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by pcurve 4y ago
How well you do academically is influenced predominantly by genetics. It’s unfair to idolize these institution as something to aspire to and worship. Doing so is a gross misallocation of precious resources as a society. Instead they shoul
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by pcurve 4y ago
Thank you for the counterpoint. I think most adults can read other well enough to be able to start and continue conversation. And also pick appropriate time and place. (5 customers behind you? Keep the line moving.)
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by pcurve 4y ago
Did you have a lot of followers? Im guessing manual and auto moderation approach differ based on follower count?
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by pcurve 4y ago
Yep. With travel time to and from the airport the savings isn’t compelling
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by pcurve 4y ago
I think the progress is mainly limited by cost of fuel and sonic boom. But progress has been made in so many other areas. Planes are safer quieter lighter and more reliable. Some parts of computers also stopped progressing. For example
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by pcurve 4y ago
Reduction in installed sizes in something to celebrate. Makes you wonder how they cut it down from 20gb to 15 for laptop install
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by pcurve 4y ago
Very insightful. It corrected a lot of incorrect information I had on this issues. 1. Labor cost is an issue but at 530 per month as of 2020 Chinese mfr labor is still relatively cheap and only twice as expensive as India. 2. Sales in China
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by pcurve 4y ago
Can you tell us more about other aspects of your life that is causing difficulty? Also does the new job offer 9 to 5 schedule?
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by pcurve 4y ago
I’ve been on both side of the table and I understand the reluctance. It’s a way for employees to retain semblance of control even though it could appear misguided. Truth is, by the time the employee is ready to move on, it’s already too la
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by pcurve 4y ago
I never felt constrained or locked out even at office. I would go for a walk. I would space out at desk. I would chat with people. No one got offended. Of course it probably helped that mg boss was not in the same states.
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by pcurve 4y ago
Man I wish everyone did that. I managed a team of twenty with a layer of managers and it was just impossible to get a pulse on workload. The truth is there is always work to be done. It doesn’t have to be feature work but it could be prod
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by pcurve 4y ago
Very brave to list this. Does anyone you know it real life know about this ?
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by pcurve 4y ago
I wonder if average users would actually care about the selling points he is touting or even understand. How compelling is it for people to use? What’s going to make them migrate away ?
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by pcurve 4y ago
Good to see fellow old timer Mac user who has been supporting Apple since it’s system 7 era :) Colleagues in the 90s would joke “so when are you going to get a real computer?”
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by pcurve 4y ago
Can you cite the source? Is it not possible to improve the 40% rate by AI? Obviously someone eventually figured out the 100%
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by pcurve 4y ago
That's a fair point. I'm sure more experimentation and optimization in form factor will happen, depending on use case and settings. There's no need to engineer unnecessary humanoid qualities beyond what is necessary due to c
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by pcurve 4y ago
The copy heavy ad style also seemed to have influenced Korean PC magazine ads in 1980s https://www.comworld.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=48910 80s was really exciting time for PC because it was pre-mainstream. You
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by pcurve 4y ago
What a wonderful site. A lot more vintage apple ads https://aresluna.org/attached/computerhistory/ads/internatio... Love this particular one that talks about obtaining stock quote, make travel arrangement, an
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by pcurve 4y ago
With cost of lidar plummeting, I wonder how long it will be before Musk changes his mind.
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by pcurve 4y ago
"For every single tonne of cork produced we are talking about 73 tonnes of CO2 that are captured... 392g (13.8oz) of carbon is sequestered by every cork stopper" This might be an obvious point but it's not that cork material
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by pcurve 4y ago
I didn't realize Tmobile exceeded Verizon in market cap. wow. VZ has taken major beating in share price lately because of its high debt load. Looking at Tmobile's plan, https://www.t-mobile.com/cell-phone-plans I
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by pcurve 4y ago
"The bill ended AT&T's obligation to provide landline phone service to all state residents" All that for a $22,500 payment. Talk about leverage.
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by pcurve 4y ago
oh man, that mud crab video is wild! Looked into this more. "in aquaculture farms, post-nursery crabs reach marketable size and maturity in 6–7 months compared with 18–24 months under natural conditions"
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by pcurve 4y ago
That’s great. Frankly I have enough buffer that I want my next job to be interesting and fun even if it just pays half.
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by pcurve 4y ago
Managers are still so busy trying to fill open headcounts because it’s usually use it or lose it. But they know hiring freeze is coming
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by pcurve 4y ago
Hey, he/she figured it out. No need to lead :-)
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by pcurve 4y ago
I just resigned last week having worked at a big company for 18 years. They dangled sr. director title, but it was just not worth it in the end. I did so without any job lined up. I wanted a break. My former colleagues are reaching out to
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by pcurve 4y ago
It almost looks like a satire video
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by pcurve 4y ago
Good news is, IMF has a really lousy record of forecasting recession. https://www.ft.com/content/60581224-3335-11e8-b5bf-23cb17fd1... Bad news is, they always underestimated the recession.
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by pcurve 4y ago
1/3rd of a trillion now. There were months in 2016 where their stock price is higher than now.

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