banned_man

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by banned_man 18y ago
I might be wrong, but I don't think any of these 3 "rules" are formal rules of grammar. They're guidelines to be followed most of the time but broken when appropriate. The split-infinitive snobbery comes from Latin, in which infinitives are
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by banned_man 18y ago
High levels of academic and cognitive ability, usually coupled with intellectual interests and the traits valuable (e.g. focus, creativity) in pursuing them.
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by banned_man 18y ago
Painful read, because this offer's essentially a trap. Law firms care beyond what is healthy about "professional image", at the personal level as well as for the firm. Anyone who takes this sort of offer is essentially penciling himself out
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by banned_man 18y ago
A => B != B => A. There are a large number of people who are not highly intelligent who have negative social experiences as teenagers for other reasons. There are very few people who have high intelligence (140+ IQ) and positive soc
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by banned_man 18y ago
Unscrupulous recruiters have a habit of trying to get you to come down on salary. Remember that their incentives are not the same as yours. I had the same experience. Had been employed at X, headhunter told me to consider jobs at X-15 (this
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by banned_man 18y ago
This could actually be better in some cases, because he can dress his deferred salary (which can be whatever he wants it to be with no contest, since it will never be paid) as an actual salary.
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by banned_man 18y ago
I'm talking about high intelligence rather than high IQ. So, I guess I'm technically answering the question, "Is high intelligence a blessing or a curse", rather than that question about IQ specifically. In truth, I don't care much about I
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by banned_man 18y ago
In the US, people usually ignore you when you call to ask this question, or give an incredibly generic answer.
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by banned_man 18y ago
In childhood, it's bewildering but not so bad. In adolescence, it's awful. In adulthood, it's good, so long as you're able to get past your shitty teenage years. The transition point (from disadvantage to benefit) is, on average, late colle
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by banned_man 18y ago
The trick to success in those conversations is to realize that, as long as you're not offensive, no one gives a fuck about the verbal content, most of which is excruciatingly boring. Intellectually, it's like a 6-year-old's soccer game wher
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by banned_man 18y ago
About your last comment: take responsibility for your actions. The real question (which neither the OP nor I am qualified to answer) is whether a startup opens more doors than it closes, not whether it closes one particular door. Obviousl
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by banned_man 18y ago
Apparently, "as an entrepeneur you are obviously a free spirit, not the kind of person that settles well in a normal job, we would never hire people with a failed startup on their resume". By their own logic (maybe I'm giving them too muc
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by banned_man 18y ago
Is it safe to say that those that despise programming, also despise certain branches of math? Yes. At the graduate level, the various branches of math are quite different, especially between pure vs. applied. A logician would probably not
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by banned_man 18y ago
In academia, or overall? I agree that this is true within academia. The maximum accepted age for a first-year graduate student is about 27; first postdoc, 32; tenure-track, 36. If you don't have tenure at 40, you're flushed. This does not s
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by banned_man 18y ago
A counter argument: if they are getting the PhD as evidence of mastery in a topic they love, it doesn't matter what comes after it, unless circumstances will force them to give up what they love until they die. The intrusion of bad "circu
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by banned_man 18y ago
I definitely had the screen set up as you described, but I still found working with constant open-back visibility to be pretty terrible. As humans, though we share this with most animals, we have a strong desire to do important things (eati
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by banned_man 18y ago
I was like that, before working on a trading desk, and I had to experience it in order to know it wasn't right for me, so I have no regrets. Some hackers love trading, for what it's worth, and there are finance jobs out there that have bett
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by banned_man 18y ago
I'm pretty good at math (broke 50 on the Putnam) and I don't find programming to be boring. On the other hand, knowing that I've had problems with jobsite boredom in my past, I'm pretty sure that I'd hate the majority of programming jobs ou
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by banned_man 18y ago
People who view programming as implementation-oriented grunt work (this describes a surprisingly high percentage of those who are smart enough that they "should" be able to program) have no interest in becoming good at it. Sucking at progra
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by banned_man 18y ago
More hogwash. The moment such a cloning happens, you'd become two distinct individuals and would immediately diverge into having separate experiences. Science would not at all consider you the same thing. I'm talking about one time slice:
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by banned_man 18y ago
How not? Many strains of Buddhism consider mind to be the first-class citizen and worlds to emerge from minds, as opposed to the materialist view wherein matter is the first-class citizen. That doesn't mean that the laws of physics are cont
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by banned_man 18y ago
What is STEM? In the sciences, I disagree with "If you aren't at the top at any stage of the game, quit". It can be the right decision to get a PhD in an 11-20 program, so long as you have options aside from an R1 academic job.
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by banned_man 18y ago
Academia is the right job environment for a certain set of people, but they deserve decent living conditions. They shouldn't be exploited just because society views them (correctly or otherwise; mostly otherwise, I believe) as naive pansi
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by banned_man 18y ago
Thank you.
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by banned_man 18y ago
Also, academia (in the humanities) has much more of a downside. If your startup fails, you spend a year or two of your life learning a lot of useful skills, but end up out of a job when the money runs out. It sucks, but you end the travail
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by banned_man 18y ago
What project is a summer intern going to be assigned that can has huge P&L potential? A senior trader or quant would take it.
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by banned_man 18y ago
There is no current theory of consciousness . There is wide and probably intractable debate. It is as speculative to claim that consciousness cannot exist outside of the brain as to claim that it can.
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by banned_man 18y ago
It's well-established that, to the extent that consciousness is bound to the body , the central nervous system is the strongest and possibly sole contributor. It's also obvious that changes to the brain can induce massive alterations of co
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by banned_man 18y ago
It depends on the standard of proof. Mathematics has no concept of platonic truth (things are true or false within a specific logical system) but precise notions of proof. Since any rich logical system has a P such that neither P or not-P i
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by banned_man 18y ago
I don't think we'll ever find a scientific explanation for consciousness, and here's why. Science assumes two physically identical objects to be identical: a kilogram of iron is a kilogram of iron. This reduction is useful and necessary;

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