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If you made such a comment on a date, I'd get up and walk out without saying another word to you. To be quite honest, you do come across as somewhat naive / self-centered to the extent where I need to ask if you've ever been
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Your kids will be fine, get out and live your life and be a positive strong influence on them. Think about what your kids see every day, the same things you described here. This becomes their model of a father, a family. Do you want that? I
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Full of errors, I think John Wiegley’s “Git from the bottom up” is much better. https://jwiegley.github.io/git-from-the-bottom-up/
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I have lived in Spain. Taxes are high, salaries are low, bureaucracy is a lot worse than the US, most people live in small apartments and they certainly don’t own US sized houses. Cost of living can also be high, if one tries to meet the sa
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I wouldn't try the same thing today.
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I've never lived in either of them, but visited Switzerland as a tourist. They're not in the European Union and both have wealth taxes (depending on where you live, the wealth tax varies). If I had to pick one or the other, I&#x27
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According to personal experience, not exactly a common attitude to be found among the types one usually encounters at FAANGs. I did run into a group of super nerds at Google that, allegedly, regularly paid for sex with high class escorts, b
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> the ability to govern their own bodies I see this frequently repeated, but it's clearly sophistry, similar to the language trick in a comment below where "It's not a baby, it's a fetus" is used to subvert reali
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I expect anyone who has worked for 10 years or more at any of the top SV companies to have at a minimum 1 million invested and much more likely at least 2, given the crazy bull market after 2008.
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I have a European passport so after more than a decade working at FAANGs, I moved to Germany from SV and set up my own business. I've also lived for a few months in a number of different European countries. Based on my own experiences,
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I agree with every single point he makes, but regarding proposals, given the degree of current US disfunction, they are little more than wishful thinking without any realistic chance of being implemented.
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That’s the definition of mysticism and lemoine has described himself as a mystic.
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> We have something that can talk intelligently, but might be doing it mechanistically. ...how do we even tell in that case? We don't need to and we shouldn't care. If repeated interactions with such a system demonstrate proble
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Assumption: consciousness depends on quantum effects in the brain Counterexample: quantum effects are rare in non-atomic scale, no data whatsoever that indicates they are involved in high level brain functions, rather a lot of data pointing
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“Lemoine may have been predestined to believe in LaMDA. He grew up in a conservative Christian family on a small farm in Louisiana, became ordained as a mystic Christian priest, and served in the Army before studying the occult.” I stopped
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> Thus, it gets passed by reference instead of by value Everything in Go is passed by value, including slices. Go has no reference types, but a lot of people think it does, and that’s a problem. An example of the much bigger problem of l
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There are no gradients of strong typing. Either a language is strongly typed or not. Python is strongly typed. For someone with such strong opinions, you seem to lack certain fundamental knowledge which I suggest you rectify ASAP as it will
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Except, Python is strongly typed.
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Reddit is not an alternative as it is heavily censored (same as HN really) and centralized. Usenet still exists and discussions still take place there. Being a decentralized protocol, censoring (or scoring, killfiling) someone is left up to
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Your single payer system would end up as yet another bloated inefficient government bureaucracy that never goes away. NHS would pale in comparison. No thanks.
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It's amazing that the translation to Common Lisp is as minimal as it gets, with the code being pretty much identical. For the folks that insist Clojure is a Lisp, try doing that as an exercise.
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> The Emacs user experience is full of I/O hangs I can't remember the last time I had an I/O hang in Emacs. I'm also fairly active in the mailing list and various forums, I/O hangs are not really what's bein
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Sometimes I think about the man-years of work dedicated to deficiencies in C/C++ that lead to results such as this. Conceptually, it's nothing but madness. Hacks upon hacks upon hacks upon hacks. And all of that because we've
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You come across as someone with minimal -if any- experience with Lisp, to be making some of the generalizations and grandiose proclamations that you do. Also, lots of people don't consider Clojure a Lisp.
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Because we need studies (ideally, funded by the same corporations that poison us) to tell us that having increasing quantities of plastic in our blood, lungs and other organs is bad. What happened I wonder to the precautionary principle? Ma
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Like NTS-1, super-overpriced garbage but plenty will buy because it has KORG written on it.
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That may still work when someone is in his 20s. For someone in mid-30s/early 40s, it's too much of a gamble, especially if one has a family to support. One starting from zero doesn't gain deep expertise in anything in a start
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Startups are not typically picky about hiring, in fact they have a major financial incentive to be anti-ageist. The problem is.. when the market tanks and startups go bust, it doesn't look so rosy anymore. Which is why the most coveted
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I'm in my early 50s with a career spanning three decades, worked in fintech, worked in various FAANGs, lived in SV for close to 10 years, lived in NYC for half as long, now semi-retired. For someone young (early to mid 20s), I agree wi
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Skilled developers are in demand, but the market is _flooded_ not only with low-barrier-to-entry applicants that can't even do the basics but also beginner programmers with constructed work histories that can masquerade a lot better an

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