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by sifar 7y ago
May be this is a naive question, but it talks about making home directories portable. In that case how does it resolve when two different users on two different machines with the same username try to move it to the same stick ? How does it
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May be you can start with small steps to test the waters. Amount that you are ok to lose in an extreme event. Which might cause you some inconvenience but not great distress. Perhaps 5-10% of your savings in equities. Watch how you repond t
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This is not a fallacy, and certainly not an irrational belief :). It is a very rational response to things you have no control over. May be this needs some elaboration. For me, the low probability event of blowing up your life's wort
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>> But I don't think that seeing the exclusion of the masses as intentional despotism is particularly helpful. This may be true of the examples you cited for the more distant era. However post WW2, with the invention of technolog
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by sifar 7y ago
Though I am not there yet, the Permanent Portfolio [1] makes sense to me. The key insight is that for the money you have lost, you can never recover the energy/time/life you have spent in earning it. So, capital preservation (wrt
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Losing 2-3% per year is better than losing 10/20/30 % or god forbid >50% of your savings - which you cannot recoup . It depends on what they are saving for - if they need the 20-30K a year down the line it is alright to keep i
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>> money is transferable debt >> Crypto currency view of money is that money is a store of value. Money is far more subtle and interesting than that. I would say, modern money is debt, transferable or not. It is interesting in
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Life is Beautiful :). I agree it is a dilemma. For some problems you can make them aware without raising the anxiety level. For some, you just have to hide/overcome your own fears and say that it is/things are alright. Sometimes,
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An Introduction to General Systems Thinking by Gerald M. Weinberg
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Thanks, will have to wait a few years for the PADI course, but looking forward to it.
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Me/my kids are fascinated by corals. Can you please suggest any books/resources to study and understand them ?
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True. If you want performance - you have to re-write the code for the new architecture otherwise it is pointless to develop the new core. The problem with developing a good processor architecture is you have to always maintain legacy comp
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Slide 36 compares the TPU with a CPU/GPU. This is apples to oranges comparison. One uses an 8bit Integer multiply while the other uses a 32b Floating Point multiply which inherently uses at least >4X more energy[1]. If you scale the
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>> but he’s not a person willing to accept a middle ground You need somebody as guideposts to stand at the extreme ends. I am glad RMS stands at his end.
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Every issue is/becomes a moral one in India :) . We see this issue being played out again and again across industries from Amazon, to Uber, to food delivery. Why are business's so naive to think they can tame the beast and profit
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by sifar 7y ago
so what you are trying to say is that all the competing vendors with varying degrees of HW/SW expertise, can implement the solutions that will always co-operate in real-time among different generations of products, has no lag/de
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by sifar 7y ago
Stepping back a bit - To everyone saying CA was not that effective, over hyped, with poor data/algorithms; the documentary being the work of a bunch of disgruntled people - it is completely irrelevant. This shouldn't happen in a f
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Can you please recommend any resources for studying music theory ?
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I also recommend ERE too. It is really a distillation of the FI philosophy. Very good to have in your mental toolbox. The discussion about increasing the savings rate was really illuminating.Some might be put off by the "Extreme"
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When all under heaven know beauty as beauty, There is then ugliness, When all know the good as good, There is then the not good. Therefore being and non-being give rise to each other, The difficult and easy complement each other, The long a
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Thank you for saying this.
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Perhaps one should create, but not with the goal of consumption. Focus on the act of creation, not the object. I agree, we need to learn how to simply be instead of worrying about how to achieve or get something done.
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by sifar 7y ago
May be I should have clarified a bit more. I am talking about coercion of the native populace of an internal region by its own government. The first two were global conflicts. The last one may qualify but again it is a self-serving cycle. Y
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Something I find very hilarious is that come election time, these same stupid people somehow become magically smart enough to elect the very same said administration. "We are doing this to protect you from yourself."
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You cannot have peace by coercion. Period. It will either be an illusion or delusion.
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May be the Unsane ? :). Seriously, there is already a name for it. "The name that can be named is not the eternal name."
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Thanks. I have the first book in VALIS - will start on it. It does take some effort to track things as one is unraveling it. But the feeling of realization and a new way of looking at things that you get at the other end of such works is wo
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Revolutions don't change the system. All they do is replace one set of people running the system, with another. May be, put on a new set of clothes on the way. Pick any revolution in history and you'll observe this. Indeed, for an
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If you don't live in the US/EU, basic things are pretty cheaper in RoW. The family/community ties tend to be stronger. You can live off well on a small budget and increase your savings if you ignore keeping up with the Jones&
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Yes, avoid debt.

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