pokerface_86

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by pokerface_86 2y ago
in 2023 BCBS had an operating margin of 1% in one of the states i looked at, 0% in another, in california seems to be around 2%. they don’t operate with crazy profits, and insurance is HEAVILY regulated anyway. i expect better from HN
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by pokerface_86 2y ago
i’m not particularly supportive of people who think fun needs to be vilified and taxed out of existence. it just so happens that this mindset is common among europeans who will never be able to afford a nice vehicle
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by pokerface_86 2y ago
you must be european
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by pokerface_86 2y ago
not sure why the formatting on my previous post is fucked, on mobile, apologies.
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by pokerface_86 2y ago
i agree, but the life is a club/party mentality isn’t what’s plaguing education, it’s the waste of time trying to get the bottom 10% of kids to perform at the median level. when i was in school, those kids got sent to alternative schoo
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by pokerface_86 2y ago
i’d argue the US is too business friendly relative to pretty much everywhere for us to get worse at a pace faster than EU, which means relatively, we’re always doing pretty good. until another global superpower comes along
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by pokerface_86 2y ago
i hope he’s destitute, what a micro managing fuck.
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by pokerface_86 2y ago
well, in the netherlands, the median income is roughly 1/2 what i was making at my first job out of college. considering i also got free lunch everyday, 24 days of PTO, monthly stipends for gas and app subscriptions, 6 month parental l
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by pokerface_86 2y ago
especially when our friends in tech get laid off
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by pokerface_86 2y ago
that’s generally what happens when you / the people you work with are socially awkward autismos. i hang out with several colleagues outside of work multiple times a week, and consider them friends
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by pokerface_86 2y ago
i have literally witnessed students in a senior level discrete math class struggle with simple algebraic operations. they were on the math education track.
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by pokerface_86 2y ago
fuck the Uni’s, they’ve spent decades profiteering off of us. my degree was an absolute waste of time (mathematics, cs+ stats minor) other than telling employers that i’m not a dumbass. i barely attended 30% of classes and graduated with a
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by pokerface_86 2y ago
how many people do you think even understand “actual statistics”? i was reading a study done by actuaries working at one of the largest reinsurers in the world, and they made conclusions based on confidence level values overlapping, which i
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by pokerface_86 2y ago
was still told this and i graduated college in 2024. it did work out for me, but for the vast majority of ppl in my graduating class, unless they double majored from B School or did a proper STEM degree, they’re unemployed
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by pokerface_86 2y ago
canadians are highly educated yet their economy is in the absolute shitter. i know which country id rather live in.
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by pokerface_86 2y ago
no one actually good at math is going to become a K-5 teacher, they’re gonna get paid, so it creates a doom loop where each new generation of primary school teachers get progressively shittier at math.
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by pokerface_86 2y ago
enjoy being the beacon of climate responsibility in your 35C homes
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by pokerface_86 2y ago
>No EU company with market cap >100b EURO am i dumb? does this not include nordo novisk?
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by pokerface_86 2y ago
in the united states
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by pokerface_86 2y ago
many cities have public housing. it’s filled with drug addicts, rapists, and people who will rob you for a mint.
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by pokerface_86 2y ago
it absolutely doesn’t, the common reddit recommendation is to just get edifier r1280dbs and a sub, and you’ll outperform most soundbar systems that cost even 2x as much.
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by pokerface_86 2y ago
also YT on a tv is difficult to set up an ad blocker for
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by pokerface_86 2y ago
don’t know any for YT ioS, i used to live with ads on mobile but after getting premium, even though i use an ad blocker + firefox on desktop, i never canceled it for a reason
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by pokerface_86 2y ago
porsche’s and penthouses
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by pokerface_86 2y ago
if by straight men you mean the vast majority of the tech / finance workforce ???
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by pokerface_86 2y ago
would that 6 figures be as meaningful as 6 figures was when that was the “dream”.
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by pokerface_86 2y ago
well, you have a way bigger pool of women to work with there at least
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by pokerface_86 2y ago
i think there is a very very real limit to LLM technology that hasn’t been publicly solved yet. fundamentally, how do you get it to do something new? openAI’s moat is their training data, but again, all machine learning techniques fundament
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by pokerface_86 2y ago
if you’re normal, stimulants make you feel like a god (at first). adrenaline and dopamine pumping through you, you feel on point and like you can take on the world.
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by pokerface_86 2y ago
you’re at community college, what do you expect? geniuses? in my basic math undergrad i encountered the limits of GPT daily, with a complete inability to solve anything above maybe freshman or sophomore level proofs. forget anything complex

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