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by cipheredStones 2y ago
> 1) Shares don't do very much on their own, so there isn't really a problem with that. I mean, dude owns a billion in shares - if they earn income dude will pay tax, if they don't the only true to get to the value is to s
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by cipheredStones 2y ago
Oh, that brings back memories. When I interviewed with Triplebyte in 2018 and was rejected, my first item in the 'positive feedback' part of the email was "We saw some real strength on the tic tac toe section.", and my f
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by cipheredStones 2y ago
Interesting concept, but a point on the design: it's quite unclear whether the "reasoning" part is supposed to be "why you did it", "why you do/don't regret it", or both.
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by cipheredStones 3y ago
What - invading an unrelated country?
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by cipheredStones 3y ago
You probably know this already, but for the general audience: you don't actually owe a debt to a collector if they can't prove to you that you owe it, and they're typically very bad at that. (See https://www.bi
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by cipheredStones 3y ago
There's quite a difference between being happy with your insurance and being happy with it being tied to your job. My insurance is fine. The fact that if I were fired tomorrow, my partner and I would suddenly need to either start payin
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by cipheredStones 3y ago
Somehow I've known about supernovas for many years without realizing that the word and concept "nova" exists as well. It's from the Latin for "new": the appearance of what seems to be a new star, because the st
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by cipheredStones 3y ago
Stocks of successful companies typically pay dividends. That's what makes them valuable in the first place. Not being able to sell them just means you can't get the value up front as a lump sum.
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by cipheredStones 3y ago
On a reread, you'll note that I didn't make any claims about what layoffs are like in the industry as a whole: I implied that pay/benefits/conditions tend to be pretty bad in gaming and pretty good in the rest of tech, a
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by cipheredStones 3y ago
Notably, it got downranked pretty hard: it's currently in spot 49, after getting almost 300 votes in two hours. (I agree with the sibling comment that the snark was unnecessary, though.)
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by cipheredStones 3y ago
From another article about her: > Before long, Monroe was using a food bank. “It had taken me four or five weeks to pluck up the courage to go. The first time, one of the women looked at me and I looked at her. She went to church with my
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by cipheredStones 3y ago
If you're making a universal claim like that, you are just being contrarian. My last job was at a Series C startup that you've probably never heard of, and when they had to lay off 2/3rds of their employees in late 2020 due
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by cipheredStones 3y ago
> And that's even in tech (video game studio). Given everything I've ever heard about working conditions, pay, and benefits in video game studios, it seems more appropriate to think of them as opposite to the mainstream softwar
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by cipheredStones 3y ago
I think casting this as "a feelgood story" and her behavior after reaching success as sullying that is completely missing the point. She's writing about herself, but the goal is to convey some of the horror of living in pover
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by cipheredStones 3y ago
That's a perfectly valid motivation, but if it's really what someone is going for, I expect to hear an objection that sounds something like "oh, that's cool! but I'd rather try out doing it myself" rather than
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by cipheredStones 3y ago
It consistently surprises me how much software engineers devalue the effort of software engineering when it comes to their personal lives. If you're a SWE in an English-speaking country, you almost certainly make $20 post-tax for at mo
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by cipheredStones 3y ago
What you're describing is almost exactly the opposite of what LLMs are good for. Quickly getting a draft of something roughly like what you want without having to look a bunch of stuff up? Great, go wild. Writing something to a very hi
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by cipheredStones 3y ago
Huh, I had no idea that honey was so acidic - looking it up, it's very possible for it to be as acidic as an orange.
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by cipheredStones 3y ago
Disabled scrolling is almost always implemented by setting the `overflow` CSS property to `hidden` or `none`. You can add a UBlock filter for a specific site, as the sibling comment suggests, but on the fly you can also just use the console
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by cipheredStones 3y ago
A Tumblr post which goes into how truly insane this is, and offers a possible explanation for how it got to be that way: https://www.tumblr.com/sunspotpony/712834929488216064/so-i-d...
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by cipheredStones 3y ago
The way effective altruism has been criticized in the wake of SBF has been disturbing to me, because it frequently conflates: - Genuine and meaningful criticism of the latest manifestation of "ends justifies the means" thinking (a
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by cipheredStones 3y ago
It's quite a rhetorical move to look at two people involved in a transaction and say "it's not a good thing for anyone", by implicitly excluding the entire public.
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by cipheredStones 3y ago
Does "children are killing each other because of what they saw online" sound more like a real thing or more like a moral panic to you?
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by cipheredStones 3y ago
I would argue that tech boomed because the (broader) economy was bad. The Fed interest rate was ~0% from 2009 through 2016, due to the long shadow of the Great Recession, and then again from March 2020 to early 2022. That made investors l
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by cipheredStones 3y ago
This makes no sense. If the bank lends $100 each to two people, it has to be prepared for them to take that money and spend it more or less immediately - on a house, or payroll, or whatever. When you put your $100 into the ATM, and two peop
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by cipheredStones 3y ago
> Microsoft has a similar problem where nobody gets promoted from fixing bugs or maintaining stuff, everyone gets rewarded for new innovative [thing] so every two-three years there's a completely new UI framework or similar. Is ther
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by cipheredStones 3y ago
Very much fake. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/oct/31/sam-bankman...
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by cipheredStones 3y ago
The fact that someone always makes this sort of comment when driverless cars come up is really weird to me. I've never owned a car, use public transit very regularly, and think the state of it in the US is pretty bad and underinvested
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by cipheredStones 3y ago
I'd caution against saying one study was "debunked" because another one disagrees with it. Later does not necessarily mean better. However, in this particular case, the author of the $75k study (Daniel Kahneman, one of the fo
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by cipheredStones 3y ago
No, seriously, it's insane that you're trying to defend this claim. Median US household income after taxes in 2022 was $64,240. If you make *quadruple* median household income after taxes , you are not middle class. Median post-t

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