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by j7ake 4y ago
The benefit of Japan, Singapore, South Korea is that they are countries in Asia that have historically been supported by the West. Practically, it means they enjoy easy access to Europe, North America, as well as Asia with little trouble.
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by j7ake 4y ago
Adobe, Microsoft teams, Citrix
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by j7ake 4y ago
> came up with a plan to take two months off completely, one month to interview, and the fourth month would be a buffer in case interviewing would take longer than I had anticipated. Maybe I’m conservative but I would have immediately lo
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by j7ake 4y ago
Are there any entrepreneurial professions that do not have this winner take all dynamic ? The only ones I can think of are professions with some physical constraints. Eg where the product requires the professional to be physically present.
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by j7ake 4y ago
Your family owned four cars before you sold one off ? Outside of North America that would be considered a lot of cars. Maybe I misunderstood and you meant you had two cars and now you have one.
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by j7ake 4y ago
“Don’t talk to strangers” isn’t precise enough. It’s perfectly fine for kids to approach strangers and talk to them. But if a stranger approaches a kid, the kid should be on the defensive side, since it’s more likely the stranger is a bad a
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by j7ake 4y ago
The gene machine (centres around nobel prize winning discovery of ribosome structure) Time love memory: influence of genes on time keeping, mating, neurobiology.
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by j7ake 4y ago
Factually untrue regarding no diving. The ref gave a yellow card to France for diving in the penalty box.
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by j7ake 4y ago
Apple notes is good enough for me. Can Obsidian users defend why not simply use Apple notes ? Learning curve and friction way lower
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by j7ake 4y ago
20m is a small fraction of the billions that disappeared because of SBF.
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by j7ake 4y ago
> For most my friends, the question they pose is what is the benefit of marriage? Marriage helps to raise kids … isn’t that the answer ?
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by j7ake 4y ago
“Austrian employers, like those in America, are currently having difficulty hiring people to take hard, poorly paid jobs” Maybe make those jobs less poorly paid ?
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by j7ake 4y ago
Being too lazy seems like a waste of potential. Not being lazy enough is also not good; you burn out or lose perspective.
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by j7ake 4y ago
Also the abundance and instance satisfaction of many things makes the thing itself less satisfying. A kid loves Christmas because of the presents, ritual, food. But if you made every day like Christmas, it wouldn’t make the kid happier over
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by j7ake 4y ago
You are your own boss. You could work from home away from the office four days a week.
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by j7ake 4y ago
Reading something dry and technical puts me right to sleep.
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by j7ake 4y ago
I had to guess because one of the three flop cards were uniformative
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by j7ake 4y ago
I remember reading an old Cracked article describing how expensive it was to be poor. Eg overdraft fees, bad quality goods, no access to proper healthcare…
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by j7ake 4y ago
Perhaps I would add also these distributions are high dimensional. Although being slightly above average is not difficult (unlikely to get paid doing it), if you can find a handful of non correlated features at which you are above average,
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by j7ake 4y ago
Because many people think DL is overhyped as an automatic solver of all problems.
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by j7ake 4y ago
You can use the standard Euler method with very small delta T.
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by j7ake 4y ago
I find Dropbox to have much less friction (almost zero) compared to git. In the teams with nontechnical people it is often enough to just use Dropbox. Git requires manually committing, which is friction and people often forget to commit cha
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by j7ake 4y ago
Brilliant synthesis of the problem and why it was difficult. My feeling is that Carmack is really good at speeding up important parts of video game performance to achieve qualitatively different gaming experience. Sometimes I wonder if Carm
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by j7ake 4y ago
How is killing time on Tetris on Nokia any different than Candy crush or browsing hackernews on iPhone? At least with iPhone I can load up hundreds of ebooks to read and choose how I spend my time.
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by j7ake 4y ago
Genomics is still predominantly a research field. In research, software development and hence software engineers are not valued much, because technologies change rapidly, new ideas come every day, so it is about being able to hack together
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by j7ake 4y ago
I think these exposures and bad practices are fine as long as the ones who broke laws get served justice. The worst is seeing white collar crime get let off easy while the man who steals from a bank goes to jail for long time.
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by j7ake 4y ago
I did a PhD and it completely changed my trajectory in life. I would maybe compare the academic path to more like a start up life : most fail, but you will learn a lot and you will be in charge of your own destiny. Of course the pay and liv
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by j7ake 4y ago
If you like working late and on weekends, then do something like a startup where you’re rewarded for your productivity (in very nonlinear ways). As an employee there is no gain in working late or weekends.
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by j7ake 4y ago
When you’re like Wolfram, where you are head of a 800-employee organisation, profitable from real users, and have a long road map of where you want to take your product, then work is essentially infinite and energising. When you get to lead
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by j7ake 4y ago
Disregard others is a high risk high reward move. And doing it too much would ruin your career. Most of the time, listening to others can avoid your stumbling into dead ends, reinventing the wheel, or losing touch with important problems. O

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