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by ido 5y ago
I vaguely remember some Sinclair computers doing stuff like that because they used cheap RAM chips that were ensured to be error-free on the entire memory-space (so basically binning) so they used the "good" half, but a lot of the
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by ido 5y ago
Yes, I had a very mundane childhood and wouldn't have wanted to switch spots with Jade according to this story.
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by ido 5y ago
Not everyone that was fascinated by computers as a kid became a software engineer! I'd assume most didn't. I was obsessed with dinosaurs as a kid and I didn't become a paleontologist.
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by ido 5y ago
My neighbor's mother was a graphic designer and at some point got an at-the-time state of the art first generation PPC mac (I want to say a PowerMac 7100) so she could work at home. Playing with Kid Pix on that machine was magical to p
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by ido 5y ago
Aren't taxes lower than they used to be?
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by ido 5y ago
Children lack agency, and can’t be expected to plan ahead like that.
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by ido 5y ago
As far as I understand the article instead of getting 1/4 the stocks each year for 4 years they get it all at once, hence after 1 year you get 100% of the stock instead of 4. Is that not what was meant?
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by ido 5y ago
Yeah but with a 1 year vesting instead of 4 you may be able to cash out before the bubble bursts.
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by ido 5y ago
It's legitimate to point out the potential downsides. Even if you hope the startup you join will succeed and believe in its chances, plenty of promising companies fail (sometimes simply due to circumstances). Hedging your bets (or &quo
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by ido 5y ago
I also don't buy that "once you have kids you need a car". I have 2 little kids and neither me nor my wife ever had a driver's license. We use transit and bicycle. When our kids were smaller we used a cargo bike, now the
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by ido 5y ago
I looked it up and it seems you're right! The summer highs in Nicosia[0] really are significantly warmer than in Heraklion[1]. I assumed it will be the same as Crete and Cyprus are at the same latitude and both are islands but there mu
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by ido 5y ago
I think on the greek coasts the climate would be quite similar to both Cyprus and (coastal) Israel. And either way closer to that than where I now live (northern Germany)!
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by ido 5y ago
Unrelated but where in Greece does it routinely get to -20c? I'm wondering because was born and raised in Israel (similar climate to Greece) and even at the mountain tops -20c would be very rare (and there are generally no settlements
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by ido 5y ago
I also live in Germany and pay low rent, but keep in mind this is because the contract isn't new and rent/tenants rights are highly regulated in Germany. If you tried to rent a new apartment in Berlin/Hamburg/Munich&#x2F
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by ido 5y ago
I think it's the other way around - we comparatively hear a lot more about the successes than the failures. For every unicorn that made 400 people millionaires there are probably >1000 startups that either went out of business, neve
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by ido 5y ago
that's the problem with anecdotal evidence - you can't really tell for sure a company is going to become a massive unicorn often until very close to the point it does. I've worked at companies that raised many millions of $s
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by ido 5y ago
I agree - there is usually a way to be honest without being brutal.
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by ido 5y ago
I interviewed at google (not googleplex but one of their other very fancy offices that spans multiple stories of an expensive skyscraper). The office seemed great as did all the amenities. But it was an hour's commute in each direction
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by ido 5y ago
You don't even need to go as esoteric as "good rubik cube solver". My first job was at a physics laboratory as a research assistance. At least some of the people holding physics PhDs from elite institutions (the one I worked
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by ido 5y ago
I wonder if I just got lucky in my youth trying to repair a mac classic II (at the time it was about 10 years old), or if the 9" CRT that must have not been turned on for years at that point didn't have enough of a charge? That ma
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by ido 5y ago
Millions of destitute people are trying to get into any developed country - not just America - because life in the developing world is even worse. This doesn't mean the US is doing great.
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by ido 5y ago
Could be! We only took paid leave.
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by ido 5y ago
I use google docs and although it’s free it’s actually much quicker to use than modern office (for me at least - maybe because the interface is more similar to 90s office!)
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by ido 5y ago
Messed up yet not at all surprising, right?
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by ido 5y ago
I've heard it stated as: you're always 3 terrible months away from being destitute, but you're never 3 great months from being a billionaire. Let this inform who you have class solidarity with.
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by ido 5y ago
I Germany it's 14 months total (if both parents take at least 2 months, otherwise it's 12) & it still felt like too little! I wish I could have spent more time with my kids when they were babies but I had to go back to work.
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by ido 5y ago
How critical would a load–store architecture be to making that late 70s/early 80s "pre-RISC" better than the CPUs Intel and Motorola were cranking out? E.g. imagine a simpler 16 bit extension of the 8080 than the 8086 was, wi
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by ido 5y ago
It appears in this article on Persian architecture https://www.kooleh.com/persian-architecture/ I think it is in a mosque in Shiraz.
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by ido 5y ago
I think that's the real answer - they simply didn't think better performance mattered/would be worth the extra cost/complexity.
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by ido 5y ago
That sounds like a stretch to me but to each their own...

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