yes-the-day

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by yes-the-day 6y ago
As a non-tech hub guy, I think your last point probably isn't true. Where I work, the best devs are not on par with the Stanford/MIT etc. people, but we can hold our own quite well with the next tier down from New York, San Franci
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by yes-the-day 6y ago
This reminds me of the psychologist Daniel Nettle's assertion that there are 3 levels of happiness. The most basic is the immediate feeling of pleasure, like what you get from having sex or watching a sunset. I think you're right
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by yes-the-day 6y ago
This was the advice I gave my sister: one major for passion, one for future employment. I graduated during 2010 with a humanities degree, and while I loved the things I learned and did really well academically, I was auto-rejected from a lo
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by yes-the-day 6y ago
I'm convinced this is one of the main sources of inefficiency in modern management, whether using AI or not. Managers are incentivized to be action prone so as to demonstrate their value continuously, and they are also expected to put
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by yes-the-day 6y ago
Is it really that surprising though? Reciprocal altruism is a part of human nature. We give other individuals stuff they want so they will give us stuff we want. At the end of the day the economy and financial system are just a big layer of
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by yes-the-day 6y ago
This is going to sound a little touchy-feely, but I'm going to write it anyway. There are a lot of games in the world, and what the author describes here is one of them. And you can play this game if you want to, and you might even win