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by borroka 4y ago
I work in California, make more than 300k not at a FAANG doing work that people with half of my competence would be able to do (but they would not be hired for the job), and I am not taxed at nearly 50%.
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"it's incredibly hard to identify an engineer's real ability levels in an interview process". It is more or less true (I would not use "incredibly hard", just "hard") with the qualifier "using a
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Please. Just to give two examples, both Soquel Avenue and Lower Ocean have some of the ugliest buildings and lots in the history of architecture and urbanism. Why multi-story building can take their place? Aside from NIMBYsm and the incompe
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It depends on what the constraints are. It seems that the construction of most new housing is blocked by people who have a clear interest in maintaining the status quo for mainly monetary reasons, as well as not wanting new people to come i
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I have not seen it listed, but I am very much enjoying the Manifold podcast. Hsu is competent, not afraid to speak his mind, and invites on talented scientists, academics, and bureaucrats. I don't agree with him all the time, and I fin
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by borroka 4y ago
Let me answer with a passage from the biography of Federico Fellini ("Federico") written by Tullio Kezich, which has become a ray of light for me. "He [Fellini] lived inside things with indomitable curiosity and perpetual ope
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I think I got my jiu jitsu black belt with about 2,500 hours on the mat, say 5 hours a week on average for 52 weeks for 10 years. With a more effective teaching model, I believe one could achieve the proficiency needed for a black belt in 2
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The answer is always yes. When people think frequently and decisively about quitting, especially if one works in a worker-unfriendly country like the United States, and setting aside financial concerns, I always advise to move on. Consider
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It is imperfect like all analogies, but let's take a toy example to clarify what I think. Let's say you are going to start something in 3 months, a new job or maybe you want to finally get in shape. If you think that your energy,
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This is a question I have been giving some thought to. I am certainly not a genius, and I have known many people smarter than I am, but I have cognitive abilities above the average of the population and of my social circle. But we associate
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There is a human component to consider: in the case of a change in the interview process, with the new process perceived as easier than the past and current ones, I imagine the bitter protests from the currently employed engineers who would
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This is fair in theory, and I imagine that some smart, high-agency people take advantage of the situation, but as is often the case, “down time" leads to more down time rather than more time to devote to career advancement, networking,
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I use equations and images, code blocks can be used, and I don't find useful applications for video files.
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I think we should not confuse the process of hypothesis building with hypothesis testing. >> As one more flashcard, another pillar, additional context, they will to deepen your understanding. It is creating more inter-connections betw
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I use Anki in a "straightforward" way. In the sense that I write the card using Anki's interface without using excel or markdown files. For example, if I want to memorize a word I found while reading, I highlight it in blue i
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The problem is quickly solved, and it is important not to fall into " paralysis by analysis." Sometimes, while writing a card, we tell ourselves that it is not so important to remember that information and discard it, other times
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I am still skeptical. One thing is to recognize common roots, for example "to live" is "vivere" in Italian and "vivir" in Spanish, another it is to know that they are both coming from the latin verb vīvĕre. It
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by borroka 4y ago
I agree with the comment, but my point was about understanding and memorizing words, not becoming fluent in a language. Listening, speaking, and memorizing words and grammar rules are all necessary to become passable or fluent in a foreign
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by borroka 4y ago
It is interesting from a linguistic point of view, no doubt, and I am an amateur etymologist myself, but let's look at reality with honest eyes: apart from a very small group of people, languages are not learnt, and learnt effectively,
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There is another layer here, which is how much you increase the "luck surface" by doing certain things. Is it 10%, so you move from 1% probability to have "success" to 1.1%? Or 50% from 30 to 45%? Increasing the luck sur
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>> It helps you not forget things you've already learned. The argument is quite weak when we discuss learning words in a foreign language. You learn that lunch is "almuerzo" in Spanish, but is it learning or just memor
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It similar to the question, "if you could do just one exercise, what would you do?" And you have all these answers, it is the squat, no, it is the deadlift, please guys it is the power clean. It is not a useful question because yo
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I have mixed feelings about Cowen. On the one hand, I appreciate his breadth (but not depth, next point) of knowledge, his charisma, his pace, and his energy, all very admirable traits and qualities. I always listen to his podcasts. On the
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This list has been circulating forever, following the publication of the book, and I believe they should be called "top five very theoretical and after the fact and with no empirical evidence they are regrets and they would do somethin
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When did my PhD in a Southern European country -- I completed it 15 years ago -- I was getting 800 euros a month after taxes. Right now, PhD students get no more than 1000 euros a month after taxes. It is peanuts, difficult to live on that
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"External identity" was a hasty definition on my part. It means that I do not identify with the way others identify me. I was a professional sportsman for years, and that was the way many people saw me. When I stopped, I no longer
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The statement "if you get rich, you will just be sad and bored" is one of the most obvious psychological operations by the rich and wealthy I have read about. It goes hand in hand with "money doesn't buy happiness"
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It is difficult to answer to that question, and I do not know your specific case, your psychological make-up, your memories, your history and the way you see yourself. However, although I do not know you, I have already listed some possible
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From the book "The Excitement of Science", by Platt. "But the remarkable thing about it is that among men who really know something, the looks quickly cease to matter. I remember very clearly the dinner party where I first me
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There are many more nuances than those presented. This is a personal example, but there are many such cases: I used to do a job, academic research, that I loved, but it was poorly paid. I switched to a very lucrative job, which I don't

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