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by heurist 5y ago
If I hadn't been able to attend a "gifted" program, which has since been shut down, I would have been stuck in a rural D-class system that would not have served me at all. Instead I was able to be around peers with my interes
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by heurist 5y ago
We've been watching Russia prepare for major war for more than a decade. Anyone who said they wouldn't be willing to enter this war was deluding themselves. It was a matter of when, not if Russia would embark on this path.
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by heurist 5y ago
China does not want to get involved in major conflicts. They will be opportunistic if/when they have a chance to take power, but they are not as risk tolerant as Putin. Only since 2016 or so have they started to come out of their shell
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by heurist 5y ago
Bernie was saying the same things before Trump showed up - this is a general trend, not caused by anyone in particular.
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by heurist 5y ago
A while back I spent a few weeks figuring out how to configure Firefox to work exactly how I want a browser to work, then months happily using it. Then a big update was released and everything broke. I never bothered to get it working again
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by heurist 5y ago
There are engineers who can produce on a constance cadence, and there are engineers who need to let the pressure build until a dam breaks and the code comes rushing out. The latter engineers can still be good engineers. It all depends on ho
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by heurist 5y ago
Leave that company immediately and find something that gives you room to breathe.
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by heurist 5y ago
Side gig/project is the answer here. If you're not doing 6-8 hours of active work per workday and no one is complaining you might as well use the rest for yourself. Make sure it's something where you can exercise creativity a
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by heurist 5y ago
It's a way to authenticate yourself without a centralized authority. So right now it's being used to create exclusive communities, access to which theoretically has some value. In the future, there may be application ecosystems wh
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by heurist 5y ago
Any tips or lessons learned on working with the non-technical folks? This is a struggle I am dealing with and am constantly trying to improve in. They want to do things their way, which might work okay but is inefficient and not in line wit
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by heurist 5y ago
I work in hydroponic farming. If you live in the US then the produce you find in a grocery store has been grown and harvested in severely suboptimal conditions for human nutrition. Outcomes will vary across hydroponic systems but you will s
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by heurist 5y ago
They have to do that whether they are being evil or not just to prevent competitive intelligence and other damaging info from leaking. So the systems are there
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by heurist 5y ago
The credit markets being built on top of crypto have been useful to me personally. Rather than going through the lengthy and invasive credit application/approval processes required by lenders, I can take out a cash loan against my cryp
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by heurist 5y ago
I've had fun doing it and been miserable doing it. It depends on the work and opportunity for creativity/impact.
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by heurist 5y ago
My dream replacement for full time work: study and make art (a hobby I have plateaued in); exercise; become a better software developer and data analyst (I'm a manager these days); work part time (very part time) on a couple businesses
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by heurist 5y ago
Check out the Criterion Channel: https://www.criterionchannel.com/
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by heurist 5y ago
Sure. They'll sell at the peak and buy at the bottom because it's a well known 4 year cycle programmed into the protocol. If the price is expected to appreciate 5-10x from any other asset in the market every 4 years that's a
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by heurist 5y ago
One of the most common arguments used against Bitcoin is "it's only good in black markets." That's essentially what OP said. Do black markets not operate when Bitcoin is banned by government? Is this not the essential fu
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by heurist 5y ago
I'm confused about why Bitcoin is being discussed in the past tense when both usage and price have both grown significantly over the last year. Is it already dead? Could have fooled me.
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by heurist 5y ago
My job is contemplating. I am a director at a well-funded startup. My day is meetings, design, and thinking. Cannabis helps me relax in the evening, and that's when I decompress and let my brain figure out the next steps I need to take
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by heurist 6y ago
Arguments like 'is bitcoin a battery or not' reduce the complexity of bitcoin down to meaningless binary noise. It's a new thing entirely, there's no analogy that will effectively describe it. I have seen effective point
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by heurist 6y ago
People lived in the north prior to the invention of electricity, so it's possible. Maybe more difficult now due to the quantity of firewood that would be needed with a larger population? Architecture (and dense urban development) plays
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by heurist 6y ago
You'd throw impoverished and depressed people under the bus because they can't muster the energy to "better" themselves?
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by heurist 6y ago
Safe and flexible would be a better target than exciting or boring. Those are a bit harder to quantify than newness though.
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by heurist 6y ago
They didn't invest in the weatherproofing needed for these extreme events. It wasn't worth the expense for them to ensure that people would have heat if we had a record-breaking cold snap (only have to go back 30 years to match th
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by heurist 6y ago
Books yes, youtube no, except the occasional funny animal/baby video with my wife. Even books need to meet an expected quality threshold before I elect to dedicate tens of hours of my attention, and I am willing to grant it because the
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by heurist 6y ago
Only if you want to pipe their words directly into your brain with no opportunity to send yours back to them. I generally decline such one-way offers.
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by heurist 6y ago
On one hand, I get it, especially in the covid era when social interaction is curtailed. On the other, I am really damn tired of hearing about it. It seems like Clubhouse's membership is comprised of people who either want to be follow
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by heurist 6y ago
Walking around my yard this evening and the green vegetation that froze over crunched like potato chips. I'm from the Midwest so familiar with the cold, but I had never experienced that sensation before.
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by heurist 6y ago
Dominion Voting Systems was created because ES&S was forced to sell Premier Election Solutions due to antitrust concerns. ES&S has been subject of various errors and controversies: https://www.propublica.org/article&

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