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by exelius 7y ago
A subset of business schools are considered “quant” schools. These schools tend to be pretty high up in the rankings as their faculty often end up winning Nobel prizes.
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by exelius 7y ago
Supposedly Russian sailors were paid in vodka during the same period.
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by exelius 7y ago
I’m pretty sure his life goal reads “you’re the best dolan!” He makes the rest up as he goes.
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by exelius 7y ago
Yeah just had to say something because it was 100% opposite from my experience. Like they literally hammered everything he claims business people lack into our heads ;)
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by exelius 7y ago
So... my business school covered all of that. Probability, statistics, linear algebra, diffeq... and yes, boolean algebra in the context of gradient descent. Even Markov chains and neural nets. Needless to say, there was a lot of math. Inte
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by exelius 7y ago
If you don’t regulate mass communication, the person who buys the biggest loudspeaker becomes the oppressor.
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by exelius 7y ago
I would disagree; most tech CEOs are sales & marketing people at their core. Especially once you grow beyond the startup phase. Margins are fat enough in most tech verticals that operational efficiency often takes a back seat to driving
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by exelius 7y ago
> The balkanization of the web and walled gardens is to me the biggest issue that affects the most people for the worst, and while we constantly talk about the new technologies that could solve the issue if only there was a way to develo
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by exelius 7y ago
We’re past the point of debating whether to regulate the Internet. That ship has sailed. It’s painfully obvious that the ease with which a nation-state actor can spread propaganda necessitates some form of regulation for security purposes
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by exelius 7y ago
Eye of the beholder and all, but he definitely creeps me out.
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by exelius 7y ago
Like Steve Jobs, he’s become a victim of his own reality distortion field. But he doesn’t have the charisma of Steve Jobs, so he just comes off as an inauthentic creep.
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by exelius 7y ago
The bigger issue to me is how many reviewers had breakage issues within 24 hours . Screw perfect, this is a prototype that escaped the lab.
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by exelius 7y ago
I agree; and if you want to have a conversation about media you need to include the top 4 telecoms as well. Netflix doesn’t really belong with the company it’s often mentioned in. And yes, VSTS is good. The interface and tools are easy to u
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by exelius 7y ago
I tend to agree. The original promise of remote X11 (server side compute and thin clients) is provided via web apps these days.
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by exelius 7y ago
IBM doesn’t belong; their revenue has been flat for 20 years and they have almost no influence in the tech world anymore. My clients view IBM as a consulting company with a market position somewhere between Infosys and Accenture. On the oth
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by exelius 7y ago
Sleep is only a part of it — avoiding burnout (which is the real goal here) requires taking time not only to sleep, but also to work out, do your laundry, cook and eat food, see friends... we’re not just our jobs. We need lives outside of w
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by exelius 7y ago
There’s a lot of brain drain going on at consulting companies as everyone flees a dying industry for 30% raises at FAAMG companies as they start to tackle vertical industry offerings. They’re all aggressively attacking the enterprise space.
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by exelius 7y ago
Stick all your IoT stuff in a private VLAN and use a MITM proxy to decrypt / recrypt everything. I have yet to find a consumer device of any sort that lets you easily swap out SSL certs. Even the devices where it’s possible to set up L
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by exelius 7y ago
Spot on!! Everyone has cargo-culted distributed file databases, and they’re good in specific use cases — if you have a large volume of data with a very high number of writes. Hardware and RDBMS performance have improved over the years to th
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by exelius 7y ago
I mean, the crushing poverty is the result of the caste system and the accompanying wealth inequality. If it were just poverty, it might be possible to dig out. The lowest castes are effectively slave laborers. They’re willing to travel to
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by exelius 7y ago
Because shit sucks for everyone, it just sucks a little more the further you get from “straight white male”.
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by exelius 7y ago
I have been homeless in my life, and while my ordeal wasn’t as bad as some, it’s definitely not a good feeling to have no idea where your next meal is coming from. It’s not about the amount of money, it’s about summoning the political will
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by exelius 7y ago
Inequality is deeply ingrained into Indian culture. The bureaucracy is crushing, making it extremely difficult to start a business or improve your station in life without money and the right connections. India is not a place where “all men
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by exelius 7y ago
I think it’s what I call the “trough of disallusionment”. For women in the US at least, your late 20s / early 30s are spent grappling with the reality that the job market is still grossly unfair. Women get fewer opportunities, lower pa
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by exelius 7y ago
Or provide safe injection sites so junkies have somewhere to go. Our society’s attitude is “if you don’t pay taxes, you don’t deserve help.” That’s so morally wrong I can’t even explain it without going red in the face, but that’s the situa
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by exelius 7y ago
Around 30% of college football players never graduate; a number I would expect to be overrepresentative of people from impoverished backgrounds.
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by exelius 7y ago
This is less true than it used to be. Oracle/SAP are largely recognized as multi-billion dollar technology quagmires these days; integration has become so much easier that cobbling together a bunch of SaaS solutions to replace a centra
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by exelius 7y ago
Yep. I fly multiple times a week. It’s an awful, dehumanizing experience every time but I refuse to allow my activities to be restricted because of that.
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by exelius 7y ago
Body scanners and current TSA processes also discriminate against transgender people. The body scanners are obvious (the agent has to push “male” or “female” and someone with “bulk” in their chest and crotch sets it off), but the X-Ray mach
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by exelius 7y ago
So imagine a single 6x12 table. You can comfortably seat 8 people at a table that size. Even if you packed those people into 4 person offices, 2 offices take more space than a big table in the middle of a floor that shares walking space wit

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