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The odds of succeeding with VC is even tinier. It’s just that the media hype up the lottery winners so VC continues to have companies wanting their money.
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The increase in slope at 1850 onwards corresponds to the start of the British Raj rule, when about a trillion dollars of wealth was transferred. India went from 23% of global GDP to under 3% during this period. https://en.wikiped
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Yeah it’s a statement deliberately crafted to obfuscate and misrepresent in order to carry a false narrative. If no country was particularly rich compared to today’s standard, then it is not convincing to conclude that plundering did not he
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Disagree on the country statement. it requires certain achievements, but by no means extraordinary. For example, very common to see European PhD graduates move to usa as their first job as staff or principal.
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Thank you for sharing.
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Nowhere in American is asking “how are you today” to a cashier abnormal. But the article suggests that it is indeed abnormal from a a Dutch perspective. There are distinctly American customs and cultures that Europeans would look as stereot
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People with PhDs in LLMs are doing well.
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The ideal answer is: "If I got fired tomorrow, I would be doing mostly the same work as before, but maybe less meetings and admin duties." Careers that fit this answer: artists, writers, musicians, mathematicians, scientists (thos
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I can't imagine living in a place where the loss of power/heat can rapidly lead to death. Not many steps removed from living on another planet.
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For those who want more context on Tolstoy's opinion on 'le bien publiqie', I found an essay that discusses it, under section 'Rastopchin’s Justification': https://sniggle.net/TPL/index5.php?ent
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It was a typo, but happy that it worked out as imagery.
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The "happiness" index is not applicable to remote workers. Happiness index is essentially measured by asking locals how happy they are. This has nothing to do with whether an outsider (e.g. an American) would become happier if the
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The value of a paper depends on much it influences the thinking of other scientists multiplied by the number of scientists it influences. Therefore the recent super conductivity papers may well end up being very important, if only to stir u
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The other secret is that Vienna’a population is comparable (2.0 million) in 1910 versus today in (1.99 million) 2023. This means that there’s plenty of existing housing already, before even considering the expanded suburbs.
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Yeah looking at the photo and reading the 15k hours in design makes me a little suspicious that the designer wasn’t working very effectively. The final design looks not better than other high doors trains in Europe. Designer should have jus
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Thanks for the article. How does one identify people who want to quit, but have not found the new opportunity yet? They can often bring a bad energy(eg not giving full effort to job).
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In Pythagorean tuning, D sharp is slightly higher in pitch than Eb.
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No Eb is a huge red flag and suggests the creator plays a well-tempered tuned instrument like piano. D sharp is slightly higher in pitch than Eb in Pythagorean tuning.
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A person sitting on a chair alone staring blankly would be considered a sociopath these days.
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If somebody of Yihui Xie's calibre got laid off, there's no hope for 99% of R programmers at Rstudio.
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I think one thing to keep in mind is that coming up with these differential equations is an art. Classically it's about balancing simplicity (for human understanding) and being able to recapitulate some of the dynamics of the system. R
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Problem is that the models of how parts connect in biology are mostly descriptive. However, try to use only words to describe how a circuit works that powers a radio, then use those words as a “model” to predict how a radio would work: you’
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I find it effective to break an old habit by establishing new ones. For example, the author probably had a bunch of old habits that got superseded once they got a smartphone. Need to find something else that can dominate over smartphone usa
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Here is one for piano https://www.thepianofiles.com/ And the famous is islmp for sheet music https://imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page
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Happy to see these efforts on more narrowly curated archives.
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Poor logic here. Listing examples of apparent order in universe does not prove that the universe is rational.
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For a small group messaging each other, at what point is simple SMS superior?
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Even scientists doing basic research need to “sell” their research proposals and papers to get them funded and published. Every piece of professional work has an intended audience, and that means selling to that audience. A work with no int
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Yeah, if one typed “YouTube downloaded cli” you the results the author was thinking. It seems like the author wants to search to read their kind without specifying what kind of YouTube downloaded they want
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I agree with the writer on current discussions on ambition and early career advice: they’re bland, abstract, and mostly focused on the “self”. It lacks a bigger picture of how a person should interact with their community. A more practical

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