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by kaashif 1y ago
50 levels deep? With some of the template metaprogramming I've seen, looking at just the types for just one level will not only fill your screen, but take up megabytes on disk...
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by kaashif 1y ago
All I know is if I sail on a ship and something goes wrong, I don't fall dozens of kilometers through clouds of sulphuric acid to my death. Not on the ships I've been going on, anyway.
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by kaashif 1y ago
It actually is hard for me to imagine that. I wouldn't want to live in a floating habitat held aloft by balloons. Maybe if I were a bird I'd be comfortable with it, but it's just disturbing. No solid ground...
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by kaashif 1y ago
I'm sure they do exist, but I need to see harder evidence of these skills. It's not enough that the person is correct in some predictions, they have to also make few mistakes. And the predictions must be objective and not vague or
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by kaashif 1y ago
If you're algo trading then yes, which is what the person you're replying to is talking about. But "finance" is very broad and covers very real and valuable work like making loans and insurance - be careful not to be too
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by kaashif 1y ago
Yeah, it's no indoor plumbing or fertilizer, that's for sure.
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by kaashif 1y ago
I find a progress bar for a top up much more stressful than just a counter of how much I've spent. Counting down to a deadline vs counting up to nothing. If it costs money and spending money is stressful, there has to be a cost somewhe
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by kaashif 2y ago
You can definitely make things better or worse for kids by choosing the rewards you give them. My parents would reward me by letting me pick out a book at the book store. I'd be excited the whole week. I may feel differently about read
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by kaashif 2y ago
Naively I would've thought that by making management huge shareholders, (most of) the agents then become principals. So when we talk about "the shareholders" we also include the CEO. I guess the argument here is that that act
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by kaashif 2y ago
If breaking Google up would be good for Google shareholders, surely the shareholders would have made it happen already, right? Unless the argument is that shareholders don't know what's good for them.
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by kaashif 2y ago
I used to feel insecure or jealous of the number of friends these people have, but years ago I realized that I would find their lives exhausting and terrible. And vice versa, they'd hate the amount of time I spend on my own doing stuff
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by kaashif 2y ago
Is there any way to put numbers to this success? As in, by what metric is Germany #3?
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by kaashif 2y ago
Dismantling the federal government by massively increasing the role of government in trade and imposing the biggest tax increase in a century? That doesn't sound right...
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by kaashif 2y ago
> None of the above makes any of the tools worth $30/mo per user. Are you sure? Doesn't the tool just have to save the user less than an hour a month for it to break even?
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by kaashif 2y ago
I was surprised because I thought the title meant they dropped support or something. Weird because I'd never heard of distributed DuckDB.
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by kaashif 2y ago
> We couldn't have had a worse hegemon. Saddening. The other candidates for hegemon are worse IMO. The Soviet Union could have conceivably replaced the US as hegemon, and China might yet do so. Maybe the EU would be a better hegemon
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by kaashif 2y ago
Yeah, it's very interesting. To me, this is like saying "why write a journal when AI can generate years worth of journal entries?" Not even coherent, really. That's not why I write at all. It's also not why I read.
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by kaashif 2y ago
I wonder how those managers can delegate, or how anything gets done in society at large, if independent decision making is considered insubordinate. Also, effective military decision making relies heavily on units on the ground being able t
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by kaashif 2y ago
Actually, real median personal income has increased 50% since 1975: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N I believe you may have seen some number somewhere, it would be useful to have that to silence detract
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by kaashif 2y ago
> The past 50 years has seen the hourly wage stay flat while the profit workers create is sucked up by the heirs. Are you sure? https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEFAINUSA672N The reality is that so much wealth has
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by kaashif 2y ago
> Why would someone who hates Python work on a Python project? I hate every language! For different reasons. But I still like programming.
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by kaashif 2y ago
I'm reading Accelerando right now and there's some unnecessary weird sex stuff at the start. Good book despite that though, some very interesting ideas.
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by kaashif 2y ago
You're talking about individual health. Regardless of what specifically makes a society healthy, a necessary condition is that it doesn't die out. A society with a 120 year life expectancy and 0 birth rate isn't healthy. A so
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by kaashif 2y ago
Also, people at NASA pronounce it two ways, even native speakers of English.
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by kaashif 2y ago
> We are the only creatures that can choose compassion over selfishness. You don't think orangutans or other intelligent apes can do this? There are lots of experiments and anecdotes you'd have to explain away.
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by kaashif 2y ago
Is your argument that Blue Origin could easily do what SpaceX does, but voluntarily chooses not to for some reason despite every incentive? Isn't a much simpler explanation that they can't? Elon hired the right people and let them
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by kaashif 2y ago
I believe slaves are usually not compensated for their work and cannot leave their jobs.
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by kaashif 2y ago
Write a job description. Now consider it from a perspective of someone who hates the job. They hate the job, right? This works for any job.
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by kaashif 2y ago
Can you give more information about what the stated purpose of the upgrade was? Surely they didn't actually tell you they wanted to brick your laptop remotely?
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by kaashif 2y ago
Equally, China has enough missiles to blockade Taiwan permanently. There's no reason for them to attempt an amphibious landing or anything insane like that. It's unclear to me what the US response would be in a blockade situation,

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