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by filoleg 2y ago
Reminds me of the old joke about shuffling the stack of candidate resumes multiple times and then picking the top 3 (and throwing away the rest), because you wouldn’t want to hire unlucky people.
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by filoleg 2y ago
Apologies for a delayed reply, but I concur, you made a very valid point for why my analogy wasn’t the best in that scenario. It would only work if the person running the warehouse was an owner. But if they were an employee, like you sugges
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by filoleg 2y ago
This. If I am about to post something I don’t need anymore to FB marketplace, first I will hit up a friend or two of mine who I would have in mind as people who might want it. And only if they don’t want it, then it goes to FB marketplace.
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by filoleg 2y ago
This is great, thanks! My favorite is Beams (the one at the very top of the page), reminds me of MGS1 “game over” screen animation a lot.
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by filoleg 2y ago
I think they meant that iCloud Keychain (which is now built-in) can functionally replace Bitwarden
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by filoleg 2y ago
> To me diversification goes against all logic because the rule #1 of investing should be that you as a investor KNOW what you are investing in. I largely agree with what you say. However, diversification has degrees, and it doesn’t nece
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by filoleg 2y ago
> To get wealthy, you cannot get diversified Sure, but not diversifying is also one of the most efficient ways to go broke. Which is something that diversifying will make much more difficult. Also, full baloney. I was not diversifying fo
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by filoleg 2y ago
Correct, but only if you assume that the processing is done on the server and not on the client. The grandparent comment isn’t saying that Youtube would be running AI upscalers on low-bitrate videos and then serve it to the user. They were
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by filoleg 2y ago
> I would probably get my point across to a native russian speaker better if I use pokazukha rather than Potemkin Village Agreed, you would. Potemkin X is not a russian language word or saying, it is more like a “obscure historical event
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by filoleg 2y ago
Ah, then I will just assume those reddit and online posts talking about it were either spouting outdated info or were just confused. I would’ve tried it myself, but my last Windows machine was given away last year (voluntarily by me, nothin
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by filoleg 2y ago
Microsoft bought Github for $7.5bil and LinkedIn for $26.2bil. I think any big tech company of an even remotely close caliber would have no reservations about purchasing Vercel, if they cared to. I mean ffs, Adobe almost acquired Figma (“it
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by filoleg 2y ago
Fully agreed. Both are valid terms in russian language. But “potemkin x” is in the same league as “schadenfreude” in terms of usage in foreign languages, while “pokazukha” doesn’t really have any spread or presence in languages outside of r
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by filoleg 2y ago
Do you mind elaborating? I am not disagreeing with you, but are you saying that I can connect two Windows laptops usung thunderbolt and natively create a local network between them that lets me seamlessly transfer files between them and sha
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by filoleg 2y ago
Both are valid. “Pokazukha” is more of a modern term (modern as in, i dont think it even hit the 80 year old mark) and is a bit more generic (refers to “showing off” or “for show” in general). “Potemkin supermarket” is a reference to “potem
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by filoleg 2y ago
His whole RenTech story was fascinating. Effectively an outsider in finance who gathered a bunch of other outsiders (aka big mathematicians), and decided to start a hedge fund that takes zero interest in the actual companies and trades sole
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by filoleg 2y ago
> If aliens were watching a society that allows porn and one that doesn’t, those societies would be different even if the aliens couldn’t see into people’s bedrooms to observe them actually watching porn. Yeah, we can do that today even.
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by filoleg 2y ago
I’ve seen the rounding up situation a lot, but I am yet to see one where they just didnt give you back the rest as cash change.
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by filoleg 2y ago
It feels like it is a state-by-state thing, yeah. I moved from WA to NYC just half a year ago, and I noticed it as well. In WA, it felt like it was a pretty even 50/50 split (maybe with a heavier lean towards cash) between places accep
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by filoleg 2y ago
And those ATMs around the block from a dispensary (or even in the same buildimg) would still charge a fee for withdrawal anyway (as they are always a third-party ATM and not a bank one, so you get that big message on the screen about an ext
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by filoleg 2y ago
Often enough, it isn’t an actual ATM. You pay at the counter like you usually would using a card or an NFC payment method (e.g., Apple Pay), but the payment reader processes it as an ATM withdrawal transaction (hence an extra transaction fe
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by filoleg 2y ago
That’s a good point, thanks for bringing it up. It pretty much resolves the conundrum I was having in my original comment. Small caveat (that ultimately doesn’t negate your point): PLUS loans have credit check requirements for determing eli
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by filoleg 2y ago
> nearly all student loans (over 90%) are issued by the federal government Not claiming you are wrong, because I genuinely don’t know, but how does it gel with the fact that the federal student loans for undergrads cap out at the max of
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by filoleg 2y ago
That too. Doesn’t seem like a big deal, but I imagine if you have your own butcher in the first place, you are somewhat particular and specific about what you want (kind of similar to a lot of people clinging onto their usual hair stylist&#
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by filoleg 2y ago
> Which is why memegen exists: it is a way to disarm Google's employees. Are you in PeopleOps and trying to do the reverse-psychology trick with this? I am only halfway joking. It seems rather strange to me that if memegen is such a
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by filoleg 3y ago
I think we are in agreement on Justin Sun. My original comment was saying that comparing Justin Sun to an average VC is like comparing Bernie Madoff to an average fund manager. I.e., both Madoff and Sun are massive frauds and scammers that
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by filoleg 3y ago
Not sure about Craig Wright (because I don’t even remember hearing the name before), but I would say putting Justin Sun in the same league as actual VCs is disingenous. The closest equivalent I can think of would be like saying that all big
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by filoleg 3y ago
I agree with you on this, but just saying, there is plenty of actual python (not starlark) at Google, all over the most crucial places (which a lot of people who haven’t touched those don’t even realize exist). Personal example - the fleet
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by filoleg 3y ago
> Join the alphabet workers union if you’re a Googler who cares. I was considering, but after seeing how they operate, I am certain I will be ok without doing so. I am yet to see them accomplish anything meaningful, and behavior of some
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by filoleg 3y ago
Correction, outside of the ML groups and anything related to CI/infra. Especially if you remember that Starlark[0] is a dialect of Python. And that’s without going into all the outside-of-g3 code (of which there is a metric ton, especi
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by filoleg 3y ago
Yeah, I have no idea at all how school administrators are related to evicting old ladies and collecting property taxes either.

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