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by sytelus 4y ago
It's a great axiom until it isn't. One thing I still cannot visualize is exapanding universe. If there is an expanstion then there must be a shape and then there must be a center and then must be one direction that is not exactly
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by sytelus 4y ago
Yes, I myself have done a lot of things that have no logical reasoning but gave life a purpose, or at least it seemed to. That was my “religion”. I really cannot say I am opposed anyone else’s religion. The big issue is that many religious
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by sytelus 4y ago
Spirituality is not same as ardently following very specific religious practices. I believe everyone is spiritual in some way. I also don’t think we suspend disbelief when reading/watching work of fiction. We accept that to be fake but
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by sytelus 4y ago
You might be even more heartened to know that one of the top most and highly respected computer scientist, Donald Knuth, is ardently religious. The contrast between his works that is extraordinarily precisely well reasoned after decades of
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If you are not going to get into it then consider commenting when you are ready. I find it bullying behavior when you put down a person, establish yourself as expert but refuse to provide why is it that way. This is not to say OP was correc
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This has always been case long before Google. Interestingly, this has never prevented new startups to born and compete. When Google was shaping up, they didn’t went after hiring people in established companies. They went after people who no
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by sytelus 4y ago
Humans, except for very cream of the crop (and that too in limited time window), is not rational species. The chimp genes still dominates our majority of the short and long term actions.
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by sytelus 4y ago
Amazing shift in new generation is that they are completely oblivious to movie and TV stars. Their world revolves all around set of YouTubers. Many of these YouTubers are exclusively just streaming their game plays. This is literally the mo
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by sytelus 4y ago
Infrastructure wise scaling will continue to be possible with CS innovations. Algo wise, I am not sure if we can handle all the additional adversarial content and noise. A lot of index pruning happens just to reduce adversarial content and
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Within FAANG, there is again tri-modal distribution. There are people who are hanging in there in IC roles for 15 years and then they are new comers straight out of school with PhD in deep learning and multiple competing offers. Both groups
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I am pretty certain people there will end up in prison for making these kind of false claims.
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I hate to break it to you but vast majority of small regional banks are scams. I learned this hard way trying to support local bank instead of big ones. It turns out these banks are run by bunch of private equity firms for the sole purpose
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by sytelus 4y ago
I don't think this will lhave much impact on health care cost. The cost is high because it is paid through employer and therefore it is hidden from you. If the law was to force employers disclose lost wages for employees due to health
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Google just sells content other people wrote.
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What is astonishing is how little these space crafts have travelled. They go at 38k mph and it would have still taken them 40,000 years to reach nearest star to the earth! The fastest space craft so far is Parker Solar Probe which was about
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by sytelus 4y ago
This is actually a great time to buy house. You are not going to have bidding wars and take your time. For now, swallow the pill for 6% rate but know that this will come down in next 2-3 years as Ukraine war wraps up and supply chain stabil
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by sytelus 4y ago
I think you don't understand that you cannot escape the consequences of human mating behavior by making dating online to offline. 80% of women will prefer top 20% of men. You can go to bar and get some beer goggles for a while, but
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by sytelus 4y ago
There was a very detailed article that used data collected in Tinder. It showed something like 80% of women fought for 20% of top men and other way around. This basically meant that large number of men are being left out cold in dating sce
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by sytelus 4y ago
I think it is super important that you give this information to lawyer who makes your will and no one else. Especially not your spouse. Why? Statistically, 30% of spouses cheat and get deeply enamored in affairs where anything can happen. I
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by sytelus 4y ago
For many legal requirements, you need to provide monthly statements of accounts. You need to show balance at each closing period. Every financial account in world does this.
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You didn't do it because you didn't took risk in crypto.
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You can't attribute suicides of people investing in crypto to Armstrong. I think Armstrong had a great vision and ok execution (I would give grade D but not F). Overhiring was irresponsible. Out of control costs were unneccessory. But
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This is the most fundamental tenant of capitalism. The output is perpetually distributed according to initial risk taken, not according to amount of day-to-day work performed. The property of capital is that it keeps growing (more or less
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And they still didn't have ability to provide statements!
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I don't understand why Coinbase is feeling such a crunch. They are just middleman in buying and selling. Their advantage is supposed to be that they make money whether crypto goes up or down. How can they screw this up?
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What does folks think about CRT as treatment for myopia? They are basically hard lenses that you only wear during night and stay glasses-free during day time. My understanding is that myopia doesn't go away but also doesn't get wo
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There is always someone making shit ton of money but that doesn't make things "not unusual". In a typical mature big tech, I would say less than 5% of employees ever cross 7-digit mark. Often that requires massive hustling fo
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Quant cash bonuses are highly conditional and would rarely materialize at the quoted max possible levels. If they do at all, party don't last very long. OP is aggressive husler but his greedy optimization strategy isn't going to t
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Fool me once, fool me twice... wow! It is this time when I think about all the people who cry about SEC regulations and argue that people are intelligent and need not be protected from scammers like this.
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It is not about brain power but the computing power. The biggest fallacy with crypto is that combined computing power owned by general public is more than few powerful entities. This has never hold true in the history of humanity. The 1% of

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