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by brutus1213 2y ago
What happens if the JPY appreciates against USD? Do investors hedge this (I assume this incurs a cost) or do they do this "naked"?
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by brutus1213 2y ago
I was seriously contemplating a Tesla when my current cars need to be replaced. The crazy stories I have been reading over the last few years really concern me. For an expensive purchase like a car, I want the most "boring" and re
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by brutus1213 2y ago
I think a sad part of the calculus is there are lots of bodies willing to be thrown in the grinder. The only danger is a real competitor with a different business model that lets them treat people better. Case in point is AWS. I've bee
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by brutus1213 2y ago
Hello! Can I ask you for some random career advice? I am mid-career, in a low-level mgmt position but want to return to being an IC. My team's tech stack is Python and Kotlin, but in my position I don't get to code. I code for fu
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by brutus1213 2y ago
I think this is somewhat misleading. I have seen enough in my life to convince me that elite schools are worth it in the long-term. It always seems too expensive. But if you aren't willing to invest in yourself, how do you expect anyon
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by brutus1213 2y ago
Pay for premium. On my work machine, I don't co-mingle my personal accounts. it is impossible to watch lectures with the amount of ads.
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by brutus1213 2y ago
I didn't see the 6.5 million figure in the article. Did I miss it? I wonder if part of the issue is no bank is willing to finance such a deal (given cashflow doesn't make sense with such a low prevailing vacancy rate). I've h
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by brutus1213 2y ago
Yup .. that's the one.
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by brutus1213 2y ago
I hunted for my question and found an interesting Economics Explained video on youtube. That hypothesizes that Baby Boomers essentially voted to change policies to favor themselves as a cohort.
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by brutus1213 2y ago
It kind of bothers me that animals probably do this stuff because they are so freakin hungry. Nature is beautiful but harsh.
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by brutus1213 2y ago
Housing seems to be a disaster almost everywhere in the world these days. This makes me think the issue is not a local one (or perhaps there are some traits in all of us as humans that are causing this mess). What is odd to me is that previ
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by brutus1213 2y ago
Haha .. that is exactly the number I was thinking of. I was mulling whether that includes the house or not. According to the definition of net-worth, of course, a house should be counted. But for the magic retirement number, it doesn't
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by brutus1213 2y ago
I think this disease is pretty prevalent in tech these days. It has become untenable. I can imagine lots of folks with FU money (presumably folks with the most experience) are considering retiring out of the rat race. I'm not at G but
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by brutus1213 2y ago
Can this do function-calling?
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by brutus1213 3y ago
Thank you for your comment. These are all great points. I absolutely appreciate #1. #2 is a bit harder to accept as it implies I don't have agency. I always had the dogma that my hard work would make a difference from the perspective o
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by brutus1213 3y ago
I have to say honestly, the whole episode with NVidia's recent rise has left me quite demotivated about capitalism and the value of hard work. NVidia used to be a second tier job from the perspective of software professionals. The folk
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by brutus1213 3y ago
How does one go about such a land purchase? Are there specialized brokers or websites?
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by brutus1213 3y ago
Actually, MSFT made the same blunder when it came to HoloLens. Well .. they did start to build some of the core spatial context (and had a fabulous headstart). But somewhere along the way, they yielded to Unity/Unreal. This was mind bo
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by brutus1213 3y ago
Is there any tooling that lets one profile the individual parts of the compute graph? In CUDA land, I can imagine how to build such a thing. No clue how it would work on Mobile.
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by brutus1213 3y ago
On mobile devices, specifically Android, there are some benefits. Also, in the embedded/tinyml space.
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by brutus1213 3y ago
There is a famous Marissa Meyers party at Yahoo! that this reminds me of. I thought with all the layoffs, Google was getting disciplined and everyone in line. Maybe that is not the case. When Microsoft brought in Nadella, they did some belt
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by brutus1213 3y ago
Article said households are not the major share of GDP. So is it the govt?? Who has all this excess savings?
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by brutus1213 3y ago
There is a double whammy. Typically, someone sells their home to buy a different home that is better suited for them. Right now, there is a massive disincentive tp sell (as the seller would lose their sweet low rate 30 year). This depresses
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by brutus1213 3y ago
This reminds me of the Balmer days at Microsoft. While share price and other metrics improved, MSFT missed mobile in a way that seemed inconceivable. I worked there in those days and it was pretty shocking how dismissive senior folks were t
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by brutus1213 3y ago
I don't work in the ad industry but am quite curious to learn the high level software components. For instance, I have heard of Audience Intelligence Platforms from the likes of Google and Adobe. Curious if anyone has come across a boo
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by brutus1213 3y ago
Can you explain the "issuing stock to pay people"? 15% per year sounds quite a bit to me .. is this the norm in Silicon Valley? I presume this in the 10K?
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by brutus1213 3y ago
That sounds batshit insane! Why the heck did Unity hire so much???
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by brutus1213 3y ago
AI Scientist here. Learn about LLMs .. the tools are starting to get there .. it looks like API calls. Super easy to get into. Check out ChatGPT's APIs to start. I am getting some second thoughts about applications that will truly stic
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by brutus1213 3y ago
I think person meant they can't think by "theft of executive function". You just put out the fire in front of u (or what u are told I guess).
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by brutus1213 3y ago
Read about assertive communication. You should push back. Also, make your manager aware how this is affecting your deadlines. Don't think .. well I am getting paid so whatever. That is wrong. Either it eats your hours, your brain energ

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