silentsea90

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by silentsea90 3y ago
Am I the only one tired of 'great resignation'-like manufactured trends created for clicks? People leave their jobs all the time.
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by silentsea90 3y ago
There is no better fix than Bitcoin. Banks and governments will always try to be fiscally irresponsible by removing a gold standard even if it were brought back. Bitcoin is the easiest way to impose rules on the system. Let me know what you
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by silentsea90 3y ago
I can't edit my comment but happy to include Republicans too. The Democrats have been more vocal about Bitcoin lately but agreed they're all part of the lobby machine. I have no love for either party :)
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by silentsea90 3y ago
The only right conclusion. Wish more people understood.
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by silentsea90 3y ago
I am always surprised how HN folks fall in hook line and sinker for Democratic talking points from senators FAR removed from any understanding of technology and insistent on curbing basic internet freedoms. The previous version of this was
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by silentsea90 3y ago
Very very cool. Did working at your dream job involve explorations + leaps of faith + backing yourself, or did you just organically get there with hard work and always choosing what you were excited about? This leaks into career advice land
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by silentsea90 3y ago
Wow! You were part of NASA in the 80s? So cool.
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by silentsea90 3y ago
Just as India is large and complex, so is everyone's experience. 59.5% of IIT seats are reserved for backward castes - that is HUGE in a nation full of students competing for the 40% seats available for the general category. The entran
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by silentsea90 3y ago
I belong to a don't ask or guess culture where i would rather just lift a mountain myself than ask my friends for help just so I don't inconvenience anybody, or be in their debt on a favor.
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by silentsea90 3y ago
Sounds very cool. Were failures punished by low ratings, bonus? How did they incentivize taking risks? Did the focus on being a leader make you stronger? Were Netflix employees from then valued very highly?
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by silentsea90 3y ago
Wow that's so cool but makes sense! Is it not like that there anymore? They still hire experienced engineers, so I wonder what changed? As an aside, is there any low hanging fruit / interesting work left to do at Netflix?
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by silentsea90 3y ago
I was lost about the distinction. This talk really helped: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/cloudflare-v8/
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by silentsea90 4y ago
"xyzzyspoon!" does work wonders on one piece of software
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by silentsea90 4y ago
Maybe. Russia's population is falling and Putin is getting older to the extent that such a war may not have happened 5-10 years from now. I am more worried about escalation, nukes, forever wars etc. Ukraine fighting for pre 2014 border
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by silentsea90 4y ago
I agree but my devil's advocate response = I suspect that without enough incentive for a peaceful resolution, the more right thing (=seeking peace) falls out of favor. I know we've been told that Putin doesn't want to negotia
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by silentsea90 4y ago
My response is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35225339 Even extending this to a month for DMs is short enough. 6 months for group chats is better but not very satisfactory if one wants to refer to older chats.
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by silentsea90 4y ago
I am a Xoogler. You can change the default to being a month for 1-1 chats, and 6 months for channels. That's still pretty low if you ask me. One has to be remember to copy paste useful messages over to your own personal notes. Ofc, as
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by silentsea90 4y ago
Thanks!
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by silentsea90 4y ago
I don't make such assumptions and have no understanding of what's right or wrong legally. I speak as a xoogler who hated Chat (featurewise) + retention policy and found it to exacerbate Google's sluggishness in shipping.
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by silentsea90 4y ago
Google inconveniences the entire company by defaulting to 24hrs chat retention so they can avoid sharing sensitive info in litigation (frustrating countless employees who would have needed to refer to the chat message from yesterday about s
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by silentsea90 4y ago
I don't mean that the US instigated the war or that Ukraine is somehow a puppet, but it is convenient for the US to not have to fight it and let Ukraine use US's weaponry, drones etc to fight this war. I am not Russian or a sympat
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by silentsea90 4y ago
Please expand
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by silentsea90 4y ago
Maybe, maybe not. Crushing Russian forces helps sell weapons and also helps take down an adversary while having Ukraine fight the war. The incentives behind blowing up the pipeline also appear to align with the US cause. I would take the me
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by silentsea90 4y ago
I am dumb. How does Treasuries maturing help with QT (not questioning this, just not clear on this)?
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by silentsea90 4y ago
It should be 4 months in 4 days, but the broader point still stands: https://fallacyalarm.substack.com/p/the-fed-just-reversed-4-...
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by silentsea90 4y ago
Everything is different at a granular level but similar at a higher abstraction. In all cases (SVB, BS), banks ran out of liquidity and had paper losses on current investments that would see them go under. Ultimately, if you run out of mone
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by silentsea90 4y ago
I did earlier but removed it. See other response where I address this
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by silentsea90 4y ago
I removed this sentence as it is subjective and distracts from the original point. That said, the US supplies Ukraine with weapons and Intel, instead of making strong efforts to bring all parties to the negotiating table. China is now suppl
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by silentsea90 4y ago
Maybe, maybe not. The Fed has wiped out 6 months of QT's impact within a week. They might temporarily slow rate hikes but I am not convinced they will stop. I see this more as them plugging a hole in the economy. It will take a collaps
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by silentsea90 4y ago
Markets don't arbitrarily inflate prices across asset classes (stocks, crypto, commodities, real estate). Classifying widespread worldwide inflation as energy cost inflation OR profiteering is (subjectively) an excuse for policy failur

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