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by badpun 2y ago
It matters, you're just not going to be pulling $300k-$500k making it. Across all industries, best paying jobs are rarely the most fun ones.
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by badpun 2y ago
Cars like that are the peacock tail - they aren't meant to be cheap, convenient or easy to live with.
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by badpun 2y ago
Too late, I already left.
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by badpun 2y ago
To not have to come back to work ever again.
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by badpun 2y ago
> It's good to work at companies where productivity is tied to personal performance, even if measuring productivty is far from perfect. It’s best to play to your strengths. If you’re better at playing office politics than at doing t
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by badpun 2y ago
Yup. European and North American cities in XIX century were on average much more ghastly places than the countryside. Homelessness, hunger, starvation, hordes of underage prostitutes were common in Paris, London etc. If you had a job, you w
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by badpun 2y ago
I live in Poland in a city center in a metro area of 2 million people on $9k per year. That's rent free, because I own the place, adding rent would push the total cost to $13k per year. That's six years of living on $80k. Also, I&
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by badpun 2y ago
I think the issue is that many intelligent and curious people get restless when they do the same thing for years. Eventually you stop growing and you stagnate. First it's boring, then, for many people, it becomes depressing. Even Leona
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by badpun 2y ago
> That's nice for people but does not create massive economic growth in the 21st century of the kind being discussed. That is all coming from the tech sector. Do you have the stats that back that up?
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by badpun 2y ago
Not a single word about shale oil and gas revolution, that started around 15 years ago? The US now has the one of the cheapest energy on earth, and probably the cheapest among the countries that matter. Pour all that cheap gas and oil onto
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by badpun 2y ago
More often than the "at the end of the chapter" math problems are not about calculations, but are essentialy mini-problems requiring mini proofs. It's not about 1-1 applying the knowledge that was in the chapter, but rather a
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by badpun 2y ago
> You don't want to know what happens to those who got trapped in this industry, got their passion for coding completely beaten out of them and can't find any off-ramp. I want to know. What happens to them?
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by badpun 2y ago
I concur, they are hot. During the summer months, I need to take them off regularly to cool off my ears.
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by badpun 2y ago
He will back down when the war becomes too expensive, economically and politically. It's a war of attrition after all. As to China, Russia's beefs with China were always marginal (Russian Far East is not a very important part of t
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by badpun 2y ago
I am not dehumanising Russians, merely their political culture and political traditions. A country can have a lot of decent people and, at the same time, be a hate and death-monger - just see the Nazi Germany. All depends on current leaders
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by badpun 2y ago
Russia was always the weird case of a country with a cruel, Asian steppe mentality (early in the days of the Dutchy of Moscow, they were conquered and thoroughly subjugated by the Mongols, the Mongol mark of cruelty and disdain for human li
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by badpun 2y ago
Short term, this war is costing Putin dearly - both inflation and rates in Russia are very high, there's a state of technological collapse (trains derailing etc.) due to sanctions and lack of access to advanced Western technology. Ulti
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by badpun 2y ago
Escalation is using force, not diplomacy. Force is something that Putin understands very well.
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by badpun 2y ago
Tensorflow is/was decent. It looked like they made a lot of effort for it to be accessible for outsiders.
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by badpun 2y ago
The conpetition is there already. In Europe you can get satellite Internet for around $40 a month. It’s slower than Starlink (transfer is decent, but the latency is in the hundreds), but much cheaper.
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by badpun 2y ago
I own a Civic-sized sedan and don't have any complaints. In part that may be because I live in a condo in Europe - I barely need to do any home repairs or maintenance (it's all done by the co-op), the condo is not spacious enought
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by badpun 2y ago
I also don't need to own a backhoe, every time I want to dig a hole I just rent a guy with one. It's very similar to trucks and yet nobody owns personal backhoes, but plenty of people own their personal trucks. It's a waste o
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by badpun 2y ago
In 20 years of non-truck car ownership, I've never had to rent a truck. I could always just buy a service that e.g. delivers my large goods from the store to my door, or move all my things and furniture when moving apartments etc. What
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by badpun 2y ago
According to Wikipedia, USA is in 16th place, behind a bunch of small countries, and Saudi Arabia, Canada, Australia and Russia.
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by badpun 2y ago
That's Amsterdam. I'm betting in small towns (not to mention rural areas) in Netherlands the opposite beliefs are much more popular.
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by badpun 2y ago
Japan is one of the oldest nations in the world (in terms of demographics), and, unlike other super-old nations (Germany, Italy), is refusing to let in immigrants. Under such conditions, having just 0% GDP growth, and not a constant recessi
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by badpun 2y ago
Same thing was done a little later by HBO, Disney and a plethora of others, which points to the task not really being uber-difficult.
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by badpun 2y ago
Enterprise software is almost universally pretty terrible, and yet corporate world is running smoothly. That's because, at the end of the day, the quality of life of the users (employees) does not matter that much, they adjust and cope
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by badpun 2y ago
Maybe it could be normal for a while, but eventually we'll start running out of oil, which will make flying expensive.
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by badpun 2y ago
Are they hot? I have the Sony wh-1000xm4 and they're amazing, but unfortunately, because how tightly the seal off my ears, they regularly get too warm and uncomfortable.

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