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by financltravsty 3y ago
mRNA vaccines is the only one that really "pops" for me. The rest are just iterations on what we've already had, but more efficient/less costly/etc. Nothing really revolutionary, only the same old but better. In tha
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by financltravsty 3y ago
Such is life. Tech boomed because: the economy was "good" (people could afford to go after creative and speculative pursuits) and there was technology that hadn't been utilized in creative ways yet (computers, phones, the int
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by financltravsty 3y ago
Biggest one is write overhead: indexes have to be updated every time a record is created or an indexed column is updated. This must be done within the same transaction as the create or update, so you're adding an unnecessary overhead t
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by financltravsty 3y ago
Curious if there are any materials to do some autodidactic learning similar to what a financial engineering masters would get you. There are a lot of oft recommended books whenever the topic comes up, but they always border on too theoretic
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by financltravsty 3y ago
I think the major assumption is that collaboration is synonymous with productivity. Candidly, in my experience, the results of collaboration, a lightweight version of "design by committee," have always come back to bite in the lon
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by financltravsty 3y ago
Quite easy to say when you already have the momentum of a career and net worth. Much harder to sincerely believe when you're crushed with student loans, have no savings, and career prospects are utterly depressing if you weren't f