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>> Emotion is beating logic here I think It is not. >> the only people pushing for return to office are the managers against the wishes of many employees. They are the ones who felt slighted and made obsolete This is the organiz
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I exist to figure out why I exist and what to do during my existence.
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In order to justify my existence, I need to first create the universe :).
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As with many ancient sayings, they are pretty information dense, have multiple interpretations and need to unrolled in context specific cases and not be taken literally. >> Let go of all attachments. You find this in Hindu, Buddhist a
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This. Taxation of energy is a big revenue stream for the governments. What happens when people start putting independent energy sources to power themselves and it causes significant revenue drop ? Would the government tax them for putting u
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>> So much of is basically the Tao Te Ching, or astrology. I am having difficulty parsing your comment. You are equating Tao Te Ching and astrology in the same bucket ? One is a philosophy, a way of looking at life - the other I don&#
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>> Try and do everything you can Ars longa, vita brevis [1] While I agree that experience by doing is the way to learn, the thing is we have finite resources and time while the things which we want to do are infinite. Which means when
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>> Is Y/X a reasonable amount of money to spend on a thing? The proper question to ask is sum(Yi)/X a reasonable amount of money to spend. If not, which Yi is not providing the desired marginal utility.
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It is not just the $50 latte but what it signifies. That expensive phone plan, car lease, gym membership, subscriptions etc. Together they would represent a few months rent which you would save otherwise. Invest that and in a decade it woul
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An alternative way to look at it is you would need a 12K investment @5% to generate those $600. Now how many such $600 are lurking in your habits. May be that would change your perspective.
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There is also that when you are too enamored by the results of your action, it gets in the way of doing. The Tao Te Ching also talks about not striving for things. It is interesting that these three philosophies from three different civiliz
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No not in some sense but legally. And what the OP was saying that the tax burden is split unequally between individuals and corporations. While corporations enjoy the legal benefits of personhood, the same doesn't apply to them when it
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corporations have personhood.
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>> I honestly believe that China, India, and other Asian countries will dominate the next century and beyond. Before they do that, they'll have to solve similar problems the US is facing right now in terms of inequality. In fact
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Sadly, the compiler/software optimization for stack machines is a neglected field in computer architecture evolution. If you are interested in this, you might find these useful. 1) Optimisation Techniques for Stack Based Architectures
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I find it useful thinking in ecosystem terms as a model. And ultimately, the economy is situated in a real ecosystem and not an abstract manifestation. >> The economy is not like an ecosystem since there is no reciprocation If mutual
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cue autonomous vehicles. Seriously though this is a very wrong analogy. The economy is more like an ecosystem where individuals interact with themselves & the environment. It doesn't need continuous manipulation. In fact it ten
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Any suggestion for a good book(s) to study and understand Homomorphic encryption ? I prefer a book format and haven't yet come across a good one on this topic yet.
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>> For SIMD, this is a complicated mess for the compiler to unravel this is trivially vectorizable for simd, would fit nicely in a vliw packet too. The only issue is if there was a runtime memory stall with any access, then the entire
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Both VLIW & Ooo Superscalar are doing a different tradeoff to achieve similar goal - maximize ILP. With VLIW the compiler unrolls the code and tries to find the parallelization but has no control over runtime stalls and results in large
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and any vliw compiler worth it's salt would bundle the load, div/mul/alu, store into one instruction packet
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Stress leads to bad decisions reducing your options. What I have experienced is that savings help you tide over life's uncertainties. Yes I am letting go of a few % in returns, but I gain something far more valuable - peace of mind and
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I would recommend you to read the Richest Man In Babylon. It is a small book that explains how one can go about building wealth. Briefly, 1) Save some money regularly (min 10%). 2) If 1) seems difficult, figure out a way to increase your ea
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I like to imagine where the Meego based Nokia N9 was not burnt before launch by MS. It was far ahead of iphone/android. Things might have been different with it and it's successors.
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>> I think the problem with India is the people in charge There is a subliminal sentiment in India - whatever it has achieved/achieves is despite the people in charge.
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>> Happiness will not come from a time machine This needs to be framed.
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>> Everything related to compensation becomes much less confusing once you accept that hiring is a market. Like any market, supply and demand drives the prices. Nothing else matters much. This is not about new hires but existing emplo
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I found a couple of references, bookmarking here Physical Intelligence as a new paradigm https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235243162... How the Body Shapes the Way we Think https:/&#x2F
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>> The rational centre, however, is unprofitable, and will remain un-catered-to until its profitability increases. To play devils advocate, this exploitation of our irrational (as in not involving reason) behaviours is a pretty ration
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I am interested in this way of looking at intelligence. Do you have any references which one can study where this is discussed i.e intelligence is affected by the physical nature of where/what it is situated in. Another way of saying t

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