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by purplepatrick 3y ago
Hmm. So, we don’t know if working and short term memory are even the same thing. We also cannot say for sure that the same type of processes would be handled by short term and long term memory, so it’s not clear that you can substitute one
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by purplepatrick 4y ago
Only saw his opening remark and was immediately tuned off by the fact that he announces his opposition to classic liberal ideas and education, while getting his Greek and Latin syllables as well as their meaning confused. Classics 101, dude
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by purplepatrick 4y ago
Sounds like you don’t wanna do it and are just looking for confirmation of that. If that assessment is incorrect and you do wanna do it, then what are you waiting for? Get going and do the great job you suggest you’d be doing. Being neuroti
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by purplepatrick 4y ago
Still sounds pretty fake to me. There’s a hurriedness to the speech and a monotonic uniformity in enunciation that is uncannily machine. Good to know that voice actors will have jobs for a while longer…
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by purplepatrick 4y ago
Yeah, I have personally made that experience and received the same feedback directly from hiring companies and headhunters. A close friend of mine had to emigrate to another country after successfully exiting his startup with tens of millio
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by purplepatrick 4y ago
You’d have to ask a tax attorney, but this exact scenario happened to a friend of mine who held his equity through a foreign entity. When he wanted to cash out, he was hit by an extra US tax penalty specifically for when you hold your equit
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by purplepatrick 4y ago
The answer is No (as you can easily confirm by googling this). You should hold the shares personally. Holding your shares through a US entity is not an advantage. Holding your shares through a foreign entity will cause you to get penalized
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by purplepatrick 4y ago
Appreciate many of the points made in there. However, I still don’t see why intelligence should make one happier, and why when we don’t observe that in data it should be worth mentioning. I grew up in a culture that did not talk about being
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by purplepatrick 4y ago
Not sure I can add much to the answers below but will try. You are not going to be able to increase your quality of life above that of Germany by moving closer to the equator, at least not by most general quality of life metrics. However, i
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by purplepatrick 4y ago
“ The total power draw in a "stage 3" system like this could get as high as 1.38 gigawatts” New York City uses ~11MWh per day (i.e. a capacity of 458 MW). This means the above would amount to ~3x that usage. I don’t know much abou
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by purplepatrick 4y ago
I’m not sure the author realizes how difficult it is (and has been for over two decades) to get an H1b visa in the US. At no time in recent history would a talented engineer from Sudan or Bangladesh have been most likely to have ended up in
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by purplepatrick 4y ago
Because none of these companies care about customer service or are any good at it. I was a corporate google customer once - we forked over a mid six figure amount for various tools such as analytics, big query, etc. It was just as difficult
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by purplepatrick 4y ago
I don’t know what’s going on in this Stack response. Surely, they must have heard of inflation adjusting a monetary figure from the past? Or is there a 2022 Judas incident I haven’t heard about?
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by purplepatrick 4y ago
Conversely, tech folks can learn a lot from non-technical people. Watching my mom deal and helping her with technology has shown me over and over again how no piece of consumer tech is well designed in terms of UX. Printers, iPhones, laptop
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by purplepatrick 4y ago
I’ve lived in nyc for 20+ years, moving from a country that is “hundreds of times safer”. I’ve never felt unsafe. As others remarked correctly, aggregated numbers are useless and not representative for the avg person. If you truncate NYC’s
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by purplepatrick 4y ago
Yes, the rent here in NYC is too damn high. No, these stupid media reports say nothing about a normal renter’s experience. Averages aren’t a good indicator if the underlying distribution is not normal. As construction in NYC disproportional
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by purplepatrick 4y ago
Founder = worked on biz for months or years without salary. (If founders did have salaries then that’s a different situation.) If you get to join an existing startup with a salary then you’re basically post-founder stage, as the company alr
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by purplepatrick 4y ago
And that’s a good thing. Heavily export-dependent economies such as Germany that have outsized influence on EU’s economic performance need a weak Euro in this time of crisis.
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by purplepatrick 4y ago
There are very few meritocratic systems. Chess may be one. Some sports. But other than that, it’s hard to assert that meritocracy exists in practice. Claiming that it existed in any complex system would be like claiming it where it is alrea
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by purplepatrick 4y ago
When all three founders wear turtlenecks on PR photos, you know there’s something amiss…
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by purplepatrick 4y ago
In US corporations that hire for narrow departmental specialties that stay with the company for a few years at best, most definitely. In European corporations that hire for cross-functional talent that can move around and stay with the comp
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by purplepatrick 4y ago
Exactly. Contemporary British English is usually non-rhotic, so very unlikely to closely resemble anything prior to the mid-19th century…
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by purplepatrick 4y ago
If you paid $150 for LatAm outsourcing before, then this is definitely a better setup. You overpaid by a lot ;)
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by purplepatrick 4y ago
I used Pocket for a few years but the company never fixed any bugs that severely restricted its utility. Since then I’ve switched to Raindrop.io and have never looked back. I use it on web and mobile, and it’s excellent.
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by purplepatrick 4y ago
Yes… That’s how all of science works (minus the cabal). Thomas Kuhn’s 1962 classic “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” is about this dynamic…
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by purplepatrick 4y ago
Same here - no inner voice, no words, no images (unless that’s specifically what I want to do).
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by purplepatrick 4y ago
So first they’re telling people they must upgrade, then they change their mind and add this option. However, people who have already upgraded because they thought it was the only option are getting screwed now, because they no longer are gi
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by purplepatrick 4y ago
A cursory reading of VC Twitter suggests that it’s getting winter out there, except perhaps for seed & crypto. Late stage / growth has collapsed and funds are holding off on new investments, dedicating more $$ to portfolio maintena
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by purplepatrick 4y ago
I don’t have an inner voice, and it’s a bit puzzling to me to read about journalists and/or scientists who seem not to be aware of that. It’s not that uncommon either: just ask ten people at a party or at work, and you’ll probably find
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by purplepatrick 5y ago
Nope, not possible. You cannot enforce a trademark without using it commercially.

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