beforeolives

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by beforeolives 6y ago
> Don't be surprised if they also gladly pay a ridiculous fee to buy a coffee. I would be very surprised if people started deliberately picking the much more expensive option for no benefit whatsoever.
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> The minute they try to impose those controls on crypto is the ultimate Streisand Effect moment that will confirm to everyone that they definitely need this asset. I'm not convinced. Your scenario relies on people having some deep
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Moving from a 13 inch laptop to 2 large monitors. You don't realise how much the screen space affects the way you think.
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No, we haven't screwed it up. What specifically do you think we could have done better? It's just a problem of managing expectations. The language we use doesn't help either - the term artifical intelligence somehow implies a
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> I'm only interested in FAANG money and being able to retire early. Those are my goals. I think you should quit then. Just give up. It's not going to happen. Certainly not the way you're going about it.
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> one and a half years of professional coding experience which ended when I got fired for performance issues So what happened there? What did you learn from the experience? How did you work to improve? Being fired for performance reasons
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Can anyone share some insight into why cellular automata are a big deal? I've built the original Game of Life and some variations (in 3D, 4D and on a hexagonal grid) during last year's Advent of Code but I still don't get the
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Meat and cars contribute to climate change but also provide solutions some of the biggest problems that humanity has had historically - food and transportation. Bitcoin doesn't have the same upsides.
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Everything you do digitally can be reduced down to "doing calculations" and some of those things are already illegal (and with good reason). There might be some good arguments in Bitcoin's defence but this isn't one of t
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> For most salaried people at my company who I’ve spoken to, it sounds like the norm is minimum 45-hour weeks, with bad weeks being as much as 60 hours. Getting breaks or lunches seems rare, if it happens at all, and work can bleed into
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by beforeolives 6y ago
> when there are whole civilizations that exist on a diet, you will be okay. If okay = "survive long enough to leave offspring", then yes. However, health and quality of life are a lot more complicated than survival, that'
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by beforeolives 6y ago
> Bitcoin for me is an inflation hedge and I have all my wealth in the digital space at the moment. Bitcoin, Ethereum and Polkadot. Going all in on crypto (or any other asset class) is the opposite of a hedge.
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> I am looking for knowledge. Then you need to take the prerequisites and this is true whether you're styding by yourself or at a university. There are no shortcuts, especially in a field like physics where the complexity builds up
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This won't be a change aiming to improve your web browsing user experience. It will likely be a change to reduce your rights and legal protections.
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> Where does this trend go? Will there an over-supply of data scientists soon? There already is an oversupply at least for beginner-level candidates. The trend will be that more people who switch to data science will have to eventually g
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You can't really quantify attributes like curiosity, ability to learn and ability to listen so it's difficult to interview for them without having all kinds of biases sneak in. How do you deal with this in your process?
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> Why would anyone work when they can just speculate on stocks and create digital art worth million. They can't. Between the speculation as input and the money on the other side as output there is a giant random number generation bo
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This isn't the author's reaction to the interview process, it's their reaction to the way the company tried to pressure them into accepting the offer. > Then the pressure started, incessant calls from the hiring manager an