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by mjfl 4y ago
Can you tell a field that either Ed Witten or Terrance Tao knows a significant amount about outside their field of specialization? And don't say math for Ed Witten because his field is mathematical physics.
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by mjfl 4y ago
People love self-study materials, but do you really have the time to absorb it? Yeah you could do this stuff every day after work, but then you may not go to the gym, go on that date, etc... Not enough time in the world to go through even a
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by mjfl 4y ago
it doesn't have to be a lie if you make it real.
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by mjfl 4y ago
Don't say you were laid off, say you left the job to start a new web site, but it's not working out financially. And obviously have a small website ready with a reasonable sounding business idea. It is totally reasonable for count
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by mjfl 4y ago
shouldn't that trend have reversed in the past year as coming in to the office is emphasized?
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by mjfl 4y ago
So there should be a lot of housing available? Or is it just young people looking for homes moving out?
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by mjfl 4y ago
> US intelligence agencies by law do not operate within the US. An unbelievably naive statement.
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by mjfl 4y ago
wasn't 'Russia meddling' a planted story by US domestic intelligence, as has come to light in the Twitter files?
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by mjfl 4y ago
No. All speech should be free.
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by mjfl 4y ago
The parent comment was a little misleading. In the US there is a ton of sports available for every student to join. Really the only people who don't play sports are those who don't want to.
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by mjfl 4y ago
2 balloons
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by mjfl 4y ago
The whole idea of being drunk and getting in a car with the intention of driving as fast as possible seems so stupid that I've never in my life even had the smidgen of a thought to do it, even if especially drunk. People really do have
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by mjfl 4y ago
No peasants allowed, for sure.
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by mjfl 4y ago
Gwynne calls the shots because Elon put her there. "Surely this next success is ALSO due to luck" - the loser comforts themself on the sidelines. "Surely, this is simply the 14th time they have gotten incredibly, improbably l
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by mjfl 4y ago
> Innovation rapidly plateaus. Yeah when I think of innovation I think of Twitter, and when I think of stagnation, I think of Elon Musk - the guy with the rocket company /s.
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by mjfl 4y ago
After hours trading is often a mirage.
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by mjfl 4y ago
He called it wrong. VR is not the platform of the future. People don't want to be strapped into a VR headset all day. They don't want to live in a universe run by Mark Zuckerberg either.
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by mjfl 4y ago
or did Jeff Immelt squander it? It took almost 20 years for GE to fall apart, after all. I think that's more likely. At the end of Jack's tenure, GE was one of the biggest, most profitable companies in the world.
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by mjfl 4y ago
In Jack Welch's words, it's more merciful to do this, than keep someone around for a decade, and then suddenly fire them (because their performance has been terrible, below 10th percentile, for 10 years). It allows them to find a
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by mjfl 4y ago
If you look at the headcount growth chart, it looks like they just didn't overhire in the first place.
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by mjfl 4y ago
I always wonder what books there are out there, that are very interesting, with no English translation. Must be a lot of them.
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by mjfl 4y ago
you could have met any of Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, or Warren Buffet, and come away like "what a bad car. what a loser."
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by mjfl 4y ago
Protip: If you meet me, do not "size up" my wife. This is homeless-man tier advice.
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by mjfl 4y ago
5% layoffs? Gammannnn....
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by mjfl 4y ago
what are they gonna do, arrest me?
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by mjfl 4y ago
kind of makes sense that people don't want random corpses floating around.
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by mjfl 4y ago
For the derivative, shouldn't there be some notion of continuum, of a limiting process to define a slope at a particular point? Otherwise this is just a delta is it not?
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by mjfl 4y ago
Semiconductors are a low margin business. There's a reason why it's not in the USA anymore, even though it started in the USA, and it's not the lack of smart people - the profits were competed away. Now the profits are in des
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by mjfl 4y ago
I once heard Slavoj Zizek talk about Buddhism and he emphasized how it can kind of be psychopathic in a way - "I am emotionally detached from stabbing you in the throat, it is not anything more than atoms in my body carrying out their
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by mjfl 4y ago
What this says is that investors in these companies, the ownership in general, are lax and inactive - passive that is. Because every dollar an 'excess' management person puts in their pocket technically should have gone into an in

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