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by lowdest 7y ago
More gin and tonic == less coronavirus. Got it. That's some specious logic I can get behind.
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by lowdest 7y ago
I've got friends in Wuhan, one is a nurse. I talk to them on FaceTime and WeChat. Does not seem overhyped to me. It's obviously not doomsday but it's not going to disappear silently either.
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by lowdest 7y ago
>They would go out of business in the first place paying for storage costs alone - let alone the access of everyone else to counter the rogue self-replicating. These things reduce the total number of paperclips produced, and therefore wo
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by lowdest 7y ago
15 is three whole weeks, not so bad. At some point my brainwashing was complete, now I'm on a race to accumulate maximum wealth before retirement. I spend a lot of my days off doing things that will increase earnings.
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by lowdest 7y ago
If you'd like to start with a furnished studio in berkeley, I know someone with a vacant unit.
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by lowdest 7y ago
$3500-4000 for a 1 bedroom is common, (I rent one) but it's also probably in a nice, modern, new-construction building. Mine is 15th floor with a view, so it's more than the bare necessities. Buildings like this have the best mark
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by lowdest 7y ago
Current recommendations on discussion boards for job seeking are to complete 300 medium-to-hard Leetcodes in the 60 days before your interview. This is up from 200 1-2 years ago. If you won't do it there are many others who will.
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by lowdest 7y ago
Wood engineered to not rot naturally would also have a market, in addition to sequestering carbon.
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by lowdest 7y ago
5% nominal returns, then ~2% inflation and income taxes on withdrawal. That's going to require a high savings rate.
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by lowdest 8y ago
Anyone who is surprised at this is either so wealthy they are out of touch or has not felt the creeping dread of an under-funded retirement account.
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by lowdest 8y ago
I spent 2-3 weeks going through all DP problems on leetcode after work. I got that Tetris-effect where I was starting to hallucinate/dream DP problems and solutions as I would fall asleep at night. I did this specifically for interview
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by lowdest 8y ago
The world is guaranteed to be terrible if educated, moral people slowly die off.
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by lowdest 8y ago
Isaac Arthur has a whole series of podcasts that cover all the current ideas around the Fermi paradox, which ones are more or less likely and why. Really interesting stuff. Here's a link to his Fermi Paradox playlist on Youtube: https
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by lowdest 8y ago
Right. One solution is to do buy crypto many years in advance, during good economic times. Whenever disaster strikes, it's best to have bought the insurance policy when the threat seems unlikely and far away rather than imminent. Admit
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by lowdest 8y ago
Consider a Venezuela scenario. Inflating currency and limits on currency conversion and transfer to prevent money escaping the border. With crypto your money is already across the border.
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by lowdest 8y ago
Succinctly, it's the same as telling a joke a second time to the same audience.
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by lowdest 8y ago
Recruit owns Indeed and Glassdoor, which are doing pretty well beyond Japan.
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by lowdest 8y ago
Kelly sizing is optimal long term, but is highly volatile. A common practice is to size by a fraction of Kelly, to reduce variance and since risk of ruin increases fast after 1.0 * Kelly. It also allows room for error in the probability pre
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by lowdest 8y ago
I've spent a huge amount of time playing with similar stuff. The goal is to predict anything that you can make money on -- this can be obviously be price, but you can also try volatility, or predicting a probability distribution. Try r
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by lowdest 8y ago
As I see it, the difficult algorithm interviews screen for people who are motivated enough to spend 100s of hours studying for an interview, or know this stuff for some other uncommon reason. Both types are acceptable hires.
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by lowdest 8y ago
>China’s use of cash rate is still much higher than the USA Is this regional, or perhaps urban vs rural? On my recent trip, I didn't see anyone using cash. Everyone used their phone. I bought coffee with cash at a Starbucks -- all t
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by lowdest 8y ago
I have an unusually vivid imagination I think, but I absolutely see things that I imagine. I can also hear improvised music, voices, almost whatever I want.
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by lowdest 8y ago
This is the truth.
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by lowdest 8y ago
>literally 20 or more cryptos available on coinbase False, there are exactly eight.
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by lowdest 8y ago
Yes, the underlying idea has always been sound enough to attract large investment without manipulation. Even if the legal and ethical true price is under $1000, that's still more natural growth than, say, an additional 20x added on by
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by lowdest 8y ago
Trees ultimately burn or rot, releasing a large portion of that carbon back into the atmosphere. Cutting them down and burying them to grow more would be ideal, but takes additional work. Someone want to engineer a tree with enormous, deep
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by lowdest 8y ago
I was fascinated by D&D rulebooks when I was a kid. The systems captured my imagination as much as the fantasy aspect. Because of that, my vocabulary included excellent words like "melee", "flail", and "barrage&
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by lowdest 8y ago
I believe the end of that joke is "they take them out and shoot them."
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by lowdest 8y ago
Puts and calls are the two types of options contracts. They are created and trade in a range around the current price. Typically, this range is wide enough that it covers all moves of the underlying stock price. In this case, the price move
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by lowdest 8y ago
https://oeis.org/ It's easy to accidentally spend an hour browsing sequences. One of my favorite things on the internet. If you're ever dealing with a sequence of numbers and wondering if there's an underlyin

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