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by kaashif 4y ago
> Your downside is never capped, of course. Of course your downside is capped. You're never going to wake up one day and owe Microsoft a billion dollars. A real example of uncapped downside is when you sell call options on a stock,
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by kaashif 4y ago
I can get product market fit right now giving out cash on a street corner. It doesn't mean anything, and that obviously can't be what PMF means. If it's not profitable, it's not PMF.
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by kaashif 4y ago
Interesting question. At my old job a lot of people would let vacation days accumulate and since only a few days would carry over to the next year, lots of people "had" to "think of" a vacation towards the end of the yea
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by kaashif 4y ago
> GPT-3 doesn't want to solve your problems. It just wants to make you click on it. Surely GPT-3 doesn't "want" anything. It doesn't actually have desires, does it?
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by kaashif 4y ago
I disagree somewhat with what that guy said but your "counterpoint" is ridiculous. Bank deposits are yours! If the bank collapses and can't give them to you, there's FDIC insurance so the government will get you that mon
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by kaashif 4y ago
That's interesting. So if I set aside capital for loan losses, I get to claim that as a real loss right now and reduce my profit? So my tax bill goes down. If later on it turns out those loans really are repaid, do I then owe back taxe
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by kaashif 4y ago
On Windows, you don't really need to use Docker Desktop, I personally find it more convenient to run just plain old Docker in WSL. It's still a Linux VM, but you get more control over it. I never understood what the point of Docke
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by kaashif 4y ago
These "ChatGPT says" comments are terrible. It's not even true that tempered glass requires more force to break from one side, is it? Really low effort. Unless, I guess, the point is to showcase how some of the answers ChatGP
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by kaashif 4y ago
I think sexuality is different to violence. I've heard plenty of stories about people developing weird kinks from porn, or having to turn to weirder and weirder stuff to get off. But I haven't heard of any cases of video games tur
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by kaashif 4y ago
But wouldn't a scammer try to use plausible, real class action lawsuits to scam people? Or would a scammer use obviously fake class action lawsuits in order to filter for the stupidest people possible? Depends on how many people fall f
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by kaashif 4y ago
I think this is very interesting: > The working code for insertion of the check_invariants statements was a stroke of dumb luck after 15 hours, from one of the suggestions given by Github Copilot. GitHub Copilot coming in handy when docu
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by kaashif 4y ago
> 20ties Twentyties? Serious comment: some managers are addicted to empire-building and their status derives from the number of people they manage. Not how productive they actually are...
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by kaashif 4y ago
I'm saying local government is generally heavily influenced by local property investors and will thus try to block all development. You are right that NIMBYism isn't good for developing new housing, which is what JP Morgan is tryi
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by kaashif 4y ago
> Local government will not be able to compete. Local government is, by and large, NIMBY and thus on the side of the megalandlords. Local government does not compete with property investors, it is already controlled by them.
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by kaashif 4y ago
What exactly needs to be done with legislation? There should be a law to ensure you turn off the notifications on Facebook?
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by kaashif 4y ago
> "Sterile cast of workers" probably requires the least explanation of the metaphorical equivalents here. I mean, I disagree. Can you explain? Human workers aren't sterile, even if fertility rates aren't all that high
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by kaashif 4y ago
> Shipping things that could easily have been made local. Second order cost -- Environmental damage. One thing I'd like to mention is that sea shipping is actually very efficient, and the things being shipped usually have much more
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by kaashif 4y ago
But I don't think it's sad. The desire to have more for ourselves and our children (why else would they be talking about buying a family home?) is a large part of the reason why living standards keep rising. If everyone desires to
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by kaashif 4y ago
> They begin taking analysis in their 4th year, and it's offered only one semester a year! This is insane to me. In the UK about ten years ago, on literally the first day of my degree, my first class was real analysis. Yes, it was t
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by kaashif 4y ago
The fact that you have found a function of type () -> () is a proof that true implies true. This is the Curry-Howard isomorphism. Not a particularly interesting proof.
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by kaashif 4y ago
I don't understand this comment. Calculus as taught to mathematics undergrads is analysis, right? Where is calculus "often taught" without "theorems/proofs that are used to build up calculus"?
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by kaashif 4y ago
> I really cannot grasp the individualism about "I know how to write code, I deserve a better life than 95% of the population". You're missing something here. You can omit the first sentence. People already believe they de
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by kaashif 4y ago
I know a lot of founders whose companies are allegedly worth a lot on paper, but cash on hand is very limited. I wonder how the wealth tax actually works. Do I want people to invest in my company if that's just going to increase the va
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by kaashif 4y ago
I think being motivated by fear of being viewed as a failure can be very powerful and last far beyond school. It's unhealthy, but I get a great deal of satisfaction when I think about others seeing me as a success. And a great deal of
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by kaashif 4y ago
> I was compelled to ask chatgpt to write a letter for me, complaining that they never let me in on the (supposedly) profitable deals. Why? And why were you "compelled" to post it in a comment? I don't think the ChatGPT ou
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by kaashif 4y ago
I did some research and found that I was right. No-one's going to go after you. The problem is that you have to keep paying the fee to borrow shares, and you can never repay that loan because there are no shares available anywhere. See
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by kaashif 4y ago
I'm not sure I understand - to sell short you already need to borrow securities, can you actually take loans against a short position that becomes worth something? That's interesting.
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by kaashif 4y ago
If the company actually goes bankrupt and their stock is delisted from exchanges, covering your position becomes much harder since liquidity is greatly reduced. I think the ideal scenario for a short seller is if the stock loses 99%, stays
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by kaashif 4y ago
Playing a competitive game like League of Legends at a high level for 12 hours a day while engaging/entertaining viewers is more stressful and mentally taxing than most software engineering jobs. And the median streamer isn't paid
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by kaashif 4y ago
This is true. Founding a startup probably makes one more employable for more jobs than training for tennis every day.

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