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by elevenoh 6y ago
"Ultimately, when we reduce our fellow man to numbers in a spreadsheet, when we become alienated from them, we have turned them into shadows." The folks I happen to know who work at McKinsey are wrought with insecurity, ego &
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by elevenoh 6y ago
>but I will never know. Nature, solitude, psilocybin mushrooms, & you'll know.
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by elevenoh 6y ago
I kinda find this to be odd question. Can anyone definitely put their finger on what's causing price rise a global market like crypto? no Can they do this probabilistically? perhaps.
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by elevenoh 6y ago
>Local being Sydney Australia and overseas being London Is sydney that rough for programming jobs?
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by elevenoh 6y ago
"Russia is not USSR - a superpower with half of Europe under its wings -, and is not a threat to anyone" Haven't we entered an age where 'non-eyeToEye-threats' can do enormous damage, even if by error (e.g. nuclear
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by elevenoh 6y ago
How about the wave of 'I won't change, I won't work on myself, so I'll change / sensor you under the pretense of virtue" that's taken hold in SV echochambers?
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by elevenoh 6y ago
How about the online discourse manipulation (arguable another form of censoring ideas)? It's a cat & mouse game that can't be won.
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by elevenoh 6y ago
>The people deeply involved in vaccine development are talking about Spring and Summer of 2021 for a return to normalcy Any update on this figure? I'm seeing a lotta different stances
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by elevenoh 6y ago
I find this a good reference for creating intuitive abstractions/conceptual models. But everyone is different in which abstractions resonate for them, and these don't resonate with my cognitive profile.
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by elevenoh 6y ago
'God fearing' as he approaches death? Or political play after it looks like the dems will win the election? It's almost as if, at the deepest level, we're all one.
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by elevenoh 6y ago
>Yup, every cs majors I know think super highly of Stripe Also wondering, why? A 2.6+% merchant fee payment processor?
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by elevenoh 6y ago
How much more can stripe wring out of merchants while signalling virtue? e.g. 2.6%+ per transaction? Jesus christ. I worked for a payment processing co. It was all about financial institution connections (uncompetitive). And the costs my co
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by elevenoh 6y ago
>We'll be seeing the first EUA's by December, and shots in the arm before the end of the year What makes you say that? That's quite fast, no?
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by elevenoh 6y ago
>To the people in this thread advocating antipsychotic medication for anything other than treating psychosis and as an adjunct for severe depression, don't. These medications are serious things for serious situations and can have un
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by elevenoh 6y ago
>The future of humanity depends on tech people making tiny principled stands like this over and over. Well put. And the reward? You + family/friends look back on your work with deep fondness & respect if you choose principles &g
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by elevenoh 6y ago
Great quote. Thanks for sharing.
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by elevenoh 6y ago
2,934 people per sq km in Helsinki, 1.5M in the metro. 321.9 people per square km in Oklahoma city. IME helsinki these feels & has the dynamics of a big city. Oklahoma city feels mostly like a suburban sprawl.
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by elevenoh 6y ago
True. E.g. Salt Lake City
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by elevenoh 6y ago
>What companies like Tesla do is driving the hype for the sake of stock market That's extremely reductive & vague. The #1 design consideration for teslas is safety.
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by elevenoh 6y ago
I wonder whether blocking any/all avoidance of this tax truly* what they want though.
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by elevenoh 6y ago
Or that figure is the monthly mortgage payment heh
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by elevenoh 6y ago
This is neat. Some things I like about finland/helsinki: Happy down to earth citizens, socially liberal with far less echochamber/signalling/two-faced bs than california for instance, tons of Finnish sauna, & great air qu
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by elevenoh 6y ago
Could indoor or outdoor artificial sun products soon be 'better than sun' (for humans)? e.g. has the hormone regulation & vit d synthesis benefits, without the skin damage? Because it seems like we're getting there: http
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by elevenoh 6y ago
True. I'd ask: "If this data is truly useful in a financial market context, why are you selling it instead investing with it yourself? What data are you collecting that you're not* selling?"
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by elevenoh 6y ago
Anyone have a quality the 'elevator pitch' type message on why someone should leave twitter for something like substack?
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by elevenoh 6y ago
>that .edu email address. I don't think many care whether it comes from a .edu, or something like a student-appearance twitter account.
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by elevenoh 6y ago
But what about all the folks at the club?
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by elevenoh 6y ago
culturally, the income taxes, the intra-provice tuition, low competitiveness in publicly-funded domains e.g. city construction, subsidies etc. I've lived there. Any canadian who has lived in all the big cities (toronto, vancouver, mon
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by elevenoh 6y ago
>Automatically creating a variable (with global scope) if you attempt to use a variable that doesn't exist. I just tested this as I think you're describing & it didn't create a global var. Could you give an example?
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by elevenoh 6y ago
>it's got so much stuff like this that makes it so unfriendly to newbies what's another one?

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