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by oh_sigh 4y ago
Absolutely - my first job out of college I was making more than my mom and dad combined, and I still live a lifestyle more akin to what I was raised with out of choice, even though I have far more money accessible to me. I was writing C pro
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by oh_sigh 4y ago
I'm in pretty much the same boat as you(at least, for the first 4 paragraphs). I'm definitely under-leveled at a FANG. But I'm making hundreds of thousands of dollars per year, and working maybe 25-30 hours/week. Why wou
873.
by oh_sigh 4y ago
YouTube didn't produce the content(except sometimes when they do actually pay content creators), but they pay massive amounts(billions of dollars per year), not peanuts, to build the hosting and discovery infra that lets people get the
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by oh_sigh 4y ago
Not only inclusion, but other operators as well, such as negation, so you can say CanAccessAmericanSecrets = AllSREs - EmployeesInEnemyState (or whatever)
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by oh_sigh 4y ago
On top of the fact that Google has probably the most advanced AI R&D program in the world. When these tools are eventually deployable to the masses, Google will probably be the one doing it.
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by oh_sigh 4y ago
Notably, this ferry is driven on a chain which crossed the channel already. I suspect they would have gone for batteries if the route wasn't already anchored in
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by oh_sigh 4y ago
Bezos is wealthy simply because he owns a large chunk of Amazon. Because he started the company. He's only a billionaire because literally everyone in the world is willing to pay him a substantial piece of money for a tiny piece of the
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by oh_sigh 4y ago
Jerry famously hosed over the other primary cast members on residuals. Didn't matter much for elaine, but George and Kramer didn't come from a family of billionaires. Michael Jordan thought selling shoes was more important than ma
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by oh_sigh 4y ago
What does that have to do with SBF and others at FTX being Jews?
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by oh_sigh 4y ago
It's also extremely common for totally legit purposes as well. I have some money in fundrise(RE investing crowdfunding), and they have a number of subsidiaries for various reasons invisible to the end user until tax time.
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by oh_sigh 4y ago
"Voice not recognized. Releasing the robotic attack dogs"
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by oh_sigh 4y ago
In what model of Tesla are the updates automatic? I've always been prompted whether I want to install an update, or schedule it to be installed at some early hour in the morning. I'm also told about how long the update will take (
883.
by oh_sigh 4y ago
It's easily defensible - people in this society organize themselves into familial clans, which are viewed as the atomic unit of society. Individuals are more subatomic particles. That's not how we do it in the West generally, so y
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by oh_sigh 4y ago
The problem is...why couldn't he follow his own advice? Or, did his advice work great on him - but he was such a sad case that what we all saw of him was his best possible self?
885.
by oh_sigh 4y ago
Have you updated your camera app? When I point mine at a QR code of a URL a little bubble appears below it, which you can click on.
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by oh_sigh 4y ago
While I don't think blindly emulating successful people will necessarily make you successful, I am even more confident that taking life advice from an abusive alcoholic is an even worse idea.
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by oh_sigh 4y ago
I mean...I've been gainfully employed the entire time but am still here :) I was on HN long before I registered this username - in fact, I only registered this user after I noticed the quality of comments degrading (hence the name). Ma
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by oh_sigh 4y ago
Clicking through the usernames on the oldest threads, basically no one there then still posts on HN, most seemed to have dropped off around 2014 or before. I wonder what they're up to? Just lurking and not posting? Gave up on "the
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by oh_sigh 4y ago
Because there aren't enough qualified black people to hire, but that doesn't mean that black people don't exist. Look at some harrowing stats on who takes the AP CS exam: https://www.edweek.org/leadership&#x2F
890.
by oh_sigh 4y ago
Was this in America? Can you just do that, open a delivery restaurant on a whim? I'd imagine there would be all sorts of inspections and permits that would need to be acquired first before being able to sell one toasty sandwich.
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by oh_sigh 4y ago
I didn't read it as how to take down an outsider, because why would an outsider care how "they do things there"? If someone has a club where they only open doors with their left hand, it isn't particularly interesting to
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by oh_sigh 4y ago
Just to preemptively put this out there, based on the conspiracy theories I saw in previous threads about this, they didn't fire him because they want to keep their super intelligent AI under wraps, they fired him because he broke empl
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by oh_sigh 4y ago
This game is what got me addicted to programming, which basically set the course of my life since I've been doing it professionally for 20 years. I reimplemented a barebones version of it after studying qbasic for a while in an intro t
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by oh_sigh 4y ago
"Please stop mansplaining to me"
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by oh_sigh 4y ago
lol, thank you. I will admit my logic for searching for errors was to ctrl-f for "harb" and then see how many matches had "r" vs "i" as the next letter. I never really contemplated that someone would misspell i
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by oh_sigh 4y ago
That may be the official definition of gentrification, but in practice, you will be called a gentrifier if you move to a predominantly black neighborhood and have the same wealth as all of your black neighbors but are white instead of black
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by oh_sigh 4y ago
Especially when literally the exact opposite is viewed as racism too: white people moving to where black people live is deemed gentrification and also bad.
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by oh_sigh 4y ago
How many hours are you working that you can't shut off at 8:30PM until 7am? That's not normal.
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by oh_sigh 4y ago
> Imagine a headline like "Concentrated alcohol products cause vomiting in teenagers! It's not your parent's booze!" During the Gin Craze, sure: > It is with the deepest concern your committee observe the strong In
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by oh_sigh 4y ago
Where is it spelled incorrectly or inconsistently? I hate how much they used it in the article (20 times), already a kind of a funny word set up for semantic satiation - but I didn't notice those errors.

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