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I’d amend that to “whichever of python or typescript you’re most comfortable in”, but otherwise agree

I don't know about SF in particular, but nationwide, yes, renters turn out to vote at a far lower rate than homeowners[0] (67% vs 49%)

[0] https://www.apartmentlist.com/research/renter-voting-prefere...

Will that happen faster than the shift of AI into knowledge work? Because the current trajectory has robots taking our "manipulate bits" jobs far faster than our "move atoms" ones.

In my experience, there’s no such thing as too many questions, so long as they’re of good quality.

The best intern I’ve ever had was would hit me every single morning with a laundry list of questions, but, crucially they were almost 100% things she didn’t yet have the tools or context to find out on her own.

By the end she was asking me questions I hadn’t even thought to ask

When I was in Germany at the end of this September, there were certainly plenty of signs saying masks were mandatory on public transport. Compliance with said signs, however, was well south of 50%.

Duck typing (structural typing) is orthogonal to dynamic vs static. Typescript being an example of a statically typed language whose type system is centers on structural typing

I've been at many startups during a fundraising round, and I don't think I've ever seen or heard of an investor auditing the codebase.

Are you confusing FTX with the Foreign Exchange Market (aka Forex/FX)?

If someone gifted me the bond, I’d happily pay many multiples of the interest payments in airfare to go collect, and I have far less money than Yale.

It’d be fun story and a cool bit of financial history, and keeping it “alive” is definitely worth a few grand every 10 years or so.

I'm curious if you've had any experience with Swift/Kotlin on one hand and Typescript on the other.

To me, these lie on the efficient frontier of the "compiler validation" vs "less boilerplate" tradeoff. Java is decidedly nowhere near that frontier.

And then combine them into lakh crore (1,00,000,00,00,000 -> 12)

Really the worst system of the 3.

All but the last of those examples only paid out to the living survivors of the atrocity, and the last only earmarked 5% for descendants.

So it does seem that inter-generational reparations are indeed very rare.

That's the joke.

The article is intentionally being arch by using "welfare", a word that's usually used to refer to programs that give to the poor to refer to one giving money to the rich. It's making the point that "government handouts" are reviled when they go the poor, and accepted relatively uncritically when they go to the rich

…he starts the company. Afaik, he’s never taken any additional compensation beyond his ownership share, that came about because… he started the company.

Probably because the interviewees were playing a prank; one gave his name as "Rahul Ligma"[0] (as in "lig ma balls", referencing a meme)

[0] https://twitter.com/WealthyCFO/status/1586053744269340672

I'm currently renting an apartment in SF for 25% less than the previous renter paid because I rented it right at the bottom of the pandemic bust.

Rents are subject to supply and demand just like everything else.

This would be a win for the millions of laborers that don't work in maritime shipping over the capital owners of the (~100 odd) jones act ships.

I got my first tech internship (at a 5 person startup called "Pagerduty") thanks to one.

They're injections, which reduces patient compliance, and they're peptides, which are costly to produce.

I'd bet on a small-molecule GLP-1 agonist being the most likely path out. Certainly more likely than a nation wide overhaul of diet/lifestyle.

All we can hope the side effects won't be too bad.

Then this past year you've gotten lucky.

We were in an unprecedented bull run for tech stocks for a decade plus. No guarantee that continues. Markets are anti-inductive and past performance is no guarantee of future results.

That's effectively an implicit call option. You can buy an explicit version on the public market.

The question is "Is the cost of an explicit call option greater than the cost of finding a new job?"

There is some benefit in that with an explicit call option, you have to pay up front, while with job switching, you only incur the cost if the implicit option "expires worthless". But that's balanced by the fact that with the implicit option you're exposed to sector-wide risk (eg, see the current tech-wide turndown), while you're not with the explicit one.

What could contain information is a book of all 512x512 images that a human being would perceive as being "an image". Ie, the vast majority of possible 512x512 images look like random noise to humans. Excluding those massively shrinks the size of the book.

So that does mean image model AI like dall-e/SD are effectively compression over this space of images that they can generate (which is at least attempting to emulate the space of 'meaningful images' to a human), since given a seed, they'll deterministically produce the same image, and that seed is much smaller than the information needed to describe every pixel in the image.

YIMBYs increase land values, decrease property values.

I've gone on vacation for 3-6 months between jobs on several occasions. Found plenty of ways to fill the days.

> you still can't afford to send your kids through college, and still make your house and car payments, replacing your car every year or two. Yes, that was what middle-class people used to do.

Where is this halcyon universe where the median (or even the 75th percentile) American:

* Paid for their children to go to college

* Bought a new car every other year

'Cause that doesn't resemble any point in the past century of the universe we currently inhabit.

And I make both those distinctions exactly never in my personal life.

Yeah, the lack of a revenue dashboard at a startup would be a red flag in and of itself.

It's been 7 years since Google rebranded and everyone still calls it Google.

Personally, I refuse to work for companies that don't explicitly evaluate programming ability when interviewing engineers.

I want to know that the people I'll be working with are at least baseline competent in that regard.