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by shoo 6y ago
Instead of learning about short selling from famous long-only investors who don't specialise in short selling and have no particular skills in the area, another idea is to learn about short selling from people who have done it successf
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by shoo 6y ago
Jennifer Senior's article about burnout is worth reading: https://nymag.com/news/features/24757/ Reading through that article was one of the things that helped me frame things when I noticed I was starti
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by shoo 6y ago
the next exercise might be to rank the wants from most to least important, & consider if some of those wants are things you are willing to defer if they're not immediately available now, and what your longer-term paths to attaining
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by shoo 6y ago
It is just business -- if the CEO & VC have the power to replace you, and believe that replacing you with a more experienced candidate is, after consideration of the downside (the potential that you and some of your team might quit), a
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by shoo 6y ago
> We then made the following changes to the subscriber database in order to speed up the synchronization: [...] Set fsync to off I'm curious how much risk of data loss this added. I guess the baseline is "we need to migrate bef
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by shoo 6y ago
boxed wine can usually be improved (at least in altitude, if not in quality) by unboxing the bladder and pegging it to a hills hoist rotary clothesline
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by shoo 6y ago
130k USD is currently about 170k AUD. That'd include base salary plus a mandatory employer contribution of 9.5% to a tax advantaged retirement fund (Australia's "superannuation" scheme). Excluding retirement fund contrib
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by shoo 6y ago
Those conditions & pay for a software engineer with similar experience seem comparable (after currency conversion between USD & AUD) to working a large bank in one of australia's major cities > We get 4 weeks of vacation, he
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by shoo 6y ago
Those are some great questions. Some other interesting ones might be: Do people on-call have the power to set up or reconfigure monitoring/alerting systems that cause them to get paged? How did the org react after the last production f
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by shoo 6y ago
See also: sublime HQ blog about complexities of shipping a desktop application using mmap [1] and corresponding 200+ comment HN thread [2]: > When we implemented the git portion of Sublime Merge, we chose to use mmap for reading git obje
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by shoo 6y ago
There is another possible path, and it goes something like: understand that the vast majority of people do not have jobs that they like, the day job is to pay the bills. Instead, build meaning in other areas of your life outside the day job
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by shoo 6y ago
i recommend only installing work comms (email, slack notifications) on work-specific devices (computer, phone), never on your personal devices. Then turn all work devices off except for during the contractually agreed hours when you are pai
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by shoo 6y ago
I've seen this model used to develop domain specific decision support software used to help customer optimise costs. Required a few person years of R&D to hit proof of concept & get a contract signed, then contract was large en
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by shoo 6y ago
Many things that can make you happy don't need that much money: spending time with friends & family, getting regular exercise by walking around outside, borrowing books from the library etc. My big realisation during my late 20s wa
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by shoo 6y ago
> Belgium’s budget state secretary, Eva De Bleeker, posted the price list on Twitter, with the amounts of each vaccine that her country intends to buy from the EU. The tweet was quickly deleted, but not soon enough to prevent interested
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by shoo 6y ago
Separately from the pathologies of investing in startups as a mere employee, there are also more transparent mechanisms for public companies to dilute minority shareholders or force minority shareholders to sell their stakes: 1. A company c
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by shoo 6y ago
> I often talk to startups that claim that their compensation package has a higher expected value than the equivalent package at a place like Facebook, Google, Twitter, or Snapchat. One thing I don’t understand about this claim is, if th
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by shoo 6y ago
> A second general solution to the problem of cooling the mark out consists of offering him a status which differs from the one he has lost or failed to gain but which provides at least a something or a somebody for him to become. Usual
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by shoo 6y ago
One thing I've wondered: what is the purpose of Google's ethical AI group? What utility does it provide to the corporation? I suspect the primary motivation for funding ethical AI work is _public relations_ (or less kindly, corpor
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by shoo 6y ago
Well, they're activist short sellers. So in the worst case they're destroying capitalism by crafting and broadcasting carefully designed payloads of viral misinformation to portray the efforts of innocent companies in the worst po
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by shoo 6y ago
If anyone missed it, Hindenburg Research's piece on Nikola is an entertaining read: https://hindenburgresearch.com/nikola/
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by shoo 6y ago
read to the end of the giant orange "ABOUT THE GAME" box. you will find what you seek underneath the scrolling "<purple rotating skull and crossbones> PERMADEATH FEATURE", er, thing.
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by shoo 6y ago
It may be possible to replace the dependency on the python script by using objective c to call the required libraries, then expose a c API that can be called from the go application. E.g. https://gist.github.com/porty/
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by shoo 6y ago
One thing that isn't obvious to me is exactly how `n` is defined, and how that relates to how many people of that `n` were infected by covid during the trial. E.g. maybe n=2,741 people were vaccinated following the first dosing protoco
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by shoo 6y ago
I am afflicted by (B), which impedes measuring (A).
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by shoo 6y ago
structure preserving transformation
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by shoo 6y ago
One of the authors of this piece, Susan Hennessey, was briefly interviewed on The Economist's "checks and balance" US politics podcast this week [1]. Discussion with Hennessy starts about 26:45 in. As well as touching on Kreb
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by shoo 6y ago
> I claim that economic growth cannot continue indefinitely. [...] the Earth has only one mechanism for releasing heat to space, and that’s via (infrared) radiation. We understand the phenomenon perfectly well, and can predict the surfac
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by shoo 6y ago
Yup, re: the third point, in essentially every business, owner-operator's profit will be a lot less than revenue. For an arbitrary example, here are some numbers of a tiny public company that's been operating for over 30 years: $7
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by shoo 6y ago
> “My clients are perfectionists,” says Alden Cass, a therapist to both corporate attorneys and men on Wall Street. [...] “They have very rigid ideals in terms of win-lose,” he continues. “Their expectations of success are through the ro

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