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by e4e78a06 5y ago
You can memorize problem solving techniques or approaches and add them to your toolbox of tricks. I used spaced repetition to memorize 100+ difficult leetcode problems and learn math. I've found it consistently will get you between 0.5
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NYC Begins Plan to Move Homeless from Subway as Crime Surges(bloomberg.com)
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
> because of languages like Java or Go Sounds like you haven't spun up a large project recently :) Anything Maven build times are terrible and Go isn't much better once you start bringing in a ton of dependencies and codegen fr
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
If you've ever done a social sciences study as a participant in your undergrad years you know these stats are complete BS. People just try to get it over with as soon as possible and click fast through surveys. Ratings are incredibly s
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
I still find it baffling you need to _physically mail_ your stock brokerage transactions to the IRS in 2022. And you can only do it via USPS! My brokerage already reports all my gains/losses to the IRS, why do I need to mail another se
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
> Being even 50%-ile among professionals for either would certainly be extremely impressive. I think you'd be surprised at how low the bar is. And how people either 1) don't care about actively improving or 2) don't effect
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
Not so sure about post-production rendering, if anything movies are moving to real-time rendered CGI environments [1]. Unreal/Epic have been a big player in this space. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUnxzVOs3rk
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
> There will be a plethora of programmer jobs for some times go come, but we've also gone quite a while without a meaningful market adjustment, if you will We just went through a massive market adjustment. COVID forced a lot of layo
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
If that were the case then Asians wouldn't comprise 50% of school populations where affirmative action is banned even though there are far more middle and upper class whites in those states (California, Washington). I don't think
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
Yep, it's a win win for those teachers and school districts. Teachers get an enjoyable teaching experience with students that actually care about success AND they get (much, much) higher pay. Students get great teachers. Unfortunately
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
Maybe wages would go up if there were less people chasing the "dream" of living in SF/NYC/LA on a Starbucks barista career. If everyone took my advice the people left would get higher wages. That's supply and demand
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
Happens to me on an Intel MBP when I use the trackpad at the same time I have a wireless (dongle) mouse connected.
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
People feel like they _have_ to live in NYC/SF/LA when they make peanuts. If those people moved to the Midwest they'd have much lower CoL and probably still around the same pay. Amazon pays $15/h wherever you are.
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
> Isn't the whole point of taxes that they are for spending we don't get to choose, because if we did, it wouldn't happen? No, the point is that as a city we should be able to choose, not individually. I said if my local
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
> thank god the government no longer has a monopoly on...checks notes...the money I give the government to provide government services There's no inherent reason why I shouldn't get to decide how my own property taxes are spent
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
> See USPS vs. FedEx/UPS - USPS treats its employees well, delivers to everyone, and controls prices to make basic services accessible to all citizens UPS is unionized and notorious for paying very good wages. The difference is that
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
That's just because capitalism as taught in college micro/macro classes assumes a perfect market with no differentiation and lowest price always wins. But in reality it costs money to disseminate information (marketing) and deals
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
Pretty much a bunch of tech-illiterate people buying the latest buzzword without due diligence. Lighting money on fire. Even the successes were bought at the all time high prices (Bytedance) or mismanaged (Arm) and brought negative returns.
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
> Why? Crime is measured per capita, but you say it should be divided by 10,000 steps or something? Why would petty theft and robbery be divided by population? My risk of getting my bike stolen is 0 or my phone taken at gunpoint if I sta
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
Most thefts (robbery, etc) are not reported now because people know police don't care. You also need to adjust your numbers for decreased activity (people stopped going out during COVID!). Restaurant reservations are down by 50% or mor
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
They're primarily lending to institutional customers (hedge funds, HFT's). If you look on DeFi markets borrowing a couple billion dollars is going to cost you a lot more than the 10% BlockFi is probably charging, due to how automa
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
Confiscating peoples' assets does not exactly engender you to a lot of political support. You're risking a massive loss in the next elections if you do that, just like how Democrats in the US are also facing huge electoral pressur
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
That's what the Fed buying $120B a month in Treasuries is for. You don't really think people accept negative 5% real yields on their investments? From the article: > For the first four months of the 2022 fiscal year that starte
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
> When ambitious people can't be stakeholders in the economy due to NIMBY gatekeepers, they resort to less socially-acceptable means of getting ahead and making it big I don't ever remember thinking of drug dealers at any schoo
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
Very ironic that the USSR ended up forcing most people into state-chosen jobs. I think it's nice to think of some ideal future where everyone works on what they want to work on but society needs people to do the dirty work that nobody
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
They're both problems that can be attacked independently. You can crack down hard on shoplifters and reselling rings but also build lots of new housing. Price of rent is a function of housing supply and demand. Rent control just pushes
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
Already happening in SF as we speak. And the remaining stores have super jacked up prices to the point that it's cheaper to order delivery from a store in the suburbs, pay a tip for a driver, and pay them to do the shopping for you (In
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
Which again supports the idea that it's about applying yourself and not about privilege or any other excuse that people use to justify their own shortcomings.
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
> Maybe we've discovered diversity etc is worth studying, in part because it does have such a profound effect on the world Or alternatively, NSF favors grant applications that mention it and toe the party line, so everyone begins to
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
I think the author fails to adequately discuss the impact of climate change on the economy. We know from modern history that recessions lead to political change. It's not implausible that an agrarian economy like that of Rome would be

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