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For me, that skepticism began when Obama received the award. To his credit, he did not think he deserved it. But I have never viewed it in the same light since.

Now I have seen everything! The people section there is particularly creepy.

Are you open to candidates located outside of Lisbon/Europe?

I've been using Kagi for a while, and I find that it delivers better results in a cleaner presentation.

Paolo indeed is a great guy. Can’t wait to hang out with him next.

I am interested in learning more about the Sr. Software Engineer position. Is there any way I can contact you regarding this?

Oh my god.

This is insane.

What's next? Are we going to rename master's as an academic degree? Are we going to start using words other than master or grandmaster to refer to experienced martial artists? What…

It's more complex than that because not every black person is equally likely to have an encounter with the police. There are studies that suggest that if you control for encounters…

I salute you.

“Sony's primary focus every generation is to get everything else right: development tools, hardware storage and performance, consistent controller design, software medium, and so o…

It is the best book on personal investing I've ever read, and I recommend it wholeheartedly.

I remember finishing that interview thinking that Cenk was the most intellectually dishonest host I had seen in a long time. Sam's patience from beginning to end was extremely impr…

Principles is my best non-fiction read of 2017. Superbly written.

I don't understand why these questions are being downvoted.

My thoughts exactly.

Are there that many Canadian companies (as opposed to US companies with satellite offices in Canada) capitalizing on AI? If not, does Canada really "get it?"

I would count both The Sopranos and Breaking Bad as contenders, personally.

> There is a HUGE labour cost in housing such that housing prices track inflation (particularly wage inflation). Prices have risen _way_ above inflation in Vancouver and Toronto th…

Our household debt levels in Canada put the US to shame. Our household debt-to-income ratio is at 169%. And our household debt is something like 2.5x our GDP.

" In a big city get your books and music from local independent booksellers and record stores" Except in many cities, many of those went out of business in large part because of Am…

"If this was C, it should be NULL, and it is almost always better to just write `if (variable)` to check for NULL pointers instead." Imagine that it was this instead: if (5 != vari…

"A good chunk of the wants to live in DT Toronto, further reducing the small supply" Toronto's population grew by 10% between 2001 and 2016. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demograph…

I've read Realistic Ray Tracing by Shirley, before reading the first edition of PBRT. RRT definitely has a more "incremental" approach, and is a lot more approachable than PBRT.