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>If China is allowed to gain upper hands on the United States, it will result in broad scale societal problems which I couldn't even begin to estimate. Imagine a world where Russia is allowed to take Europe. Imagine a world where the United States is convinced to stand by as Taiwan is invaded and our chip supply is shut down.

When You're Accustomed to Privilege, Equality Feels Like Oppression. The world doesn't need to imagine, because we had to stand by while the US launched illegal wars in Iraq, continues the unjust economic sanctions on Cuba just just for election politics, or all the shenigans the CIA pulled in South America in the previous decades. Heck just this month the US has said it will ignore a WTO ruling[1] just because it says so and everyone will have to stand by.

The multipolar world threatens Americans so much because they'll finally have to live like there's another version of themselves in the world.

[1]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-12-12/supply...


That's totally fair, and as a non American, I have a bunch of sympathy for this viewpoint.

The US government have behaved like absolute shitheels for much of the Cold War and beyond.

That being said, they have a relatively free press and relatively fair and liberal laws, especially compared to China.


One fact that blew my mind recently is that Cleopatra is closer to our present time than to the creation of the pyramids.


also note that Cleopatra was Greek, not Egyptian.

"Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC, and its last active ruler. A member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, she was a descendant of its founder Ptolemy I Soter, a Macedonian Greek general and companion of Alexander the Great."

So, inasmuch as she thought about the pyramids, it was as a colonizer.


Makes sense. I'm not sure there's a job I wouldn't leave for 3 months free money. Especially if I was confident of my talent and abilities as an ex-Twitter engineer.


I can't wait for inevitable Billions episode about Gamestop. Dollar Bill is probably going to lose it :)


Mesh Wifi.

I used to have 3 base stations scattered around the house with different names and it was a hassle just connecting to the closest wifi point all the time and also switching between wifi points when I move around the house would result in a connection interruption.


My company has been WFH since mid-March. I've loved being able to just start working instantly after waking up and finishing my morning routine, but one thing I've really missed is the 30minute drive home after work. That period of time was effective in resetting my brain from "work-mode" to "home-mode".

It's been hard going from shutting down my laptop straight to playing with my kids, it seems like I'm part-zombie at first and not as lively as I would be later in the night with them.


There has to be a better solution that WFO. For example, step out for a 10 minute walk outside.


Was planning on getting a new Mac laptop this year to replace my old 2013 Macbook Pro. Would it be better to get one of the last Intel Macs or wait a bit and get in early on the upcoming ARM Macs?


I really, really miss Dashboard. It was a nice quick way to have access to my stickies, a calculator, the weather, and a calendar all in one place


Had a quarter-life crisis, so decided to quit my job after working 5 years as a software engineer and get a masters degree in a foreign country in 2010. Had to choose a specialization, and chose AI/ML only because I liked reading sci-fi. Graduated in 2012 and was suddenly and accidentally in a great position to ride the AI and data science wave taking over the industry.


Would you recommend getting an MSCS for getting into AI?


I had a really good time and learned more than I thought I would during my postgrad studies. However if you would be paying full tuition there's probably cheaper ways to get into AI though.


Just do the coursera courses and get started.


Startup 1 (2 years): $0. Acqui-hired for less than total investment raised. I had long left by then but had vested shares which were wiped out.

Startup 2 (6 months): $10k. Mainly from the profit-sharing of the startup incubator, not from actual equity.


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