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by skizm 7y ago
I mean, you should be able to claim either if you have evidence. We should be looking for truth, not virtue signalling by withholding findings because it might hurt some people's feelings.
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by skizm 7y ago
I assume someone took away Musk's twitter privileges?
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by skizm 7y ago
Goodhart's law in action.
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by skizm 7y ago
> own less more generally Absolutely. I save like 60-70% (depending on how you count taxes) every month and plan on stopping traditional work at 40. I'll probably have enough money to coast at that point and I can take up some contr
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by skizm 7y ago
Anxious tech workers can afford therapy. A lot of the rest of the working world is just as, if not more, anxious. Our entire lives, sans 4 weeks or so a year, are dedicated to doing stuff we don't really care about, but there is no alt
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by skizm 7y ago
Where can I find someone that will pay me a living wage to read fantasy novels, go to the gym, play video games, and occasionally travel?
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by skizm 7y ago
While true with some, I believe uBO is a list implemented client-side, right? Other ad-blockers can and do phone home and let through ads that have paid, but uBO just has the EasyList filter installed locally and blocks those URLs. That was
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by skizm 7y ago
Sucks* that for a lot of us the choice is between making $100k in the suburbs or $200k in the city. I'd MUCH rather live in the burbs or country, but at the end of the day you just make so much more money living in an urban environment
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by skizm 7y ago
Not sure how ticket pricing works, or what sort of deals theaters could work with the publishers, but if they had only sold tickets through moviepass after the listed showtime, I feel like they could have made it work. Moviegoers would real
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by skizm 7y ago
Peek e: oh no, I've been using peek and peak wrong my whole life...
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by skizm 7y ago
Serious question: how is this different than a grocery story making their own cheaper versions of products and placing them in better locations throughout their store? Large grocery chains do this on a large scale today, right?
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by skizm 7y ago
The ledger does not record in person transactions. Theoretically, I can hand you a USB stick containing BTC and no one would know until it is sent to another wallet.
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by skizm 7y ago
Ah, okay. Pay scale, got it. Yea we have similar. Just no actual titles.
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by skizm 7y ago
What does "promoted" look like for an software engineer at large tech companies? In my company you're either an individual contributor or tech lead. There aren't really any other rungs on the ladder without going to mana
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by skizm 7y ago
Na, Target doesn't have nearly as many hiding spots.
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by skizm 7y ago
The game continues, but the Police are now the seekers and stakes are raise: if you're found, you go to jail.
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by skizm 7y ago
The key insight when writing a sudoku solver is that it is just depth first search. Once someone told me that it just sort of clicked. Just guess each possible number at each open square and if you ever get to an un-solvable state, just und
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by skizm 7y ago
Is the new book any good? I heard bad reviews, and it turned me off. I usually love everything NS does though.
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by skizm 7y ago
"Calculated Bets" by Steven Skiena is a pretty good read if you're interested in this stuff.
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by skizm 7y ago
None of this advice really addresses the core issue: people don’t want to be on other people’s schedule nearly all the time for 30+ years of their adult life. It’s relentless and soul crushing. I get 4 weeks off a year, and even if I take t
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by skizm 7y ago
Did this exploit exist for all browsers on iOS? Or just Safari?
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by skizm 7y ago
If you sell immediately after your stocks vest, do you pay capital gains tax, or normal income tax? Does the clock start ticking while stock is vesting or after?
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by skizm 7y ago
Maybe in other countries, but in the US the only real consideration is health care. Most people who want to start a business are cool eating ramen, couch surfing, and sacrificing a big salary if they have to, but don’t want to risk going co
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by skizm 7y ago
As an American, where can I order these phones, and are they easy to develop on? Seems like a good opportunity. Whatsapp turned into a $19 billion dollar business by targeting this demographic (their app worked on pretty much any phone you
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by skizm 7y ago
If companies saw that multiplayer games sell better, so they decided to optimize towards those, that is the definition of market forces. Right?
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by skizm 7y ago
Defeatist in what sense though? No one I've spoken to feels "defeated" by paying for social media with their data. Most people have experienced exactly zero negative consequences for giving out all their personal info in exch
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by skizm 7y ago
These arguments are exactly why most people I meet say they don't care how much info they give to random apps. They assume since Google has all the info already anyway, why should they care if one more nameless faceless corp gets it? P
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by skizm 7y ago
What argument do you use to prove them wrong?
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by skizm 7y ago
The only reason they will "let you undo it" (buying something for $500 instead of $5) is because goodwill is hard to buy and doesn't cost them anything in this case. It isn't like the company is "being moral" o
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by skizm 7y ago
Can Tesla's autopilot really navigate "major American city" areas with no human interaction? I thought it was just a slightly smarter cruise control for highways only and the driver still needs to be somewhat alert?

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