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by anongraddebt 6y ago
I'm not sure what you are arguing. I'm arguing that political nihilism is a possible position, and that being a political nihilist is different than being a supporter/opponent of the status quo. Your argument seems to be that
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by anongraddebt 6y ago
The right tack to defending your position is not to double-down and say nihilism is impossible. How could a nihilistic take in any domain be impossible? We aren't talking about whether agnosticism and/or nihilism are unreasonable.
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by anongraddebt 6y ago
>"Not seeing sides", or not picking them, is taking a position though. This has always been a simplistic take on disagreement, action, and belief. It deems agnosticism untenable and inherently precludes the possibility of nihil
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by anongraddebt 6y ago
I switched to Neovim as a daily driver last week. The latency, at least on mac, was annoying. Changed terminal emulators to Kitty and now everything is snappy.
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by anongraddebt 6y ago
Often, you're too late and the cake is baked when innovation is reactive.
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by anongraddebt 6y ago
This. There isn't much more to take away from the paper. As an aside, there seems to be some sort of snowball effect that might confound a naive interpretation of the role of intelligence. For example, getting a high SAT score (and AP
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by anongraddebt 6y ago
There is a learning method that hasn't been mentioned in this thread. Namely, a middle ground between pure cobbling and pure theory. In addition, you have to find a method that is optimal to you. For myself, that's a feedback loop
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by anongraddebt 6y ago
There could be some semantic issues here. It would seem that a non-trivial number of people have a connection where the actual speed differs a decent amount from the stated/expected. This has certainly been my case after living in L.A.
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by anongraddebt 6y ago
GTA, perhaps?
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by anongraddebt 6y ago
Why wouldn't it? Are there grades of reasonableness when trying to predict the future?
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by anongraddebt 6y ago
Yeah, I don't like the butterfly keys, but the touchbar seems neutral to me. I've never accidentally hit the touchbar while typing. And while it has always seemed a bit gimmicky, I do appreciate some of the controls (sound, bright
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by anongraddebt 6y ago
Agreed. Though I will say, it's still shocking to see. Not that cascading layoffs, furloughs, internship cancellations, and wage/salary reductions are unexpected right now. Shocking in how surreal it all feels. My gf and I have a
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by anongraddebt 6y ago
VC theses are almost always just pattern matching. Moreover, they aren't the first to ever put forward that thesis. Is it a good thesis? What's your criteria? By any scientific criteria, of course, the thesis is asinine. However,
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by anongraddebt 6y ago
Central to their reasoning is the thesis that every ~15 years there is a breakthrough in computing (PCs in ~'78, the Web in ~'93, Smartphones in ~'07). This thesis is laid out on their site. So, the hedge seems to concern inv
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by anongraddebt 6y ago
Pricewatch! So many memories as a kid in the late 90's/early 2000's scoping parts for my desktop on that site.
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by anongraddebt 6y ago
Looks quite nice. I switched from ubuntu after getting a 15in macbook last summer, but will keep my eye on the final Deepin release.
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
Agreed. This is something that seems to go over-looked. It didn't take one, or even five, years to get someone like Trump in office. This was the result of many decades of significant economic and societal restructuring.
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
"I’m not even going to go into it. I don’t want to end up on Hacker News again bitching about Catalina." +1
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
I agree that there seems to be deep economic rot somewhere, but I'm not sure Snap and Uber are particularly near the center. I haven't looked at their 10-Ks in awhile, but aren't at least one of them cash flow positive alread
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
My gf is a management consultant, and prepped a lot for her interviews. She learned that there is such a thing as prepping too much, as your performance can come across too stilted/canned/robotic. Have you ever filmed your perform
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
So far, the only journalism I've found worth paying for is Monocle. Had subscriptions to The Economist and The Information for awhile before canceling them. What would be nice is a pay per article approach. I find Monocle quality enoug
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
Millenial here, and because I spend pretty much all my time on my phone when I'm not programming, I sort of feel a bit like a gen z'er. I do a number of things on my phone that would be faster and 'easier' to do on my ma
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
Maybe you are like me and simply require other people around/participating to stay motivated.
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
It's so hard to find quality books to read that weren't published decades or centuries ago.
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
Not sure if they used it correctly or not, but a good friend who recently finished his Phd at an elite department used MTurk heavily for surveys.
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
Slick wasn't meant as a pejorative.
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
Not that I know of. It was slick because of how high quality the designs, and colors, etc for each slide were. Most importantly, though, it was the best 'story-telling' I've seen in a presentation.
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
One of the leaders at IDEO (and part-time prof. at the business school) spoke to my grad. class. He gave one of the slickest powerpoint presentations I've ever seen. Good article, but I don't think it says much that should surpris
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
> I once taught a PM how to use a Perl hash to do a join instead of nested for loops and she spent the next year feeling godlike because she could do this stuff in O(n) instead of O(n^2). Loved this.
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
I think this is likely the case. A number of years ago my parents heard of a very young single mother in their community. She was being housed at a local woman's shelter, but was kicked out for continually breaking the rules regarding

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