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4 years ago
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on: Ask HN: I realise data science is not for me and feel depressed
Here’s my advice. If you still like working with data then you should look into consulting where you get to work on different projects across different domains. You have to build up your toolkits even within data science. Mastering something like GIS takes awhile and same goes for time-series/finance. And only way to do this is through consulting gigs.
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4 years ago
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on: Ukraine creating international territorial defense legion – Zelensky
I think it’s 2011 when NATO flipped on Libya. That’s the exact moment Putin stopped being friendly to the West.
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4 years ago
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on: Ukraine creating international territorial defense legion – Zelensky
I agree 100%.
Ukraine deserves all the money that will go toward building back their economy when they finally win this war.
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4 years ago
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on: Germany commits €100B to defense spending
This is my argument too. History teaches us it’s never the people. It’s that one bad apple.
Solution is simple: force Russia to demilitarize. Put sanctions on them until they do.
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4 years ago
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on: Ukraine creating international territorial defense legion – Zelensky
This is it. Ironic considering that EU/US is unwilling to fight a war that will benefit them the most. Ukraine is fighting this war for their country but they are also fighting to save the world from a very possible WWIII.
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4 years ago
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on: Germany commits €100B to defense spending
I am sorry it came across that way but this is how wars start. Countries first have excuses to build up arms. Same reason why I would never want Japan to build up arms. It is NOT different this time. And Russia has shown that. It’s never the people. It takes just ONE bad apple to start it all back up.
And by the way, I did educate myself. Educated myself quite a bit on WWI and WWII.
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4 years ago
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on: Ask HN: The book that did it for you in math and/or CS?
Elementary Number Theory by David Burton. I started reading this book in 8th grade to get a bit better at math competitions. Oh boy did it open my eyes.
As an adult, it’s Shannon’s The Mathematical Theory of Communication. I read it at least once a year. It’s the most intellectually powerful paper I’ve ever read.
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4 years ago
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on: A quick breakdown of what SWIFT is and why it matters
This is a conspiracy theory. Please stop.
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4 years ago
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on: A career ending mistake
I once took a job that I regretted taking on the very first day. I contemplated quitting that same day but stuck it out for many years thereafter. Turns out staying in that job WAS the career ending mistake. It killed my career, family life and even health. It takes a lot of effort to recover from these career mistakes even if you have spectacular resume and background. Number one rule in avoiding this is to never take such a job in the first place.
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4 years ago
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on: There was a time before Mathematica (2013)
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4 years ago
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on: Brain doesn't slow down until your 60s – later than we thought
To be fair that is 99% of the population.
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4 years ago
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on: Happy 15th birthday Hacker News
I’ve been coming here from the beginning. Off and on. Different handles because I rarely saved my passwords. I absolutely appreciate all the gem comments especially from insiders. This is the only place that reminds me of 90s newsgroups.
I want to especially thank Dang for keeping this place consistent.
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4 years ago
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on: Investors bought a record share of U.S. homes in 2021
When I drove across the country in my early 20s what struck me the most was that we have nearly unlimited undeveloped land. I believe we are close to a tipping point in this country, with WFH becoming even more widely accepted, and push for more energy efficient homes, that we will see significant single home developments across rural areas over the next decade. Whether that benefits homebuyers or developers/corporations will be up to regulations and incentives.
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4 years ago
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on: What to know about the stock market (2007)
This is such a bad advice. Buying an index is what they want you to do. They want you to buy and hold until you retire. Do you not see the problem with that logic?
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4 years ago
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on: Netflix will falter
Why Netflix Will Continue to Flourish.
They make contents others will not make. They will be the number one destination for entertainments for a very long time because they are willing to bring Hollywood production value to every corner of the globe. I have no doubts.
I think a lot of people suffer from myopic pov when they’re looking at these global enterprises. The game has dramatically changed in the last five years.
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4 years ago
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on: Every M1 Mac is due for a 2022 refresh with faster M2 chip, new designs
I would really like to see an M1 Max Mac Mini. I’ve been holding out for March announcement.
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4 years ago
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on: Boston Fed releases report, source code of digital currency prototype study
I wasn’t aware they would make this open. It’s a great way to play around with toy digital currency implementation. There goes my plans for rest of weekend.
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4 years ago
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on: Boston Fed releases report, source code of digital currency prototype study
This is right to some extent. They can have distributed ledger in virtual sense.
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4 years ago
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on: Apple's privacy push cost Meta $10B
What I don’t understand is why is this hitting them now? Those privacy features were turned on for awhile.
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4 years ago
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on: Amazon.com announces fourth quarter results [pdf]
For example, PEG is nearly 3x for AMZN. At such size and scale, how are investors betting that Amazon will continue to out grow the rest of tech monopolies?
