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Same in someone I know, shifted between bipolar and schitzoaffective and schitzophrenia. Bipolar during manic episode, later schizoaffective. A lot of paranoia and also delusions, …

I used to use Airbnb all the time but a single experience dealing with their customer service and a bad host was enough for me to never use them again. The lows of using Airbnb are…

I dropped out of high school, moved countries, finished high school, dropped out of college, went back to a different one. I wasn't dumb, I always had >99th percentile test scores,…

Why should the 99% accept a governance structure where they get only 1% of the power/wealth? I think the core issue is wealth inequality, and although I initially liked UBI, it doe…

It was much better 5+ years ago. It's impossible to maintain high code standards when a company grows as fast as Google has. Eventually the law of large numbers applies. It's proba…

My experience has been similar at other large companies (MSFT, Google). My advice is to look for founder-led teams (not companies). If there are plenty of founders still on the tea…

Pension funds take money from poor people and give it to rich people, just like everything else. When the economy is doing well, rich people make billions by managing them, and whe…

Is there any difference in performance?

Lack of high end tech will be the least of your problems if China and the US get into a hot war.

One thing I noticed is that on GCP if you create a a2-ultragpu (Nvidia a100 80gb) and you select a spot instance, the price estimate goes down to $0.33 hourly ($240/m) which sounds…

ML revolutionized translation a long time ago and the demand and pay for translators went down. It also used the works of thousands of humans who translated text and they never saw…

I've been thinking about this and I think this is a problem all companies face. The best employees are confident and know they can get a job anywhere anytime so they leave. The wor…

When Airbnb is bad, it's really bad. You're gambling with the possibility of completely ruining whatever trip you had in mind. I've had both cases where a host cancelled last minut…

There's so many things we invent with good intentions but in the end go terribly wrong and I think this is one of those things. I think it's ok to mourn and remember the past, but …

Why is the financial media so obsessed with Gamestop? It's a relatively tiny company and if it truly was the case that it is over they would have stopped talking about it. Instead …

Thanks, I didn't know about those statistics. Every time I read about ADHD I definitely think I have it given a bunch of problems I've had throughout my life. Luckily I've managed …

I also recommend switching from coffee to tea if you consume a lot of it. I used to drink gallons of coffee a day. Basically from late highschool to a few years into my career (so …

Quick disclaimer as someone who lived in Costa Rica for many years: Costa Rica's prices for many things are comparable to the US. If it's imported stuff like cars or tech, then exp…

The CEO of a social media company going and personally making political edits to user messages to push their agenda sounds about as bad of a thing as I can imagine. I have a hard t…

I still think the "holistic" approach is flawed. The "holistic" criteria benefits upper-class students because lower and middle class kids are rarely trained from a young age to be…

I take the pills that have liquid inside, I think they're referred to as softgels. I asked my doctor about Vitamin K and they told me that it's not really necessary so I don't take…

To add to the anecdata, I take 5000 IU daily during the winter and about every other day in the summer and my blood tests in the winter showed I had 54 ng/ml, the healthy range is …

> those working for the company get considerably more say and control than outside contributors As someone who knows little about open source politics, I'm genuinely curious about …

Low quality information is more profitable to produce than high quality information (thanks to Google and their ads). So all the incentives for people currently are to produce cont…