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by dcolkitt 6y ago
This is only true if you believe there’s no productivity benefits to remote. Commutes to the office mean that employees start the day sleep deprived and stressed out. Spending the day surrounded by one’s spouses, children and pets improves
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A lot of decorum and etiquette is just practicing enough to learn unwritten rules. Maybe it would help have more casual social interaction. Might be tough in the age of covid, but there's lots of socializing and networking opportunitie
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
> Your writing is not strong, I don't know. I think he has pretty decent writing. Kinda reminds me of William Gibson. It may be stylistically unusual, but it's definitely better than the median SWE. At least in terms of clearly
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Why would desalination be unsustainable? The limiting factor is electricity. And renewables continue to deliver Moore's law like improvements in the price and quantity of electricity, without any environmental externalities.
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Theoretically there’s a protocol standard, and every client implementation is equal. Functionally, whatever Geth does is the actual standard because a supermajority of nodes run Geth.
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The world is full of inferior products and standards that ended up winning because of early mover advantages. There’s even a name for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
Memorize your private keys. Destroy any physical or digital copies of the keys in a “boating accident”. Tell the authorities you can’t recover the funds. Wait 25 years or so. Move to somewhere outside jurisdiction or extradition from the re
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> the whole subprime disaster... no one went to prison and people really should've This is a pretty common sentiment, but nobody can really articulate specifically who should go to prison and what crime they committed. Being stu
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As far as I can tell, hundreds of millions in drugs and contraband are regularly transacted using Bitcoin. Billions in global capital controls and taxes are evaded every day with Bitcoin. The fraction of black market participants who are re
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
When it comes to long, difficult slogs, I prefer audiobooks. Mostly consumed when exercising outside in nature. Imagine reading Moby Dick, and the author goes into a long boring diatribe about 19th century cetology. If you're sitting a
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
At the very least if you don't have a CS degree, you should be able to demonstrate CS-knowledge by prepping for basic whiteboard interviews. Imagine what this guy looks like from the hiring managers side. Would you take the risk of hir
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
> It's easier now to start and grow a company than it has ever been. That means more people start them, that those who do get better terms from investors, and that the resulting companies become more valuable. This may be a quibble,
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Except there are two problems with this theory. One unemployment is just as correlated with crimes of passion as it is crimes of opportunity. There’s no reason why a lack of job training should lead to rape. Two is that America’s high crime
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
Just speculating here. Could be due to declining smoking rates. Especially among the cohort that's aging into age into prime diagnosis years. Nicotine is highly effective at preventing Parkinson's. https://actaneurocomm
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Standardized testing is widely vilified, but it's probably been the greatest single force for meritocracy in American history. Prior to widespread adoption, elite universities awarded slots on a "holistic" basis. Which mostly
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
Archegos was hedged. All of its long positions were matched with short index futures, and the fund was running at or near market neutral. Hedging doesn't mean zero risk. It just means removing the risk of whatever it is being hedged. I
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
We just went through the deepest, fastest recession since the 19th century. And not a single major financial institution failed or even needed a bailout. That's pretty firm evidence that banks are more than adequately capitalized. Peop
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To be fair, Archegos hedged their beta exposure with short index futures. The implied vol includes both the beta vol and the idiosyncratic vol. A hedged position should be a lot less vol than being naked long.
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
> Big Short style doesn't always end in a lionizing outcome. That movie was the worse thing that ever happened for a generation of traders. It reinforces all the worse biases traders tend to have. The moral of the story was to make
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The main reason I hope WFH is here to stay, is because there's no tech hubs left that are livable for families. Austin and Denver use to qualify. But an out of control real estate market, basically makes it impossible to buy a home the
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And Oracle is still up over 2.2% today (with Nasdaq being up 1.5%). Proving that this entire lawsuit was pretty pointless. Even Oracle's own investors didn't think these copyrights were worth defending.
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Are significant fractions of the country still fully remote? Even after the vaccine has been widely distributed to almost any vulnerable person who wants it? In Florida, we've been in-person for any parent who wants it since the beginn
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> In 1910 the average Russian was an illiterate peasant On the eve of World War I, Finland and Russia were on near parity in terms of GDP per capita. It's GDP per capita was only 12% higher than the rest of the Empire. By the end of
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And what a relief it's been for the rest of us non-NFT Ethereum users. Gas fees were even under 100 Gwei today!
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Central banks FX reserves make up only a sliver of the demand for long bonds (5+ years of maturity). Long bonds are generally not considered money substitutes, so FX reserves have no interest in holding them. Foreign central banks may hold
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FTA: > The greenback’s share slid to 59% in the fourth quarter, from 60.5% in the third, declining for three straight quarters. Its share in 1995 was 58%.
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Why would rates go higher? The Eurozone has lower rates than the US. Heck, Australia and New Zealand (not exactly global reserve currencies) have the same rates as the US. The only way that the dollars international status would meaningfull
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Has any major organization started or entered the semiconductor fab space in the past year? From speaking with industry analysts, my understanding is we could spin up additional capacity. The issue is that most everyone fears the shortage w
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> a bunch of their engineers and a bunch more technicians and managers with the right kind of skills In a WWII scenario, how long does it take to rapidly retrain a bunch of people with these skills. We have no shortage bunch of brillian
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This is the correct answer. Python and Ruby pretty much ate Perl's lunch. Depending on whatever you were working, one of those two languages, was almost always a strict improvement over Perl. The only place really shines comparatively

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