whiterknight

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by whiterknight 3y ago
That’s how integers are defined in set theory.
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Sinusoids are also special because they are eigenfunctions of the derivative operator. The physics result is actually probably a consequence of that. At the end of the day the whole lesson of modern math is that its useful to view things fr
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For your argument to be true mass marketing must have zero effect on participation.
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We have seen how well this argument holds up with sports betting, which went from something people do in Vegas on vacation to a significant portion of 20-30 year old males pay checks. Accessibility and marketing matters.
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I think it’s a big one. They are always in tune.
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The PR turnaround for Tesla on HN is incredible. Shows how effective peer pressure from journalists is.
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Yep the math does work out. Take the 27 million and start filtering: - is in your country - has an engineering degree - understands pointers - has worked in Faang and/or serious startups - is someone you can trust - has business acumen
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by whiterknight 3y ago
I have never had a product manager solve a problem for me. Even something like “which file formats does our customers prefer”. I ask 5 times they have meetings with me, eventually I just have to pick.
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This matches my experience.
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I don’t think you understand the question. Eg. a large part of my day is going to meetings, but I’m not obligated to make that the focus of my resume. I have a feeling this is going nowhere. Let’s think twice before attacking strangers in h
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by whiterknight 3y ago
You just called him a liar based on that “leap”. I still fail to see the issue if it’s a minority of activity. Does your resume description perfectly correlate to percentage of time spent?
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How do you know all the tasks they were given? I know people with similar background who worked in an office. Lying would be saying you went to a school somewhere you didn’t or didn’t work as long as you said so. I think you are making a lo
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All are welcome. It’s just weird to get upset that it’s US focused.
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So the comment above admits that people are taking more time off and working less. So is your argument that the majority of work that we lost didn’t matter anyway?
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Maybe you should read a site tailored to your local interests instead of one focused on Silicon Valley and adjacent cities.
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Maybe it won’t collapse but maybe everything is only working 70% as well as it used to. It sure feels that way.
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There are other kinds of investments that are less risky than isos.
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Girardian theory describes the kinds of people who have scapegoat potential. It doesn’t prophecy that every insider/outsider will get killed, but that they have or are a sign of mimetic energy. We are experiencing capulets vs mortigues
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by whiterknight 3y ago
There is deep class segregation in cities. Problems occur when the “wrong people” are in your kids schools and HOA. Also US urban cities represent one experience. It hasn’t worked that way in places like South Africa.
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In Peter Thiels 2013 book he describes successful founders and extreme personalities as having similar characteristics. It’s hard not to make similar observations about Musk (super genius, who is an idiot). The social dynamics are too power
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Paradoxes like this are actually defining characteristics of the scapegoat. - he is a rich billionaire but also a broke failure - he is the most hated, but also the most popular - he has been a ny elite (insider) for decades, but his base i
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by whiterknight 3y ago
That’s my point. symbols and names are merely suggestive mnemonic devices. They can’t ever specify actual behaviors. Accept it and supplement with English. That’s what math does. You have to read the context. > optimized to tersness That
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Unfortunately life is complex and all of those semantics are useful. You have to read and write documentation and follow well established conventions (like math).
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Sucks doing something you know is a waste. I value my time and personal growth more than my employer does.
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Agreed, I need to describe this more precisely. When it has to draw that much current it limits the contexts in which it can be beneficial.
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When we don’t have a model of the problem it takes enormous amounts of power to synthesize one out of neurons or another general function approximating primitive. But once we understand a little bit about the problem we can model 80-90% of
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by whiterknight 3y ago
These giant GPUs aren’t getting more efficient, they draw even more power to do more work. It’s impressive and will have important use cases. But fundamentally technology gets better when we can do more with less.
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Yep and government can continue to squeeze because their options are leave (immediately replaced with competitor apps) or give them their cut.
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I think it’s partly generational. We don’t see as much value because traditional computers are familiar and get the job done for us But younger people won’t have the same attachment. Young people already use mobile phones for things we woul
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Counter example: there are companies in the S&P that are not disasters and have good careers.

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