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by ska 4y ago
> there has to be something else on why Software is getting screwed A lot of companies clearly overhired in the last few years, and had access to cheap money if needed to help with that. Perhaps that is most of what explains it? It was
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by ska 4y ago
Obviously; lots of things have risk, that's part of life. I was just suggesting plausible scenarios where someone might have decided the risk/reward was right for them.
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by ska 4y ago
That latter part is why a number of corporate lawyers are probably deciding "don't touch this with a 10 foot pole for now".
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by ska 4y ago
I wouldn't assume they were planning on a new job immediately. Could be maternity/paternity leave, a plan to sail around the world, whatever. Could also be an in demand skillset. If you get interest every week, you're probab
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by ska 4y ago
arxiv is a pre-print model, which is super useful but not the same thing.
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by ska 4y ago
> metareviews & literature reviews can serve the same functions these are not the same functions.
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by ska 4y ago
Part of it is momentum, they date back from when a) everything was on paper, and b) producing and distributing the paper was hard. However, I suspect much of the staying power is that organizing and executing on a top tier journal, or equiv
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by ska 4y ago
Ah I see, there is a lifetime capital gains exemption limit but not applied to “primary” residence. There it seems to just be exempt. And yes I meant there isn’t a mortgage deduction but had think while typing.
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by ska 4y ago
regardless of the rethink, density will have some scaling advantages in infrastructure, etc.
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by ska 4y ago
Isn't there a lifetime limit of capital gains shelter there much less than the price of homes in the big cities? It's not like the US where mortgate payments are sheltered, right?
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by ska 4y ago
Consider it from a measure theory point of view, at least colloquially. If you could assign a mass of 1 (lb/kg/g/whatever) to the reals and separate them into two piles: rational and irrational then weigh again. The irration
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by ska 4y ago
Alternatively, we're approaching the limits of what can be done with current approaches, and get mostly stuck there for 20 years like happened to AI in the 80's. Future prediction is always dodgy.
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by ska 4y ago
Hey, I get it you are DeFI fan. All I'm saying is any discussion including it has to realistic that it is fundamentally a risky at current time. Will it outgrow that? We'll see. > It depends on what you define as an emergency
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by ska 4y ago
This is naive. There are tons of firmware changes that will render hardware unusable until the board is re-flashed (which you may not be able to do at that point), and even without moving parts the capability to damage components. Simple
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by ska 4y ago
> Why is gold a poor vehicle? Physical gold is too usually too illiquid. Digital gold solves that, but in general the short term volatility makes it imprudent for emergency funds. > Lending/borrowing isn't a gamble beyond t
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by ska 4y ago
That's not what I said, or meant. Both gold and crypto are poor vehicles for original commenter's need. My comment about defi was just because you characterized the stock market as "gambling" (somewhat unfair, but certai
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by ska 4y ago
I'm saying you responded to someone explicitly talking about "emergency funds" with examples presented as if they have similar profiles (to savings account) for that use, and they simply don't. I'll accept "dis
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by ska 4y ago
Both gold and crypto have wildly different profiles than cash in a high interest savings account, so much so that suggesting them as a plug in alternative is at best disingenuous. Not that that's always way you want! But most people ne
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by ska 4y ago
I don't think I articulated myself well, I wasn't taking a judgement. There is no logical inference that a company needs (or deserves) the profit margin it had last year, for example, that's just a fact of business. My point
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by ska 4y ago
Yup, but the point is that you are losing less than other options with a similar risk and liquidity profile.
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by ska 4y ago
Your two statements don't match up. Sounds like they can offer at least 3% more, no?
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by ska 4y ago
> but I don't think it varies much in this scenario. You aren't any hungrier inside the airport than you are outside. I think the poster was claiming that in fact the value is not the same. You aren't hungrier, but you ar
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by ska 4y ago
I think you are vastly underestimating the changes that some of those technologies i mention had on the lives of nearly everyone in the planet. For good and for ill. Probably because they were “normal” when you became aware. Sure, lots of
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by ska 4y ago
>Also, don't take what I wrote to be Again, this confuses me. I was pointing out that the current rate of change is not obviously more rapid than about 100 years ago. If you are trying to provide a counterexample I think you'
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by ska 4y ago
Are you suggesting this is a bigger change than say, 1910-1940, or 1920-1950 to use your timeline? I don't really understand what you are trying to say in the above. Beyond that, most of the bones of the information systems were alre
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by ska 4y ago
This is an area where you really have to be careful of recency bias. Consider that someone who was born in the early 1900s and lived to their 90s would have witnessed (just in the area of technology change): the introduction of electricity
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by ska 4y ago
> article evaluates whether engineers with the badge are higher or lower skilled than average. It doesn't even do that, really. Unless you expand to ".. than average performance at a particular type of interviewing"
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by ska 4y ago
The insurance paid out 58,000, the couple paid out 3000-something. So even if the initial 200k was a 'mistake', the actual billed service is insane for a $600 shot (2x). The entire bill should have been much less than their out
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by ska 4y ago
> All of the math behind information theory and sampling signals assumes waves are sinusoids This isn't really true. The point about the sinusiods is mostly that the form a very convenient complete basis of a useful space of functi
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by ska 4y ago
That isn't really what is going on. If the signal doesn't contain any higher frequency information, the Nyquist limit establishes what you need to exactly reconstruct the signal. It is therefore sufficient for any use. So your

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