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by deeeeplearning 6y ago
>Thinking about SV as just adtech is pretty reductionist. Is it though? On a revenue basis I wonder what percentage is made up by adtech? >SV basically solved big data and global software distribution and scalability In order to serve
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by deeeeplearning 6y ago
Can you a name a single member of his cabinet that isn't in fact one of these "Elites"? It's full of Harvard MBAs, Wall Street bankers and Swamp Creatures. You are delusional.
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by deeeeplearning 6y ago
Whose? Bulls trot out the "Bitcoin to $1M" trope all the time, that hardly seems stabilized to me.
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by deeeeplearning 6y ago
>2. Reasonably cheap to transact large value across space. Definitely not accurate and this says nothing of the massive environmental cost of transacting on the blockchain.
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by deeeeplearning 6y ago
>The gains can be explained by nothing else than mania and speculation. This was always the case for Bitcoin. Why would ever use it as a currency when its value can swing +/- 20% in a single day, that would be ridiculous.
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by deeeeplearning 6y ago
Why do random non-experts always think they have poked holes in the most fleshed out scientific theories?
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by deeeeplearning 6y ago
But Marvel is a comic book universe not sci-fi.
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by deeeeplearning 6y ago
SF is still a major city and there are premiums due to that. You're talking about having rents in SF close to those in places like Nashville or Dallas which I think is totally unrealistic.
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by deeeeplearning 6y ago
Well most of those cities are full of the Richer Nimbys who can afford to buy and commute to SF.
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by deeeeplearning 6y ago
"Why is is that every snake-oil startup sounds like this? No. I’ve had a few drinks, but I wouldn’t say I’m drunk." Seems intentional to me
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by deeeeplearning 6y ago
>Again the statement that most engineers are introverted is in no way defensible and its insulting to try and group us all together like that. Of course its defensible. From the abstract: "Engineers scored higher on Tough-Mindedness
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by deeeeplearning 6y ago
Imagine being upset about quantum time travel when the main characters are a Norse God of Thunder, a man that got bitten by a radioactive spider, a lab created super soldier and the main villain is some demi god alien with reality warping p
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by deeeeplearning 6y ago
>I would however imagine them to need to be able to show good skills at communicating Yes, that's called an interview. No one is saying there is no need to interview... So you seem to agree that leetcode style questions are irreleva
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by deeeeplearning 6y ago
>presentation and communication skills These can be assessed completely without whiteboard quizzes.
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by deeeeplearning 6y ago
Getting better at leetcode is hardly "bettering oneself", what a bizarre point of view.
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by deeeeplearning 6y ago
Imagine if a Brain Surgeon was quizzed on Liver anatomy every time they wanted to interviewed for a job. It makes no sense and is borderline irrelevant to their actual job of you know doing brain surgery.
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by deeeeplearning 6y ago
You're being downvoted because much of the Software Engineering community suffers from a form of Stockholm Syndrome.
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by deeeeplearning 6y ago
>none of us had to sacrifice competitive salaries for stock options. Does this map to reality? Are you saying that if you were at Google making 250K in TC the Startups were paying you 250K Base salary + stock options? That seems ludicrou
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by deeeeplearning 6y ago
Generally I think advice from people who are far outliers in success is probably useless for normal to above average folks. It's like asking Lebron James how to succeed at basketball. Well first you need to be born a genetic freak with
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by deeeeplearning 6y ago
>following the best conferences There are conferences for hash tables?
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by deeeeplearning 6y ago
It just doesn't make sense for Aliens to be visiting us in this way. If you have the ability to traverse the Galaxy or Universe then surely you can also stay undetected by our comparatively pathetic technology. At the same time their m
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by deeeeplearning 6y ago
In just the past few months there have been VIP assassinations/attempts on highly visible people (Lead Iranian Nuclear Scientist, Alexei Navalny, etc.) are we really expected to believe that intelligence agencies of the nations in ques
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by deeeeplearning 6y ago
>Can you defeat gravity by somehow energizing matter to affect its spin and acceleration Except there is no mechanism through which this could work. That would be like me saying "if I flip these bits arranged in a pentagram fast eno
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by deeeeplearning 6y ago
This is the equivalent of someone working at Cisco claiming to have created a conscious AGI. You would immediately be extremely skeptical, rightly so. But as soon as we get outside of typical SWE topics HN seems to lose all sense of reality
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by deeeeplearning 6y ago
> Quintessence 100% crank. Full on "You're not even wrong..." territory.
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by deeeeplearning 6y ago
Imagine cheering for a dystopian future.
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by deeeeplearning 6y ago
>VR is already fun and we're in for a wild ride once AR hits the market. I for one can't wait for full field of vision pop up adds to infest our daily lives. How exiting.
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by deeeeplearning 6y ago
An average customer at Amazon apparently buys $600 worth of goods from them in a year so if they got 20 packages then yes this would be a 10% increase. However I for example probably get 2 packages from them a month and a $6 monthly increas
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by deeeeplearning 6y ago
Yeah F regulations man, I really want to employ children and pollute rivers. How dare they impede my capitalism.
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by deeeeplearning 6y ago
Ah yes when Texas joined the union in 1845 and declined to pass a state income tax they made the first move in a centuries long battle with California...

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