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by grog454 4y ago
> i do regret the fact that i wasted so much of my life on games like World of Warcraft You might be able to parlay that into a career in game design / programming? I also spent unreasonable amounts of time in WoW (and still someti
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by grog454 4y ago
> Before, society grew with the average working age person only needing to half support an elderly retiree. Now, that same working age person will need to support more than 2 elderly retirees themselves, over 4 times the resources. There
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by grog454 4y ago
> The key is that I would be living a life of complete and total leisure. Wake up whenever I want. Sleep whenever I want. Eat whenever I want. And each day, each moment, I would do whatever in particular I happened to feel like doing. I
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by grog454 4y ago
> The concern is that they become a self-fulfilling prophecy. An effective education is ultimately the student's responsibility. If we could somehow teach that at an early age, lot of these problems become irrelevant. As a freshma
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by grog454 4y ago
I was fortunate to have problem solving based DiffEQ classes as a freshman, and my prior experience in programming meshed well with differential equations. My first published Android app was a differential equation visualizer: https:/
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by grog454 4y ago
> If they were able to account for these necessary expenses as a business does, the expenses would be directly deducted from income. I thought that's mostly the point of the standard or itemized deduction (which businesses don'
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by grog454 4y ago
> Even an experienced driver can appreciate not having the view completely obstructed by... Couldn't agree more. I have ~50 hours of seat time driving a high performance mid engine car on a track but in any amount of traffic I prefe
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by grog454 4y ago
What is their profit per employee ignoring employee compensation? That tells you more about how much they can pay employees.
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by grog454 4y ago
I'm more curious about what 20something Zuckerberg would think about his comments if he could somehow see current Zuckerberg.
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by grog454 4y ago
Do they do tear-downs and rate the engineering? That's pretty much the only way to determine how likey something is to last without using it for ten years.
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by grog454 4y ago
> But for a 4-hour workload? The only way I'm getting that sort of compensation for so little work is if I'm a parasite on society. That isn't the case with the power of scaling. If the product you happen to be working on
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by grog454 4y ago
A per capita metric might have a lot more influence on where someone chooses to live, at least for those privileged enough to have a choice.
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by grog454 4y ago
This is still a far cry from a global nuclear winter or a deliberately redirected asteroid, or any other number of things that only humans are capable of.
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by grog454 4y ago
It's useful to distinguish things that are made with human influence and things that aren't, and it can be done without value judgments (one is superior or inferior). It's useful because of the disproportionate effect of synt
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by grog454 4y ago
For what its worth, a few hours ago I witnessed an elderly driver on their cellphone, driving about 5 miles per hour in a 30, followed by a line of cars and constantly blaring horns. Gen Z isn't the only age group using tiktok, and def
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by grog454 4y ago
Why not decline the managerial role?
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I kind of like the idea that someone who shouldn't be on my computer would also see that.
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by grog454 4y ago
> I know the stuff is still in there - but it's like the map to the knowledge has faded This is a good way to describe what I've experienced since as long as it would be relevant. I've always thought I just had a weak or s
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by grog454 4y ago
> human happiness is primarily dependent on fulfilling the purpose as a replicator With a species as complex as humans it becomes much less clear what being an effective replicator entails. Someone like Alexander Fleming (inventor of pen
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From a financial standpoint he/she could be retired. Teaching in public education (my assumption) isn't particularly lucrative so it mostly depends on his/her lifestyle and spending.
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by grog454 4y ago
> People were on facebook for the features facebook had. People were on Facebook for the people that were on Facebook.
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by grog454 4y ago
Having the wrong experience can also be better than no experience. My early career was full of what I call "negative learning" experiences. I was essentially taught what not to do with clear demonstrations of why it shouldn't
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by grog454 4y ago
>If somebody does not care enough to work for us to put in couple of hours of work then they are very likely not a good candidate anyway. [emphasis mine] You compensate candidates for their time? I certainly assume you are compensated
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by grog454 4y ago
> Anti-alcohol proselytism makes me a little uncomfortable, though, because it seems that people with little control over themselves--through no fault of their own, probably--want others to stop engaging in activities that they find enjo
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by grog454 4y ago
> They have all these engineers, and it's not like it's difficult to make a chat program. Teleconferencing, sure, that's difficult. But most of the problems I hear about is "Teams crashed" or "Wouldn't
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by grog454 4y ago
> we know damn well that consumers don't choose fuel sources That's not entirely true. Where I live people have a choice of energy provider which includes much more costly "100% renewable" options. Guess how popular
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by grog454 4y ago
I agree brain chemistry probably plays a significant role. I've avoided stimulants (even as mild as caffeine) and depressants (including alcohol) since I was a teenager. I still have what I call an addiction prone personality, and can
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by grog454 4y ago
There's something to be said for respecting others' beliefs, no matter how incredible. I wonder if your wife's mother would be singing a different tune if we replaced Santa Clause with God in your example.
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> And they needed double-entry bookkeeping! Perhaps one of the most underrated human inventions of all. Your wealth was no longer determined by how much stuff physically hoard, but by a record of entitlements. Yet when you bring up a cer
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by grog454 4y ago
> "Ordering online causes additional emissions Am I missing something? Isn't it significantly more efficient for a van/truck to follow a computer optimized route to deliver 100s-1000s of orders per tank of gas than me driv

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