biohax2015

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by biohax2015 3y ago
Did you advocate for yourself? Doing good work is half the battle. The other half is "sales and marketing" i.e making sure that people are aware that you're a good worker.
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by biohax2015 3y ago
They work in VC, PE, or investment banking.
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by biohax2015 3y ago
> leading indicator for what's gonna happen in people medicine. It's been happening for a long time now: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/15/magazine/doctors-moral-cr...
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by biohax2015 3y ago
The shareholders (me, you, our 401ks) demand growth.
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by biohax2015 3y ago
Source?
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by biohax2015 3y ago
> The client (end user) side seems to do well, considering that Google reports IPv6 end user traffic of almost 50% these days. That's because all mobile data connections are on IPv6
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by biohax2015 3y ago
It's just rude
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by biohax2015 3y ago
It generally is. It's best not to base life decisions based on anecdotes of extreme outliers from strangers on the internet.
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by biohax2015 3y ago
Nobody has any desire to muddle through life
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by biohax2015 3y ago
Copilot has been incredibly useful for me
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by biohax2015 3y ago
> Does your person in Peru have experience with US labour law? US Taxes? Why would, say, a Ruby developer need to know any of these things? I don't think most US developers are familiar with them, other than during tax season. Ironi
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by biohax2015 3y ago
Yep. Not to mention LLMs bringing down language / cultural barriers. We're digging our own graves here.
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by biohax2015 3y ago
I've been to a few weddings now where the couple met on an app. Keep your chin up, king.
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by biohax2015 3y ago
Not everything needs to be useful. If you didn’t enjoy it, that’s okay. I did.
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by biohax2015 3y ago
They are doing it. Slowly, but surely.
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by biohax2015 3y ago
Your doctor has significantly more education and training than a PA or NP. The additional cost of seeing a doctor would quickly be recouped by the reduction in unnecessary / inaccurate referrals that would come from a lesser-trained me
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by biohax2015 3y ago
Tetris on the NES still has massive tournaments. It’s pretty interesting to watch these super-young games (relative to chess, tennis, etc.) mature and develop as genuine fields of competition.
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by biohax2015 3y ago
Politics = economics
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by biohax2015 3y ago
No way. Military contractors are barred from hiring overseas, or giving up ownership stakes to overseas entities. It's why they're great places to work if job security is your thing.
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by biohax2015 3y ago
What does this add to the conversation? You didn’t even put in enough effort to complain about actual things…
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by biohax2015 3y ago
As if an 11-year-old will absorb any of that...
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by biohax2015 3y ago
Have groups of individuals been any less misguided? Eugenics is one of those ideas that might sound good in theory, but a world in which the government has absolute control over one of your most basic human instincts is a horrible world.
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by biohax2015 3y ago
> Or it is OK for the individual but not individuals at scale? Yes, that is precisely the case.
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by biohax2015 3y ago
The issue is: who decides who is fit for breeding? You? Maybe you do a good job, but this sort of power will inevitably become corrupted by a failed art student sooner or later.
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by biohax2015 3y ago
You sound like a great parent!
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by biohax2015 3y ago
Because they indicate that a company cannot do anything more creative with their capital than use it to inflate their stock price.
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by biohax2015 3y ago
Just curious, did you take this route yourself? If so, at what age?
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by biohax2015 3y ago
We are fucked. I have no hope in humanity managing this technology responsibly and no hope in my future. The months since ChatGPT's release have been some of the worst in my life, mental-health-wise.
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by biohax2015 3y ago
Truthfully, if LLMs make an MD career unviable, then we are simply fucked. I do think that day will come, but if I need a career for the next 30 years then I believe that MD is a safe choice. Not even for technical reasons. I think there a
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Ask HN: Software folks, what’s your Plan B?
7 points by biohax2015 3y ago|14 comments

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