mindvirus

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by mindvirus 1y ago
Happens to the best of us.
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by mindvirus 1y ago
Throwing out one idea: for the 30+ crowd with kids and families, how can you make it frictionless to maintain and build friendships, especially across different groups (building, schools, after schools, family)? Not necessarily as families,
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by mindvirus 1y ago
Maybe. The internet was also exponential, and while it has its drawbacks, I think it's resulted in a huge increase in creativity. The world looks very different than it did 30 years ago, and I think mostly for the better.
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by mindvirus 1y ago
Amazing, I feel like I'm zooming in to some alien city. I'm sure people are thinking about it, but with high resolution scanning, 3D printing, etc., it feels like it should be possible to create extremely high quality reproduction
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by mindvirus 2y ago
This is great. I'd love it for flashcard creation - paste in a block of text I'm reading and extract vocabulary from it.
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by mindvirus 2y ago
I think it's more about when the market is still majority manual. 20% self driving might see premiums for manual cars go up significantly because manual drivers would have more at fault accidents per mile than before (assuming the same
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by mindvirus 2y ago
I think insurance prices will drive adoption of self driving very quickly. Consider: if a non-self driving car is in an accident with a self driving car, it'll almost always be the non-self driving car at fault. And with the telemetry
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by mindvirus 2y ago
It is cynical, but quality over quantity is bad advice if you want to grow your career as a manager. It's a real failure mode. Not being aggressive about growing your headcount will hold you back. Pretty much all managers are evaluated
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by mindvirus 2y ago
Very interesting, I'd always thought it was a made up thing from Donnie Darko.
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by mindvirus 2y ago
Funny enough, the US government is in a large part in debt to... the US government. So for that part at least, it feels more like an accounting mechanism than anything.
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by mindvirus 2y ago
Presumably I'd be able to buy it back at $0.60 on the dollar since that's what the market value of a low interest mortgage would be on today's market of 7% mortgage rates. I'd want to do it so I could sell my place and m
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by mindvirus 2y ago
https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.851/ covers them. If I recall, one use was speeding up search in range trees.
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by mindvirus 2y ago
This is a fascinating article, though I'm not sure I grok the analogy about flow meters. Given they're so securitized, I wish I could buy back my own mortgage at a discount given how much interest rates have risen. It feels that g
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by mindvirus 2y ago
That's a fun prompt. Depends on the landlord but taking a Chris Voss approach here: "Honestly, I'm worried I can't afford to move, you're a smart guy, I bet you're worried about that too. I get it, I don't
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by mindvirus 3y ago
Congrats to them! What have your experiences with vector databases been? I've been using https://weaviate.io/ which works great, but just for little tech demos, so I'm not really sure how to compare one versus ano
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by mindvirus 3y ago
It's so interesting to hear ideas that feel so timeless today - "unit testing", "refactoring" - were of course not.
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by mindvirus 3y ago
One big viewpoint shift I've had over the past 5 years is that it should be very hard to fire people for their actions outside of work. By and large things that aren't criminal, don't involve employees of the company or their
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by mindvirus 3y ago
I meant what the people are optimizing for. However, even equity has its faults: equity has to vest for it to be worth anything (and later, be exercised for strike + AMT). The expected value of impact could be high, but if they have a highe
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by mindvirus 3y ago
You have to know what you and others are optimizing for. In big companies, it's rarely the success of the project. Usually it's a combination of keeping your job and growing your career. Most big companies provide limited upside f
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by mindvirus 3y ago
"If you have not notified us... you will be deemed to have agreed..." Is changing the terms of a service agreement with no confirmation/acceptance from the user even legal or enforceable?
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by mindvirus 3y ago
How would they have typeset this, especially the more complex equations? I'm guessing LaTeX didn't have great support on 1899 typewriters or printing presses.
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by mindvirus 3y ago
Allstate/SquareTrade has been awesome. I bought a nightmare of a dishwasher that's needed repairs three times now. Each time I call, I'm on hold for under a minute, they do some brief trouble shooting, and then they overnight
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by mindvirus 3y ago
I wish I just had one device. Imagine a phone that unfolds to a laptop, and then can plug in to a keyboard and display and become a reasonable computer/laptop. Samsung is sort of there with the Fold and Dex, but Apple could really nail
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by mindvirus 3y ago
The article doesn't mention it, but part of the answer is equity risk premium: https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/valuation/eq... If I can get ~5% risk free return from treasuries, I need to beli
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by mindvirus 3y ago
Totally agree. Speaking from the western perspective, it's short and poetic, and it introduces concepts that people aren't familiar with in a brief and accessible way. I don't think anyone in the west is becoming a Taoist in
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by mindvirus 3y ago
The Tao that can be named is not the true Tao. :) It's a very accessible exploration of attachment and offers some great insights on things like ego, virtue and leadership.
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by mindvirus 3y ago
I've talked about this before, but the US debt feels to me mostly like an accounting mechanism. What I mean is that the US government is mostly in debt to itself, in money it can print. For example, the Social Security Trust Fund buys
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by mindvirus 3y ago
Love it! I learned so much from building projects like this! None of mine had cool logos like yours - this looks really pro. Have you tried teaching Crumb to GPT4? I bet it could surprise you with what it can do.
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by mindvirus 3y ago
This feels like wishful thinking. North Korea seems to be carrying on, in spite of a lot of political assassinations.
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by mindvirus 3y ago
This is a great writeup, I think I've found myself in every one of those segments. One piece that feels like it could use more exploration is the ability to mandate. Some of it is leading through influence, but a place I've strugg

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