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by emit_time 6y ago
Bill Gates. Random condition. $100 billion dollars. That’s all you need to know about random condition. Terrible analogy. If you can design your life to be benefited by ADHD, that’s awesome. If you’re stuck working a 9-5 like a large portio
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by emit_time 6y ago
Biggest issue for me is palpitations on adderall. Withdrawal gives me annoying palpitations and I get them sometimes while taking it. It’s very annoying when I want to take the weekend off and have to suffer through massive withdrawal. Hone
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by emit_time 6y ago
Can’t wait for the lisp revival of the 20’s
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by emit_time 6y ago
Move when you retire to a LCOL area.
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by emit_time 6y ago
I think he means $500k post tax over five years. Not $500k per year.
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by emit_time 6y ago
FIRE “enthusiast” here currently saving a large portion of my income. (24 years old) What have you been doing in retirement?
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by emit_time 6y ago
Which is why you move when you retire.
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by emit_time 6y ago
Can’t you get a screen protector that makes it feel more like paper?
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by emit_time 6y ago
I had 11 onsites (over the course of 6-8 months) at mostly normal tech companies before getting an offer at a FAANG. Now I've been here 6 months. Really crazy, and I have no idea how this ended up happening. Probably a combination of s
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by emit_time 6y ago
Doesn’t erlang have a REPL, allows you to do live deployments. Individual processes crashing doesn’t bring everything down, you can tell it how to handle those. Dynamic typing. Functional programming. Concise syntax, with “let it fail” ment
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by emit_time 6y ago
False. Angel investors frequently invest at the level of thousands of dollars.
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by emit_time 6y ago
Because I created applets/whatever’s on ifttt like 5 years ago and I haven’t touched them since, and they keep working. God forbid I have to maintain a server, upgrade for new libraries, handle moving a server, etc etc. Write the code
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by emit_time 6y ago
I still have a facebook but I rarely check it now. The only reason I use it usually is for facebook messenger (I use the app, without checking facebook), and I find facebook marketplace to often have a decent selection of goods, seemingly b
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by emit_time 6y ago
You also went to an expensive private high school.
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by emit_time 6y ago
Also went to an expensive private school.
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by emit_time 6y ago
He also went to an expensive private school.
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by emit_time 6y ago
> It may be easier if you have credentials, but it’s certainly possible without them. So they care a lot, but it’s not everything to them?
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by emit_time 6y ago
Just had a 41GB set of files sent to me in one transfer using magic-wormhole. Worked first try without a hitch. Pretty awesome from the receiving end.
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by emit_time 6y ago
Source? I don't disagree, would just like to share this information with friends :)
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by emit_time 6y ago
If you sell a course you made 100% profit, basically very little chances of loss, and your business can go to zero overnight, but not negative, and very little needed to scale up. Compare that to running a real business where things change
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by emit_time 6y ago
If anyone likes the ergodox / moonlander, but wants a keyboard with curved keys, look up the Dactyl Manuform / Dactyl keyboard. It’s a split keyboard that also has curve keys so it takes less movement to reach keys. Unfortunately
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by emit_time 6y ago
Nim has been mentioned on here many times.
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by emit_time 6y ago
I have a daily cash stream. I call it a job. Also I keep a large emergency fund and save/invest the majority of my earnings.
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by emit_time 6y ago
> I'm not comfortable investing the entirety into an index fund, given the current socio-political climate. The government is printing an awful lot of money right now. Keeping your money in cash isn’t a guaranteed return if inflatio
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by emit_time 6y ago
> Peter Attia is one of the many great people worth following in this area, with a very high-quality information-dense podcast. One of my favorite podcasts, and I had listened to every episode until recently. (no longer driving during th
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by emit_time 6y ago
I'm surprised how I almost ended up tearing up and was close to crying while watching this. Saying this as someone who is not a huge NASA or space enthusiast. I did study physics, and I'm more into science than the average person
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by emit_time 6y ago
My previous job was all common lisp. I really enjoyed writing it. The REPL was definitely a job, and having a dynamic runtime environment.
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by emit_time 6y ago
The internships are remote now, it sounds like.
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by emit_time 6y ago
I used emacs for a year and a quarter as a common lisp developer. There was an integration into emacs from the compiler that provided support for a lot of things like jumping definitions and seeing who calls, and it was much better than the
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by emit_time 6y ago
Yup. There are a lot of physics concepts I broadly understand, but solving a problem for them is a different beast. edit: Also, speaking as someone who mostly taught themselves physics from the books in college and didn't go to class.

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