buildingmateri

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by buildingmateri 5y ago
He tweeted in preceding months and years that if found dead it wouldn't be suicide. He got "whacked" tattooed on his arm to prepare for this situation. I don't think we can just uncritically accept that it's 100% a
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by buildingmateri 5y ago
Good chance you have 200k+ saved. Stop working for a while. Travel, live somewhere new. Start learning about things outside of software... Pursue projects for anything that moves you regardless of whether you think you'd be good at it
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by buildingmateri 5y ago
Btw some proof/discussion how physicists don't know why there is a speed limit (and seemingly more proof you haven't spent much time thinking about physics yourself?): https://physics.stackexchange.com/questio
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by buildingmateri 5y ago
Frankly if anyone actually cared about climate change we would be desperately seeking to shorten supply chains and buy/produce locally. Bringing in everything from Asia when it could be done locally is absolutely terrible for ghg level
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by buildingmateri 5y ago
Yet you don't know... you're just saying "I bet someone else knows" without being aware that many experts in physics would admit "we don't know" to these questions... what my undergrad ivy league physics p
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by buildingmateri 5y ago
Understand the sentiment, I took a cyclical approach over a decade or so, a couple years self-employed, a couple years on a coding team, repeat. Although the last employment period gave an equity windfall, (and not to mention crypto investm
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by buildingmateri 5y ago
Sounds like you're attempting to refer to qft? Passes the buck down and is still fundamentally descriptive not explanatory. People don't like fields when there's a bunch of gatekeepers who can't resist posing as experts
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by buildingmateri 5y ago
Showing your own ignorance here. Where do electrons come from? Or any of the other fundamental particles. Please, enlighten the world of science. "Fundamental constant" means "we don't know why it has that value, we just
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by buildingmateri 5y ago
Was hoping the point would be that science today at the most fundamental level is descriptive, not explanatory, and being humble and honest about our failure to be explanatory would make people more interested and less intimated. For exampl
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by buildingmateri 5y ago
Would take it further and say not just the media but also some powerful forces in DC going after him undemocratically, seemingly his whole presidency... the russia investigation revelations, nunes etc, and ukraine call impeachment stuff, re
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by buildingmateri 5y ago
Living in an expat destination country currently as an American, I regularly get crap from friends, Australian, British, South African, about the perceived madness of American political culture that's now popping up in their work lives
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by buildingmateri 5y ago
My comment was strongly upvoted (50+) so I believe the HN community understands this dynamic. I mean if you go outside Western bubbles e.g. all of Asia Latam etc. 99% of women seek to marry a breadwinner over having their own career, close
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by buildingmateri 5y ago
Especially a problem because for almost all men a career and supporting family (maybe the hardest thing to figure out in life) is non optional, whereas half the female friends I have from college have abandoned careers to saddle up to a bre
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by buildingmateri 5y ago
Yeah elite undergrads are striving to be entrepreneurs, CEOs, or wall street/consulting types, not code monkeys. Going to encounter a lot of resistance with standard coding jobs where need to roll up your sleeves for obvious motivation
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by buildingmateri 5y ago
Yes this is the current mainstream media propaganda against cryptos, thanks for that.
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by buildingmateri 5y ago
Pretty doubtful. The top innovating nations are such because they attract the top talent from around the world, and almost no talent at all moves to China. There's a lot of breakthroughs in AI left and whoever gets the most talent is g
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by buildingmateri 5y ago
I'm aware but next to no one actually buys stocks for the dividends. Housing market is same zero sum as OP described determined by investments in real estate instead of other assets Any other examples?
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by buildingmateri 5y ago
Any other examples? Almost no average Joe retail investor owns stocks for the dividends.
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by buildingmateri 5y ago
Don't understand, your argument applies to any asset class.
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by buildingmateri 5y ago
I've heard random uber drivers on the other side of the world talk about Dogecoin so you might want to include crypto in your list of why less people need to work now.
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by buildingmateri 5y ago
Solution is kind of straightforward: Work said 100k job for 5 or 7 years, perhaps with safe investments e.g. the S&P, get 200k+ to your name. Use that to then support years of establishing your own business, own terms, own freedom.
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by buildingmateri 5y ago
And how does "perspectivism" somehow scale? Any NLP application directly encoding knowledge (objects, perspectives, whatever) is going to have major scaling constraints, since it's impossible right now to encode human-level u
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by buildingmateri 5y ago
> Understand that the public announcement is often different than the actual close. Any sense on which normally comes first?
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Ask HN: Former employees that went through an acquisition with equity payout
34 points by buildingmateri 5y ago|11 comments
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Ask HN: What is the equity payout process in an acquisition?
2 points by buildingmateri 5y ago|0 comments