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by vkk8 5y ago
You might be interested in the concept of "duality" often used in e.g. theoretical physics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duality_(mathematics) If you want to be even more general, check out a field of mathem
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by vkk8 5y ago
Streamlining production seems like a wrong goal in this game. I mean, who cares if you can efficiently churn out dozens or hundreds of new TV-shows and movies if none of them are good? Having one really good TV-show on the catalogue is wort
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by vkk8 5y ago
> A SaaS company, Salmon as a Service, providing next day delivery of fresh salmon, when the same thing can be bought at the local store. If "fresh" really means caught on the day before, I would use this service. The "fre
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by vkk8 5y ago
This would transfer the real estate from the people to huge rental companies that can buy real estate without 30 year loans. Probably it would also lower the prices a lot, though.
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by vkk8 5y ago
I wonder why fixed interest rates are so prevalent in some countries (like, apparently, the US) while in other countries the standard is to tie the interest rate to a reference rate (like EURIBOR in the Eurozone)?
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by vkk8 5y ago
Related to the last point: There is no way to estimate how much work a new job is in reality. I'm currently working 10-20 hours a week remotely. I think my salary could be improved, but taking a risk of actually having to put in 40 hou
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by vkk8 5y ago
In banks the technical people are, in my experience, always second class citizens. They are expected to shut up and do what the business people tell them to do. They are not really responsible for anything or making decisions and are paid a
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by vkk8 5y ago
My thoughts exactly. I remember reading about some indigenous tribes in Africa whose diet is mostly just fruits. You could maybe make an argument that the fruits we consume now are a result of hundreds of years of selective breeding and con
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by vkk8 5y ago
Indeed. Somehow people managed to eat lunch before the internet.
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by vkk8 5y ago
I've heard of people doing similar things before. Maybe people working in high security environments downloading libraries from random websites is common enough that some attackers are actually targeting those people by backdooring com
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by vkk8 5y ago
Yes, it almost sounds like Agassi sort of showed his father was right to force him to play tennis. If I suddenly "chose tennis", it wouldn't do me much good because becoming a world class tennis player requires decades of tra
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by vkk8 5y ago
Seven Sketches in Compositionality by Spivak and Fong ( https://math.mit.edu/~dspivak/teaching/sp18/7Sketches.pdf ) is supposed to be very practical. It includes many examples, but I'm not sure how useful
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by vkk8 5y ago
The thing is, I think there are people in academia who are not just bullshitting. Occasionally real scientific advances do happen. It's just that if I don't personally have a breakthrough in sight, I'm supposed to just produc
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by vkk8 5y ago
> That's how boring research gets prioritized. Yes, I realized I was part of the problem, but couldn't help it (except by leaving). If it was only a bunch of PhD students and postdocs wasting their time, the boring research wou
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by vkk8 5y ago
I did a PhD in physics and feel like I missed all the great "meta lessons" some people seem to learn in their PhD. Mostly I just spent my time alone doing calculations either with pen and paper or computer. Most of the stuff I did
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by vkk8 5y ago
> And my money is that they'll use whatever volume they free up to mindlessly make the phone thinner. For some reason this is what the phone manufacturers seem to think that people want and I don't know why. I don't think
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by vkk8 5y ago
> 2) People cannot afford good computer usually also cannot afford to pay for the game. I wonder if they had any kind of proof of this. I would think that there are plenty of kids who could get their parents to pay five bucks for the gam
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by vkk8 5y ago
This makes sense. The sort of users that leave any kind of feedback or even hang around long enough for you to gather statistics are those who think the product is pretty good, but there are just these small issues that they hope will get f
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by vkk8 5y ago
And to some extent, all of the nightmare scenarios from those technologies happened. Over time, those scenarios just became the new normal way of life and we adapted to it. Of course, many have made the case that a lot of our psychological
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by vkk8 5y ago
It seems to be a recurring thing with new technologies. Something new arrives and some people instantly see how it can ruin some aspects of our lives and warn about it. It gets taken semi-seriously, but in the end not seriously enough and t
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by vkk8 5y ago
And, ironically, much of the work that the "normies" do is something tech guys could to hundred times faster. It's stuff like manually copy-pasting numbers from a crappy proprietary software A to a crappy proprietary software
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by vkk8 5y ago
Alain de Botton has a book called "Religion for Atheists". His central point is that religions have gone through hundreds or thousands of years of cultural evolution and likely contain rituals and rules that benefit us even if the
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by vkk8 5y ago
This is what I'm also wondering. What is the point of making a contract in the first place if the price quoted is not binding? If the provider needs more material or manpower or whatever than expected, then it should be their fucking p
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by vkk8 5y ago
This feels like a pretty low hanging fruit to regulate away. Ban antibiotics use in agriculture in civilized countries and ban importing antibiotics grown meat from the others (I would guess it's easy to test).
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by vkk8 5y ago
Exactly what I also wrote. The only people who are really good at any complex topic are huge geeks with some level of obsession for it. I've met plenty of programmers, mathematicians and even some finance people (those people work in t
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by vkk8 5y ago
Possible explanation: People who become physicians do so for wrong reasons. Medicine is highly paid, high status field and thus attracts people who are reasonably smart and just want to have a good life, but are, in the end, not very intern
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by vkk8 5y ago
> private or personal use, including research [1] Doesn't that mean that most forms of piracy should be legal in India? That is, torrenting movies or music, etc.?
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by vkk8 5y ago
How would you go about unschooling yourself as an adult? I've been "in the system" my entire life (like most of us). Thanks to Covid and remote working, I've recently found myself with a lot of free time. I still have a
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by vkk8 5y ago
In the (power)lifting scene, I have really enjoyed the articles by Austin Baraki et al. from Barbell Medicine on pains and aches in the context of physical activities. See for example https://startingstrength.com/article&#x2
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by vkk8 5y ago
My take on all of this is that someone in too high position at Zillow forgot to read their Taleb books.

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