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by sershe 3y ago
A really nice scenario would be a 3rd party chatbot that would read all the crap on an average web-site and answer questions. First, that will force companies to have support docs in normal text without javascript garbage like 50 vaguely-na
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by sershe 3y ago
Heroes of Might and Magic 3. The game itself being great for multi-player aside, I used to play online tournaments with US players, during US evening hours while in Russia. That made me skip a bunch of classes in college, and realize instea
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by sershe 3y ago
One of my favorite jokes on the topic is "What is the difference between an inquisitor and a bioethicist?" "An inquisitor deserves some forgiveness, he was the product of an unenlightened age and didn't know any better.&
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by sershe 3y ago
I've interviewed a person for a tech job who took about 15 minutes to wrestle a for loop that wasn't obviously broken into an online coding tool. It didn't improve from there. Given that people who fail interview apply to mor
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by sershe 3y ago
I disagree... I think Nx scale is actually more of a personal characteristic. The easiest way to detect it, even for small Ns, is to notice the situations like when you are addressing all the questions you have for a sibling team to one per
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by sershe 3y ago
I may not be the best source on yield vs history, cause I learned about it by looking at stocks I bought that did not pan out. But yeah basically for a company with stable, decade(s) long payout, if yield looks low vs the long-term, the pri
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by sershe 3y ago
There are lots of people commenting about dividends not being useful or whatever, but I think they are not your target audience :) And for your target audience, the people who like dividend investing (or liked it in low rate environment, li
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by sershe 3y ago
I feel like from experience I'd much rather (B). The things usually go wrong in a fixable way, and it's much better to be close to your destination where you have more options, like more local flights with more space vs daily long
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by sershe 3y ago
I'm going to offer a perhaps contrarian opinion - I am with reddit here, and I think removing community mods is a great idea, especially the vocal mods. I think vast majority of online mods that are active - i.e. if you don't cons
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by sershe 3y ago
Well, I can recommend a few books by e.g. Thomas Sowell that I'm pretty sure refute whatever model some rando on youtube armed with an opinion has. Come back when you've read them, although if you don't want to understand tha
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by sershe 3y ago
I watched the amount of video that it would take to read a comment here and it was not insightful. You'd have to summarize, nobody watches videos :P That said, to expand my argument a bit 1) Vast majority of abuse of power in history h
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by sershe 3y ago
That actually does not justify increased role of govt at all. Redistribution is nearly orthogonal to that... tax the rich, give money to the poor, fine. Just make sure to fire all the bureaucrats beyond what's necessary to maintain the
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by sershe 3y ago
And is the government itself some platonic entity? This comment is deeply ironic - we are afraid of the concentration of power in the hands of some rich people, so we are going to give more power to the most massive and heavily armed entity
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by sershe 3y ago
Private companies managed to build railways just fine, until the govt in its infinite wisdom (with which I totally agree by the way, but most people in the pro-govt camp, who want more rail now, don't) decided to undercut them with a m
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by sershe 3y ago
>> I don't really see that as a bad thing. This is a policy decision and as such needs to be based on a rational calculation and values, not the feelings known to be hopelessly biased and generally unreliable. > I hope future
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by sershe 3y ago
I left a company once due to some reorg/internal politics while we were in the middle of developing a new system from scratch. 6 years later, I was going to leave my then-current job and I got some interest from my old team (that was b
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by sershe 3y ago
So in other words it's completely bogus, at the very least due to unrealized capital gains, and probably thru few more fudge factors like what is "reported" wealth?
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by sershe 3y ago
Is it really due to proportions? In that case say you leave a startup of 3 people. Not the same as company firing one guy, but roughly 1/3rd impact, so 2 months of free severance labor is on you, correct, to avoid being "disgustin
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by sershe 3y ago
> You want to universally kill people by the millions for making mistakes. "Making mistakes"? Really? We are talking about repeat violent crime here. This euphemism combined with below frankly makes me more scared of people li
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by sershe 3y ago
How is it related? That doesn't seem obvious to me. For a different example, does it mean tax law enforcement normalizes taking money from people thus and increases property crime? People usually have separate magisteria for this kind
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by sershe 3y ago
Why is it a bad idea? Abstractly, if I had a 100% reliable way to execute all violent criminals, I'd absolutely do it. The only problem I see are false convictions. Taking people with repeated convictions for separate offenses (3 stri
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by sershe 3y ago
I think this is a blind spot from American civics classes. Democracy is assumed to be synonymous with/inextricably connected to liberty, whereas in reality liberty, at most, either requires democracy at some point in history to change
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by sershe 3y ago
So, when you decide to leave a company where you have spent half a decade, do you provide 6 months free labor, or do you do the disgusting thing and just leave?
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by sershe 4y ago
This is a rather vague statement... Protecting the rights sounds noble but I'd look at the whole package. Workers are doing very well in industries like tech with ~0 unions. American auto workers are doing worse than they used to becau
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by sershe 4y ago
I typically (especially on the weekend, since at work I somehow have higher motivation to push myself) go down a "thinking cascade" to adapt to this, where I'd code for some time, then when my brain gets tired go do something
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by sershe 4y ago
Yeah, like what the achieved in public schools, or police forces and blue wall, or American auto industry... not quite a union but AMA has also achieved a lot for US doctor pay vs the rest of the world. American West Coast port efficiency i
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by sershe 4y ago
Hmm, so let's say you are hiring a guy to build you a fence. One guy keeps talking about all the potential designs and tradeoffs and can show you what he did with each one before, and the other guy is like, whatever man, it's a fe
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by sershe 4y ago
I dunno, native apps from 2000 on much worse hardware were running more or less the same features much better. Web (and electron/etc.) apps combine encouraging anti-patterns with lowering the barriers of entry too much, it's like
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by sershe 4y ago
So instead of taking 5/4 cores for a simple video call on my surface it would only take 2.5? Good stuff!
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by sershe 4y ago
I think the idea behind such high level APIs is that they work well enough and are easier to use in 9X% of the cases and you can still get perf out of them if you look under the hood. For the reverse of your example, consider Java and .NET

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