purplethinking

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by purplethinking 9y ago
Even though it's unknowable, science prefers simplicity. As scientist we should prefer the model of the world with the fewest number of assumptions. The existence of something is more complex than non-existence (which is the default).
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by purplethinking 9y ago
If I understand correctly, the Memrise data is closed source right? So what motivated you to contribute to something you don't control? Or do you keep ownership of your contributions somehow?
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by purplethinking 9y ago
This deserves to be on top. Cities and metropolitan regions are what is driving innovation and the economy.
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by purplethinking 9y ago
About your friend, I feel some sympathy. I feel I have a huge disadvantage growing up starting with Windows (early 90s). Graphical UIs are great for usability but they hamper understanding of the underlying systems. Even though I loved comp
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by purplethinking 9y ago
Does this take vacations into account? Otherwise I'm surprised to see such high productivity in the summer.
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by purplethinking 9y ago
Seems the only reasonable option to have the cake and eat it too.
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by purplethinking 9y ago
Maybe, but sounds a bit like future discounting to me. I'm just presenting my dilemma, and I don't think the solution is to be idle for 10 years and then switch to entrepeneurship overnight. More like work a normal job and try to
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by purplethinking 9y ago
I think more people would regret it if they knew what they were giving up, but most would probably not make that calculation. If he had kept his corporate job and spent the initial $30k a year he could have retired early only 10 years later
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by purplethinking 9y ago
The trick is to not live in the suburbs if you can avoid it. They're money-sucking black holes :) I know it hurts to hear, since having a house and a back yard is part of the western dream, or having grown up in that environment we eve
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by purplethinking 9y ago
Have a kid and mortgage, but saving 60% of household post-tax income. We do what we can to stay lean, and have been doing that for the past decade. That means some sacrifices (e.g. no car(s)), but it's worth it for the peace of mind. M
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by purplethinking 9y ago
Not sure if it'll be a problem for the millenial generation, but I'm sure not going to wait to find out. My goal is to not need a job by 45. If by then I still have to "beg" businesses to employ me, I will have failed. T
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by purplethinking 9y ago
Morning exercise specifically? How about lunch?
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by purplethinking 9y ago
Jeez, can parents just chillax for a bit? Hyper-parenting aside, I feel that the conventional wisdom of disciplin and setting firm rules about everything is misguided. Just anecdotes, but it seems to me the kids who grew up with the most ru
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by purplethinking 9y ago
I always thought it would be neat to use something similar to determine "UserRank" in order to solve Eternal September.
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by purplethinking 9y ago
This type of legislation is not about you, it's about the environment. Buying cheap products that break in 3 months that you then throw away IS the type of behaviour they want to reduce, even if it was exactly what you expected and wan
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by purplethinking 9y ago
I'm watching 外科风云 on youtube. It's a hospital drama with some corruption thrown in. It has english subtitles as well.
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by purplethinking 9y ago
The study they cite is for monolingual English speakers. They concluded that the easiest language to learn was Swedish/Norwegian IIRC, and the hardest was Japanese by a factor 10.
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by purplethinking 9y ago
My view (as a still quite young engineer around 30) is that good engineers don't become worse with age, quite the opposite. If you as a young programmer think you're better/faster than those old farts, check back in 10 years
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by purplethinking 9y ago
I'm curious, which libraries are you talking about specifically?
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by purplethinking 9y ago
I have a master's degree in CS, and I feel the need to do this too. Use it or lose it. Problem is you only use bits and pieces of what you learned here and there, not enough to remember college level math.
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by purplethinking 10y ago
Early agriculture was indeed the worst. But look further back, to a time before agriculture. Hunter gatherers spent significanly less time actually hunting and gathering that we do working today. And while off work we have a hard time menta
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by purplethinking 10y ago
This is one reason I have almost no interest in IoT / home automation. It just replaces extremely mild annoyances (turning on the lights) with something complicated and fragile.
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by purplethinking 10y ago
One datapoint: the autoimmune protocol diet worked wonders for my wife. The first time she got graves she was on the mediation and hospitalized due to weak liver. When it came back she wanted to try something different. Tried a few differen
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by purplethinking 10y ago
Just yesterday it was decided to fund a new subway line by dramatically increasing the congestion pricing. Hopefully that will decrease traffic further. With the public transportation system in Stockholm most people really have no business