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by pradn 6y ago
Standard employment contract clauses stipulate that "we're hiring you for your talents, not your proprietary knowledge". I wonder how much that even matters in court.
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by pradn 6y ago
I think your 20s are actually a bad time to join a startup. Every dollar you earn in your 20s is worth more than a dollar you earn later in your life, because of compound interest. Financially, you're nearly guaranteed to make more mon
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by pradn 6y ago
Computer games work best with numbers, so RPGs end up being about numbers. So, naturally, people try to min-max because 1) it's something to do 2) you progress that way 3) you can show off to others. Maybe a child would be hesitant to
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by pradn 6y ago
There's similar guidance inside Google. These exact phrases are used as "no-no"s.
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by pradn 6y ago
Compilers may not be as relevant for AI-related work, but databases are, imho. So much of real world AI work is setting up data pipelines. Knowing how transactions, indexes, and joins work is very useful.
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by pradn 6y ago
He's a philosopher. He's looking at the metaphorical nuances of what he observes. It's meant to be a point of analysis, not a literal truth.
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by pradn 6y ago
It's a difference in ethos. Is life for optimizing and perfection, a Taylorist treadmill turned to yourself, or is a joy, a breeze? There's fun ways to have exercise and there's military regimentation. There's allowing i
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by pradn 6y ago
18 AD? 2000 years ago? Do you mean 1800 AD?
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by pradn 6y ago
Yes, makes sense. Per-acre of per-bushel support doesn't work as well when many folks hold such little land. The money required for subsistence is constant per person. Smallholders may not be able to do non-farm work to make up for the
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by pradn 6y ago
Agricultural landholdings in India are pretty small. The average size of a landholding is 1.08 acres. Large landholders, defined as those holding 10+ hectares, hold about 8% of the total agricultural land. (Among them, the average holding s
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by pradn 6y ago
I once met someone who had notifications turned on for CNN's "Breaking News" (which is rarely urgent). I couldn't believe someone would think allowing interruptions multiple times a day with things that are likely to mak
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by pradn 6y ago
You can go back to Hesiod's Works and Days around 700 BC for economic analyses.
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by pradn 6y ago
Sanskrit was very much a widely used scholarly and courtly language until the middle of the last millennium.
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by pradn 6y ago
The US government has been performing standard Keynesian monetary & fiscal stimulus measures during crises since the Depression. That's what I mean when I say the government is ready to spring into action. It's possible to ima
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by pradn 6y ago
There's two aspects of the government "springing into action": 1) The government trying to preserve businesses and jobs (both capital and employment) in a crisis through general Keynesian stimulus and industry-specific bailou
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by pradn 6y ago
The parent was talking about the long term horizon here, not about expected positive returns during this crisis.
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by pradn 6y ago
"I’m betting that the U.S. economy will not stay depressed for 10-20 years, which seems like a pretty good bet." I'm with you on this one, but it also feels like there's no other choice. Where else can you get high liqui
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by pradn 6y ago
These pedestrianization experiments seem to usually work, and I support them. Does anyone know where they've failed?
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by pradn 6y ago
Pointing out disparities between groups can help us decide how to address them. But I don't see how this article helps much in that sense; it's pretty obvious it would happen and there's no palpable remedy. It's one of t
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by pradn 6y ago
"The fact that Reddit is mainly populated with technologically proficient people, who probably have some sort of issue, whether it be mental, psychological. Sure we all suffer from our demons but the amount of stuff I read on there mak
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by pradn 6y ago
I wonder if premium virtual conferencing solutions will pop up. People might pay more to be guaranteed calls would go over dedicated networks and high performance servers; the service provider can send the participants custom hardware (perh
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by pradn 6y ago
It's absolutely not justified. Talking to neighbors is a lot better than calling the police, which has a small but real chance of ending in violence.
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by pradn 6y ago
We've had super fun & addicting games for quite a while now, and, though gaming is not a niche interest anymore, a good chunk of the population prefers to do other things, like watch TV. If anything, the fear of alluring entertainm
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by pradn 6y ago
Businesses are a mix of a bunch of things at once: organizations that provide employment (and so, wages, that people need to live + taxes to the government + spending power for downstream businesses), organizations that pay taxes to the gov
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by pradn 6y ago
There is a point where frequent interruptions are counter-productive. The good middle ground between productivity and socialization that I found was to be heads down except for meetings and lunch. I get long stretches of focus time, and als
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by pradn 6y ago
I want to live in a city with an abundance of arts organizations; but it does seem a bit odd to live in a place that has those things, but can't be accessed.
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by pradn 6y ago
Wow, Datasette is super useful.
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by pradn 6y ago
The US might be the best place to start a world-conquering multinational like Google or Facebook, but it's not the best place to live for general social mobility or for starting a small business. Small business startups play a lesser r
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by pradn 6y ago
You're much more likely to find level-headed business-friendly arguments in the opinion pages of the Financial Times than the WSJ. After News Corp bought it, its editorial section has become raggy. It's sad, because their regular
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by pradn 6y ago
Yes, work time and leisure time should be "graded" differently. Making your leisure time about being productive makes you an automaton. Just messing around is something we should cherish.

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