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by j7ake 3y ago
I am not sure why it matters how long you’ve been at a company. If you stayed at a company for six months and got a Nobel prize for the work during your stay, that beats working sixty years at that same company at average performance. I am
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by j7ake 3y ago
As an employee, you definitely want to cash in on your first few million, then you can still be around when the hockey stick graph either goes unlimited or crashes to 0. Either way your future is secure.
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With a sufficiently enough number of condos relative to demand, the housing cost should eventually decrease no?
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Incentives explain seemingly paradoxical behavior. With IP, corporations originated their ideas, so executives want to prevent others from copying. With generative AI, corporations are copying individual's ideas, so executives want to
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by j7ake 3y ago
chatgpt is on the extreme side: you only get immediate answers without the webpage
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I predict future problems that are not easily “solved” or at least aided by chatgpt will have too high of an “activation barrier” to tackle relative to other problems that can be helped by chatgpt The next generation of thinkers will be sha
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by j7ake 3y ago
Journey to the west. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_West
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Wait how do you get likelihoods greater than one? Definitely won’t work for likelihoods like Poisson or other count based models.
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In USA, Bottom means the people who lack food, shelter, housing, health care, and other social services that are available to median income people in a comparably affluent Western country.
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Excellent news! What a relief for a city dominated by struggling students to have more housing per area.
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If the bottom have their needs met (food, housing, health care, education, day care) then any wealth inequality is acceptable.
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LLMs do not need to replace a software engineer wholesale for engineers to be worried. Even if half of the junior software engineering positions become obsolete because of LLMs, it’s already a huge issue for the entire profession. Of course
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> "People have different personalities, which often generates friction," she said. People are becoming less and less tolerant of anything that generates "friction". This can be a problem because it is this friction th
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In 1950s, a woman wouldn't even be able to get into universities like Yale.
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If you live like a monk, why do you need a software engineering salary?
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Do you often have enough frozens to feed a party of 10? Pizza delivery is rarely done for one or two eaters. Only makes sense at >5
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“Given enough time” assumes competition will catch up while leader stays idle. If leader is still innovating at a pace greater than any competition, then competition will never catch up.
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I disagree that grading is not stack ranking. Everything about going to college is to a stamp of approval that you are “better” than others. Better than people from other schools and better than people within your class. The entire academic
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by j7ake 3y ago
That’s great for those people, but is it actionable for those who aren’t already in this societies? Take higher income people, move them into low income, small scale societies, will those high income people become happier?
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In this case, are deep discounts in residential property next?
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My experience with United emirates was similar. Extremely generous refund policies and fast action.
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Is it free rent? Property taxes and maintenance of a large house in can cost as much as renting an apartment.
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Germany also has reasonable tenant laws so that landlords cannot raise rent arbitrarily, making being a tenant more pleasant than in the USA. As a tenant in Germany, it is just as secure or more compared with owning. You have tenant laws an
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7 days 4 hours also means you can do two hours morning, two hours late night, and have whole mid morning to mid-afternoon to yourself.
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by j7ake 3y ago
I prefer working 7 days a week, 5 hours a day. Creating strong habits and momentum is key to getting things done efficiently and effectively.
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In a dynamic economy, one can never guarantee whether you will get into the last 1%.
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Basically “good will hunting “
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How do you calculate the ROI? In many competitive professions, your outcomes are based on your rank, or it is winner take most after a cutoff. So sometimes being 1 percent better gives 1000x rewards.
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Bigger salaries attracts more people, so you can have your pick of your favorite candidate. A bad scenario is the public school teacher path: they need better marketing and should be paid on par with the congressman, senators, and other hig
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Average day care in bay area is already 2500, before feeding and clothing the kids, or any after school activities.

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