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Read my edit. There were reasons for societies to be sexually conservative. It wasnt random and it wasnt just on the whim of oppressive men.

Its really this simple. Its the two universe thing, if you haven't experienced how easy it is for some men to get women, then you cant understand it. I spent my whole 20s doing this, this was my identity. I'm not even proud of it, its just what it is

The trick is I'm not an incel. I'm the opposite. I've seen this with my own two eyes for years and am completely shocked by it.

This is a widespread societal change that I think most people are completely unaware of. The majority of women are sleeping with the top 10% of men, sometimes only the top 3-5%, with the rest barely getting any at all. the sexual revolution was never about free love or sexual freedom, it was about womens rights to sleep with the few men they are all attracted to. The lower 80% of men instead saw their sexual freedom diminish drastically.

Even the men not getting any do not realize how easily other guys are getting sex. Its like they live in separate universes. Whats more, eventually these women need to settle down, often with men who are their "equals". But they do not see them as equals, as they have been having casual sex with men way out of their league for years. This is a deep societal problem and one that surely adds to unrest among the population.

How do I know all of this? I lived in NYC for five years and ran in circles where we were usually the best looking guys at the bar. The ease with which some friends got women was shocking. Especially in contrast with other circles that I ran in, specifically nerdier programmers working at FAANG.

If I said the above out in the open I would lose my job. But its reality.

EDIT:

I agree that women should be free and any opinion other than that is heinous.

But I am going to add a bit about the sexual revolution part, because I think it is critical. Monogamy is about stability in society. Half of the reason for pushing for sexual restrictions and monogamy was because it stopped uprisings and stabilized relations. It has been a cornerstone of western society. All of these restrictions from the past had a purpose and stood the test of time, they were not random. When we remove those restrictions and societal opinions of sexual conservatism, we throw out thousands of years of hard learned rules across societies.

Maybe but I really dont think AWS comes off this way. To me, AWS seems like this massive complex system with a million overlapping services that engineers like. What if cloud adoption is bottom up and not top down?

"In business as in life, change is constant and unpredictable. When building the platforms to power your organization, you can’t be limited by yesterday’s technology decisions. Nor can the systems you create today constrain your ability to act tomorrow. In times of uncertainty, you need an architecture that gives you the agility and flexibility you need to help you weather change—or even take advantage of it."

Who are they marketing to??? I feel like I stumbled onto a well written blog aimed at SEO.

Their stock is booming as well.

This is a fundamental repricing, going forwards ecommerce will become the norm as the slow adopters move onto it quicker. SHOP could be worth way more under a post pandemic economy. This isnt the same economy as three months ago, certain companies are worth more and certain ones are worth less. The money to be made in options is in understanding these repricings and exploiting them, a stock at ATH right now is a stock that may actually grow more in the future, its post pandemic outlook is only in the process of being priced in......

The real issue with data science, from the perspective of ML pipelines/using ml in products, is most people are straight up not smart enough for it. The second the problem falls outside the bounds of a commonly used model, 90% of data scientists are ill equipped to come up with a profitable solution. So they stumble around in the dark, producing nothing of real value. People underestimate the degree to which extreme mathematical maturity and skill can bend the results of commonly used ml models.

The main business model of these two firms is quickly becoming selling location data to hedge funds. This needs to be illegal.

The funny part is they scoff at an extra 50k for a better programmer, and then watch as that cheaper guy that looks good on paper writes a pile of garbage

I think being a loner is a high variance strategy. In a majority of the time, it hurts you in our society. But certain individuals will see huge levels of success.

It's similar to the genetics of schizophrenia. Families with genetic schizophrenia and more specifically individuals with high chances of mental illness often see bifurcated life outcomes, they are both more likely to end up down and out, homeless, in a mental hospital etc. But they are also more likely to see outsized success, academically and business wise. This has been studied and proven. It's common among siblings, one succumbing to schizophrenia, the other reaching upper echelons of society.

No. There is enough oil on the planet for another 500 years. There is no shortage.

Let the peak oil hysteria from the 80s and 90s be a reminder to everyone here how fallible common beliefs are among the population.

Yeah absolutely, the value of the Harvard PhD in this story is the name and nothing else.

I've always viewed it as paradoxical that the left is both:

1.) For the welfare of the worker, social programs, universal healthcare, "standard of living"

2.) Open borders immigration, free trade, outsourcing, and other ultra capitalist policies.

Yeah worked in the industry as well, there's a story an older buddy used to tell when he worked at PIMCO in the 90s. Bit different than a quant fund but still applies. They hired a few Harvard Economics PhDs, who when looking at their macro economics material for institutional investors, claimed it was all wrong/didn't make sense. Bill Gross, the fund manager, told them it was to "get the money in the door from the fucking clients, we make gut bets on the market". Then fired the guy

Seems to me that firms like two sigma and jane street form some sense of "mystique" about them with regards to how elite their developers are. But once you get inside, most people are writing run of the mill software. Google has the same tactic, even paying below market rates to people willing to work their for the brand. Jane Street does pay very well, but still, most of their hiring is based off of prestigious colleges, less off of people who have written brilliant software. Not that they arent smart. I've just seen enough marketing, and met too many people working at these firms to give them much credit from an "elite software" perspective.

They fill up with a few TBs of RAM and then turn off garbage collection. Always surprised people dont know about this.

Nope. It does matter. The credit markets which deal with corporate debt could fail as a result. This will drag down the rest of the economy. The main issue is most people dont understand the contagion and risks taken on by the practices I laid out in my main post.

People are completely underestimating how much leverage and pumping there was on those companies, and how thats effecting us now. Companies dropping 75% because they might lose 3 months of revenue is not an expected outcome.

Look at Boeing stock.

Companies dropping 50% because they miss 3 months of revenue?

Everything is related. Imagine if the market only dropped a bit, large companies could support their employees, the credit markets wouldnt require massive trillion dollar spending. Supporting small businesses would be a walk in the park.

The stock market is largely collapsing because:

1.) Hedge funds levered up their capital 5 - 15x to make more money, then got caught with their pants down. So they all panic sold at once, crashing the market.

2.) CEOs of large corporations used cash to buy back their stock, inflating the stock price, and depleting their cash reserves. So now those same companies are on the brink of collapse, causing the credit markets to collapse, the stock market to collapse, and the rest with it. They can buy 50B worth of their own stock, but cant pay employees for a month without revenue.

This whole mess is in part due to financial engineering taken down by a black swan event. CEOs should be in jail and so should finance professionals. Laws need to be passed so that finance individuals cannot ruin the market for their own financial gain.

Most of this is to obscure their admission criteria. Harvard has come under fire for actively discriminating against Asian applicants. By removing a standard test, these colleges can actively discriminate whilst making it more difficult to prove admissions bias from a numerical and arguably more objective standard.

I've met very few people in my lifetime who went from heavy caffeine usage to non.

Right, but IQ tests are illegal.

Being good at coding can be predicted by IQ.

Being good at white boarding puzzles require IQ.

-----> White board puzzles filter for good coders.

Its not perfect, but its the best way to scale it. Sorry everyone, this isn't going away

Yup. Once you do a ton of these, they get easy.

Senior engineer at a tech company pays 350-700k. Thats plenty of money to retire by 45...

Took a lyft today in Socal, the driver told me I'm the first person he gave a ride to in six hours. Hes worried how he will make any money at all in the next few months.