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by logicx24 6y ago
Wow, this is a great idea. I recently worked on a team building streaming data pipelines, and we built a bespoke system to do exactly this: end-to-end test our software. We had past messages written to a >300TB sharded file, and wrote a
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by logicx24 6y ago
I'm probably not up for a move to the UK, but if you don't mind, could you tell us a bit more about your job? What sort of projects have you been able to work on? What's the work culture like? Do you find the actual technical
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by logicx24 6y ago
Early Google engineers are either not billionaires or became executives, divorced from architecture, long ago. Otherwise, I think becoming a billionaire while purely working on software is extremely unlikely, bordering on impossible. Billio
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by logicx24 6y ago
There hasn't been a regression, but priorities changed. NASA is a government agency and is thus subject to politics. But make no mistake, we are ahead of where we were in the 1960's, both technologically and organizationally (i.e.
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by logicx24 6y ago
Not sure about that. I got started in Notion by looking at the initial database they set up and modifying it to handle the use-case I was imagining. It was more effective than any tutorial would have been at helping me learn the product.
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A Nation of Gamblers: Real Estate Speculation and American History (Summary)(notion.so)
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by logicx24 7y ago
The spice must flow.
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by logicx24 7y ago
A more common case for preserving wealth on emigration is actually South Africa. Many reasonably prosperous South Africans that emigrated used Bitcoin to bypass SA's strict capital flight restrictions.
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by logicx24 7y ago
Agreed, that book was fantastic. Detailed but also very entertaining.
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by logicx24 7y ago
This works in some fields, like software, which are based on measurable skills that can be directly taught. And we see it already with bootcamps and MOOCs (though these will need reinterpretation for real success). However, in many other fi
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by logicx24 7y ago
What would (1) look like in the context of education? What exactly do you mean by externalities? Otherwise yes, I agree that the ideal solution would be to provide compelling alternatives at lower cost. The issue is, we've seen this fa
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by logicx24 7y ago
Game theory is a useful framework for this problem in the sense that almost any double-sided market can be trivially formulated into a game-theoretic framework. But viewing college admissions as a Nash equilibrium doesn't meaningfully
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by logicx24 7y ago
I mentioned this below, but if the test is a perfect predictor of future success, then the people that perform well on it are absolutely worthy of college admissions, and there should be no further analysis required. If the test is perfect,
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by logicx24 7y ago
Then wealthy people show more "merit" and the test is working as designed. If the test is an accurate predictor of success in college and success thereafter (which is a big if), then that people who do well on it are more deservi
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by logicx24 7y ago
This, like every other similar attempt made to "equalize" the SAT, is misguided and will accomplish little. If the SAT correlates too strongly with wealth, then Collegeboard should make a better test. Make one that changes signifi
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by logicx24 7y ago
Exactly. It's a complete mischaracterization to call every stock market boom and bust cycle a result of "greed," and yet people refuse to stop doing so. I guess it creates a sense of moral outrage, and makes readers feel righ
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by logicx24 7y ago
I agree with you. Money can't create happiness on its own, but as a reasonably happy person, I'd much prefer to have more money than less.
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by logicx24 7y ago
Listening to Illmatic also describes this experience really well. I hate commenting on the "authenticity" of gangster rap music, as my life is so incredibly far away from the things they discuss, but Nas gives some of the gritties
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by logicx24 7y ago
And a group of investors who don't complain about founders retaining majority voting power.
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by logicx24 7y ago
Indeed, it usually makes it worse.
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by logicx24 7y ago
San Francisco legislators' complete inability to understand economics never fails to amaze me. There are twenty different taxes and bonds proposed every single year by the city to "build affordable housing." And every year, t
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by logicx24 7y ago
In one sense, electric vehicle manufacturers are getting a bonus via the tax credit.
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by logicx24 7y ago
This is a problem of poor infrastructure and corruption. Many of these resource-rich countries are politically unstable and lack the infrastructure to attract legitimate foreign investment. The regulatory framework is also broken, making it
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by logicx24 8y ago
So the largest problem here is the lack of competitiveness of Italian exports on the global market. That's creating a vicious cycle, where poorly performing exports depress wages and internal demand, leading the country to depend furth
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by logicx24 8y ago
I think now is the best time to step away, so that people know exactly who's in charge at a time of supposed crisis.
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by logicx24 8y ago
Bottled water is back, and has been back for a while :) That said, I agree. I think a wider town hall on all of Alphabet would be great, and would help employees see how all the pieces fit into a larger strategy.
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by logicx24 8y ago
Sigh. I work at Google, and this is vastly overblown. Larry and Sergey don't work at Google anymore. They're much more laissez-faire, working on special projects across Alphabet. They don't make most of the decisions that eff
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by logicx24 8y ago
Building name recognition and improving their brand. I think in the last ten years, colleges have seen that MOOCS don't reduce the demand for the traditional college experience, and have realized that creating their own MOOCS is actual
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by logicx24 8y ago
Essentially. I'm not endorsing it, but Uber's strategy is the classic monopoly strategy. It reminds of nothing more than Standard Oil giving it's competitors a "good sweating."
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by logicx24 8y ago
Uber's strategy right now is to maximize horizontal integration across as many markets as possible. They're leveraging cheap credit and an infusion of private money (mainly from Middle Eastern investors looking to diversify their

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