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> Musk wants there to be a colony on Mars in the near future. As a first step, to prove Mars is liveable. As far as I can recall, he believes that we must be a multi-planetary species to survive which means Earth is destined to die. Spac
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Generally, if you make good changes, you'll see a short-term dip before a long-term increase. The challenge is differentiating between bad changes that have caused long-term harm, vs. good changes that are experiencing the natural shor
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A credit card is a long term commitment that integrates into your personal finance life, it’s a big decision you make once and can benefit from the broader finance system — e.g: you can refinance, you have legal rights (jurisdiction depende
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Functionally it is substantially different to a credit card. The value of BNPL to businesses is the way that it changes the basis for a customer’s purchase decision, a credit card does not have that same dynamic. The underlying credit mecha
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Don’t, keep things simple. Maintain a separate archive of each individual repository and any history can be referenced in that repository when necessary.
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A justice system will never be about the truth, because the truth does not bring justice: justice is a human attempt at realising what most would call karma. You do a bad thing, we try to make you suffer: the truth doesn't matter, beca
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Do whatever feels right for you. There are some people for whom there is a psychological cost to being on medication and medication for them is a step towards being "normal" but for many other people (like myself) medication is a
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There’s wide range of anti-depressants and many different treatment strategies, including dosage variance. Metabolisation tests may be helpful in some cases to determine if a drug may behave in unintended ways in your body but that doesn’
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Code is a tool for businesses, and while it's a tool that can enable you to do anything you can imagine, it is an expensive tool for businesses to do anything they can imagine... and how many businesses need to be able to do anything
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> I think ChatGPT is pretty neat but I was somewhat less impressed than everyone else is with the code generation. specifically on code generation, even if it could produce the correct code, it's basically faster horses: if you as
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The meme that cryptocurrency is good for people in countries without modern banking is long-dead at this point. First, and most importantly, many supposed not-modern countries actually have more robust banking than America: mobile money is
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Many people do find probation stressful because of the perception that they’re being scrutinised: although there’s no difference in the legal rights at 5 months vs. 7 months service, an employee on probation may perceive probation as being
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England’s employment rights are much less beneficial to employees now than they once were: nowadays, in your first 2 years, you have no meaningful protection beyond what’s contracted, it’s not until 2 years that you have employment protecti
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The pragmatic answer is something like: the marginal cost is ~$0 and the lost revenue is at most $5 so who cares? There's a disincentive to "steal" a logo too because they'll still be selling it: for $5, why not get the
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I have no relationship to Paddle but they deserve defending, as they’re absolutely not a “dinosaur clinging to life” and are in fact a very valuable player given the changing regulatory and tax landscape across the world. The phrase to use
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There's an unintuitiveness to it: many people believe that you're less likely to win the lottery if you pick "01 02 03 04 05 06 07" because of course that pattern is less likely than a randomly chosen set. ChatGPT is a
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Also as far as predictions go, I predict that a few years from now there’ll be research and think pieces about the impact learning from artificial voices has on young children.
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The answers seem to have aged quite well! Apple specifically say that this is designed as a complement to human narration and not a replacement: some aspect of that is Apple protecting relationships with the audiobook industry, but it’s als
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That’s quite common functionality nowadays but generally if you’re dealing with valuable enterprise relationships that would benefit from tickets ranking higher, you have points of contact available to the client (whether that’s an account
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The cost of fraud far exceeds the cost of losing one customer. The cost of losing dozens of customers costs more than prioritising someone’s issue. I have no insider knowledge of Stripe but I find it entirely plausible that Stripe will fore
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Many years ago you were prohibited from sharing warnings by virtue of YouTube monetisation being through AdSense but, as far as I know, there’s no longer such a restriction. Lots of people publish their earnings nowadays, very common amongs
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They say “paper” but it was a cotton blend much like USD. They’re shit talking old notes because it’s good for business. I haven’t touched cash in a while but I don’t recall any meaningful difference in the durability of “paper” GBP and USD
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> All of these things are good signals, but past experience can be misleading, and github activity is trivially easy to fake. And coding challenges... have integrity? If someone goes to the effort to fake GitHub activity (whatever that m
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If you design a hiring process that values a coding challenge then of course people who do well at the coding challenge will do well in the process. The problem with coding challenges is that they do not require the same skills that softwar
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Apparently his servers keep getting hacked, which doesn’t reflect well on his security practices: https://twitter.com/LukeDashjr/status/1606885577843957762
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Regarding coding challenges, I meant to say that they're just as easy to pass as they are to fail, meaning you can fail one test and pass another and it mean nothing about your ability or value as a software engineer. I've failed
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Job experience is a cheap proxy for the ability to get things done : if you've had multiple programming jobs, then you've probably been able to get things done and so hiring you is a safe choice. The absence of programming job ex
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The specifics of the arrangement with the broker are not disclosed but a reasonable guess is that the broker is taking a percentage. A percentage of anything is better than a percentage of nothing. Much like a realtor, the incentives of the
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An Amazon warehouse worker isn’t a human, an Amazon warehouse worker is a human engaged in an activity that utilises a tiny portion of what that human is capable of. A Roomba is not AGI because it can do what a cleaner does. “Artificial gen
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it’s absolutely their fault in many ways, I don’t dispute that, but I absolutely dispute the idea that this must be a grand conspiracy to trick people into buying coffee with an impossible story. They were dealing with a broker who is respo

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