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by thefaux 4y ago
Being extraordinary is easier than just picking some random categorizations that you identify with and combining them. Just be yourself. There is no one else in the world like you. The odds of being you are less than one in eight billion. H
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Culture matters too. It isn't a coincidence that Bolt came from Jamaica, which has a tradition of high level sprinting. If he was born poor in the US, my guess is he would have been a wide receiver or basketball player and only would h
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I'm with you that we should consider clean air a human right. Personally, I find vehicular exhaust a much bigger problem than weed smoke though.
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Hoodwink the entire public and nearly bring down the entire financial system, get a government bailout. Hoodwink a few rich investors, go to jail. Both at taxpayer expense.
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Just because her behavior was horrible doesn't mean she isn't a scapegoat.
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> That raises the question of what are the "dividends" for those parties, regardless of the financial success of Twitter. My guess is that they see twitter as the central online hub of anti-capitalist ideology, which is also co
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Scapegoating 101.
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I don't know. We live in a society in which PR is king. Fake it til you make it. It seems that what FTX was really selling was the wunderkind genius, SBF. The beanbag, disheveled appearance, mit education and league of legends playing
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by thefaux 4y ago
Does Unison have stack traces? Using the hash of the ast as the only identifier seems like it would lose some useful runtime debugging information.
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Besides homicides, I take all crime rates with a heaping grain of salt, although it's probably fair to consider them to generally be a significant undercount. It does not seem entirely intuitive to me that mass incarceration would driv
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> what is the point of the manager? exactly
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Evidently by dismissing any of their concerns and calling them oversensitive snowflakes who are going to ruin America with their woke communism.
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Cancel culture, while containing some truth, is very obviously a cudgel being used by the radical right to try and suppress any ideas they don't agree with. Sound familiar?
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^ bad
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Exactly why I had to leave the field.
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The interesting thing to keep in mind is that there is a subjective aspect to taste. Personally, I do not care for Linus's taste in programming or system design, but I absolutely respect his immense skill within his domain.
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Yeah, I had a strong reaction to his claiming all the credit for those products. A simple change from I to we makes all the difference. But I guess that's part of why he's on the board of arm and I'm not :)
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> Which is more valuable? Which would you rather want? Today or in 50 years? I'm pretty sure an iphone in 50 years will be worthless but the raw materials that made it will probably be even more valuable than they are today.
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I'm not an expert on the timber industry. I'm sure that there are sustainable lumber practices, but I have no idea what the dominant sources are today. Still, tree farms are not a replacement for the old growth forests that were d
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> By that logic are we unfathomably wealthy because there are billions of planets out there teaming with resources? No, because we don't have access to those resources. > Do you think people 1000 years ago felt wealthy because of
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Yeah, proper dosing of cannabis is tricky. I think used sparingly and in small doses it can be helpful for many creative practices. It is very easy to take too much or use it too often because the feeling of being high can be so pleasurable
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I am going by this definition of wealth https://www.thefreedictionary.com/wealth : An abundance of valuable material possessions or resources; riches. > It’s really potential wealth That's like saying that potential
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Arguably due to the depletion of natural resources, we actually have far less wealth today than we did 100 years ago.
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This framing assumes that the tree has more value as a part of the house than it did as a tree. Every act of wealth creation is simultaneously an act of wealth destruction. Whether it is a positive or negative action is as much a statement
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> Wealth creation is a positive-sum game. Is it though? Even if it were true in aggregate, which I'm not ready to grant, there are clearly individual losers in the the "wealth creation" game.
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> Umm... yeah we are? We're just chemical reactions and physics, there is no escaping that. Are we extremely sophisticated and complex, absolutely but that doesn't make us nondeterministic in any meaningful or special way. Ever
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> Cheap energy from fossil fuels have done more to lift people around the globe out of crushing poverty than any company you think is above "unbelievably harming" the planet. I would actually argue that cheap energy has been on
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> We can't hide in a cave to build everything in secret until it's ready because otherwise we wouldn't have the money to pay contributors, or we would be forced to get funding through other means (I mention that point in t
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Zig seems to have captured a lot of attention in the new language design space, and I personally find this unfortunate. Frankly, I find it irresponsible that the team has marketed a pre 1.0 language so heavily. By constantly evolving the la
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by thefaux 4y ago
For everyone who finds the removal of admission tests ridiculous, how do y'all feel about leetcode?

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