cyberdrunk

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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
> had the good sense to hold their RSUs Hindsight is 20/20...
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
Deresiewicz's story is inconsistent. First, he writes that early artists (Da Vinci, Bach etc.) basically saw themselves as artisans who worked jobs for their patrons, who essentially sheltered them from the cold realities of the market
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
My guess is that there's massive luck factor in determining the outcome. i.e. you can pursue multiple ideas and you can't know beforehand which one will pay off. Best bet is to work on stuff you enjoy and don't expect success
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
Apple patches security vulns even in older versions of iOS (to support people whose device is too old to upgrade to the latest version) - I don't know for how long though.
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
> Data Engineering sounds interesting but also appears to require heavy statistics. That's Data Science. Data Engineering is just writing code (pipelines in Spark usually) which moves data from system A to B and perhaps applies some
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
> it's one (maybe the most important) of the world's cultural nexuses How does that translate into everyday living for people who don't have a job in culture creation (media, fashion etc.)?
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
> A good amount of people buy a certain car and maintain it, intending to run the vehicle into the ground completely. In such case, yearly depreciation is the cost of replacing the car with a new one, divided by the number of years until
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
> Yeah, that was my first reaction to that bit. Most of my friends would feel uncomfortable about me paying for a hotel room for them, and that would make me feel uncomfortable. Also, it means that they can basically never propose to com
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
These two situations are not equivalent. A book author has basically 100% market monopoly on his/her books. He can set a high price and people who want to read the works will still pay. Whereas ride sharing companies interchangeable an
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
Regarding chance of being hired into those roles without previous experience, I'd say they are minimal, unless you join a scrappy, low-wage startup (or other low-pay environment - perhaps government, academia?). Everybody else can affo
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
> People in the Soviet Union, in general, took a high degree of pride in their work. Have you lived in the Soviet Union? I haven't, but have in Communist Poland which had similar work culture. In general, people were slacking off an
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
For me at least a "lifestyle doctor" is a term without negative connotations.
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
> 1000-1500 hours This comes down to 3-4 hours of focused effort, every single day of the year, on top of their work and family responsibilities. Have you actually tried living like this even for 6 months? I doubt it's mentally feas
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
Honestly this sounds like taken from The Onion.
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
The whole idea of waterfall as I know it is to have large-ish iterations (typically a couple months), which comprise of analysis, dev and testing stages. Is this different from what you have in mind?
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
... which, given that most people are speeding, makes their estimates completely unrealistic if you want to actually obey the law.
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
There is a ton of inefficiencies in big businesses and governments and IBM and other service companies are preying on that. It's a viable business model, if a little scummy.
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
It's because you want the people who already live here and are your neighbours, your co-taxpayers, your co-voters to thrive. The alternative (lots of miserable and frustrated Americans) can lead to a shitty living environment even for
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
Yes, thanks for the correction.
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
Worrying about and preparing for ever more elusive contingencies can be poison in itself. Kafka's short story "The bunker" pictures this state of mind very well.
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
> Now it’s just join the printer to the WiFi and it’s there, ready to both print and scan wirelessly. Or, alternatively, spend a frustrating afternoon trying to set it up, give up and buy very long USB cable...
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
In my area, it's easy to tell - the winter smog (from burning coal and god knows what else) stinks.
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
Someone must have been bored out of their minds.
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
The Soviet system was clearly inferior (say it was running at 10-30% efficiency of a market system), but wasn't completely dysfunctional. Combine this with large population population of the Soviet block, the fact that that population
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
> The corruption in Russia today is a legacy of that Soviet-era black market. Not just of black market, the centrally-ran economy was corrupted to the core. Most decisions (who gets the job, who gets the apartment etc.) were routinely ma
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
Before automobile, people were using horses and buggies to travel to neighboring farms and the nearest town. They weren't that isolated.
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
Research mindfulness. In short, it's about being more in the present and less in the past and in future. Excessive thinking about potential problems in the future can turn into anxiety, so mindfulness should help.
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
> "into to Kubernetes" That could be a movie about absurdity and meaninglessness of life...
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
> It dropped the overall US homelessness rate by 17% against the backdrop of the great recession [2] It's practically tautological that if you give homeless people homes, then the number of homeless people decreases ( unless there
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
> I want to understand how best to tweak and measure performance. For the long term, make it a repeatable process, i.e. establish a bunch of test cases against which you run your tweaked code.

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