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by meric 11y ago
>> 10-20% is a good benchmark, if you can do it. 5% is still good. I would say even if 10-20% is acceptably good by most people, don't limit yourself to 10-20%. If you can be comfortable saving 75%[1], and invest your savings int
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by meric 11y ago
Inheritance of genes separates life from chemistry. Inheritance of knowledge separates animals from plants and microorganisms. [1] Inheritance of capital separates humans from animals. [2] In the same way DNA is an integral part of life, an
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by meric 11y ago
In Australia, if you're married as an international student, you can bring your spouse, and he or she doesn't have to study and have the right to work full time. That makes it much more easier for both of them financially, individ
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by meric 11y ago
Sure, embed your encrypted messages in plain text or cat pictures using steganography. Assuming encrypted form of messages are uniformly distributed, how're they going to find out you're doing it unless you confess or they find wh
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by meric 11y ago
If you and your friend have previously exchanged public/private key pairs and used gmail to transfer encrypted messages, (which is what parent is referring to about providing service to only one part of the process) the government cann
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by meric 11y ago
Yes I composed all my essays in TextEdit in high school.
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by meric 11y ago
>> small government dogma I think a bigger military, bigger IRS, bigger police departments, bigger spy agencies, bigger BLM, bigger reserve banks will be a more toxic combination where the only winners are the rich. So no, you don&#x
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by meric 11y ago
`daw` will delete a word The equivalent in any Mac OS X text editor is: alt-left-shift-right-backspace.
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by meric 11y ago
>> I honestly don't know how people do without them I look for work and apartments within several minutes walk from a major train station. I can't imagine owning a car - the paperwork, regular checkups, constant looking for
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by meric 11y ago
I've always wondered how web non-contenteditable editors implement WYSIWYG. This is a good guide.
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by meric 11y ago
It looks like she hadn't been in many competitive environments vis-a-vis against men, so her first experiences were quite intimidating because she didn't understand their behaviour. It's less common for women to have a lot of
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by meric 11y ago
Good point - I haven't been in many situations where I had to compete with a woman directly. I suspect part of the reason why it's uncomfortable for women to break into software engineering is because it's mostly men. It&#x27
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by meric 11y ago
I felt as if I was welcomed because I was cute to keep around, not because there was any expectation of my doing useful, good work. It's hard to do the latter - I think I'd succumb to welcoming women in the workplace to avoid b
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by meric 11y ago
>> 5 in person interviews isn't that much It's not that little, either. Your parent comment has around the same number.
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by meric 11y ago
None of this has gotten me anywhere because I am not a 10x top 1% engineer who loves whiteboard coding sessions and brainteasers and wants to change the world by working 80 hours a week, rather a (slightly above) average one who can get th
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by meric 11y ago
The context of the comment is - Humans share 40% of DNA with a lot of plants.
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by meric 11y ago
Most people enjoy being content, fulfilled, and just being themselves. A tree is usually content to sit still most years. A rock, even more so. They sit there and are content and fulfilled. They're being themselves, without having to m
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by meric 11y ago
>> the feeling of a connection He's writing about the snail, and we, in replying, are all talking about the snail he's talking about. The snail made quite an impression. And he's more aware of the snail than he would b
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by meric 11y ago
The negative reddit comments were weird and does conform to his analysis there's a ring of people doing it.
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by meric 11y ago
Whatever happened behind the scenes in SV, Michael has given good advice over the years, and I'm grateful for it. I think I'd have been for the worse if I hadn't stumbled onto Michael's comments on the startup industry y
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by meric 11y ago
Tao Te Ching. A verse on how to rule. Rule a nation with justice. Wage war with surprise moves. Become master of the universe without striving. How do I know that this is so? Because of this! The more laws and restrictions there are, The p
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by meric 11y ago
Thanks for the trick. (Writing about the issue)
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by meric 11y ago
Government electronic surveillance was once a "conspiracy theory". I'm not comfortable with it being posed as a dirty word.
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by meric 11y ago
If the consumers are unemployed, where will they get the cash to buy the products? If they're not buying, from where do the producers find the consumers? EDIT: Fiction ahead: Companies automate to sell to consumers. Consumers are put o
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by meric 11y ago
Being a jerk is like being (and very correlated to) short volatility[1]. Most of the time it's profitable. Every once in a while the world goes upside down, all the jerks are rounded up, have their stuff confiscated, tortured, and kill
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by meric 11y ago
>> But he also mentioned that they already have investors. He's bluffing. The activity could be paid for. He wants to look strong, either to dissuade you from competing in the same market, or for you start negotiating with him,
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by meric 11y ago
You'd rather tell a disabled worker he is worse than useless because if he wanted to work he'd be displacing an able bodied person. If a disabled person wants to work despite being given benefits I think they should be allowed to.
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by meric 11y ago
You're getting 100k around 6 years sooner, and your degree postponed indefinitely. I did 5 year double degree in finance and software engineering finishing at 23. The education helped me gather $100+k by 26, (and looking like $200k by
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by meric 11y ago
That's like saying if you don't have a GPS the travelling salesmen problem isn't at least NP complete because you don't know what the weights are and every edge has a different weight, which would screw with your calcula
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by meric 11y ago
We have more of a chance solving complex problems better than AI, than if we were solving "simple" problems like chess, or even, Go. EDIT: Added rabbit ears for simple.

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