quietthrow
No user record in our sample, but quietthrow has activity below (stories or comments). Likely we have partial data — the full bulk-load will fill profiles in.
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It’s an incredible time we live in. We can ask any question we want the previously we may have been embarrassed to ask and get an answer and learn and improve ourselves daily. Just one thing I can’t wrap my mind around…
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A dear friend confided recently that they are being forced out of a team. The options given were change teams or go on PIP. The reasons cited were hand wavy. They went through a manager change recently and prior manager…
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I am trying to understand how strong or restrictive are the OS’s with regards to what the apps can do. The question stems from the fact how important the phones are wrt to personal data. If there are two apps App 1 and…
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Genuine question. I understand there may a small marginal cost to host a ebook site for downloads, but other than that what are the drivers that disincentivize this practice?
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Genuinely curious and please point me to resources if this documented somewhere. I come from a “everything on a computer is a file” perspective and am curious what a model persisted on disk looks like? Is it essentially…
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Reuters broke that the precursor to all the recent drama at open AI started with researchers at open AI writing to the board about a recent breakthrough they made and the threat it poses humanity. (It could be possible…
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Recently heard that Meta and Microsoft are both disbanding their teams which focus on AI safety. Can’t help but connect dots of recent events at open AI where the board fired Altman for what seems like lack of alignment…
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I have often wondered this but don’t have a logical answer that satisfies so asking here to get the hive minds perspective: Why are salaries /compensation something that is not openly talked about in a capitalistic…
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The Israel - Gaza conflict coverage in New York Times and other such caliber journalism sources is heartbreaking beyond imagination. I can’t help but notice the coverage articles does not allow comments. I am curious…
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Genuine question: what are the technical challenges that prevent my iPhone from being used as a full fledged daily driver computer (think no normal laptop for normal users use cases.) it already supports external mouse…
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I see a lot of data pointing to real wages not moving up as time passes. One example is from https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2018/08/07/for-most-us-workers-real-wages-have-barely-budged-for-decades/ but there…
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More and more schools are asking for gmail accounts for kids around middle school. Parent of those who have experience with this can you share your best practices? 1) person email domain vs Google provided 2) how do you…
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Would love to quit my “nice paying but no advancement in sight Faang job” and take on the entrepreneurial journey. However I am the sole bread winner and we are a family of 4 with preteen children. Is this possible ?…
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Just saw that Microsoft will be laying off 10k+ employees. Layoffs.fyi indicates ( filter: location :- Bay Area, date:- > last 380 days) about 60k people have been layed off in the last year. That does not include the…
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My old smart phone finally died and need to buy a new one. Spending 1200+ on a iPhone is really painful but I am ok with it if I must. However I am more interested in solutions that allow me to use my phone as a…
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Inspired by so many posts on about self improvement couldn’t help but ask this question. So many self help books etc have this as the fundamental question “what do you want” and then figuring out the action plan etc.…
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Why are banks in US not increasing interest rates for checking or savings account for their retail customers when inflation is 8%+ and prime rate 4%+? Is this pure greed or by govt regulation or something else. Would…
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Just curious given the (recent relatively speaking) unprecedented times how the current day to day life of ordinary citizens is and how they plan to continue living in the coming weeks ahead.
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Similar to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29802962 We are considering moving down to FL from the Bay Area. How's the overall scene? I mean tech employment, culture, people, kids education etc. Would love some…
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I would like to limit my 'consumption' (of information) and focus on 'creating' or 'producting' something to bring more engagement to my day to day life. I came to this conclusion as I have recently realized (and this…
- Twitter bans trumps account permanently (axios.com)
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Two questions: 1) Why is oracle moving to Texas - in other words what does it get there thst it dosnt get here 2) what does it say about the state of things to come for Bay Area?
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Genuinely curious and admit I don’t understand this technology fully but if the main use case is verifying something Why can’t people vote using their phones and results be instantaneous. Asking as the us election is…
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I would like to invest in companies in the Chinese markets and would like to use a indexing strategy like I do here in the US - like vanguards VTSAX. Is there fund(s) that track hangseng and the shenzhen exchanges that…