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He tweeted in preceding months and years that if found dead it wouldn't be suicide. He got "whacked" tattooed on his arm to prepare for this situation. I don't think we can just un…

Good chance you have 200k+ saved. Stop working for a while. Travel, live somewhere new. Start learning about things outside of software... Pursue projects for anything that moves y…

Btw some proof/discussion how physicists don't know why there is a speed limit (and seemingly more proof you haven't spent much time thinking about physics yourself?): https://phys…

Frankly if anyone actually cared about climate change we would be desperately seeking to shorten supply chains and buy/produce locally. Bringing in everything from Asia when it cou…

Yet you don't know... you're just saying "I bet someone else knows" without being aware that many experts in physics would admit "we don't know" to these questions... what my under…

Understand the sentiment, I took a cyclical approach over a decade or so, a couple years self-employed, a couple years on a coding team, repeat. Although the last employment period…

Sounds like you're attempting to refer to qft? Passes the buck down and is still fundamentally descriptive not explanatory. People don't like fields when there's a bunch of gatekee…

Showing your own ignorance here. Where do electrons come from? Or any of the other fundamental particles. Please, enlighten the world of science. "Fundamental constant" means "we d…

Was hoping the point would be that science today at the most fundamental level is descriptive, not explanatory, and being humble and honest about our failure to be explanatory woul…

Would take it further and say not just the media but also some powerful forces in DC going after him undemocratically, seemingly his whole presidency... the russia investigation re…

Living in an expat destination country currently as an American, I regularly get crap from friends, Australian, British, South African, about the perceived madness of American poli…

My comment was strongly upvoted (50+) so I believe the HN community understands this dynamic. I mean if you go outside Western bubbles e.g. all of Asia Latam etc. 99% of women seek…

Especially a problem because for almost all men a career and supporting family (maybe the hardest thing to figure out in life) is non optional, whereas half the female friends I ha…

Yeah elite undergrads are striving to be entrepreneurs, CEOs, or wall street/consulting types, not code monkeys. Going to encounter a lot of resistance with standard coding jobs wh…

Yes this is the current mainstream media propaganda against cryptos, thanks for that.

Pretty doubtful. The top innovating nations are such because they attract the top talent from around the world, and almost no talent at all moves to China. There's a lot of breakth…

I'm aware but next to no one actually buys stocks for the dividends. Housing market is same zero sum as OP described determined by investments in real estate instead of other asset…

Any other examples? Almost no average Joe retail investor owns stocks for the dividends.

Don't understand, your argument applies to any asset class.

I've heard random uber drivers on the other side of the world talk about Dogecoin so you might want to include crypto in your list of why less people need to work now.

Solution is kind of straightforward: Work said 100k job for 5 or 7 years, perhaps with safe investments e.g. the S&P, get 200k+ to your name. Use that to then support years of esta…

And how does "perspectivism" somehow scale? Any NLP application directly encoding knowledge (objects, perspectives, whatever) is going to have major scaling constraints, since it's…

> Understand that the public announcement is often different than the actual close. Any sense on which normally comes first?

What was the timeline on the equity payout, and how was the payout managed? Were there any gotchas you discovered at this stage?