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by hilux 3y ago
> TLDR: High energy, low critical thinking. During Silicon Valley boom cycles, these fast movers ted to do a lot better than people who stop to weigh the pros and cons, moral and ethical considerations, environmental impact, etc. etc.
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by hilux 3y ago
Related - google: David Sinclair fraud He's not a salesperson; he's a Harvard Med School professor. But he made a fraudulent $700 million dollar sale (of his company), and escaped having it reversed because he managed to convince
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by hilux 3y ago
Maybe he was killed by the agents of whoever. I have no non-public knowledge about this. On the other hand, if you were obsessed with some conspiracy theory, were feeling suicidal, and wanted to create maximum effect with your death ... &qu
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by hilux 3y ago
If you dilute it, and then rinse your mouth out with water ... not much. At least my teeth are fine after years of this.
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by hilux 3y ago
ACV is very cheap. The problem is that most urban "farmer's markets" have become incredibly bougie.
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by hilux 3y ago
> Also, if you have acid reflux, vinegar will absolutely destroy your stomach and make your acid reflux 100% worse I replaced my Prilosec prescription (for severe acid reflux) with diluted ACV. After a few years, I no longer needed even
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by hilux 3y ago
Mentour's recent videos have become much more fake salesy ultra-high energy. I actually had to unsubscribe. The same phenomenon is unfolding in chess youtube world. The audience of laypeople (with minimal to zero chess knowledge) who a
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by hilux 3y ago
Hacker News is such a skewed sample. It's difficult for us to comprehend how gullible and technologically and financially clueless the vast majority of people (esp. old people) are.
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by hilux 3y ago
It's far more likely that in a few decades the entire car will be a per-mile subscription.
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by hilux 3y ago
Those last three brands ... are they sold in the US? Historically, Chinese cars have performed poorly on crash test. Google: chinese car safety zero star Have they improved, and will they continue to improve? Of course.
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by hilux 3y ago
Let's accept, for the sake of argument, that you are a high-IQ Übermensch. If you want to communicate with us hopeless blockheads, you may wish to lower the level of your discourse, and write in bite-sized concepts that our mini-minds
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by hilux 3y ago
I didn't downvote you (I can't!), but I have no idea what the parent message says. Possibly you were downvoted for lack of clarity, and not because everyone here is a "BO assassin"?
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by hilux 3y ago
> Then, I typically spend about a week's worth of evenings carefully going over the listings, multiple times. This is the key. You're valuing your time at nothing. Which is fine, if it works for you. It doesn't work for me
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by hilux 3y ago
When the cleaning fee frequently exceeds the per-night rate, AND the guest is expected to do a significant amount of cleaning(!) ... that's a scam.
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by hilux 3y ago
I remember Scientific American running a similar story 10-15 years ago. Can't comment on these individuals, but the phenomenon is real.
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by hilux 3y ago
When you apply to Google, they ask what other employment you have, IP you own, etc. Many companies do some variation of this, but I believe Google is one of the most restrictive on its employees.
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by hilux 3y ago
Chinese and Indian men do not count towards any DEI quota in tech!!
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by hilux 3y ago
Wi Tu Lo. That one was totally bogus.
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by hilux 3y ago
Good boss!
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by hilux 3y ago
Many certs are absolutely valued - look at the number of people who change careers with a cert from UC Berkeley Extension - and beyond that, 2U and Coursera, and others, were heavily investing in the degree space. The explanation for their
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by hilux 3y ago
I read the English translation. Quite a broad-ranging manifesto!
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by hilux 3y ago
I use ChatGPT every day, and from the conversations I see in AI circles, the main competition is not coming from Google/Gemini. More to the point, why does your post read like an ad for Google?
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by hilux 3y ago
Do you really believe that banning cryptocurrency would be "easy"?
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by hilux 3y ago
The collapse in value of OPMs and EdTechs is something to behold: Byju's, Coursera, 2U, Udacity ... I don't understand it.
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by hilux 3y ago
"Keep the blue side up!"
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by hilux 3y ago
I don't know exactly how much money my friends and relatives have, but I suspect that several are in the second group, and none inherited that wealth. A book written in the 2000s may pre-date much of Silicon Valley wealth creation.
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by hilux 3y ago
The implication is that Spirit AeroSystems was responsible for the recent 737 snafus, and reinstalling Boeing leadership will help them clean up their act. But is that true - was Spirit responsible? That's not what I got from the publi
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by hilux 3y ago
> Which is stay away from videos, restrict yourself to written content. I think this is very individual-dependent. E.g. only recently I've realized that I absorb audio content much better than text (or video, for that matter). So
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by hilux 3y ago
> "Latin America and the Middle East and North Africa are also experiencing much more obesity than underweight, the study said." Is this English?
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by hilux 3y ago
Such an interesting read. I prompts me to wonder whether abuse was one reason that Heroku removed their beloved (among students) free tier.

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