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by opportune 3y ago
Good take. Just want to add that the problem is “how long things will take” is always a guess when formulated as a single number or date and in reality something more like a probability distribution subject to many foreseen and unforeseen f
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by opportune 3y ago
Yeah. It’s the bullying feedback loop - there would be no point in bullying someone if you didn’t get a reaction out of them. If you reliably freak out in a grandiose way you’re just reinforcing yourself as a good bullying target by providi
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by opportune 3y ago
If you want to preserve it, you should buy it. From my perspective, too many people in this country are exerting preferences on historicity/neighborhood character/style to the severe material detriment of others.
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by opportune 3y ago
My impression is that’s only one half of the story. If you look at some of the subreddits where he’s mentioned he’s basically turned into a lolcow. Lolcows are essentially terminally online people that are made fun of (up to cyber bullying,
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by opportune 3y ago
One day we’ll collectively realize how damaging constant access to “news” (in the modern day, engagement-optimized despair/outrage/fear porn) is on our mental health. Until then we’ll never be able to square the circle of how thin
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by opportune 3y ago
Banks these days often don’t hold on to those mortgages though. They can repackage them as securities like MBS and sell them to entities like pension funds. This type of thing is exactly how the GFC started
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by opportune 3y ago
Ignorant American here. Isn’t Hong Kong supposed to be the HQ/money exit point for Chinese organized crime? And HSBC is the main bank there, but headquartered in the UK? If I had to guess they are heavily involved with spooks and forei
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by opportune 3y ago
Thanks for the warning. My male cousin tried playing on Lichess once. She now wears knee-high socks and listens to catgirl-emo music while puffing “the reefer” and praying to Karl Marx
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by opportune 3y ago
I like him because he is outspoken rather than because he is edgy. I don’t know how amenable he was to his arguments possibly being incorrect, but I love working with/knowing people who are that combination of outspoken and not-overly-
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by opportune 3y ago
It also took me 5 years to recover from a bad trip - I believe it was so traumatic that it gave me some form of PTSD. I had actually tripped several times before and also tried other psychedelics. Completely agree that online you are met wi
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by opportune 3y ago
Personally, I do not believe the benefits outweigh the risks unless you have cluster headaches or treatment resistant depression (without anxiety). Most of what people consider to be “profound” during tripping is just the drug making you th
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by opportune 3y ago
This is such a great succinct summation of my feelings on “psychedelic culture” as someone who has actually participated. It drives me crazy when people act like psychedelics open a window into deep spiritual truths and that taking them mak
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by opportune 3y ago
Conversely, I grew quickly over the pandemic because using a lot of written communication played to my strengths. I never learned much from my seniors. Being remote made it so I could create a working environment more conducive to concentra
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by opportune 3y ago
I think it depends on your colleagues and workplace. Most of my coworkers that go into the office are too shy and quiet for it to help much. My company also doesn’t really lend itself to collaboration so much as delegation or being delegate
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by opportune 3y ago
I have met many otherwise very intelligent people who get caught up in the coolness of the concept and technology without recognizing how efficient regular mechanized farming already is.
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by opportune 3y ago
This article is trying too hard to be intellectual and incorporate artsy prose. A lot of it is just nonsensical or self-contradictory. Basically the author is self-aware that others’ preferences and economic conditions have led to a built e
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by opportune 3y ago
Completely agree with this. Did you work at Google? Let me explain this a little more in concrete terms: are you passionate about what you do? Do you have pride in your work and want to create great, valuable (to users of course, but also p
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by opportune 3y ago
I’m biased, as I am guessing you are too, but there is at least some innovation in infrastructure at Google outside of search and ads. Spanner, Borg/Kubernetes/GKE, PAAS, BigQuery and the successive internal query systems just to
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by opportune 3y ago
Yes, regarding the metaverse it is. But I think even if they weren’t trying to get into VR they’d be doing the same thing. The existence of other tech companies with massive margins and employee headcount impacts Meta’s bottom line, because
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by opportune 3y ago
Isn’t it obvious to anybody paying attention what their actual strategy is? They know they probably won’t “win” a commercial AI race vs OpenAI or Google, and presuming some other company does win the commercial AI market with closed source
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by opportune 3y ago
Their forum has a nice UI too. Big tech companies have “public Q/A”/“knowledge base” forums for this kind of stuff that usually have terrible design. This is more appropriately dense and easy to navigate. Nice job.
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by opportune 3y ago
Welcome to government in the South It’s hard to understand the mindset of casual incompetence and corruption if you’re not from there. Local government runs on nepotism and good ol boys networks - it’s such a standard ingrained practice tha
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by opportune 3y ago
And to further explain, if you don’t increase your near-term profits/shift priorities from future growth to present returns as interest rates increase, under the discounted FCF model your current value decreases. AKA the price of the s
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by opportune 3y ago
You’re probably right in general. But I was lucky enough to have some great middle managers during COVID who definitely had their fingers on the pulse of what was going on, clearly communicated goals and strategy, actually understood how th
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by opportune 3y ago
That sounds great. I think I’d love something like that if, during in-office week, it was more than just half my immediate team that showed up. I think one reason this isn’t more popular is that it’s harder for parents to plan around. Most
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by opportune 3y ago
Yeah. My company is in principle set 2, in practice set 1. But even so, I’m on a team where almost half of us are fully remote or working out of other offices and so don’t go in on our “dedicated in office days”. I stopped going in on those
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by opportune 3y ago
Definitely feeling this at another FAANG I think there’s something about post-pandemic work in software that just isn’t working. I don’t think it’s just interest rates or a hiring downturn, nor immediate causes like founders leaving (becaus
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by opportune 3y ago
Basically I’m optimizing for viral growth, otherwise the business probably isn’t worth it. I haven’t launched yet but I estimate that at 100k DAU vertical scaling/using a single instance would become a nightmare because of throughput a
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by opportune 3y ago
To elaborate, I’m using managed databases that abstract away scaling so that my UX as a developer is that they are scaling horizontally (in data, and cost). While I’m pre-launch and doing testing, using a more traditional vertical model is
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by opportune 3y ago
As someone bootstrapping a business, my cost structure favors horizontally scaling databases with low/no fixed overhead vs vertically scaling databases with high overhead. And I don’t think this is exactly an uncommon situation - plent

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