thevillagechief

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by thevillagechief 2y ago
This was one of the most frustrating books I ever read when I was young. A bunch of people around me kept talking about how they quit their jobs and found success after reading the book, how it had changed their lives. I'd ready it and
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by thevillagechief 2y ago
I got an email from CrowdStrike Communications by George Kurtz about the root cause analysis for the Channel File 291 incident on my personal email. I was sure it was some scam but it looks absolutely legit with the Gmail blue check. I don&
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by thevillagechief 2y ago
They can . But more often than not, you end up with OpenAI. I'd rather we just straight-up skip to business, and go the Anthropic Public Benefit route.
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by thevillagechief 2y ago
I still regret not stockpiling a pair of shoes I got 14 years ago. My favorite pair of shoes ever. I went looking for them a year later, and of course they had been discontinued. So yeah, I've started doing this.
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by thevillagechief 2y ago
The full analysis is too long to go on here, but on the chapter "Narrow Framing on the Upper East Side has this conclusion: "The implication of our analysis is that the equity premium - or the required rate of return on stocks - i
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by thevillagechief 2y ago
I should have clarified, this is a 401K, not a pension plan. So it's just passive index funds. I don't even think of pensions as a thing anymore.
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by thevillagechief 2y ago
It was Richard Thaler's Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics book that finally broke through my thick, anxiety ridden skull and convinced me to stop reading economic news everyday and just forget the the retirement accounts
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by thevillagechief 2y ago
Ah, the old "it's too dangerous to release" marketing move. Why even tell us about it?
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by thevillagechief 2y ago
There is a whole genre of puns in Swahili relating to Japanese names, some real some made up.
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by thevillagechief 2y ago
If you come from Africa, this is just the reality. Makes it hard to get ahead, or take risks, but it is what it is. Most of my generation's goal is to end it, and not have to pass that burden to our kids.
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by thevillagechief 3y ago
It looks to me like the government has gotten it's money's worth and then some from their transactions with his companies. Whatever his personal antics, I can't think of any instance his companies haven't delivered whate
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by thevillagechief 3y ago
I would have thought this was hyperbole had I not experienced this living in Kent years ago. It's in fact worse. It was twice as expensive to take a train from Canterbury to Stansted than it was to fly from Stansted to Glasgow. Still,
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by thevillagechief 3y ago
This is sad. It has been sad since they started pushing silly late night nonsense. I usually cannot stand watching the same mainstream news channel content I've already avoided on TV. Does anyone actually go to YouTube to watch 'a
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by thevillagechief 3y ago
I hope to see a lot more of this kind of thing. I never liked or understood that massive Google San Jose project. Hope they change course and spread that investment around more of the country.