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Unfortunately the Nazi regime was popular with the majority of Germans.

Imagine how completely devoid of empathy you have to be to get pregnant twice, knowing that your children have an extremely high risk of growing up without their mother, just because you think that this will improve your chances of getting a lighter sentence. Absolutely despicable. She deserves every day she spends in prison.

Not super well informed on Japanese markets, but my understanding is that their bond markets are extremely dysfunctional (they even have had days where the BOJ is the only buyer on the market!) and this poses considerable financial risk in the system. This is the main factor why they keep their loose monetary policy as far as I can tell.

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What's really weird is that he even pushes Musk's conspiracy theory that leftist activist groups are the reason advertisers are jumping off: https://mobile.twitter.com/paulg/status/1593297818420236288

SICP - recursion

So who says that picking stocks or computer programming don't require common sense?

Hard to believe that people still see this as a smart move. Musk has been acting really erratically the last couple of years and was due to fall flat on his face. He's now done that in possibly the worst way. I'm really not sure what happened to the guy, if you read any of the material that was published in the course of the lawsuit, he just seems to act totally unprofessional. I find it really hard to understand how someone like that has achieved what he has. His decision making just seems impulsive most of the time.

I just find it kind of worrisome that he finds meaning in work that other people are exploited for for a lack of better options. Why would a financially independent person choose to help enrich a large corporation over, say, voluntary work to help underprivileged people, animals or whatever else you can think of?

It's really not that absurd. The fact that it looks entirely irrational for Russia to do this is exactly why they might have done it. Their intent is to cause division in the West. They could potentially hope for EU countries to blame the US or Ukraine for this. If you read Twitter trends you already see an army of Russian bots pushing the theory that the US has done this.

Average life expectancy for hunter gatherers was low due to infant mortality. If people didn't die as an infant their life expectancy was actually fairly high (~70 years).

You can still be anonymous in open source projects. My experience is that nobody cares about your background or ethnicity or (at least) wants to know about your background/ethnicity. If you're a valuable contributor you will be respected instantly. Also if you're serious about wanting to learn (and have a fairly good foundation of basic skills) you will find people willing to help you. So if you're really worried about being discriminated against, but are serious about becoming a better programmer, just stay anonymous on github.

It seems as if you judge the past too positively. The 70s and 80s were also perceived as pretty dark at the time and anything but stable. The sentiment at the time was quite similar to the way you describe the present. You had stagnation in the 70s similar to what is happening today and a general view that the welfare system was losing its viability. The Cold War also became more serious again in the 80s and the geopolitical threats were comparable to today's.

Love the idea.

How exactly do you validate experts? Are you just going by merged PRs (this might be somewhat exploitable though minor PRs, if you're successful I'd assume)? I imagine checking for the quality of PRs would be way too time-consuming to do manually... Do you consult the maintainers of a repo?

Severe pandemics are actually really bad for elites, since large scale death increases the value of employees. See e.g. "The Great Leveler" by Scheidel.

You can't use central bank reserves to buy government bonds! They're not legal tender.

> the ECB has been printing money like crazy in the last 14 years. So far this money had been absorbed mostly by banks but slowly but surely it is starting to trickle into the real economy.

This is wrong, none of the money the ECB "prints" goes out into the real economy (see [1] e.g.).

[1] https://themacrocompass.substack.com/p/tmc-6-all-they-told-y...

I don't think he displays any altruistic behaviour if you observe any of his actions.

> If you spawn new threads, these will be managed by your kernel. If that kernel is Linux, that it already has a pretty good algorithm to pause and restart them, so you're not really wasting a lot of resources.

Thread context switches are pretty expensive. If you use an async runtime such as tokio, all your tasks will be spawned on a fixed number of threads and you won't have any context switches on a task switch.

Appel [1] is fairly good for learning compilers. He leaves a lot of the material to the exercises, which are somewhat frustrating,but if you fight through them you'll definitely be rewarded.

[1] https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/modern/

Even billionaires don't just borrow $21 billion.

If working a "lowly" warehouse job and dabbling in many different subject areas is what makes you happy, that's obviously perfectly fine. But if you believe that dabbling in many different areas will actually somehow in the long run lead to any kind of (work-related) success you're dead wrong in my opinion. You have to focus most of your time on one or maybe two or three areas (after you have become really good at one thing) in order to be able to make any meaningful impact somewhere. Knowing a little of a lot of things is nice to have, but unfortunately has very little use in our society.

That's exactly my point. Fukuyama is extremely misunderstood in popular media, he never said that the fall of the soviet union implied continued existence of liberal democracy. If you had actually read the book (and specifically the last chapter) you would know that he wrote that the threat of authoritarianism will always be present and (some) democracies will (at times) fall back into autocratic states from time to time.

So can you explain what exactly has proven to be highly flawed?

Have you actually read "The end of History"?

Work through "How to prove it" by Velleman.

Highschool math is all that is required for it from what I remember, definitely doesn't require a lot of mathematical maturity. Even if you would somewhat struggle to completely understand the math, the ideas they try to teach you should still be accessible in my opinion.

That's interesting, thanks for the links.

SICP for CS and programming. That book (and its exercises) really instilled in me the thought patterns that drastically improved my programming skills and made me realize how important fundamental CS knowledge is to being a good programmer. What I learned from that book was: becoming comfortable with recursion, realizing the importance of abstractions, functional programming concepts and it gave me insights into how interpreters and the machine work.

I studied math in university and the book that really improved me mathematically was baby rudin. I really struggled with this the first time I worked through it and had to also fall back on Abott's analysis book, but after my first analysis course I worked through Rudin again and it just clicked. The exercises are really well chosen and the text is just so on point. Every sentence in the book is extremely carefully chosen and of fundamental importance to what Rudin wants to teach you.

It's really rare that you find textbooks that almost kind of have a certain magic to them, like you are directly taught by one of the greatest minds in that field. These two books definitely meet that criteria.

It's also entirely implausible, from an evolutionary perspective, that plants should have developed the capacity to feel pain on a scale similar to other organisms given that they haven't developed the ability to move away from situations that might cause them pain (pain being a proxy for survival risk).

> When plants are usually cut, it emits a certain chemical as a warning stressor to communicate to other plants, who on a very slow time frame are just as capable of perceiving stressors and able to adjust their exposure to nutrients and sunlight in a matter very similar to animals.

> Yet because it is difficult to attach anthropomorphic qualities to it you are free to farm, destroy and eat, whom by all definition just as sentient as the mammals you describe.

The existence of an adaptive mechanism in an organism doesn't mean that any organisms that have such mechanisms are sentient to similar degrees. You're actually completely contradicting yourself here by first arguing that other animals are "less" sentient than humans (presumably because of the neurological complexity of our brains compared to those of other species) and then continue by claiming that plants are similarly sentient to mammals.