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by idrios 6y ago
Honestly, I agree with everything you just said. I will say that if you continue the pattern for 20 years you end up with $200k, of which $83k was made in interest -- and after 30 years you'll have $400k, $200k made from interest. Mean
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by idrios 6y ago
I've seen this example going around because it's such an egregious example of attributing to hard work what was essentially just gifted, but I think "wealth is accumulated through habits" is not wrong. It's really j
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by idrios 6y ago
"Far-right" as opposed to just "right" or "conservative" makes it sound like they're more than a standard deviation more right-leaning than the typical conservative. It makes the action of moving to open s
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by idrios 6y ago
Agreed. You could substitute ultrasound waves with electromagnetic waves in this same conversation. We use EM waves every day for diagnotics -- at the 740-380nm range because that's visible light. 10x-100x frequency of that is ultravio
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by idrios 6y ago
They have really excellent products, blocked behind subscription fees and extremely high product costs. The open source world is doing a really good job of creating free versions of the things that made their products great.
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by idrios 6y ago
That only explains why he graduated as a senior with such a low GPA. I think without No Child Left Behind he would have repeated 9th grade multiple times until he dropped out -- though I could be wrong. I'd say a part of the problem is
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by idrios 6y ago
The article is about a kid who ranked in the upper 50% -- they chose to do a story about him because this means he's not an outlier, he's the norm for this school. It's very likely that failing / skipping class is the on
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by idrios 6y ago
> But in those three years, only one teacher requested a parent conference, which France says never happened An enormous amount of these kids come from broken families. I volunteered at a charter school in Cleveland, and would hear the e
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by idrios 6y ago
For sure. I was just stating why echo chambers are bad. In the context of a dating app, I think dating right now suffers from a totally diffent and unrelated effect where the pool of potential partners has become so big that people have unr
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by idrios 6y ago
Because the commonalities that exist between people help them overcome their differences, understand each other better and reflect on themselves.
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by idrios 6y ago
Spitballing possibilities -- in a brainstorming session, someone thought it'd be cool and drive up user engagement to have an online status, so users could talk to each other. Or an engineering team trying to preserve its function pres
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by idrios 6y ago
Similar situation. Learned Photoshop in high school for an art class, got really good with it in college because my school gave it to us for extremely cheap. But now I don't have it, it's too expensive to pay for, I'm unwilli
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by idrios 6y ago
If it ever leaked that DDG was tracking user data, they would lose their only competitive advantage and lose all their users
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by idrios 6y ago
This statement reads to me the same as something like "Computers have the resources to find the cure for cancer, but we've chosen not to find that cure." You're using the word "chosen" as if we know how to buil
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by idrios 6y ago
Hey, sorry for taking so long to respond to this. When I moved here I made a list of hacker spaces that were both general and biology-focused. I thought I had found more that were focused on bio but unfortunately I think you're right,
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by idrios 6y ago
Hah, I'm still motivated but I was also pretty aware of the other comments being made here about higher education at the time (excessively political, funding sparse, job search difficulties for bio fields). I was lucky enough to get a
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by idrios 6y ago
Ah.. I don't think this comment deserved to be downvoted. I did actually have one place reach out -- a lab at U of Toronto. But they asked if I was international and when I said yes (USA) they apologized and said they didn't have
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by idrios 6y ago
Yup, and I did consider it. But another semester of college just to boost my GPA would've been expensive. I don't have regrets how things turned out, but point is my story is common
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by idrios 6y ago
I joined one called "BioCurious"[1] in the SF Bay area to work on a project making a fluorescence microscope. The project was advertised on Meetup.com which is how I found it, and there were other similar projects that met up week
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by idrios 6y ago
Biomedical engineer with a 2.977GPA. Lots of extra curriculars, volunteered in labs, 160 credit hours of mostly STEM classes, lots of grad-level courses, relevant work experience, but GPA was 0.023 too low to pass the automated filters and
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by idrios 6y ago
Serious question: is there a program that you would recommend donating to to help combat homelessness?
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by idrios 6y ago
I wouldn't even mind this. There are a lot of services I would pay for to not have ads. But I also actually know people who like having ads tailored to them
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by idrios 6y ago
Thank you for this correction. I wrote this thinking "Fed" as federal government, not federal reserve, which was not smart of me. I was mostly criticising the parent's ad hominem attacks
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by idrios 6y ago
>Have you ever examined the idea that it could be you who lacks education? >You're angry because it feels like everybody is getting rich and you aren't. You could have made your point without these personal attacks. Also, I
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by idrios 6y ago
I quit Facebook 5 years ago when it started getting really toxic for me, but I also have a very addictive personality. I deleted my Facebook account, then edited my computer's hosts file with 127.0.0.1 facebook.com so that the website
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by idrios 6y ago
You can still expose interfaces, the tricky part is that there are multiple systems you're creating interfaces to -- whether or not you intended it. Take blood for example. Through a fluid mechanics lens, the role of blood is to mainta
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by idrios 6y ago
Then you're not even trying to see any perspective but your own. "Terrorist" should mean violent, radical extremists. If you're saying that all of the protestors are terrorist then you're either loosening the defi
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by idrios 6y ago
I'm pretty sure it's also about being able to ban Github. China banned it once before in 2013 but had to unban it when developers complained that the ban interfered with their work https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by idrios 6y ago
I'd say intent to kill is what makes them terrorists. What makes this muddied is the varying degrees of intent from all the people who stormed the capital. Some saw it as a chance to kill people. Others just went to protest -- not real
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by idrios 6y ago
Oh, I like that explanation better actually. They very well may have an agreement like that where he'll forgive the loan as long as he's still happy with how they're running it

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