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by eloff 4y ago
This kind of dialogue could be had internally. Making it a public matter is just looking for a pink slip. Maybe that's what they wanted. Maybe they're just ignorant. Either way the consequences are predictable, regardless of the c
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by eloff 4y ago
You'd think they'd scrap the commercials and put the budget into improving working conditions if they really cared. I doubt the cost of the ads, plus the cost of the bad publicity, plus the cost of employee churn is really worth i
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by eloff 4y ago
Those are good points. I misspoke with the word civilization, I'm thinking more like primitive agricultural towns. I don't think agriculture suddenly happened after the ice age. I think it's more likely the events at the end
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by eloff 4y ago
It's unlikely they had carts or draft animals yet. Domestication and the wheel were later inventions. But there may have been primitive agrarian communities.
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by eloff 4y ago
At the end of the last ice age, around this time, sea levels rose 120 meters. The areas around the Persian gulf, Mediterranean, Red Sea, Nile Delta, etc may have been settled by humans at the time. If they had any civilization or agricultur
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by eloff 4y ago
Man, I'm tired of clickbait headlines and the whole news industry in general. I think I'm getting old. This hasn't been confirmed by anyone else yet. The most likely explanation is that it's radio interference from ourse
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by eloff 4y ago
We're still not only increasing emissions, but accelerating the increasing emissions. I don't think we'll avoid a rise of 4 degrees over the average. On the bright side we may have killed the cycles of glaciation that would h
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by eloff 4y ago
NodeJS doesn't have all these gotchas around async that rust does. It's still harder than sync code, but it's more manageable. The lack of a proper type system, only partially solved by typescript is a big drawback though, th
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by eloff 4y ago
Yes, async is hard. It adds lots of complexity, both to the code and in your mental model. That slows development. I'd rather have faster development most times. It's why I prefer to use Go over Rust whenever possible. That's
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by eloff 4y ago
So put the check at the top of the top level __init__.py. Move any invalid syntax in that file to an import. Is there any reason that would be a worse idea?
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by eloff 4y ago
sys.version_info I'm not sure why this guy is doing it the hard way.
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by eloff 4y ago
It's one thing to estimate bots from a manually inspected sample. It's another entirely to detect all bots across all accounts.
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by eloff 4y ago
No, you're missing the fact that Twitter is a publicly traded company. If they knowingly provide false or misleading information in their filings, the SEC and likely the shareholders can go after them. It would be tricky to prove inten
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by eloff 4y ago
I suspect that could be part of it, that we're the biological bootloader for AI and we last just a blink in that stage on the time scale of the universe. But then what does that AI do afterwards and why don't we see them. That do
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by eloff 4y ago
Only somewhat useful as it runs singlethreaded, last I checked. That will prevent some forms of heisenbugs from happening.
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by eloff 4y ago
Not sure what your point is though.
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by eloff 4y ago
Warren Buffett used to famously say that when the tide goes out, you can't see who's been swimming naked. People have been warning that SPACs have been swimming naked, and now we see they are indeed.
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by eloff 4y ago
I strongly disagree with this. First off homes fell sharply in value just as recently as 2009. Secondly over time, globally, real estate barely keeps ahead of inflation. About 3% per year. For much of the last century you did about as well
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by eloff 4y ago
If you remember just one thing, it's that no asset class goes up forever. Some assets tend to trend up overtime more than others, but they all have times where they go down too. Make sure you can survive that. People buying homes in pl
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by eloff 4y ago
If you didn't do that, who'd pay the taxes or cut your hair?
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by eloff 4y ago
Greenhouses are amazing. One of the top agricultural exporters in the world is the Netherlands. That shocked me when I discovered it. Part of the reason is fertile soil and dependable rain. But a huge component of how they can do so much wi
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by eloff 4y ago
While this is true, bear markets usually last 12-18 months. We're just getting started. I think it's fine (but not optimal) not to sell if you're playing the long game. I'm all in cash and short positions right now. If m
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by eloff 4y ago
Bear rallies are fierce. I do not think we've hit bottom yet. Notably this opinion is shared by Michael Burry, Jeremy Grantham, and Ray Dalio, among others.
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by eloff 4y ago
Technicality: Sequoia Capital is not a hedge fund. It's a private/venture capital firm.
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by eloff 4y ago
It definitely is not a first generation star. It's only about 5 billion years old, while the universe is almost 14 billion years old. Not only does earth have elements formed in older stars, so do all the planets in the solar system an
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by eloff 4y ago
That sounds like an article that should be in the Onion. Life imitating art.
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by eloff 4y ago
Really not easily. Bitcoin is superior in that way.
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by eloff 4y ago
I was looking at it today on Amazon. It looks interesting, but I'm not sure if it will work well with Linux. Anyone know?
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by eloff 4y ago
Moving gold across the ocean is expensive. You can only do it so many times before you've expended the full value of the gold. Bitcoin is much easier to move around by comparison. Keep in mind the vast majority of gold holdings and tra
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by eloff 4y ago
I gave four ways it improves over gold in the first couple sentences. Easier to transfer was one. I'm with you, in that I'm very skeptical Bitcoin could replace or supplement gold in that role. It's not impossible though.

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