rifung

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by rifung 5y ago
I am a huge fan of the checking/budgeting features of Wealthfront. Does anyone know of a good competitor in case I'll have to jump ship? For those who don't use it, it allows you to create categories and automatically deposit
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Why reset passwords for salted hash leaks?
4 points by rifung 5y ago|3 comments
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by rifung 7y ago
> We are getting to the point where lectures should be mandated to be recorded and put into the public domain Does that really make sense? I thought MIT was a private institution. The research is often publicly funded but I don't
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by rifung 7y ago
> What exactly is the UNIX philosophy? I believe it is the idea of writing small tools focused on doing one thing well with reusability in mind as opposed to writing larger complicated tools that do multiple things. https://en
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by rifung 7y ago
I believe you're in agreement. The original comment said > It's not until you reach a level where everyone around you has a mastery of the fundamentals, that the meta comes into play. and you said > At any given MMR bracket,
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by rifung 7y ago
> This other Googler likely already has a competing offer— that’s how he got promoted last year. Source? I'm very skeptical this is true. I am not a huge fan of Google's promotion process but it isn't that bad.
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by rifung 7y ago
> Aside from Uber drivers, SV types, and wannabe road warrior squinters, nobody uses maps for their daily activities. People know where they're going and they go there without consulting technology. That's why we have traffic j
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by rifung 7y ago
> Lives at stake don't change anything here. The question is whether self-driving cars, even with the errors, are safer for people than regular drivers on average. If so, then absolutely yes everyone should bet their lives and their
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by rifung 7y ago
> The thing is, I see no way to have full self driving without AGI. Why? AGI seems like a significantly harder problem than self driving cars (itself a hard problem admittedly). What I personally think will happen is we'll meet some
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by rifung 7y ago
I work for Google, opinions are my own. In theory, breaking up monopolies increases competition which allows better companies/products to spring up that would otherwise be crushed by anti competitive practices. If you agree with that t
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by rifung 7y ago
> AppAmaGooBookSoft ignores Netflix, which is important for salary calibration since they are cash-only. And FAANG ignores MS. Why does it matter if it's cash only? The stock is equivalent to cash unless you care that much about the
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by rifung 7y ago
> don't even know given the cost of living in the Bay Area if $300K is even really "high" anymore. > If you max out 401k and IRA this is $275k, which is $168K take home or $14k a month. > Left over: $7400 That sound
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by rifung 7y ago
If you think $120-180k is cheap you are speaking from a place of immense privilege.
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by rifung 7y ago
> Does that not apply to most investments? The stock market, aftre all, only works as an investment because everyone is in on an elaborate confidence game. I don't think this is true? As far as I can tell, there is no reason for hou
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by rifung 7y ago
I work at Google (not Search though sorry), opinions are my own. > When you have the actual manufacturer being buried in the results, we have a major problem. How do you know though? What if the majority users actually do what you descri
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by rifung 7y ago
Are games not already legitimized? I feel like with the rise of casual mobile games, almost everyone plays them now. > Really, the only downside I see with them is that they can displace exercise and face-to-face communication -- I know
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by rifung 7y ago
> And he is the most impressive CEO in this generation, perhaps in history, so long hours must work for some people. Even if we assume the first statement is true, which is a big if, it still doesn't necessarily support the idea tha
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by rifung 7y ago
I don't think revenue matters as much as profits? I assume the thinking is that if the ROI is not high enough, then you might as well just invest that money into the more profitable portions of your business.
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by rifung 7y ago
I work at Google, opinions are my own. > I still lay claim that google is not hiring the talent that they think they are or claim to be. Obviously I am biased. I don't think I'm particularly great or anything, but I find my col
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by rifung 7y ago
> So what can I do as a manager to make it more “okay” to spend time at work learning? Maybe instead of having them read something, make them give a presentation on it to the rest of the team? Then they have deadlines and produce content
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by rifung 7y ago
> I’m amazed to hear this from programmers. You can learn this for free, anywhere, at any time. Some people are more passionate about their jobs than others no matter the discipline. I love my job but it's still just something I do
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by rifung 7y ago
But if you're paid salary then how do you dictate what time is your time and what time is the company's? Especially when people sometimes work from home, check emails after they leave work, etc?
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by rifung 7y ago
> Ultimately the job was customer support some mild technical skills / ability to learn / take good notes / ask good questions / the ability to formulate a theory, test it, and so on. > They couldn't find any
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by rifung 7y ago
> I would imagine that in any of those situations some doctors, authors, and musicians alike would be devastated. You don't even have to compare yourself to AI for this mentality though. There are people who choose not to compete in
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by rifung 7y ago
> Also, this makes me wonder: does every project have at least one security engineer until it gets shut down? Usually a specific project doesn't have dedicated security engineers but instead the engineers have to get approval from s
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by rifung 7y ago
> Minimalism is something only the truly rich can actually afford to do I disagree. I was forced to be minimalist because I had to live in a tiny space since I didn't have money to rent a bigger one. You also need money to be able t
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by rifung 7y ago
> Is there a difference between playing in Chromecast vs playing in Chrome browser? And why do you need a controller at all if you're just playing desktop games? Playing on Chromecast is for playing on TV. Chrome is for playing on P
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by rifung 7y ago
I'm not sure what generation you're a part of but I appreciate ads when they actually tell me something I didn't know about that I do want to buy. For example I've been shopping for beds and dont mind ads for brands I ha
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by rifung 7y ago
> At the end of the day, advertisers and viewers can't possibly care what video it's showing on as long as they're getting the right target audience. This isn't true? Advertisers certainly do care. They don't wan
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by rifung 7y ago
> However, there's absolutely no question that I'm the sole contributor to all my code. Most of my repos have only one contributor (Yours Troolie). A couple have been forked off. A bad actor could easily just have someone else

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