realbarack

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by realbarack 7y ago
Same deal with Stanford SCPD, where I've taken a handful of classes. That was the key differentiator for me versus "pure" online offerings: since you're taking the exact same classes at the exact same time as full-time o
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by realbarack 7y ago
This is an inspiring story. Nice work and well-earned!
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by realbarack 7y ago
I strongly disagree with this comment. Many, many people pour massive amounts of time and energy into finding a partner, and often end up dissatisfied with the results. Mechanics that improve the experience and the result of dating really w
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by realbarack 7y ago
Cool stuff! How long until straight razor is released? ;)
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by realbarack 7y ago
https://schoolonwheels.org/
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by realbarack 7y ago
I volunteer as a tutor for an organization that provides academic help to students experiencing homelessness. It's not restricted to people working in tech but my anecdotal impression is that there are relatively few tutors who have st
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by realbarack 7y ago
Pollan actually does go on the black market (still probably $200/hour though). You can't legally get a psychedelic trip guide in the US right now. The point is that the exact people who are well-known and respected as black-market
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by realbarack 7y ago
Consider expanding your definition of what a "therapist" could be and what a "clinical setting" could look like. Michael Pollan's interactions with the therapists (they're called "guides") in "Ho
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by realbarack 7y ago
Yeah, totally. I think this was basically the problem Bumble tried solving with their "women message first" restriction, but I bet you could come up with better/smarter tooling than that blunt heuristic.
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by realbarack 7y ago
Assuming by "a large percent of the population" you mean "people who are no longer dating," this is not a good way to think about it. Analogously, there are many cultural trends that people don't engage with after t
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by realbarack 7y ago
One idea I had was to basically open up analytics to the end-user. Let a user see their ELO rating + stats for different sub-groups and run A/B tests with different photos, messages, and profile text. Basically just product analytics s
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by realbarack 7y ago
I'm glad to see innovation in this space. I work remotely as an ML engineer in a "Main Street"-ish city (not really, but it's a middle-class city with a reasonably affordable COL that's part of a large MSA). Remote
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by realbarack 7y ago
Here's a hot take: having roommates is actually better than living alone if they're the right roommates. (I know many people will disagree with this.)
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by realbarack 7y ago
True, but most people don't have the option of Bay Area salary outside the Bay Area.
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by realbarack 7y ago
Paying an extra $1.5k per month on rent isn't insane when it gets you $50 or $100k additional annual salary.
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Bird enters helmet discussion with free rides for helmet-wearing selfies(lbpost.com)
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by realbarack 7y ago
I feel the same. I find social networks pretty valuable but don't like or trust Facebook. I'd happily sign up (and pay for) a social network that brought the same benefits but was (1.) ad-free and (2.) didn't employ tons of p
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by realbarack 7y ago
I agree with your sentiment regarding benefits in the U.S. Couldn't companies provide the important benefits (healthcare, 401k matching) to employees who worked a 4-day week as well? One potential issue is that I think there are fewer
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by realbarack 7y ago
2FA is the main thing for me. I protect basically all my important logins with 2FA, so losing my phone can mean getting locked out of most of my important accounts. This mostly scares me when traveling—I agree it's pretty nice to not c
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by realbarack 7y ago
There are alternatives. For example: https://basecamp.com/books/calm
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by realbarack 7y ago
One of my favorite passages of prose is from Calvino's "Invisible Cities"; I can't pass up the opportunity to share it on HN: "When a man rides a long time through wild regions he feels the desire for a city. Finall
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As Homelessness Surges in California, So Does a Backlash(nytimes.com)
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by realbarack 7y ago
What town is that? Is there a daily news blog or something?
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by realbarack 7y ago
Would you mind elaborating a bit? Would love to hear more about your experience with this.
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by realbarack 7y ago
Any career change is non-trivial for a mid-career worker and it's probably unrealistic that a majority of blue-collar workers would be able to transition into software jobs. "Learn to code" is great advice in general and can
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by realbarack 7y ago
For what it's worth I interpret the GP's statement as referring to general foundational progress in whatever field, not Moore's law specifically.
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by realbarack 7y ago
Sure, I guess I worry that whatever mechanism caused rents to increase substantially faster than CPI [0] might be accelerated by UBI. [0] https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2019/04/the-climbing-cost-of...
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by realbarack 7y ago
How do UBI proponents propose to deal with rent-seekers? What's stopping every slumlord in the country from jacking everyone's rent up $1000 / month in response to a UBI subsidy of the same amount? It seems like you could dea
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by realbarack 7y ago
This mechanism (but applied to good deeds) is described hilariously by Louis C.K.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eiCyT5pY_E
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by realbarack 7y ago
It isn't hard to give an AI a goal but it is hard to do so safely. As a toy example we could design an AI who treated say, reducing carbon emissions as it's goal just as you treat eating and sleeping as yours. The issue is that th

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