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I've worked on problems much harder than Reddit. Reddit is a trivial problem.

In applied maths, probably not. In theoretical maths, yes.

“Show me.” Path A: you’re shown the meme; “lmfao, nice” — now you’ve broken ice or strengthened a bond Path B: “nah” — “whatever” —— Don’t send your kids to a run of the mill publi…

- Java is majorly boilerplate. - If you map out the entire system, and understand how all the pieces fit together, you can: make something simpler that fulfills reqs/does the same …

Same reason we (SW engineers) think X field is easy and can be self-taught: the fundamentals are easy to learn, but figuring out where and how to deal with edge cases when they pop…

Big ask: does anyone know (or can spare the time and effort to compile a short list) of papers to go from zero to cutting edge in database research? Perhaps too wide of a net to ca…

Just because it makes you feel seen doesn’t mean it’s baseless. Read Early Life (the author of TFA): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Finnegan In fairness, of all the long-w…

It helps that the “upper class” is mostly faux, and driven by fashion more than anything innate. Zuckerberg is not upper class in the classical sense. He doesn’t have the resources…

* Well-rounded in the context of a specific sub-culture, and such The flip side being, a father is not an absolute necessity, so long as there are adults with testosterone-correlat…

Perhaps it shouldn’t stand the test of time — it should be a reflection if its time, and change with them. Here’s the one, let’s see if it renders:

If this were another venue, I would reply to this post with a single, solitary nerd emoji. The constitution should be ripped apart and rewritten — if it requires hordes of over-edu…

Ironically, you’re doing exactly what the parent is describing: being pedantic to prove a point/win an argument because the OP was too hasty and forgot to append “pseudo” to his “i…

That would require for you to be a well-rounded person that hasn’t optimized for only one facet of the job (e.g. money, technical skill, etc.) — at that point might as well be an e…

> what the hell is the rest of the world thinking? — “Who wants to work that hard for nothing?” — “We’re a tech company? What do we actually do? Something that: atomizes social rel…

The money means very little in actuality. Most CEOs are doing it for other reasons besides money (personal enjoyment, thrill, respectability, “duty,” etc.).

This conversation is going in circles. Linked study equivocating on the overstatement of statin side-effects has the first author as a pharmaceutical consultant (you do not see thi…

Outlaw modern-day corporate trafficking. You cannot buy pieces of a person; corporations are legally people; you should not be able to buy pieces of them. Remove the corporate veil…

> "No one has ever said an unkind word to her." Leave no opening for others to be mean towards you. One of those is going about life not trying to push/get things out of people -- …

Financial engineering as a discipline is insane. Literally the definition of insane: seriously mentally ill and unable to live in normal society [0] -- so detached from the "normal…

> I'd say that generally it's advisable to take both into consideration given that in most cases the author of a paper likely has more domain expertise than you in that specific ar…

Then we are at an uncrossable philosophical chasm. I don’t consider 2% ARR huge — especially when the risks of side-effects have been down-played. We can argue about this all we wa…

I cannot make it anymore clearer: statins reduce your absolute risk of mortality by at most 2%; not smoking reduces your absolute risk by 7%. Statins provide meager benefit for the…

Testosterone levels are drastically lowered in women going through menopause.

Generally, you read the papers for their methodology and their data — not for the author commentary; and then make up your own mind. One man’s “benefits of statins for primary prev…

Golly gee, someone that realizes software engineering isn't entirely just sitting down and pumping out code? Why aren't you in management? (don't tell me... it's because you're hon…