narcindin

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by narcindin 5mo ago
Crazy, I could have sworn this story was from a passage in 3 Body Problem (book 2). Memory is quite the mysterious thing.
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by narcindin 6mo ago
Funny, I assumed it was a subtle critique of how change always elicits haters. Though now I realize it was an honest non-sequiter to complain about his pet issue? Honestly not sure anymore.
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by narcindin 8mo ago
We call them DJ's and many are quite famous.
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by narcindin 10mo ago
Sad to see Healthcare and government employment growth outpace everything else. If we're all nurses or regulators who will build our country?
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by narcindin 11mo ago
Bring your whole self to work, at this point, is the term you use to criticize this policy, not to describe it. Maternity leave is a version of BYWSTW. As are PRIDE/ethnicity related activities as work. Should we jettison those? I ag
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by narcindin 1y ago
Reminds me of a demo I played 10 years ago called swap box turbo. Designed for two players, it is a simple platformer where you and your partner swap positions and momentum every 3 seconds. You can play it single player too and have an exp
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by narcindin 2y ago
Is it how many workers you have when you build that building
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by narcindin 2y ago
To be clear VTI is only US stocks and VEU is everything else. It is confusing because "Vanguard Total Stock Market" contains only United States equities.
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by narcindin 2y ago
"I'm going to just go ahead and say 'based', entirely on the premise, thank you." Is how I initially read this.
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by narcindin 2y ago
Patrick Collison is from Ireland.
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by narcindin 2y ago
I would say this would have been nice to know ~20 years ago, but umm, it came out ~20 years ago. Ah well. Perhaps I had to learn my lessons the hard way regardless
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by narcindin 2y ago
Owning ~.00001% of a company feels illusory to me, more difficult to intuit values. So would Nvidia share owners rather own all of Nvidia instead of all of Apple? I suspect not. The marginal buyer of nvidia is either: * MEGA-FOMO * Bett
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by narcindin 2y ago
> (I won’t talk about Magnet much here, because the proximate reasons for its failure are pretty simple: we ran out of money and the market fell out from under it. It might have - smart money says probably did have - other means of failu
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by narcindin 2y ago
The Texas electric grid is 25% cheaper than New Yorks: https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.ph... Texas produces more electricity than any other state, in fact more than 2x as much as the 2nd
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by narcindin 2y ago
I get the https://www.newsminimalist.com/ daily newsletter in my RSS reader. A few important news stories each day. Where important is decided by ChatGPT.
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by narcindin 3y ago
I have a similar rule: "The first person to tell their opponent 'your ideas are offensive' forfeits the debate". I believe my rule prevents more bad arguments.
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by narcindin 3y ago
I am happy for Las Angeles to perform a widespread trial of this kind of initiative. Attract people to Southern California that might be homeless elsewhere, help them get on their feet via $750/person/month, then they will get of
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by narcindin 3y ago
India is not homogeneous. Neither are most (all?) countries in Southeast Asia or Sub-Saharan Africa.
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by narcindin 3y ago
This is cool. Isn't finding these the same as minting a new block of bitcoin? So definitially hard using our best understanding of algorithms, math, etc.
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by narcindin 3y ago
Looks like the 2020 line is just east of Chicago and just north of the SFBA. The line can't move West or South too quickly as every additional minute represents so many people shifting from one side of the median to the other.
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by narcindin 3y ago
+1 my best office was a 15 minute walk through a upscale shopping area, into a cramped room alongside my teammates and boss with a great view of a large pond. All of our desks were pushed together in the middle of the room. The _room_ itse
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by narcindin 3y ago
In defense of Ford, GM and Chrysler; it is also a subsidy to BMW, Toyota and Tesla.
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by narcindin 3y ago
When blue states show me a viable public transportation network for a reasonable cost I will support them in my red state. Consider the CA high speed rail a PoC for the nation. Would you endorse copying that model? Is Chicago increasing i
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by narcindin 3y ago
I use the term Anglosphere. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglosphere ).
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by narcindin 4y ago
Probably [facile]( https://www.thefreedictionary.com/facile ), here meaning superficial, reductive, or weak. Edit: Actually probably what the UK ppl are saying
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by narcindin 4y ago
When you say "mid 100,000's" do you mean ~150k or ~500K?
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by narcindin 4y ago
Yes! Binary search through the alphabet. Or, better yet, Hoffman encode common German words!
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by narcindin 5y ago
How is good code review incentivized? Some ideas: * Code review shares more credit and blame for code they approve * Change the word "review" -> "collaborate" * Involve the "collaborator" earlier in the pro
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by narcindin 6y ago
fs is great. I just finished listening to Episode 72: Happy Habits with Neil Pasricha Much recommended
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by narcindin 6y ago
Ctrl + G is select multiple occurrences on Mac. It's one of my favorites as well. It is really good when you need to quickly rename, reformat or tweak a handful of lines that isn't a viable refactor action.

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