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by freyr 5y ago
You’re being too hard on yourself. You suck at interviewing, you suck at applying to high-paying jobs, or you don’t live near high-paying jobs.
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by freyr 5y ago
I worked briefly for a company working on WiFi sensing, and besides fall detection, nobody could give a compelling use case. When pressed to come up with a motivating vision, the big idea was lights turning on automatically when you enter a
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by freyr 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superpower
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by freyr 5y ago
I agree regarding the moat, but I think Netflix could still do fairly well as one of N big players in the streaming space. On the other hand, I think we could see FB utterly collapse over the next decade. Or maybe that’s just wishful thin
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by freyr 5y ago
He also retweeted claims that the Covid vaccines killed twice as many people as they saved. Being critical of the vaccine is one thing, but that crosses into an extraordinary and borderline mathematically-infeasible claim that defies virtua
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by freyr 5y ago
Perhaps. But this means that when Covid deaths dropped to ~1,700/week nationally over the summer and 25-44 year olds still had ~800 excess deaths/week, almost half the people dying of Covid-19 in the US were young and nobody was t
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by freyr 5y ago
Google has 28.9% share, Facebook 25.2%, and Amazon has 10% and growing fast. Not a monopoly, and the incentive is there: if search results are consistently bad, people will stop searching as much, and revenue and market share decline.
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by freyr 5y ago
> It did however cause an immediate corresponding decline in excess deaths, regardless of assigning any cause. Did it, though? We see deaths increase in August/September during the Delta wave, but we don’t see them decline when
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by freyr 5y ago
That’s a good suggestion. Here are the excess deaths for 25-44 year olds: https://imgur.com/a/b4Pobrh There’s definitely a significant rise in excess deaths among 25-44 year olds coinciding with the Delta peak in Augus
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by freyr 5y ago
What exactly am I derailing? An unsubstantiated claim made by OP that contradicts details provided in the parent article? “Most of the claims for deaths being filed are not classified as COVID-19 deaths … there were far fewer deaths from C
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by freyr 5y ago
The random hypothesis was made by OP, who inferred that the 45% increase in deaths is due to Covid-19. I would guess a lot of that 45% is due to Covid, but how much would be a guess, and I suspect OP is just guessing too. Overdoses are hist
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by freyr 5y ago
OP says deaths among people 20-40 are up 45%, and inferred that this is due to Covid. That’s the hypothesis being made here. And it contradicts what’s in the parent article, namely that many of these deaths are from causes other than Covid:
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by freyr 5y ago
Do you have a link or source? Overdose and suicide are two of the leading causes of death among young people. If Covid deaths were 5X higher, we’d see a much much larger overall increase than 40%. Edit: Your numbers are for the total popula
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by freyr 5y ago
No, it’s not what-about-ism. It’s a suggestion that the two numbers being thrown around are accompanied by some bare minimum of detail to have a meaningful conversation. OP made the link to Covid-19, which seems very plausible, but it’s not
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by freyr 5y ago
What he said is this: > Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians — have rendered the notion of “capitalist democr
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by freyr 5y ago
You missed the point, which is that Thiel is the “libertarian” OP referred to, not the Austrian which many people incorrectly assumed. Thiel can also be a libertarian who registers and votes Republicans in our two-party system. Libertariani
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by freyr 5y ago
How many Covid-related? How many drug overdoses? How many suicides?
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by freyr 5y ago
OP is almost certainly talking about Thiel, not Kurz. Thiel is a libertarian, and is ostracized by many in tech for rejecting the tenets of Bay Area progressivism. Kurz is not, as far as I can tell, a libertarian.
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by freyr 5y ago
Show me a 3-4 bedroom house for $1M, and I’ll tell you how many hours the commute would take. I work on the Peninsula. 90% of 3+ bedroom houses currently on the market here cost over $1.75M. Those below that, in the bottom 10%, are what you
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by freyr 5y ago
I’m not OP but my numbers are similar. I spent most of my twenties in college and grad school. Then worked in the Midwest in my early thirties making $100k-$130k. I moved to Silicon Valley and took a job for $150k. That was a downgrade cons
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by freyr 5y ago
- person who is admired or idealized for courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities. - the chief male character in a book, play, or movie, who is typically identified with good qualities, and with whom the reader is expected to s
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by freyr 5y ago
Or you’re underestimating the difference between what appeals to you and what appeals to the average visitor. It wouldn’t make sense for them to show objectively “crappy” content to every new visitor, just to get OP to turn on their recomme
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by freyr 5y ago
You might try this paper ( https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02673037.2020.1... ). From the abstract: “Using new data from the Canadian Housing Statistics Program (CHSP), this paper provides a basis
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by freyr 5y ago
“The PHDA dataset was used in order to calculate the ASMRs by vaccination status and Table 3. One of the main strengths of the linked PHDA is that it combines a rich set of demographic and socio-economic factors from the 2011 Census and 201
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by freyr 5y ago
Is remote assistance good enough though? It probably works fine when you have a fleet of 100 cars on the road, but 10,00? 1,000,000? How many of those cars have caused a traffic jam at a given moment because they’ve encountered a traffic co
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by freyr 5y ago
The worst interviews I’ve ever experienced, hands down, were from startups. They asked the most ridiculous whiteboard problems, and that generally just identifies the candidates who crammed most the leetcode. The mega tech companies intervi
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by freyr 5y ago
Except “nobody” here is often millions of people.
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by freyr 5y ago
This doesn’t seem to be the case for Square, at least.
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by freyr 5y ago
You can buy a bag for a few cents or bring a bag. You’re living life on easy street if this is what you consider “gravely inconveniencing.”
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by freyr 5y ago
He’s saying that she usually drinks in moderation, isn’t he? Doesn’t seem like a “yikes” statement, unless I’m reading it incorrectly.

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