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by nscalf 4y ago
Seems like quite a bit of cynicism here. You can be friends with people you work with, and you can remain friends after you leave. You also don't have to be, do whatever you want. The thing you can't disagree with is that you s
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by nscalf 4y ago
Not sure why you're getting downvoted, this is clearly correct. I still have many friends that I formed from working in the same office. For most American adults, the group you spend most of your time with is your coworkers. If you
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by nscalf 4y ago
I got an M1 for a recent job change, I've never interacted with one before that and my personal laptop was a relatively old macbook. The thing that amazed me the most was the speed. I would actually get confused because it did things
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by nscalf 4y ago
That’s why I specified world demographic decline. It’s hard for everyone to get large amounts of immigration when there are just less people immigrating each year.
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by nscalf 4y ago
More interesting that power and influence, which is an open question, is demographics. There is little to be done about shifting world demographics. Even if the us stays the premier world superpower, can that offset massive declines in the
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by nscalf 4y ago
My understanding was that this was one of the big competitive advantages for California. I could be totally off, but wasn’t a reason to work in California that you’re not getting stuck with hostile noncompetes?
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by nscalf 4y ago
Yeah, there are a lot of published studies showing this is very impactful. Within certain thresholds, losing weight has been shown to be the biggest change to all cause mortality rates. If you are obese, the most impactful thing on health
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by nscalf 4y ago
This was true before ChatGPT and the AI wave. Fundamentally what you described is how we interact with Google. It’s been a differentiator for many years.
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by nscalf 4y ago
Is it highly unethical? You're hired to do a job, if you can successfully do that job and another one, I don't think there is anything unethical about doing that. It's very common in lower wage positions, not sure why it&#x
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by nscalf 4y ago
I'm not sure that's what they were recommended. If you fix your diet, get to a healthy weight, and start weight lifting, all of the research I've seen suggests that will positively affect your free testosterone. That's
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by nscalf 4y ago
That seems like quite a lot to do. What I get from that advice is a recommendation to effectively change all of your lifestyle.
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by nscalf 4y ago
Society has a responsibility to step in and provide help to those who are so mentally ill they're going to end up homeless. Both for the individual, and society. If you're so mentally ill that you're choosing to end up in a
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by nscalf 4y ago
For what it's worth, all reasonable people in the crypto space want regulation to make sure these types of poor lending practices don't continue. Regulators have been slow and ineffective when it comes to crypto, which has lent i
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by nscalf 4y ago
Let me play devil's advocate here, I've known a number of law enforcement/military individuals and have asked them the same question. Here's the situation they paint to me. Imagine you have to go arrest someone, essent
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by nscalf 4y ago
Oh interesting, I kind of assumed it was investing just because it's easy to open a Coinbase account and buy $20 of Bitcoin. It's pretty involved to set up a wallet, send crypto, and then do something with it. Web3 is not partic
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by nscalf 4y ago
Polls have shown >20% of people have traded or used cryptocurrencies [1]. Clearly there are common people in the space. [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/31/cryptocurrency-news-21percen...
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by nscalf 4y ago
Ahh I wasn't aware of that, thanks!
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by nscalf 4y ago
There’s also no lack of buyers for stripe on secondary markets.
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by nscalf 4y ago
The obvious difference is that banks make at least the bare minimum effort to prevent being complicit (KYC). Ethereum validators do not, but there is the argument that there are not tools to effectively do that yet.
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by nscalf 4y ago
I can add some context here. MEV stands for maximum extractable value, it allows you to accept a higher fee to order transactions within a block. This isn't super valuable for most people, but in some cases it can be the difference b
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by nscalf 4y ago
A lot of companies that otherwise weren't going to IPO saw the opportunity to IPO and a marge larger multiple than they should have. That opportunity went away, so many of them also backed off. I worked at a company that was in this
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by nscalf 4y ago
I think that's true for some key components of the military, but for example, anything involving AI systems necessitate cutting edge chips. You can probably look to the effect chip shortages had on car manufacturers to see how much of
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by nscalf 4y ago
I agree that this isn't an indefinite problem, but the current state of affairs is that TSMC is irreplaceable on the world's fabrication scene. The military definitely has some need for cutting edge process nodes, though I can&#x
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by nscalf 4y ago
I don't know where you got the idea that the US will not go to war to protect the US economy, national security, or military capacity, but you are severely misunderstanding the situation. That is why the military exists. We spend the
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by nscalf 4y ago
I don't put them on my CV. I generally explain gaps on my resume as working on side projects or doing some consulting looking for a good long term fit.
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by nscalf 4y ago
If Taiwan is taken off the board for semiconductors, or if all semiconductors have to go through China, that means the entire US military (and all western militaries) are dependent on a geopolitical rival. To allow that would be nothing
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by nscalf 4y ago
How does it do little to diversify these fabs? The current situation is that if China invades Taiwan, the entire Western world is compelled to engage militarily over Taiwan's high end chip fabs. It cannot be overstated how much we de
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by nscalf 4y ago
The real problem here is that hiring is a giant pain for both sides. In an ideal world, you would quickly quit that job and hop to another. If you didn't do that, they would quickly hire you and both sides would move on without much
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by nscalf 4y ago
I don't find this particularly morally dubious. These companies are approaching monopoly powers and using it to squeeze consumers. Disney owns about 1/3 of all box office revenue. The government has shown they're unwilling
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by nscalf 4y ago
He put it on the blockchain to prove he knows the secret. Can’t be wrong, it’s immutable.

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