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by dgs_sgd 5y ago
Thanks for the response and congrats on being B2 certified in Irish! I'm taking the B2 exam for Spanish this fall :).
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by dgs_sgd 5y ago
Spanish. It's been the focus of most of my free time for the last 1.5 years and I've seen incredible results. I'm surprised by those who commented that they're learning multiple unrelated subjects at once. Are you learni
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by dgs_sgd 5y ago
It's because he published a memo pertinent to a hot topic at the company and rather than engage him on the merits of his ideas leadership decided to fire him. Is it unsettling that the employees at a company with a global monopoly on i
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by dgs_sgd 5y ago
The irony of the response to that memo, and to cancel culture more widely, is that reasonable people who read it and don't agree with everything it says, but at least agree that some of it is worthy of discussion, are more likely to be
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by dgs_sgd 5y ago
Coming to the realization that I can't have it all a few years ago was liberating and has greatly improved my mental health. I used to pursue too many things naively thinking I could excel at all of them. I'm now content with know
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by dgs_sgd 5y ago
I think the parent comment's argument is that expensive apartments exist _and_ the vast majority of them are not used for living, but rather a place for the uber rich to park their money. From the article > “But these apartments are
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by dgs_sgd 5y ago
What do you mean by associated accounts? How does Google know they are linked?
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Equity updates – what we’ve been up to and what comes next(about.instagram.com)
2 points by dgs_sgd 5y ago|0 comments
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by dgs_sgd 5y ago
This assumes the new version of the software has no added value from adding new features and fixing bugs, etc. Even with your assumption suppose you accept their offer. The $80 received should in turn be able to purchase something that was
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by dgs_sgd 5y ago
As someone not very acquainted with C++ I was under the impression that the vast standard library was one of the great selling points of the language. What are some examples of defects that force programmers to rewrite parts of it?
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by dgs_sgd 6y ago
That's not a shameless plug, just a plug.
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by dgs_sgd 6y ago
What fascinates me is this man with one of the greatest raw intellects of anyone who ever lived was also very human and flawed in some ways. The guy who would fall asleep not knowing how to solve a math problem and immediately have the solu
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by dgs_sgd 6y ago
Thank you for pointing this out. The misallocation of capital caused by artificially low interest rates caused by central banks printing money (and the "bust" and massive unemployment that follows when lenders realize that the inv
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by dgs_sgd 6y ago
Institutions selling bitcoin investments for a fee is just one category. There are hedge funds and companies purchasing with their own money.
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by dgs_sgd 6y ago
Do you think all the institutional investors who have bought billions worth of bitcoin in the last several months see it as a pump-n-dump?
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by dgs_sgd 6y ago
The subreddit surged from 1 to 8 mil redditors in less than two weeks. I think the mods couldn't have stopped the disinformation even if they tried, just due to sheer increase in volume of posts.
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by dgs_sgd 6y ago
I can't be the only one who read "Come on man" in Joe Biden's voice.
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by dgs_sgd 6y ago
Directly under "Things I've changed my mind on" the author writes "Things I now believe".
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Scala Almost Succeeded(medium.com)
2 points by dgs_sgd 6y ago|0 comments
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Or the "true crime" is more severe than the bombing.
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by dgs_sgd 6y ago
As the parent comment says, police are tax payer funded and hold extra power over citizens. I think that trumps them being worried about "looking like the bad guy".
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by dgs_sgd 6y ago
Regarding vocabulary expansion, more than once I've come across the same word during reading, looked up its meaning, and then forgot about it. A quick dictionary lookup in the moment will help me understand it then and there, but the t
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by dgs_sgd 6y ago
As a developer there's no penalty to publishing bad code that you wrote to learn something. As you said yourself, mediocrity is largely ignored. You also can't be your own judge in deciding if your work is progressing from mediocr
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by dgs_sgd 6y ago
I was similarly motivated after reading Chernow's biography of Hamilton. Reading about how he wrote his 51 essays for the Federalist Papers in such a short time, often publishing one or more per week... that kind of intellectual energy
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by dgs_sgd 6y ago
I find it highly effective for retention and understanding to talk with someone about what I'm reading, as I'm reading it. If I just read a chapter from a book on Austrian Economics about how profit/loss signals in a market a
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by dgs_sgd 6y ago
The first book of his I read was Intellectuals and Race. Economic Facts and Fallacies is similar in terms of how the arguments are framed (though it touches on different subjects). I'm not sure if this is true of all his books but I wo
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by dgs_sgd 6y ago
Author here! I came across the original study referring to the "physicist" and the "English Professor" while reading Economic Facts and Fallacies by Thomas Sowell. It's an interesting read that addresses almost all
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by dgs_sgd 6y ago
I agree. My goal in my own career would be to operate on that deep level and be more like the English professor, but so far it’s been more like the physicist
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The rate of obsolescence of knowledge in software engineering(daltyboy11.github.io)
34 points by dgs_sgd 6y ago|17 comments