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by qazpot 4y ago
The only problem with the analysis is a single Asteriod striking anywhere on earth can wipe out billions of people. A powerful earthquake even it hits a large city would wipe out only in millions at worst. They do not scale the same way.
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by qazpot 4y ago
IIRC wordpress does this for new hires. Everyone spends their first few months in Customer support, which is a nice middle path to the extreme you are suggesting. This is also good for new hires as they get to a grounding on what matters (c
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by qazpot 4y ago
This is awesome, reminds me of some of Bret Victor's work.
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by qazpot 4y ago
> The British Museum is one of the greatest places on earth. Where treasures looted from other cultures are displayed ?
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by qazpot 4y ago
Both.
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by qazpot 4y ago
I can bet there are a lot of people still working in crypto because of sunk cost fallacy.
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by qazpot 4y ago
Designing Data-Intensive Applications is the best starting point.
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by qazpot 4y ago
One of the many reason's I like Apostol's Calculus book is that it starts with integration first and then diffrentiation which is how the field developed historically.
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by qazpot 4y ago
You can not have any arbitrary surname because each surname belong to a caste. So if you take a higher caste surname then you will have to pretend like you belong to higher caste. Also there are other factors which can tell which caste you
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by qazpot 4y ago
Casteism is much more worse. You or your children or your grandchildren atleast have a chance on moving up in class in a capitalistic society like West. In Casteist society you neither your descendants can ever leave your caste and will alw
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by qazpot 4y ago
Is there any word when programmers engage in some other activity and then realize and rationalize that the said activity has a lot common with programming.
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China's Final Warning [Wikipedia](en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by qazpot 4y ago|1 comments
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by qazpot 4y ago
> Data gathered from its scientific instruments, once collected, is stored within the spacecraft’s 68-GB solid-state drive (3 percent is reserved for engineering and telemetry data) Hope the SSD does not fail after 32768 or 40000 hours o
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by qazpot 4y ago
Yes, it is a common type of endgame. https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Chess/The_Endgame/King_and_Roo...
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Hitler Against Godel's Theorem(youtube.com)
2 points by qazpot 4y ago|1 comments
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by qazpot 4y ago
Funny, english people crying about being colonies.
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by qazpot 4y ago
Lindy Effect - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
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by qazpot 4y ago
Does having supporting parents undermine any success a self made person might have ?
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by qazpot 5y ago
If we follow that route a lot of internet would need to be banned.
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by qazpot 5y ago
> I've learned that most people actually dislike the idea of eating sentient beings Sentient being is a very flimsy and arbitrary definition. To me veganism is just another attempt to be on a high horse of morality and look down upo
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by qazpot 5y ago
Please go through this excellent post by Y Combinator - https://www.ycombinator.com/library/5x-how-to-split-equity-a... It should be equal split. An idea's worth is zero, it is the execution that matters. Other wa
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by qazpot 5y ago
This conflict is not about restoring USSR, It is about Ukraine joining NATO. No Russian leader is going to allow Ukraine to join NATO, because it is a serious danger to their own country.
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by qazpot 5y ago
> Allowing Russia to do whatever the hell it likes because we're too afraid of MAD will be what kills the West. He'll push against a NATO member soon enough. If we can't stand up for them, he won't stop. This is fear
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by qazpot 5y ago
The amplification of this regional conflict by social media into a global conflict will backfire and can start a nuclear world war.
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by qazpot 5y ago
Your suggestion is extremely laughable and naive and reeks of elitism. The domains where the quality of code has very high stakes do have very strict processes and have an extremely high bar. The domains where the stakes are not high, for e
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by qazpot 5y ago
> Even if you in enjoy your job, the reality is work is one of the biggest parts of our lives and wrapped up in our sense of self worth and identity. This is true for all living beings, all animals spend a large part of their day in coll
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by qazpot 5y ago
If a headline asks a question, the answer is no.
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by qazpot 5y ago
> State intertwines "value" and "time", so that to reason about the value of a piece of state you have to reason about time (like the interleaving of operations that could mutate the state) Chapter 3 of SICP deals wi
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by qazpot 5y ago
Taleb also discussed this in his work. Any payoff from a trade which has even a very tiny probablity of making you go bust is zero. Because once you go bust you are not going to be doing trading anymore. He calls these Uncle Points.
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by qazpot 5y ago
How would I know I have never read them.

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