vertbhrtn

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by vertbhrtn 6y ago
I'm not seeing that luxury investment housing, though. The newly built houses are usually +/- cheap junk at premium prices. At the same prices there's a low supply of 30-40 year old homes, but of a way way better quality. And
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by vertbhrtn 6y ago
What opportunities? Tell me how an average cashier can land an average 150k/year job in a metro area? Don't forget that the said cashier has mediocre intelligence, so-so appearance, zero charisma and little talking skills. He migh
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by vertbhrtn 6y ago
I'm not sure how one would survive on 60k for even 10 years. This isn't an "investable" amount and it's not enough for food, yet along housing expenses.
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by vertbhrtn 6y ago
Your countertops or your landlord's countertops? Because all the rest - all those iphones & vacations - is cheap fluff, really.
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by vertbhrtn 6y ago
From their perspective, it would be rational to cut a deal with JPMC: they bring workforce back to offices, landlords get their money and give a % of that to a few execs at JPMC. And all the health related problems won't be a JPMC&#x27
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by vertbhrtn 6y ago
As a senior manager, he's a professional liar first.
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by vertbhrtn 6y ago
Professional scientists can't bet their reputation on a novel idea: a 1% chance it'll work out and 99% chance the scientist will be sent to academia's exile. It's better than what would've happened to them in mediev
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by vertbhrtn 6y ago
In some sense, the modern institute of science is somewhat like an orthodox church: a few pre-approved lines of thinking with a swift punishment for heretics. This is the biggest strength of science: this rigidness of thought is what protec
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by vertbhrtn 6y ago
I'm not a vegan of any sort, but one day I realized that I hadn't eaten meat for really long time and I didn't really want to anymore. That must have something to do with fruits: there's definitely some almost material &
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by vertbhrtn 6y ago
"to focus fully on the world of ideas" - very interesting choice of words.
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by vertbhrtn 6y ago
It's a gov policy, really: companies get special status, i.e. smaller taxes, if such and such criteria are met.
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by vertbhrtn 6y ago
You know what? I have a clever idea: the Diversity Standard 500 index, or just DS500. We have this SP500 index: a weighted sum of 500 companies into which everyone invests piles of money. The weights are carefully set by the index committee
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by vertbhrtn 6y ago
As funny as it sounds, we're watching the formation of "progressive fundamentalists" - their "inclusion committee" would give people a low social score if their skin isn't black enough, or their gender is too m
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by vertbhrtn 6y ago
There was a precedent: blind auditions in orchestra. Results were rather predictable.
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by vertbhrtn 6y ago
A levitating frog warrants even more skepticism, but it's levitating.
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by vertbhrtn 6y ago
My favorite example of these water experiments is sonoluminescence: a tank of water is driven by a high-frequency acoustic transducer to create a 3d standing wave, which forms a tiny bubble of air or other gas that, when collapsing, produce
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by vertbhrtn 6y ago
This is some mediocre people came up with idea that they could easily understand what Calabi-Yau manifold is, if only mathematicians defined it with simple plain words. They don't like the idea that such a full definition would be 1000
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by vertbhrtn 6y ago
In this example with Google, the higher ups might reject this idea, but only because the measure would have a net negative impact on their own bonuses: pulling the cheap drinks would make 0.3% of employees move and the execs won't get
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by vertbhrtn 6y ago
Well, it does. If we make a random sample of 1 million people that are interested in tech and startups, then another million of those that aren't, measure the average "emotional charge" of both groups, we'll notice a hug
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by vertbhrtn 6y ago
I agree with every point you've made here except the last one: the MDN docs are very dry, precisely because they are designed for knowledge-first people.
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by vertbhrtn 6y ago
Whenever someone says that something needs to change for the greater good, I want to say something snarky. Copyright law is like the orbit of Jupiter - it is the way it is because it's a balance of all involved forces - and the only wa
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by vertbhrtn 6y ago
Before you comment on technicalities, remember that reddit's management consciously caters to the emotional people, and managing such a platform is very different than HN. I'd even admit the possibility that the plain and dry UI o
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by vertbhrtn 6y ago
The rule of thumb: if the corporate says something, they lie.
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by vertbhrtn 6y ago
OK, not quite legal, but justifiable. Nobody goes to prison for that, and the saved 10 mil get a nice house for that exec.
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by vertbhrtn 6y ago
It seems a pretty bad deal to spend 2 weeks of your spare time to read about some funky battery, then risk your life fixing it and all that for less than $3,000. Unless you enjoy doing this kind of stuff or really short on money and rich on
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by vertbhrtn 6y ago
It's not surprising once we realize that the $2T company is just a bunch of people with different priorities. A major shareholder of Apple can't be bothered to know about this minor issue, but for those lawyers it was a career mak
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by vertbhrtn 6y ago
Not negligible for the person responsible for that facility. Someone with a VP title is given a budget and freedom to run the shop and optimize expenses. Soon that VP realises that moving the punch clock inside the facility saves 3 millions
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by vertbhrtn 6y ago
The HN crowd tends to confuse the human's mind with the human's identity. We think that the final destination of human development is some sort of "super intelligence" - a mind with insane processing power and unlimited
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by vertbhrtn 6y ago
Remember that scene in "The Accountant" movie where the accountant says "No, the company's truck" meaning that since the truck is kinda used to carry some fluff that the family eventually sells, the truck gets a spe
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by vertbhrtn 6y ago
It's fascinating how the subsistence wage is simultaneously too low for workers and too high corporations.

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