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by hiq 2y ago
> it's a hedge against loss of value even in the short term If BTC with such a volatility can be considered an inflation hedge, then anything else can be as well. There's no intrinsic guarantee that BTC will keep going up, its
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by hiq 3y ago
When doing what for instance? I've never founded a company in Switzerland but it didn't seem that hard, talking with people who did. As an individual most of the things I've had to do (residence permit, taxes...) are also qui
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by hiq 3y ago
To your counterexamples: if you move to the US or the UK for a job, you don't really suffer directly from Brexit or healthcare being tied to your unemployment. Sure, these could make things worse in certain cases (let's say you ge
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by hiq 3y ago
A (sad?) workaround I've seen is to intentionally misspell words in error / log messages so that they're unique enough. I guess I don't blame people doing that, but it does point to limitations of the language.
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Google sues crypto scammers for allegedly uploading fake apps to Android store(cnbc.com)
6 points by hiq 3y ago|1 comments
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by hiq 3y ago
> Voltaire https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Voltaire#Misattributed
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by hiq 3y ago
I'm not sure we can deduce much from this without knowing how many questions (and answers) were part of the training data.
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by hiq 3y ago
https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Rebalancing
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by hiq 3y ago
> the centralization is never monopolistic (e.g., you cannot completely reject transactions even if you control most of the miners) Why not? If you control 51%+ of the mining power, you can decide not to accept any mined block that would
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by hiq 3y ago
Coffee and amphetamines I guess.
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by hiq 3y ago
> Where do you live that smoking is allowed and common in shared outdoor spaces It's pretty common in France and Switzerland.
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by hiq 3y ago
The big difference is that you don't have to drink alcohol if an unknown person next to you is drinking, while passive smoking is a real thing. Granted, peer pressure leads people to drink more than they otherwise would, but it's
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by hiq 3y ago
If verifying these digits make any sense, that means you already have a trusted channel you rely on to communicate these digits. You would use that trusted channel to transfer these digits. How do you want to communicate them? > A 4 digi
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by hiq 3y ago
In practice I just skim through these 10 messages in such small groups. There's the opposite problem with threads, with which it's easy to miss messages you care about, and harder to have a single topic at a given time. Being able
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by hiq 3y ago
> Otherwise, the user is expected to be able to do that. If you're not in the same location, you can long press the code in Signal and "compare to clipboard". > In any case, the user won't have the faintest idea of
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by hiq 3y ago
> If you do verify a particular contact's identity it involves comparing a 60 digit decimal number. Why wouldn't you scan the QR code instead of doing that?
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by hiq 3y ago
> Signal conversations can become such a mess because of that. The workaround is to create new groups, even if that's with the same set of people. I even have groups with just another person and myself, e.g. for specific projects. I
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by hiq 3y ago
This article seems to put a lot of people into its "big salaries", from CEOs to fresh graduate. I'd argue that, past the million dollars mark, it's hard to claim that n > 0 other people could do the same job for cheap
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by hiq 3y ago
> I really don't feel like reading a book after I work the whole day at a computer. Have you tried before spending your whole day at your computer?
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by hiq 3y ago
Doesn't coffee impact sleep quality as well? At 6 cups a day, I'd expect some caffeine left in the body when sleeping.
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by hiq 3y ago
We're not talking about remembering whole Wikipedia articles though, and I'm guessing nobody puts entire encyclopedia articles in their Zettelkasten. Granted, we're not made to remember TBs of data, but the information I envi
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by hiq 3y ago
> Not all information needs to be remembered. So that's where I'm experimenting with this stance: it's either useful and I'm better off remembering it, or it's useless and I don't even need to write that dow
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by hiq 3y ago
What's the point of Obsidian in this case, since all the useful information is already in Anki by definition of "useful" (see previous comment), thus eventually (after a few reviews) in my brain?
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by hiq 3y ago
A few weeks ago I started splitting knowledge between that which is worthy enough (for me) to remember via flashcards and spaced repetition, and that which I don't need to even write down anywhere. Meaning, in practice, that I don&#x27
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by hiq 3y ago
This begs the question though: how do you evaluate communication skills better than this to encompass what you miss on technical discussions? It's easy to look like a team player in an interview setting where disagreements are low-stak
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by hiq 3y ago
I think absolutes like "it sucks" are rather unhelpful when you need to choose something anyway, so it's not like doing nothing is an option. What would help is a clear alternative and how it does better one certain metrics w
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by hiq 3y ago
AFAIK communication skills are routinely evaluated in those interviews: if you have the best code but can't explain how it works, you won't score highly on them. You should be able to discuss tradeoffs, how you reason, etc. They c
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by hiq 3y ago
Are you referring to system design interviews, or are you describing something else? System design interviews are commonly used along with leetcode interviews, especially in senior roles.
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by hiq 3y ago
That still doesn't mean the interview process would be any different in this different market environment you're describing.
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by hiq 3y ago
That means that from the start, you rule out people who don't have this academic education. Then there's the question of the relevance of this education: either you only take CS graduates, in which case your applicant pool is quit

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