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by jshaqaw 7y ago
I am just starting to teach my young kids to code. I haven't found a better solution than old fashion BASIC for that stage when you graduate from Scratch but aren't ready to onboard lot of the complexity of a Python or Racket yet
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True. But lets take the alternative. If an asset like a loan or bond was non-transferable meaning once made you had to hold it to term no matter what then the price of that loan would be higher to compensate for the illiquidity. And from
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Companies that can productively reinvest capital at attractive rates of return get a strong valuation premium in the market. Every company would love to be in this position. Companies that can make a compelling case to shareholders for lo
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I appreciate the author raising the risks of cognitive enhancement in terms of a future where it is economically nonviable to opt-out. This is an interesting framing which I hadn't thought of before.
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I meant that C suite folks see McKinsey Directors as people at their level of judgement and skill who they can talk to in an open and honest manner to get advice. I’m not saying this is good/bad or right/wrong. Lots of CEOs want a
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By the way, this is not to denigrate the analysts at McKinsey who were in my time typically very smart, nice, hardworking, etc... They performed an important data gathering function. But the bill for their time has the sort of relationship
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Former McKinseyite here (and one reasonably skeptical of the firm as a whole)... nobody hires McKinsey for fresh college grads. That’s just something they tell fresh top of class Ivy League college grads to make them feel important. Clien
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I worked at McKinsey a while ago. I’m willing to bet this person was an Analyst (the recent college grads). Analysts were most likely to believe the firm’s marketing schpiel about how important they are in the world. In reality, McKinsey
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Hard to say. In 1960 classical computing would have seemed totally centralized and unattainable in distributed form for the masses. Who knows what the future may bring for quantum computing assuming there is actually a Conventional use case
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I suggest reading the J interpreter Whitney wrote in a weekend and reconsidering! https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Incunabulum
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If it was your loved one the victim of the 7x you would not think this was puritanical. The drunk driver has innocent victims beyond him or herself.
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Coordinating 435 people to get meaningful work done is really hard. Coordinating 30k would just transfer even more power to centralized coordinating structures like the parties without any corresponding increase in democratic representatio
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The end of the article where David is the pauper despite making half a million a year hit home. Perspectives get so warped around wealth. I once worked with a guy making $500k/year despite relatively low skills and education because
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Stadia interests me. I haven’t played games in a long time because dabbling back into them after decades I don’t want to make a major commitment to buy equipment and keep it up to cutting edge. Plus I really like my iPad form factor for gam
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Jealous!
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Can I ask what you do in your day job that you get to write Common Lisp?
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I absolutely agree. I’ve never had an actual use case which made sense for me to utilize J vs a conventional alternative but it is a blast and I too get pleasure from the “weird” in programming.
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To me it inspires supporting electrification of automobiles.
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I bought 1Password years ago but balked at a subscription (I pay for tons of subscription software products - this one just didn't feel worth it). Now I pretty much just use MacOS keychain. What am I missing that would lure me back?
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Probably just an unhealthy obsession with it at one point in my life. But I do think there have been some pretty major projects built with it when it was in its heyday a few decades ago. It’s definitely not just an academic toy.
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Buy one of these: https://www.dyalog.com/uploads/images/Business/products/us_r...
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by jshaqaw 7y ago
Fantastic article but... “ The implementation here is in LISP which is a great language to learn but in my experience a tough language to use on larger projects.” OBJECTION YOUR HONOR!!
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Because some people need them. Because adding $7000 per year is a straw which breaks a middle class family in the city. Because a vibrant city needs middle class families and wouldn’t work as just an enclave for the very rich, the very poor
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That’s what collective governance is. I live in NYC. I’m sure the bulk of my taxes subsidize some form of “those people” of whom I am not a part. It’s called a community. I don’t bike and yet I support I infrastructure for bikers. As for ca
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The Kindle isn’t perfect but it is a useful device which doesn’t feed the dopamine craving destruction of my attention span like my iOS devices. In many ways I’m grateful it is just reserved for the slow reading of real books and nothing el
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There were rumors around the Street a decade ago that Chavez in Venezuela was encouraging Bolivia to talk up a debt default, he then sold CDS protection against the debt at inflated prices, and then encouraged Bolivia to pay after all. Sadl
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Sort of. It sounds OK in pure theory. In practice when we end up loading the car to visit parents/grandparents for a week plus a dog in tow I’m not sure how we end up getting from our apartment door to the peripheral rental car zone wh
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I often wonder why people who write these things don’t start with donating the mass of their fortunes first. Benioff could donate 5b to address poverty causes and still have more than a billion left over for himself.
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I’m torn on the cars in Manhattan debate. I live my whole city life on public transport. I hate the pollution of cars and I hate how perilous it is for my kids to cross the streets. At the same time we sometimes do want to or have to trav
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I’m not sure how the math on gross income (which I assume you mean to be revenue) would work. Any business without insanely high gross margins would cease to exist. Could you explain?

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