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by galdosdi 4y ago
It's a fair fee though. It pays for my attention as a recipient. It prevents an externality. It's no different than having to deposit a quarter to take a shopping cart, to incentivize you to return it. A tenth of a cent would prob
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by galdosdi 4y ago
A few years ago I was once briefly directed into the cockpit of a plane to check on its maintenance status while I was boarding a normal coach flight. I was wearing my only clean jacket, a waterproof high viz coat that must be popular with
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by galdosdi 4y ago
The other really crazy thing is that, almost by definition, restricting your portfolio to just an index of non-ESG companies should outperform the market. (If that wasn't the case, it would be irrational for any company _not_ to be ESG
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by galdosdi 4y ago
It's because the increasing returns to experience cut both ways and cancel each other out. You're more valuable to your employer after you've been there a while, but the job is more valuable to you too, for the same reasons (
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by galdosdi 4y ago
The older I get the more aware I become of the risk that I can't possibly assume the ability to make a living the way I currently do will stay around indefinitely. I could become disabled at any time, or the world or industry could cha
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by galdosdi 4y ago
I am still in this journey myself and what's really made it a lot easier is seeing it as a skill that has a lot of opportunity to be improved, with regards to speed/effeciency, ie how many net minutes per week I actually have to s
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by galdosdi 4y ago
This is so true. If you actually know how to cook (and I just mean the basics that most people, or at least most women knew in the year 1900, nothing fancy) you feel gaslit constantly when you hear people talk about how hard it is to eat nu
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by galdosdi 4y ago
I think it's a little unfair to pretend the quadratic range term dominates the "linear" density term. If you think about it for a moment, the density describes area, so already has a ^-2 (to the -2 power) incorporated into i
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by galdosdi 4y ago
I don't think this kind of behavior is going to impact their sales, because frankly, they long ago passed the point where you have to be willing to completely drink the koolaid and not care about your privacy/independence and trea
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by galdosdi 4y ago
You're probably right about the corporation, but some of their component organizations and assets may survive as long or longer, albeit after being resold, merged, acquired a few times. It could happen, you never know. After all, there
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by galdosdi 4y ago
What a great way to do it, too, because once you're done, your "reference implementations" can later serve as test harnesses if need be. > I tend to write reference implementations of everything, then combine them together
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by galdosdi 4y ago
I think this is analogous to and is happening for similar reasons as the airline customer experience gradually went from being very "classy" to increasingly "cheap" all at the same time as the market for air travel expan
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by galdosdi 4y ago
I only see one reference: The Great Filter is a reference to the Drake Equation, which is pretty well known by STEM nerds, especially those interested in space and astronomy. Certainly seen it mentioned many times on this site. I don't
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by galdosdi 4y ago
We have those in the USA. They are called cars. They are incredibly popular. This isn't just a pedantic joke. My point is there will be little demand for such a thing in the USA, since the USA, unlike much of the world, supports a cult
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by galdosdi 4y ago
Yes, this is a crucial insight that should be tattoo'd on every new grad's forehead! Less desirable jobs are overrepresented in the market because they have more turnover, by definition. > The job market is essentially a market
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by galdosdi 4y ago
What? Even in popular culture it has been uncontroversial since at least the nuclear age to posit that humanity faces serious existential risks in the near and mid future. You're questioning this? You think there is nothing at all risk
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by galdosdi 4y ago
IMHO this effect is much worse in video meetings, partly because of the lag and just the whole experience where social cues are muted. In a real meeting, someone who has something to add will actually have different facial expressions that
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by galdosdi 4y ago
1) Public transport works today. True self driving is an unknown amount of time away, and IMHO it is a foolish mistake to assume it is definitely very soon or definitely very long before it works. It could be a year away or decades. 2) Even
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by galdosdi 4y ago
Cold Fusion isn't WYSIWYG (although it was intended to eventually be, and that never panned out haha), are you thinking of DreamWeaver or MS FrontPage?
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by galdosdi 4y ago
> It's not generating code that seems to be the difficulty, it's generating the correct code. Also, it's not actually writing the code that is the difficulty when generating code changes for maintaining existing code, but
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by galdosdi 4y ago
I think you are committing the common engineer's fallacy of examining a situation with Vulcan like logic, reaching a conclusion, and then applying it to a social process. > A metric that says everyone is under-performing isn't
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by galdosdi 4y ago
And they're older and have had longer to work their way into the culture. Many of the eastern ivy league schools are older than the USA. Some are even older than the state they're in (in the east, unlike in the west, states are of
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by galdosdi 4y ago
You probably don't realize this, but (in the USA) it's very illegal (although unevenly enforced) to actively prevent your employees from unionizing. This is because there is a huge incentive to prevent it, because as an employer y
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by galdosdi 4y ago
You're talking about macroeconomics, the exciting and unscientific field of how interest rates, markets, etc interact and the whole big world of wealth works. Obviously very difficult to get any real experimental data that isn't u
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by galdosdi 4y ago
Why would Calc I-II not be required to get an Econ degree? Derivatives are used all over basic microeconomics. Anytime you see the word "marginal" you're taking a derivative.
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by galdosdi 4y ago
And just want to point out since it's not explicitly stated-- you can run Python on the JVM with the Jython project (although only Python2 compatible)
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by galdosdi 4y ago
The great thing about the JVM is a lot of languages run on it and you get access to the same ecosystem from any of them. If you like Python, I had a great experience with Jython. It was really easy to interoperate back and forth between Jyt
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by galdosdi 4y ago
You speak in the past tense about events I'm unfamiliar with. What recent historical events are you referring to? Or is this some kind of rhetorical but obtuse way to speak about a hypothetical situation? I am confused but curious what
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by galdosdi 4y ago
It depends on the company. Some companies really are this bad. If you haven't been in one, you're lucky. If you are in one, it can be hard to recognize for a while (see OP) but the key is to recognize it so you can get out of ther
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by galdosdi 4y ago
> Companies (or departments) wouldn't actually last very long if management teams were as bad as you described. That is only true for companies in a highly competitive market. There are all kinds of markets, some are very competitiv

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