citizen_friend

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by citizen_friend 2y ago
In other words: - you previously spent time building relationships with contractors. You didn’t just type in property management in Google - a significant overhead goes to insurance and management. Your comfortable putting money as needed i
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by citizen_friend 2y ago
I believe you can do well with rentals, but not without labor and knowledge. The danger is people thinking they will just hire a manager. I would also rather be an engineer than fix apartments.
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by citizen_friend 2y ago
Idk if it was very technical for him to succeed. Know your local market and be aggressive in buying is a good strategy throughout 80s and 90s.
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by citizen_friend 2y ago
Seminars were important knowledge distribution networks in the 80s and 90s. Scams and low quality content are usually a strong indicator something used to be good, and attracted copy cats.
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by citizen_friend 2y ago
You don’t think he made a lot of money in real estate?
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by citizen_friend 2y ago
He already has stated publicly that the “rich dad” is a characterization. And the book is about the 4th product in his attempt to teach finance courses. So I’m already suspect of the article. Yes it’s a terribly written book, but that’s typ
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by citizen_friend 2y ago
You’re trying to say that I’m defining success as money and he’s defining it as more wholesome factors. That’s not what’s happening.
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by citizen_friend 2y ago
Having a job he likes that pays him money he wants. That’s the criteria outlined. He’s just afraid it might end up being a job he doesn’t like. There is a myth that higher paying jobs must be more miserable, but it’s rarely true.
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by citizen_friend 2y ago
this sounds a lot like the psychology of having nothing to lose vs something to lose. You play more aggressively and are more successful in the former case.
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by citizen_friend 2y ago
Remember that like wikipedia, citing yourself, or people related to your work is a form of marketing, and important for careers.
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by citizen_friend 2y ago
I would expect them to have someone with at least an undergrad in math look over the math. Editor would help identify that
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by citizen_friend 2y ago
This. He tries to do a few epsilon delta proofs and completely gets the concept wrong. I’m surprised an editor did not stop this. If he can’t understand a limit it really puts a question mark on whether it’s worth reading his insight into t
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by citizen_friend 2y ago
How many meanings of the word emum do we need? Whose code does this improve?
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by citizen_friend 2y ago
Hash maps are extremely difficult to make general which is probably why they were never included in C++98. unordered_map is a disaster.
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by citizen_friend 2y ago
> Where do you see three sorts stable_sort, sort, and sort_heap The creator Alex Stepanov also included insertion_sort (used in sort) but it was rejected by standard committee. That suggests that the idea that complexity is primarily to
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by citizen_friend 2y ago
I would disagree. The purpose of big O in the STL is not to allow you to compare different algorithms, but allow you to reason about how that will scale with input size. If I test perf with a size of 1000 and then it’s declared to be linear
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by citizen_friend 2y ago
To refresh. My argument is that if you are starting out you need to have drive and interest. That’s it.
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by citizen_friend 2y ago
> Being successful in this field doesn't require programming in your spare time I already addressed this point. > No one made a statement even remotely like this. This is a strawman you chose to "reply to" No. My argume
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by citizen_friend 2y ago
So no such thing as a good or bad engineer? Just teams then? Have you ever worked by yourself? I think the bias today is actually against individuals and for community. Money ball didn’t get them the best team it got them the better team th
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by citizen_friend 2y ago
Do you think you can become a really good engineer without being personally motivated and curious? I don't. That's not to say you can't have seasons of more or less interest, but this guy is at the starting line.
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by citizen_friend 2y ago
Agreed. And I don't blame mid career workers for not having time to do much after full-time jobs. But this is an individual who is early in developing their skills and indicating they may not have motivation to do that. That's an
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by citizen_friend 2y ago
This. If you haven't been naturally excited to work on your own projects during this downtime, this field might not be for you.
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by citizen_friend 2y ago
Math is all about taking a notion from life that you might consider “common sense” and using it to solve a problem. You have to prove it works carefully though. This is Turing’s works where he is translating the idea of a human “computer” i
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by citizen_friend 2y ago
> cutting edge of cloud services documentation I dont know what this means
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by citizen_friend 2y ago
Nobody did gradual rollout in 1992
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by citizen_friend 2y ago
Its always a great tool if you need to automate a computer task.
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by citizen_friend 2y ago
Everyone I know who is extremely successful in the field is the opposite. They have way more ideas than they have time for.
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by citizen_friend 2y ago
I think we are talking past each other and it’s not worth continuing this discussion. The reason why no fund will take that deal is the market for investments is much more favorable to managers than that.
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by citizen_friend 2y ago
Yep I’m just pointing out S&P. Or VTI anre not magic There are funds that beat them often. Is your claim they don’t exist? Or that you can’t find them.
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by citizen_friend 2y ago
This sounds clever but many funds did exactly that. What’s your point? S&P + nvidia was better than just S&P over the last 5 years.

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