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by jongjong 2y ago
Yes, feels like the invisible hand selects people to get rich based on how unfulfillable they are and thus how likely they are to keep working after they get rich. I understand this serves an inflation control mechanism in our highly unequa
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by jongjong 2y ago
The high standards of those academic journals sound incredible in this day and age when media is full of misinformation and irrelevant information. The anecdote about the highly reputable journal rejecting the second of a 2-part paper which
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by jongjong 2y ago
I hope it's bad luck because I struggle to find what else to improve. I can launch high quality projects quickly and reliably and my main concern is product-market fit. I feel like I've tried everything and its opposite. Problem I
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by jongjong 2y ago
I never understood why anyone bothered with native apps. It defies reason why consumers would prefer to download some clunky app instead of just using it in their mobile browser with no strings attached. The main excuse I keep hearing are U
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by jongjong 2y ago
Yes, this is a plausible scenario. High-exposure tech industries tend to attract all sorts of government entities from across the world. I worked on a high exposure crypto project and witnessed everything from coercion to sabotage. You just
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by jongjong 2y ago
I also wouldn't trust anything related to big tech which happens in California. They basically own the place. I'm generally afraid of the US these days.
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by jongjong 2y ago
This is a great point. Most modern software is riddled with unnecessary complexity which adds mental load, forces you to learn new concepts that are equally complex or more complex than the logic which they claim to abstract away from. I fi
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by jongjong 2y ago
I had to move back to be closer to my parents in a town which doesn't value intellectual pursuits because I couldn't find a job in the tech sector in the big city after almost a year. This is in spite of having a long list of tech
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by jongjong 2y ago
It's hard to comprehend how much mental trauma someone must have gone through to be so unstable and violent. The range of human experiences is significant. Humans communicate using the same languages and same expressions but mentally,
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by jongjong 2y ago
The part about 'you guys' resonates. I teach an introductory coding class and found myself saying 'you guys' to a mixed-gender group and it didn't feel right. Especially given that there were a smaller number of wom
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by jongjong 2y ago
How are we supposed to know if someone in our network used the 'This is Your Digital Life app'? I feel like there is so much more behind this. Personally, I feel like I've been secretly blacklisted for 5 years straight. Even
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by jongjong 2y ago
You're leaving out the cost of getting caught with risk factored in. Also, if targeting small individuals, it's rarely one individual that's the issue, but a whole group. When Stalin or Hitler started systematically extermina
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by jongjong 2y ago
TBH, I'm kind of paranoid about CIA and FBI. Last time I travelled to the US on holiday, I was worried somebody would attempt to neutralize me because of my involvement in crypto. I don't think I have delusions of grandeur, I worr
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by jongjong 2y ago
Clearly there is a limit as to how different the engines can be in terms of size, weight, thrust, etc... Still if they want to add different engines, with different characteristics, they need to rerun all the calculations and tests to make
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by jongjong 2y ago
Replaceable at the design level. OMG. Why do I have to explain everything? Clearly I'm talking about blueprints here. Code is a blueprint since you can launch multiple processes/instances running the same code.
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Yes but the new parts meet the specs of the original design. The design itself isn't flexible. You can't make the engines significantly bigger without significantly revising the blueprint as a whole. That was the Boeing Max lesson
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by jongjong 2y ago
Forcing all clients to reload their code at the same time sounds like a bad idea. Allowing different clients to run different incompatible versions of the code at the same time also sounds like a bad idea. APIs are like database engines; th
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by jongjong 2y ago
We cannot have accurate information in a highly unequal, unjust society. Inequality requires a lot of misinformation to uphold; such amount of misinformation coming out of institutions will necessitate that people craft potent counter-narra
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by jongjong 2y ago
I suppose everyone assumes that being high profile and earning a multi-million dollar salary involves such risks naturally so it's not shocking when it happens. Why didn't he have security? In NYC? TBH, I'm kind of shocked it
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by jongjong 2y ago
Yeah but don't assume that because a lot of obvious scams got funding means that every legitimate project also got funding... It's not like the market 'ran out' of legit projects and people had no choice but to buy scams
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by jongjong 2y ago
When people invest in a scam, they 100% deserve to lose all the money they invested. People should suck it up. They have no one to blame but themselves. I joined a project which was legitimate at first and founders essentially gave up (brib
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by jongjong 2y ago
UUIDs are the best.
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by jongjong 2y ago
I only use a password manager on my work computer because my boss forces me to. I find your question more surprising! Why would you use a password manager voluntarily? It's a torture device. I use it because my paycheck depends on it.
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by jongjong 2y ago
My biggest pet peeve is when the platform forces me to add certain special characters to my password, then I need to write down my altered password and put it on a post-it note on my desk to remember it. My other pet peeve, with a password
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by jongjong 2y ago
What we need at this point is Universal Basic Income. If billionaires understood how UBI benefits THEM, for sure we'd already have it. What billionaires own today is essentially a piece of a giant debt-based economic sugar puff. UBI is
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by jongjong 2y ago
The bribe that keeps on bribin'...
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by jongjong 2y ago
>> Forget your hopes. They are what brought you here. Very funny. That's deep, dark humor. I see why it's called a comedy.
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by jongjong 2y ago
Definitely the case. Apologies if my comment is overly negative. I hope the next few decades will be better and that this was rock bottom. In any case, some people have had a great time in this industry even after 2010s but I think a larger
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by jongjong 2y ago
The part of the story suggesting that only the rich could afford fact checkers to understand reality is wrong because they won't know which fact checkers are good. At best, you can only hire fact checkers on the basis that they have co
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by jongjong 2y ago
A word of caution for highly intelligent but otherwise regular (not well connected) people. The software industry is the most manipulated industry on the planet and in human history. If you work on any significant, high exposure project, be

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