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by blahblarblar 4y ago
I get all that, it’s a fun philosophical widget to ponder over. But out here in the real world it has value to me because I can sell it for more than I paid. I’ve taken profits and converted it into real goods for myself. I am aware it coul
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by blahblarblar 4y ago
I don’t care what you say it’s worth, I care what people willing to buy it will pay.
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by blahblarblar 4y ago
My crypto is still worth more than I paid for it.
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by blahblarblar 4y ago
Monks understand that sentience is not connected to language and reasoning. “You are not your thoughts, you are the observer” language and reasoning are just the mechanism we use to express this experience. We only believe other humans when
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by blahblarblar 4y ago
We were making too much stuff. Banks decided we needed to buy less stuff so they made less money. Now the leftover stuff will sit because we won’t make enough money for ourselves to buy it. We’ll adjust by reducing how much stuff we make so
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by blahblarblar 4y ago
It seems so strange, you’d think there’d be no shortage of problems to go around.
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by blahblarblar 4y ago
Great example of how the market doesn’t really care about the how, just the what.
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by blahblarblar 4y ago
My comment maybe came off as a criticism for academics but I was speaking from experience with my own struggle disentangling my ego from academia. I still wanted to think of myself as a physicist and it handicapped my career progress and ma
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by blahblarblar 4y ago
I did the same thing. It wasn’t conscious, it was more that they lived in a completely different world from where I went. We couldn’t really relate as much anymore. Like we now had very different approaches to life. Academy moves so slow. W
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by blahblarblar 4y ago
It’s definitely partially academia that does this. When you are a grad student you are paid so poorly and worked so hard it is difficult to build a substantial identity outside of being an academic. Academia is good at marketing itself as a
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by blahblarblar 4y ago
It’s not that they weren’t paying attention. It’s more that academics egos can’t handle the loss to their identity of not being an academic anymore.
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by blahblarblar 4y ago
Return on capital for flipping bits has been much higher than physical. SWEs are paid far more than material scientists and I think the latter is much harder.
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by blahblarblar 4y ago
Astounding the lengths people will go to avoid having to provide a real good or service.
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by blahblarblar 4y ago
Tech work doesn’t feel like something you can have a life long career in. It’s stressful and there’s ageism. Tech workers are mentally amortizing their productive tech life-span over their whole life and then comp doesn’t look as high.
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by blahblarblar 4y ago
In a bull market it’s too hard to tell if you are a genius or taking a random walk on a rising tide. Most think they are the former.
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by blahblarblar 4y ago
I wish this applied to fire trucks. I’ve been woken up too many times by a fire truck blasting their horn at 2am when there’s no traffic in the street, waking up 200+ people in the process.
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by blahblarblar 4y ago
Dude, you ok? That’s a lot of hate to be carrying around all the time, can’t be all that fun.
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by blahblarblar 4y ago
You should not lower your standards, rather adjust them to the context. Know when high standards are appropriate and when you should lower your standards. Sounds like this Amazon app you worked on just isn’t very important. I’m sure someone
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by blahblarblar 4y ago
Try volunteering to teach some college courses on an entry level technical subject. It'll help develop some empathy for why not everyone can code. For me it was physics. I was optimistic. I thought I could teach anyone physics. After i
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by blahblarblar 4y ago
Central anything + smart home = miserable experience. If my router is having a sketchy connection I should never be blocked from turning my lights on, or have one random light in a scene fail to turn on. Someone needs to take the plunge and
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by blahblarblar 5y ago
If we discover room temperature superconductors this might be in the cards. Lots of exotic stuff becomes possible then but no one knows if it’s possible to have room temperature superconductors.
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by blahblarblar 5y ago
When I was in neuroscience I came to the same conclusion. People just keep trying new ways to do information processing which is really easy and fun. Solving the biology and material science problems are fucking hard and high risk, as in, i
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by blahblarblar 5y ago
Did they fix strings?
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by blahblarblar 5y ago
Dirty Tesla used to track these stats in his testing and gave up because “it’s not changing”