. One is interfacing the work of a group of people with the needs and wants of others. Another is doing administrative things like who has done th
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by anon7725 2y ago
I work on cutting edge stuff involving LLMs for big tech. I’m paid well. My work has essentially no real-world utility as I define it - materially improving something important for at least one person in the real world. Engineers like the o
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by anon7725 3y ago
Keeping a transit system that is relied on by millions of people running seems like a very useful endeavor. The problem, for an engineer considering this path, is that the gig ends before you want your career to end.
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by anon7725 3y ago
Execs can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent
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by anon7725 3y ago
> the greatest technology the world has ever seen? Give me a fucking break. Seriously, people.
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by anon7725 3y ago
> If the next step in that process of creation is prompt engineering and reviewing AI-written code, so what? 1. It’s boring, soul-crushing paint by numbers scutwork 2. We value correctness and there’s no guarantee of it with LLMs 3. We v
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by anon7725 3y ago
The lights on the ship all go out about 5 minutes before impact. They come back on and appear to go out again as impact gets closer. It looks like the ship suffered a catastrophic failure that affected the controls.
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by anon7725 3y ago
let us hope
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by anon7725 3y ago
> the whole AI space will implode if it’s not a viable business if the Good Lord's willing and the creek don't rise
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by anon7725 3y ago
You really aren’t. You’re talking like someone who is willfully ignorant of the decades of internet history that have preceded this conversation. People have quite literally died over the issue of public access to public data. It’s quite an
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by anon7725 3y ago
> So are you ok with some chinese APP company making 50 crappy NPS themed apps and having taxpayers pay for the backend? I will make that trade every day of the week if it means access continues to be through a standard protocol (HTTP) a
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by anon7725 3y ago
Do you need anything other than a web browser to access it? Medium is just the server that it’s hosted on.
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Jesuits have much more rigor. Quakers have much more integrity.
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by anon7725 3y ago
> One good application is finding someone you USED to work with (if they have email notifications turned on, of course). And hearing where your friends are working now. This is literally the only thing I care to use it for so of course i
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by anon7725 3y ago
“4 things I learned by leaning in to non-existence this year”

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