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by t_mann 4y ago
I guess a "precise" number would be more something like 210,980.55 than 211,000.01
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by t_mann 4y ago
haha, I wonder who's analyzed that game formally. feels a bit like the 2/3 game with flipped signs ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guess_2/3_of_the_average ). for real numbers, the unique Nash equilibrium
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by t_mann 4y ago
People seem to forget about that. As a seller, a smooth transaction is far more valuable to you than a .3% price difference (and troubles can get way more uncomfortable than just a delay; you don't want some three-letter agency come kn
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by t_mann 4y ago
Sounds like a mild burnout. I don't know your personal situation, but if you've been earning tech salaries for 15 years, maybe you can afford to take a sabbatical? Six months to furbish a nice home, get some therapy, connect with
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by t_mann 4y ago
Not trying to be too skeptical, but that doesn't exactly sound like it's working too well. I remember charts by the ECB as showing Sweden with the most overpriced real estate in the EU. It might look ok in comparison to Barcelona,
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by t_mann 4y ago
Well, crashes are a real thing, and these guys are in the business of trying to predict them. Let's remember to revisit their statement in five years.
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by t_mann 4y ago
Has it really helped? I remember talking to a young Swede a while ago, just a few years out of college. He said he bought a flat in Stockholm pretty much as soon as he had a job, and that the price appreciation since has almost outstripped
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by t_mann 4y ago
One aspect that I felt was missing in the discussion is inflation. You could imagine a situation where house prices have risen before everything else did, and now that inflation is approaching double digits, all the other items in the econo
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by t_mann 4y ago
300 quadrillion, it's right in the text. Next to the visuals showing how large that pile would be.
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by t_mann 4y ago
And flammable gases.
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by t_mann 4y ago
My money is on some conflicting rules in grammar / style checks.
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by t_mann 4y ago
Some more options: Just a demonstration of how Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V works. Literal transcript of a stammered conversation. Poetry / word-based art.
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by t_mann 4y ago
The risk is very real if that guy is driving around on public streets with this system. There are lots of regulations regarding road safety, but at no point in the article did that guy mention anything about them, what steps he took to ensu
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by t_mann 4y ago
Top 12% sure is impressive, but I'd caveat that this probably isn't very representative for the average person asking themselves that question. This seems to have been done by someone who already had experience with ML projects an
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by t_mann 4y ago
Ok, 1B isn't going to go very far there, but that's why I mentioned the Gates Foundation. That sort of money (50B+) could get us somewhere, and might inspire guys like John Doerr to chip in some more as well.
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by t_mann 4y ago
Interesting. There were posts on HN here recently were tech recruiters said that they look at github more than at resumes (with lots of people commenting that their githubs look like what you described and aren't representative at all)
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by t_mann 4y ago
A heartwarming story, but the thought that someone is now driving around in a modded car with a self-driving system installed by someone whose experience with the command line amounts to a few (half-completed?) online ML courses and who had
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by t_mann 4y ago
My point is, see it as a donation , not an investment. You probably won't get richer by funding carbon capture, but you also won't get richer from having your name on a building on the Stanford campus.
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by t_mann 4y ago
I guess it's a matter of personal preference. If I was rich to the point that I could focus entirely on having an impact instead of making money, I'd basically ask myself a variation of Hamming's questions (originally meant a
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by t_mann 4y ago
Ok, thanks, I didn't know about that. 2B is a very decent amount of money. But it sounds more a VC that invests in highly risky, but ultimately profitable ventures. Carbon capture doesn't even feature in their wikipedia descriptio
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by t_mann 4y ago
One thing that I don't get - if I was in the enviable position to make such donations, the one thing that I'd do is fund a company/foundation with a single goal - capture the maximum amount of carbon (+equivalents, +research
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by t_mann 4y ago
And all of those are likely to trigger further sanctions.
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by t_mann 4y ago
The irony of the ultimate cypherpunk dream, a stateless global currency, being forced onto largely unwilling citizens by a national government is hard to measure in words.
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by t_mann 4y ago
Russia hasn't even begun retaliating for Finland's NATO application yet, which they announced they would (potentially even with 'military consequences', as per a Kremlin spokesperson). Besides, the EU has been ramping up
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by t_mann 4y ago
People who drive red cars born July 2000 with a pet bird are 8 times more likely to get in an accident if they primarily drive near Chicago or Miami Hopefully they know their stats modelling well enough to know that's not an actual s
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by t_mann 4y ago
I also remember reading about a few sad stories where organisers tried to renege on those prices by changing the terms ('only for registered pros'...).
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by t_mann 4y ago
"If you can train for it, it's not an IQ test, period." That's pretty much the opposite of how IQ tests work. You can train for any test, and prepping can definitely increase your score also on real IQ tests. If you wa
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by t_mann 4y ago
They're public institutions, but independent from the government. Separation of powers is important.
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by t_mann 4y ago
The German government doesn't prosecute in general, independent state prosecutors do.
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by t_mann 4y ago
wth? a "for cause" termination is a pretty big deal (in some larger organizations practically an automatic application killer), and to say it in a press statement is furthering its damaging impact. why do they think they need to d

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