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by injb 5y ago
I don't see the big deal with that^ email. I mean, the only alternative not listed there is "ignore me and do nothing". It should be obvious that that's not acceptable. The email is concise and well-written...I suppose i
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by injb 5y ago
Elon Musk always said that he owned basically nothing other than the stock in his own companies. So was this the real reason for his recent TSLA sell off? He told everyone he was doing it to pay taxes. Which I'm sure he did. But I wond
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by injb 5y ago
Typical, and it has always been that way in my experience. Recently I had to switch to Windows 10 after years of using Linux at work. The result? Every time I went to the bathroom I came back to a blue screen saying Windows had decided to r
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by injb 5y ago
Not sure, but you can definitely negotiate with debt collectors. They have been known to withdraw things from people's credit reports in exchange for payment. Especially if you play hardball and insist on seeing paperwork to prove they
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by injb 5y ago
>>> It’s one of those analogies that is brilliant if you are sufficiently familiar with all four components, but hopeless as a way to explain one in terms of the other three. Ah yes, one of those - also known as a completely usele
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by injb 5y ago
Them: Adventures With Extremists by Jon Ronson.
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by injb 5y ago
Generally true, but harder to make this case for imaginary numbers, because we definitely didn't need them when we adopted them in the 16th century or whenever it was. We adopted them because we had already adopted the (very imaginary)
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by injb 5y ago
>> I honestly don't understand why complex numbers make people so angry. I think the reason is very simple: the name. Every time you talk about "real" numbers and "imaginary" numbers, you are telling people im
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by injb 5y ago
It's hard to see how you could blame this on idempotency - even the author's questionable definition[1]. He pretty much explains what went wrong in black and white: "Don't assume "unknown" means "good&quot
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by injb 5y ago
He makes a good point here though: if the threat of nuclear war stops NATO from intervening now, why wouldn't it stop them from responding to a relatively minor transgression? Do we expect Putin to believe that we won't risk nucle
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by injb 5y ago
I don't buy this. Once you get a country in the mood for war, the marginal cost to them of more war gets less and less. In for a penny/in for a pound as they say. If anything, I bet China has had to think twice about Taiwan after
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by injb 5y ago
I don't think that's cynical. It's almost certainly true that a lot of the positive news we're seeing is part of a deliberate propaganda campaign. But it's worth noting that 1. Propaganda is not necessarily untrue.
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by injb 5y ago
I think this is mainly a psychological move. It has people talking about nuclear fallout, radiation etc. That's the point.
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by injb 5y ago
Most of the people they're talking about are either paid actors (or artists hoping to make a killing on NFTs). I mean, they literally make their living by reading a script in front of a camera. That's what they're famous for!
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by injb 5y ago
6 months of startup work before you have graduated sounds impressive to me. Definitely mention it. Don't be afraid to say it didn't work out, but as others have said, don't bad mouth them. Your interviewers will read between
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by injb 5y ago
They're used interchangeably but they probably shouldn't be. What characterizes engineering (in most disciplines) is the practice of modelling. An engineer knows exactly what they're going to build and knows exactly what char
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by injb 5y ago
No, I don't think there is. There was a lively discussion around this recently here[1] People ask for this from time to time, but the thing is that mathematical notation really isn't a very big deal for anyone who has taken the ti
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by injb 5y ago
Another problem: you can increase your balance by "withdrawing" a negative amount.
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by injb 5y ago
Yes, it's frustrating how often "premature" is taken to mean "early in the dev cycle", when it actually means "before you have done performance profiling".
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by injb 5y ago
Aside from the question of common decency, this kid wasted a rare opportunity. He had a private message exchange with Elon Musk! Pitch an idea. Ask for a job. Ask for advice. Don't try to shake them down for nuisance money.
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by injb 5y ago
Why does it matter though? They're used for different orders of magnitude. I've never understood why people think that having everything in multiples of 1000 (as the metric system does) is an advantage. Yes it's easy to say h
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by injb 5y ago
This isn't a good analogy, because if you have a human brain then you already understand all the concepts that Japanese is used to represent (except maybe some cultural things that are hard to translate). In contrast, the language of m
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by injb 5y ago
JRE is not behind a paywall. You have to create an account, but once you do it's free.
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by injb 5y ago
I think this is how it works in plain English: he bought the option to buy 200 * 100 TSLA shares at $1000 on or before the 28th (call options are always done in batches of 100). He paid $481k for this option. So he stood to make $20000 for
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by injb 5y ago
I think that angle is that until they reeled in JRE, they didn't really have anything original or exclusive. Virtually everything that people were listening to belonged to legacy record companies and artists. The Joe Rogan Experience i
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by injb 5y ago
> I didn't flag this for being heretical; I flagged it for reducing confidence in public health measures That is literally, exactly what heretics were punished for: reducing confidence in things that were believed to be in the publi
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by injb 5y ago
Steve Yegge's old blog[1] has some of the best essays I've ever read. [1] https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/blog-rants
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by injb 5y ago
Who advocated taking horse tranquilizer?
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by injb 5y ago
You didn't cause the accident. However, you might have been wrong to slow down. I don't know where you live or exactly what the circumstances were, but this is extremely common in the US, where people don't really know how to
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by injb 5y ago
I just had it. If it wasn't for all the tests I did, I wouldn't have known I had anything. I passed it on to my 72 yo father and his partner (both unvaccinated) and they were sick - somewhere between a severe cold and a mild flu.

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