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by commonturtle 6y ago
I also struggled with this transition a bit so here are some of the things I learned that help me get to L5: 1/ The key thing for getting to L5 is to take on large problems (usually 3-6 month long efforts), figure out how to solve them
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by commonturtle 6y ago
I don't understand how this could happen in places that have good reviews. I only consider places with a minimum of 10 reviews and avg score > 4 stars. Never had a bad experience.
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by commonturtle 6y ago
More on this subject from Tyler Cowen: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/12/ho... . Apparently the FDA could review clinical data and make a call on the vaccine in 24-48 hours, without cut
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by commonturtle 6y ago
Surely by being forced to do lockdowns later on we are paying dearly for letting them stay open. I think we can also have more fine-grained policies. In Scotland they simply disallow serving of alcohol in restaurants and pubs, and restauran
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by commonturtle 6y ago
I don't know why we're so hesitant to just close bars and restaurants everywhere, pay the staff generously, and leave the rest of the economy open. At least in the UK I think it would have stopped us from having a second lockdown.
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by commonturtle 6y ago
My favourite kind of dumpling, Momos ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momo_(food) ) are missing from here, wonder when they came about.
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by commonturtle 6y ago
Give it 20 years :)
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by commonturtle 6y ago
Not sure if it was the medium of television that causes these problems. I remember reading Ben Franklin's biography a while ago. He was in the printing / newspaper business and what struck me was how polarized it was. Lots of hit
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by commonturtle 6y ago
Wow that's.. tiny. I was also surprised to learn that Twitter has just 187M daily users, even smaller than Snap (249M), which in my mind was only an app used by American teenagers.
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by commonturtle 6y ago
Postman's Amusing Ourselves To Death is also an interesting read. He talks about how TV is an awful medium that encourages even the most serious content to be treated as entertainment. I wonder what he would have to say about the media
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by commonturtle 6y ago
Ted Chiang’s Exhalation. I didn’t like all of his short stories, but a few in this book were really great.
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by commonturtle 6y ago
Scott Page's Model Thinking course: https://www.coursera.org/learn/model-thinking . Broad overview of how to think in models to understand the world around you.
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by commonturtle 6y ago
Is this just the end of the beginning of the damage Covid will cause?
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by commonturtle 6y ago
I ignore 100% of Medium, it's always low quality. As you say Substack is also heading in that direction. I like Atlas Obscura, even though it's just factoids and not information that I'll ever use. Ignore most news outlets: N
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by commonturtle 6y ago
Corporate life can be traumatic sometimes. I can only imagine how employees at IBM felt and they were asked to sing one of these songs.
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by commonturtle 6y ago
Interesting, thanks for sharing. This idea of working in a completely different industry for a while is one of the things I'm thinking about. Might be more fun than aimlessly wandering :)
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Ask HN: Sabattical Experiences?
3 points by commonturtle 6y ago|4 comments
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by commonturtle 6y ago
> Within Baghdad, the Al-Adudi Hospital's location was decided upon by its administrator, Abu-Bakr al-Razi. He determined where it should be located by "hanging a piece of meat in several places for a few days and deciding in f
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by commonturtle 6y ago
Presumably secondhand-everything sales are booming, since so many people have less discretionary income during the crisis?
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by commonturtle 6y ago
I've tried cricket bars before, they tasted quite good. I just wonder though, why not make them out of a vegetable protein like pea or oat protein instead? That way they could target the vegan market too.
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by commonturtle 6y ago
How do they plan to take on modern social media networks with their massive network effects? This is like a corner shop claiming that they will be Amazon's replacement.
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by commonturtle 6y ago
Almost every large tech company has offices in the US outside the Bay Area; in NYC, Seattle, LA, etc. What's stopping them from winding down their Bay Area offices over the next 10 years and slowly ramping up investments in other place
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by commonturtle 6y ago
I enjoy reading Fermat's Library ( https://fermatslibrary.com/journal_club ), a publication that covers one scientific paper of interest a week (give or take) with annotations by the authors. Papers come from a wide vari
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Stentors: Single-Celled Giants(youtube.com)
2 points by commonturtle 6y ago|0 comments
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by commonturtle 6y ago
There are parts I miss about the office and parts I don't. Do miss: Face-to-face meetings, bumping into people you know from other teams randomly, dropping by someone's desk to ask a question. Don't miss: High density open of
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by commonturtle 6y ago
I'm tech leading a small project (~5 people). How much time I spend coding varies quite a lot, usually 20-50% in a typical week. I spend more time than I would like in meetings of various kinds: interviews, 1:1s, planning for the next
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by commonturtle 6y ago
There's also a BBC Miniseries for And Then There Were None which is fantastic.
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by commonturtle 6y ago
If you can get ~30% of the population to vaccinate (especially the more vulnerable groups, who will have more incentive to do so), things will already get much better. We won't be at the herd immunity threshold but I think all but the
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by commonturtle 6y ago
This seems to be a common sentiment among developers today but honestly bloat doesn't bother me too much. I do want good performance from my websites, but with fast internet connections, who cares if it is 1KB or 1MB? Also, if you can
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7000-Year Old Writing(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by commonturtle 6y ago|0 comments

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