pendenthistory

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by pendenthistory 7mo ago
My biggest problem right now is thanks to Claude I'm making much faster progress on my passion project and I'm working in a maniac state almost, but then I remind myself that it's probably meaningless because if things progre
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by pendenthistory 8mo ago
I don't see how you can come to that conclusion if you've actually used e.g. Opus 4.6 on a hard problem. Either you're not using it, or you're not using it right. And I don't mean simple web dev stuff. In a few hour
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by pendenthistory 8mo ago
Cooling the planet is neither a technical nor financial problem. The problem is that environmentalists want this to be a moral issue. They already decided on the solution. If the solution is not environmental communism with them in power, t
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by pendenthistory 8mo ago
I would like a weekly physical Sunday paper with some general news and printed substack articles tailored to me.
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by pendenthistory 9mo ago
Interestingly, there seems to be more good will and amiable vibes between EU nationalities than within the US even. Even being enemies for a thousand years, I don't doubt that Swedish and Danish men would go to war for one another, or
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by pendenthistory 9mo ago
Trump not being a factor will help, but this whole ordeal shows that Europe cannot count on a reasonable person always being in power, and a single bad president can cause this level or mayhem. Even if the next administration backtracks on
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by pendenthistory 9mo ago
Knowing and acting on it will have grave consequences though. The US's main allies will stop buying American military equipment for one, trade will go down and the largest economic block in the world will align itself closer to China (
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by pendenthistory 9mo ago
Damn, that is an interesting point
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by pendenthistory 9mo ago
My problem is I have non-competes and clauses in my contract which makes it difficult to talk about and publish stuff that I might want to turn into a product. So I'm sort of in a catch 22. I want to talk about what I'm building b
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by pendenthistory 9mo ago
Will try it today with the kids! I thought of doing something like this, but maybe something more related to DnD.
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by pendenthistory 10mo ago
The US? My 2nd grader has one piece of homework per week, which takes about 10 minutes. If there was more I would tell the teacher to shove it. Instead I talk to my child. If he's interested we talk more about that, otherwise we switch
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by pendenthistory 10mo ago
These parents (who believe there is one path to future success) will be in for a rude awakening in the coming 10-20 years when all the traditional high-status career paths have dried up. Can they not see the writing on the wall? Not that I
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by pendenthistory 10mo ago
> our cultural and educational institutions—America’s soul—have succumbed to leftist rot Sure, let's examine this. Do you disagree that most organisations are extremely dominated by the left? Something like 90% of people in academia
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by pendenthistory 10mo ago
You are calling the majority of the US "far right". You're calling people fascist for voting republican. You are the extremist.
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by pendenthistory 10mo ago
Yeah, when you call half the US fascist and nazi there is not much we can talk about.
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by pendenthistory 10mo ago
It's also just common sense. Everyone agrees that traits like height is heritable, but somehow whatever goes on inside the brain is not? The null hypothesis here is that it is heritable, and I see no proof whatsoever against that hypot
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by pendenthistory 10mo ago
I trust my own observations and my conclusion is that heritability is very strong. This is not a view that was imparted on me, quite the opposite. Growing up in a western country I was led to believe we are all blank slates, and I truly bel
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by pendenthistory 10mo ago
I've just reached lean FIRE, will try to go indie soon. Like you the ideas I have are pretty niche and not things that neatly fit into a B2B SaaS. But I'm hoping I can build at least some income to supplement my investments, doesn
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by pendenthistory 11mo ago
Having nice gains early on fools you into thinking you're smarter than the market. That just makes your inevitable fall that much harder. Nobody made a lot of money on a stock and then thought to themself "I bet I was just lucky,
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by pendenthistory 11mo ago
Unfortunately a lesson I had to learn for myself. Hopefully I can pass it on to the next generation, but I fear they'll have to learn it for themselves too. Don't pick individual stocks people, buy broad index funds at most.
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by pendenthistory 1y ago
It's also a filter for people who are ok with working hard on something completely pointless for many months in order to get a job.
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by pendenthistory 1y ago
It's a potential commodity in that there is potentially no network effect stopping people from using any competitor that offers a cheaper ride, unlike how when you're an iPhone user you get locked into Apple's ecosystem. But
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by pendenthistory 1y ago
Laws that the EU passed in order to fine big tech one could argue. Just saying, you think Trump (and later Vance) will stand idly by? EU is a shell of its former self economically, there's not much we can do besides cozying up to an ac
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by pendenthistory 1y ago
No, they will not leave the EU because the EU is not reading the room right now. You think Trump will do nothing to protect FAANG? To be honest, despite being European, I'm surprised the US has let itself be pushed around for so long.
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by pendenthistory 1y ago
Programming makes me feel good too, but there are very few programming jobs I would do for no pay, if any. I would work on my own projects though. But that's what I'm saying, I'm sure you can enjoy or even love some aspects o
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by pendenthistory 1y ago
I guess there is a type of personality that don't need autonomy and are totally fine being a small cog in a giant machine, and only get a sliver of the benefit. I knew day one I started working that I'm not like that, and it'
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by pendenthistory 1y ago
Whenever someone claims to enjoy or love their job, I'm extremely suspicious. Usually it's some form of cope, because without it how could you stand having to work 8+ hours a day for 40 years? Easier to tell yourself you actually
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by pendenthistory 1y ago
Yeah, you basically need private insurance to get a competent doctor.
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by pendenthistory 1y ago
I've been heavily saving for retirement from the day I started working, and approaching FIRE before 40 (living in the Nordics). I've been telling some close friends that even if they don't aim for early retirement, they need
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by pendenthistory 8y ago
It just struck me that this explains a lot of changes I've seen in people near me and myself. My mother started getting really into stuff like essential oils. My dad (non-american) spends a crazy amount of time watching videos and read

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