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by mwattsun 5y ago
the article mentions at least 1 lawsuit by a low caste engineer against upper caste managers in sv
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I'm talking about 3 ppl in a 1 bdrm apt, not 3 bdrm apts
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It wasn't until I retired from the tech industry and drove Uber and delivered Uber Eats for something to do that I realized how many Indian and Chinese engineers are in Silicon Valley. Huge 6 story apartment buildings covering a city b
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Same here. I was 9. For me, the worst part is all my favorite clothes and shoes burned up, so #11, but add shopping with the kids. It sucks to have to go to school in 2nd hand donated clothes. Other than that, it was fine. We stayed in a ho
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Buy and hold is a good strategy if you never need to touch the money. However, life happens and I got divorced, so I had to hold on to my profits or be left with nothing. It's yet to be determined if a buy and hold strategy is a good o
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by mwattsun 5y ago
It's a rule of mine to avoid any financial area that looks, acts, and talks like a mania after reading Charles Mackay's "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841)," which I discovered at random in
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New Thinking Allowed, Jeffrey Mishlove: The Mind and Brain with Nicolas Rouleau(youtube.com)
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I saved this link so I can go visit the parrots
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That's the rant the came to my mind as well
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I agree with you that intelligence is inheritable. I was thinking about the development of that intelligence.
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Gladwell is making the case in his talk that Asians aren't better at math or are more intelligent. He speaks directly to your point: Westerners believe that you are born with math skills or you're not. Asians believe you can be go
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Malcolm Gladwell says it's often an accident of birth, circumstances and a system that provide fertile ground for achievement, a cultural belief system that encourages intellectual achievement or at least does not discourage it and mos
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My problem with Idiocracy is the assumption that working class and poor breed only more dumb people. This is untrue, as many of our brightest people came from humble backgrounds. The quote evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould is most kn
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javascript:(function(){var imgs=document.getElementsByTagName("img");for(var i=0;i<imgs.length;i++)imgs[i].style.visibility="hidden"}()); Source: Javascript bookmarklet to hide all images from current webpage? https:
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This is fascinating and I'm guessing part of the research to combat "the uncanny valley" that we've read so much about.
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Thread unrolled https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1475994609549557761.html Paper mentioned in the last tweet: The Unseen Fight: USAAF radio counter-measure operations in Europe, 1943 to 1945 by William Cahill https:&
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Heptabase: A note-taking tool for visual learning(heptabase.com)
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I agree. I don't like tipping or depending on tips.
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This is really nice. I was thinking about coding some generative art but after a short while it started feeling cold, unlike these nice landscapes. Use your favorite image search on "generative art" and you'll see that most l
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Had, because I wrecked it crossing the bridge over the mouth of the Columbia River (rain soaked bridges are extremely slick it turns out) I had a Ford Focus 2008 that got about 38 mpg. Maintenance costs are also a big expense if you keep ev
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I live in California where gas is expensive. I kept detailed records for a yr and half. I included all expenses (tires, etc...) and taxes, the depreciation on my car due to the extra miles and the time waiting for a ride (which wasn't
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I wondered if it was a test. I must have passed because they gave me a good tip.
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Uber started this sh*t that people don't need to tip, so I never got a lot of tips. Oh well, I wasn't doing it for the money.
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I'm single, live alone and have been retired voluntarily for about 2 1/2 years and can't say I've ever been bored or lonely. It's probably because I'm always curious and love to learn, and my spirituality is su
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I used to drive Uber and deliver Uber Eats for something to do in retirement. I don't know why, but it struck me funny that I delivered a bunch of smoothies to the Uber Palo Alto office. They tipped well.
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This is a long read but worth it. I don't like to only complain but praise too, so good on the writer Christopher Leonard. The part about low interest rates causing a farm land bubble in Kansas was enlightening. I lived through the ext
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It used to be a joke that married couples travelling would fight over maps. The man was always driving and the wife was always reading the large unwieldy paper map. The man would get mad about a woman's trouble reading the map. The wif
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I've enjoyed Google Maps for many years and never paid for it. Apple MapKit appears to be free. I improve the experience for others when I help improve the maps and in turn my experience is improved by the contributions of others. It&#
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Article is about public relations malfeasance in the Elizabeth Holmes case. The jury has been deliberating for four days https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theranos
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Financial Media Builds You Up and Tears You Down(finsquared.com)
2 points by mwattsun 5y ago|1 comments

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