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by meric 9y ago
It's my philosophy - if our ancestors were strongly religious, it was because it was necessary for survival. If they were attached to particular religious theory for a long period of time it's because that particular theory held s
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People preferred religious philosophy as a framework to model the universe because it has proven to hold families and villages together for thousands of years. The non-religious philosophy - in those times there was no scientific method and
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There's a reason religious philosophy took precedence over "scientific" thought in those times. And it wasn't because people were dumb.
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The problem is we are voting for people while imagining ourselves voting for policies.
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When a large market order come in, if it looks like it will move the price by more than a certain percentage, warn the seller there isn't enough depth to support his order. And circuit breakers.
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They are on your side if you are on the company's side. E.g. sorting out equipment issues, leave requests, forms, etc. If the on-boarding process is little to non-existent, the HR might be someone who takes care of you during the first
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by meric 9y ago
Is this satire? "I feel that my manager is dark triad. I am a bit narcissistic too. " "What are dark triad ways and covert psychology techniques I can use to move up?" It sounds you are projecting onto your manager.
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How far could the star have travelled in 200 million years? I find it hard to think it could be more than a dozen light years away. And the list of stars within, say, 20 light years, is finite.
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When I was young I overvalued what other people thought. I did things because society says it's good if you do them. Now years later I regret it. On the flip side I undervalued the development of my own thinking. These days I think oth
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"Assuming each amount of change between 0 and 499 is equally likely" Yes.
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Philanthropy has a net benefit to the world if it can re-allocate labor, capital allocated to unproductive activities to activities which are perceived to improve the human experience. If the philanthropy is spent on re-allocating labor, ca
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None of that has anything to do with "Pay back for humiliation in the 1800's". What you've described is actions of the Chinese government, I don't believe for one second Chinese people support all these actions - I
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"I have spent lots of time in China. They still want payback for the humiliation they believe they endured in the 1800s." "What I was trying to say is that my opinion is not informed based on what I have read in the press but
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Well, for one, I am Chinese. My parents are Chinese, so are my grandparents, and their grandparents. I've listened to my grandmother talk about her grandparents, who are from the 1800's. Of course we're drawn to movies and bo
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I've spent a lot of time in country X. They all want Y. Okay. That's the kind of crap that was in the 1800's, that's still in the 2010's, unfortunately. Your words sound like something from a grown up bully jealous
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You can take a break by looking up the next ticket.
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Chinese money laundering. Buy $X mining equipment, mine $X-Y bitcoin, move funds out of China.
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Arguably supporting Trump is anti mainstream.
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Not trying to defend Putin here, but Obama has sanctioned assassinations too, perhaps you can drop that tidbit next time to make a more persuasive argument.
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Most of the money printed is also after 1990.
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Maybe it's slow trying to pull the A/B testing configuration.
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That's interesting. When I'm working on a side project I tried to keep quiet about it until I get some progress going, in case the idea "exits", but maybe it's good idea to tell about it as soon as possible instead.
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I wonder if it's a front from a trading company and they look for hires there.
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Someone who appear brain dead at first glance, their family might be pressured to turn off life support to take out the organs, to give to another person in the same hospital. If that first glance was mistaken and the person was in a coma t
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It's good for getting interviews I think. Most people inviting me to interviews bring up my Github and it gets mentioned in beginning of interviews frequently than not. It's a good "opening salvo". It's a positive i
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Kagame looks like a solid leader.
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You have had good practice at doing this sort of thing, it was a good opportunity you can practice it at this company even with no previous experience. Now that you know more about how to do it, change jobs to do it at a place you will be p
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Looks like many of the keywords you can buy Ads for are underpriced. To advertise for a keyword you need to build can "relevant" to that keyword. It takes time for legitimate app developers to build apps to take advantage of those
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I iterate code like he does, then when it gets to where it's doing what I want it to do, I refactor it to make it more readable even if it reduces iterability. After the initial phase of writing the code, going back and forth, etc, the
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Prompted by the November 22, 2016, break-down of Zumwalt in the Panama Canal with both propellers seized, Mike Fredenburg analyzed the program for the National Review and concluded that the ship's problems "are emblematic of a def

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