pw0ncakes

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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
I don't mean to be hating on the people. I hate the culture of casual sex. The culture is disgusting. The people are mostly not disgusting, just misguided. I don't mean to imply that they're morally depraved people for participating in so
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
I like to believe that sex is an expression of romantic love and not just a commodity to be exchanged for social status.
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
And some people wouldn't date a woman who isn't Catholic/Jewish/Hindu/whatever. You're within your rights to choose whom you date, but it doesn't really reflect anything about the people you're refusing as much as about yourself. I didn't
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
Arranged marriage and misogyny vs. meaningless casual sex. False dichotomy much?
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
Right, I know. I wouldn't date a woman who entered into a non-monogamous sexual relationship.
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
Literal: I would never date someone who was someone else's "fuck buddy". Interpretation: So you would never date someone that slept with someone else? Am I missing a few steps here? I never remotely implied that.
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
* Lots of short-term, usually unbalanced, relationships between poorly-matched people.
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
I would never date someone who was someone else's "fuck buddy". It's just a gross and depressing concept.
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
Because suburban isolation, widespread tolerance of social alcohol dependence, a crass consumer culture, and widening wealth inequalities (leading to social class anxiety) have bred a generation of social retards who can't muster up the cou
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
Two words: real estate. Silicon Valley became disgustingly expensive after building substantial momentum in technology, gaining enough strength that entrepreneurs would live there in spite of the quality-of-life/cost-of-living problems.
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
New York apartment brokers are a frivolous class of overpaid, lazy parasites who collect 12-17 percent of a year's rent for doing virtually nothing. They also handle the nasty work of ethnic screening (which is, yes, still present in the re
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
If you fire someone who can't understand basic programming concepts, the mistake you made was hiring that person.
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
In a way, it's an admission of impotence. When you fire someone, you're saying that you don't have the resources or power to turn that person into a success at your company. The "resources" angle is crucial. Large companies can afford to ha
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
I think you need both. You need to detect, and rectify, problems as soon as they occur. It's much better to catch potentially badly-fit employees (which doesn't mean they're necessarily bad, but just not right for the position you're trying
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
It depends on the circumstance. In a small startup, it's going to be a given that a certain fraction of the people you bring on are inappropriate for the company, and that you can't predict this in advance. Fire them, before they do too muc
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
I have a friend whose test is to sort a linked list using any sorting algorithm (it can be bubble sort) and any language (excluding trivial calls to library functions). It's fairly hard in C, trivial in ML or Haskell, and this is the point
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
Or the incentive structure, if a lifestyle on the dole is too good for too many people, might be disastrous in the long term. Within about 50 years, due to technological advancements, we'll have 20-40% paid employment (not unemployment) a
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
What if they reverse a linked list using a language like ML or Haskell where pointers aren't required?
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
What's missed here is that being fired, for a lot of people, has real consequences. I don't think I'd take a job where I thought there was a 1/3 chance I'd be fired in the next 6 months. If you're a startup, you're hiring people who underst
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
Depressing and not surprising. Why is it that so much about the state of human behavior and society is summarized by those four words?
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
I would rather have a society where people are paid unemployment, even indefinitely, than one where they work under Wal-Mart conditions for Wal-Mart wages-- a circumstance that would be considered slavery by most societies dating back to an
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
No. Rich does not mean upper class, and upper class does not mean rich. The two factors are strongly correlated, but not the same thing. The upper class is a tightly-connected group of people who work to consolidate power, social resources,
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
It's not, at least not completely. Arbitrage and market-making are legitimate businesses that provide liquidity to markets, making it easier for other traders to get fair trades. (Whenever you trade, the fair value is assumed to be somewher
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
Actually, a much worse con, if you want to have this discussion, is that millions of private-sector corporate employees are getting paid peanuts for their work, compensated largely with a promise of future prosperity/advancement that will n
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
I like programming and solving problems, but I also like working at the big picture and being aware of the financial aspect. I'd be a great VC, although I'm also a pretty strong programmer. It'd be nice to straddle both worlds and learn fro
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
Since 1975, the upper class has done a great job of making sure the proceeds of economic growth and progress go mainly to them. Increased productivity is good only when the benefits are shared.
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
Fair point. We believed that the unmaintainable code problem would be less of an issue after launch, and that this person knew his codebase well enough to keep it on life support until that point, at which we could hire people to fix the pr
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
A lot of HF traders pull out in times like this for technological reasons. For example, most quotefeeds (such as Reuters, if my memory serves) have outdated technology that handles load really badly. When quotes are 5+ seconds slow, they're
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
By "big picture" I mean aesthetics, design, and also strategic resource allocation. I'm in my late 20s and know for a fact that, with a year of study, I could do better than 50-80% of society's major decision makers if in their place.
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
This is normal procedure. In the US, if a trade is an obvious rip-off to one party, the exchange usually cancels it. It's better to be horribly incompetent and off by 50% than marginally incompetent and make a trade that's 0.5% bad. In Japa

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