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Say a Uber driver asked you if driving a Honda sedan was good for his driving career. What would you say to him.

Or if you prefer a more historical analogy it’s like a free mason saying is using one particular brand of construction materials good for his career. What would you say to him.

Don’t forget we software engineers are just modern day free masons.

Whether rust becomes a good choice or not is based directly on what you learned from using it and not just developing with it. A goog Career is based knowledge and or experience compounding. When you start with that in mind the language doesn’t matter as much as the learning. Language is just a tool at that point. Sure knowing how to use multiple tools is good. But that kind of differentiator will only get you so far.

Good luck!

I would highly recommend watching the mathematician Hannah Frys documentary called the joy of winning (link below). It has interviews from a wide variety of academics and overall a fun way to understand game theory. The program you mentioned tit for tat is also mentioned in there as the optimal way to get what you want and why pure selfishness dosnt work. It’s a great investment of time. For less than a hour you get a lot and besides test the waters if you want to dive deeper.

https://www.amazon.com/Joy-Winning-Catherine-Gale/dp/B07XHPW...

Lol why does it matter?

Think about this deeply - Does the person make the college or the college make the person?

Is it correlation? Is it causation?

Why?

Can you elaborate on “concentration becomes less”? Concentration of what and more importantly what is the key driver of the lessend concentration?

Why??

Dosnt the tech community believe ideas are dime a dozen?

Yes.

Anybody thinking otherwise is delusional.

Highly recommend reading https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35356384-how-democracies...

If nothing read chapters 7 and 8.

I have been thinking about asking this for a while here now and hopefully somebody from this smart community can enlighten me

Why does debt matter when you can print your own money? Is it just inflation that we are worried about when we “pump” too much money into the economy?

In fact why does imf and world bank matter/exist when countries can print their own money? May be it’s not about the money but selling developed worlds “expertise” to build things in developing countries under the guise of a “loan”. Are these banks basically saying here is xxx million or billion to build a power plant and you can only use this money to pay companies from “my” country that will build your power plants ??

Why do we not want to make it public? Not trolling but really asking this. It could lead us to a better overall system. If people can find out who I voted for and hence I would be in trouble then we have a broader systemic issue. If we can solve that voting can be so much more efficient and more importantly impactful.

Also could we anonymize the voter that way it’s like any other legally private information that can be accessed with a warrant etc.

Pretty much, given very little or almost rarely does it result since any outcomes. At best there might be some action on the discussing people’s part. But outcomes realized - zero. In a sad way I feel we deserve what we have coming.

I would highly highly recommend reading Jason Hickels book. If you don’t have time Listen to his talks.

Book: https://g.co/kgs/sy7sXx Talks: Just YouTube it.

How does one get vimium working on GSuite tools? I think this is a huge limitation. If anybody has figured it out I would love to hear how they did it. Thx

I think librem/purism has a point when you look at it isolated. But when looked at it holistically it completely missess the point. You can put in all the kill switches you want and sure thst will benefit in some small way but until the users data is with Apple/Google/Fb etc it dosnt matter Largely Which phone you use As you are still very exposed. Until that problem is solved (users truly owning their data) everything is simple a bandaid fix. Sure purism/librem might be a slightly better bandaid than what is offered by current vendors But it remains a bandaid never the less.

The reality today still is that you can’t have greatly useful tools and it’s super powerful functionality separated from where and how it’s data is stored. Until that is separation comes all these security and privacy issues can’t be solved at its root.

Once you look at it holistically you see it’s not just a hardware issue that you are dealing with. You are dealing with a much larger and complex set of issues: user caring about privacy; development of standards and tool that allow vendor agnostic data portability that still are as powerful as google sheets or say maps or keynote etc; pervasiveness of such tools as if only a small population of users are using those tools they are not very useful; business model that supports sustainable monetization of such tools so business can continue to provide such tools.

It’s quite complex and kill switches and secure hardware can’t solve for thst. At least not alone.

LOL

Totally my opinion - What does legal mean? It’s a relative term just like everything else. Yes there are cultures where “normal” definition of legal might not be adhered to but thst dosnt mean they don’t have laws. In some sense they live (and die ) by their own set of rules. And those rules and laws are as legal we might think of legal things in the west.

I can imagine that.

So follow up q: if people love their guns how do they use it typically? Shooting random targets In open spaces and that kind or is it more like a samurai sword. You own one and then it’s pretty much caring for it.

Also for a culture that loves guns what kind of gun violence does it see typically if any. I understand these days it’s different due to the region being torn by geopolitics and war but am trying to understand the culture outside of it.

Also do you still live in the region or have moved. If latter how frequently do you visit And how do you typically get there?

Quite exotic for me. it’s just rare to find somebody from that area without visiting the place.

Just out of curiosity why did you buy a weapon. Is it a customary / way of life kind of thing or Something else.

Is there a way to lear about these remote region, their people and their Culture , tier day to day life without visiting the place. Do you recommmend any books?

I am genuinely curious about your response but I can’t understand it. Can you please translate into plain English?

Yes but it’s not binary as you or most people think today and it’s not because lack of intelligence or anything like that. it’s just that work has existed in a binary form largely since industrialized work was invented. The best way to think of the answer to your questions is that parts of “work” will become remote. Depending on the work for some it might be overnight. For some it will be over time. For some (people and companies)it will some part of their work (And their dependent supply chains and that too recursively). This is not going to be driven by people’s wants btw the way. Yes some part of it will be but large part of it will be due to efficiencies forced by a capitalist/for profit world we operatin. If you can provide a product or service x% cheaper while maintaining everything else equal you will, and it’s increases your margins(at best) and at worse it keeps you from going extinct as your competitors already do it.

I agree with what you say and perhaps what I am trying to say ineloquently is they have focus on what they want to do first and when they need a solution they go searching for it leveraging what others have done and reviewing it etc. I can’t speak for you but I am a regular visitor to hn and the content it shows and in that sense I am here first looking for ways to improve and then hoping to apply what I have learned to something when it’s needed and may be it will never be needed. Former is focused to unfocus as needed and latter is unfocused to focus someday. If that makes sense.

Huge fan of Elon and Warren buffet. But I always wonder would they be who they are by lurking on HN trying to improve themselves? And they certainly didn’t get where they are by being on hn or similar forums. Even thought I don’t know them personally I feel The way they built their knowledge was in Avery different way thst you and I might be going about based on the click baity thread we are talking at currently. In that sense may be HN is a waste of time too?

The more I think about this the more I feel is thst we have it wrong. I think what they have is focus. I think what we have is distractions by virtue of seeking things thst improves us and on the internet there are so many of them that one may be all over the place. He who chases two rabbits catches none.

I am big (closet?) fan of Farnam street blog and came across it many years ago as it was connected to munger and buffet (who I still remain a fan of). The funny thing is I know FS has good content and I subscribe to the free newsletters for years now but I have never really read them except for the occasional one here and there. They just go into a special folder with my hopes that I will get to it and I don’t want to lose out (fomo!). What follows may be poorly articulated but will try anyway as I could use help with this.

I don’t read FS cos I feel like I need to spend proper time behind it to read and learn what is has to share. It’s like studying read it and then perhaps take some notes and keep them handy to reference later. Then on top of this it has so many articles I feel I have no strategy to keep up. And then there is the whole when will I really use it if I need to go look it up / reference it In order to use it. This whole approach sounds twisted to me. And as someone on this thread said it’s essentially me learning how to think Which may be subconsciously tells me I am bad at thinking. I can say thst for the last decade i feel like I am on a quest to improve myself so that then I can be “smart”. In a way this had lead for me for the last decade or so to pursue reading / finding content on the web (largely through ask hn and the likes) that is about optimizing or making myself better. And I find that I have consumed a lot but may have not really realized it’s gains from a career or other tangible perspective.

Is anybody else in a similar boat? Sometimes I feel these are all time wasters disguised as things that can be helpful. May be a better approach is to just do things and then when you are stuck on a problem then go consult there types of sites to see if they have a solution to your problem. In that is where real growth might happen. I feel like the approach I current have is the other way around - let me find all the “general solutions” and (become “smarter” ) and then apply it to whatever I do.

Am I wrong here in think thst is whole chasing after self improvement is a real discretion from doing real things thst will actually make me “smarter”?

Totally agree. This is a classic clickbait title. Few months ago I came across a good resource that deconstructed the syntax of click bait sentences. Can’t find it now but came across this which you can try it for yourself https://www.contentrow.com/tools/link-bait-title-generator (I tired “mental models” and got pretty good results).

That my friend is exactly is the difference made by who is leads the company. This is exactly why what kind of a person a leader is so important. Be it for a company or a nation.

We get what we tolerate.

The business of fb is measured in MAU and DAU. These are their key metrics. The only things that drives these metrics are engagement. It’s basically the core of their business. And controversial items generate the most engagement. Unless it’s crossing the line in black and white terms for example like a beheading and most items don’t do that because the world is shades of grey they are good for business as they have the potential to generate more engagement. It’s basically good for business. What’s good for business may not be good for society. Sometime it is. Sometimes it’s not. Some people are ok with this and some are not.

Precisely. The business of fb is measured in MAU and DAU. These are their key metrics. The only things that drives these metrics are engagement. It’s basically the core of their business. And controversial items generate the most engagement. Unless it’s crossing the line in black and white terms for example like a beheading and most items don’t do that because the world is shades of grey they are good for business as they have the potential to generate more engagement. It’s basically good for business. What’s good for business may not be good for society. Sometime it is. Sometimes it’s not. Some people are ok with this and some are not.

Can somebody articulate why using huawei a bad idea beside it’s a Chinese company and using those equipments gives China backdoor access into critical systems and everything it connects to. Or is that basically it? I am trying to understand this objectively as if sitting on mars why this is a good or bad idea.

This post was number one on HN. Now it’s nowhere to be found on HN’s pages unless you search for it. I happen to remember the posters handle and was able to dig up the post. The post is not even flagged back so am curious why did it disappear?

> The best person your can be is yourself

Couldn’t agree more. But there is something to be said about learning from others. This is not about being like him it’s more from the sentiment of learning from him so you can be an (extremely) good version of yourself through refined skills and thinking.

Once again! Bravo Jack and the Twitter team! Thank you taking a stand against bullying.

Bravo Jack! Thank you for standing up to bullying!

I agree with you that bitch should not be a negative term. After all it just a female dog. But colloquially it is used as a negative term. That’s the society/world we live in. It dosnt matter what you and I believe how it should be used. What matters is how’s it is actually used. You wouldn’t get the clicks you were after if the word was used as you think it should be would you? And my question comes from that perspective of grounding in our world’s reality. Given that, by used the term, it promotes objectification - May be not yours since your self esteem allows you to own it - but of women in general. And that might be too selfish of an action perhaps?