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Your assumption of a 100% savings rate is not quite reality though. More realistically, suppose both people save 50%. Then in 20 years, the rentier is about 2x richer than the work…

This is a really thoughtful piece. I'd never heard of Buber before this

Agreed - there are a lot of aggressive homeless people downtown, and in berkeley as well. Some guy was cussing me out and trying to pick a fight with me the other week when I was j…

Obscene wealth next to in your face poverty is nothing new, nor particularly special about SF. I don't deny it's a big problem, but this is pretty much what every major city wrestl…

What do you mean by recent? There's been a whole society of rentiers living solely off investment income in most countries for at least the last 300 years, if not several thousand …

What you're saying is not exactly true. It's not necessarily competition from PE firms, it's high market value of good businesses. From the letter: "In the years ahead, we hope to …

The BFG repo cleaner is pretty handy for the same purpose as well!

I'm picking through the author's paper and I don't buy this conclusion. I have a bone to pick with his evidence: for example, he makes a comparison between "willingness to expend t…

in my experience, doing deep learning is a lot harder than building simpler ml models. training times are killer, need lots of data, overfitting is a challenge, hard to interpret r…

Exactly - if you want to make choices based off what's economically the best (studying CS), that's fine. But there's so much beauty in the world that is "impractical" to reach for …

Sorry you had that bad experience (I would be pissed too), but the logic of (you having a singular bad experience therefore company will likely die) is next to baseless.

tenuous.

It's a great opportunity for those automating. I'm totally for automation as it creates wealth and I think is good for humanity in the long run, but people suffer from automation (…

Biking!

That's very interesting. In competitive SSBM (smash bros melee), movement is one of the integral parts of the game that give it its depth. Top player's movements can differ greatly…

I will avoid buying 'smart' appliances for probably forever. Besides having mostly useless features, I'd rather not have another electronic probe in my life relaying all of the det…

I agree that more technical projects require more cleverness/training, but most things don't require genius. Terry Tao, field medalist, argues strongly that one does not need to be…

Same thoughts as mine. Seems like ML was just thrown in the title to get more hits.

Interestingly, I go to a big state school that is somewhat a playground for the international Chinese elite. It's very common to see chinese international students driving $80,000+…

The news feed eradicator has been a very good solution for me. I can still message, participate in groups, but that damned newsfeed is blocked! The newsfeed is engineered to suck u…

AI by Russell and Norvig. Machine learning by Murphy, Elements of Statistical Learning by Hastie et al. Just a few good ones out of many!

trained to a particular voice ~= trained to a user's preferences!

Many people would agree with you that race doesn't say that much about a person. However, it's quite naive to argue that racial issues are not a part of every day life. We live in …

Good on you! Squats are awesome. But don't forget to do prehab work or neglect your hamstrings! Tendon/muscle tightness or muscle imbalance can lead to some knee pain when squattin…

Sure, squats strengthen your core, but the core isn't a set of magical muscles that automatically make you faster. Strong quads, hams, and glutes are more important. Squats train y…