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Re:Frugality Is Non-Linear (2019) on Friday September 25, 2020 @11:38AM (#24590934)

This is so incredibly out of touch, which admittedly I expect from Silicon Valley folk.

I work at a FAANG making an amount of money per year that I didn't even think was attainable for "normal" people, but my parents were dirt poor and I grew up on food stamps. To just say "Oh the solution is as simple as moving into your parents investment properties!" is just a huge slap in the face.

Get a grip on reality and realize your situation is incredibly privileged and not the norm.

Ask HN: How do you deal with having “too many” hobbies?

Posted by TrashQuestion on Friday July 13, 2018 @01:57PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Currently these are projects I have started in some fashion (whether it only be planning stages, purchased materials but not built, or partially built):- Bartending Robot - 6 DOF Robotic Arm - Custom Wifi controlled Lighting - Foldable 1 Person Boat - Home Server - Custom Ergonomic Keyboard - Basic FPGA modules - RNN ChatbotIn addition I enjoy doing the following and have the...

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Re:FDA approves first marijuana-derived drug and it may spark DEA resc... on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @01:09PM (#17402318)

"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."

— John D. Ehrlichman, former Nixon aide, interview with Dan Baum

Yup; thats just my opinion.... it also happens to be factual history. Can't HN be less sterile and accept the facts of history and reality; we don't exist in a vacuum.

Re:FDA approves first marijuana-derived drug and it may spark DEA resc... on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @01:06PM (#17402295)

This is what i was going for, i should have cited my source

Re:FDA approves first marijuana-derived drug and it may spark DEA resc... on Monday June 25, 2018 @06:57PM (#17396543)

The honest answer is that it gives conservatives the ability to be racist and imprison minorities for minor offenses.

Ask HN: What does it really mean to do ML/DL at the hobbyist/research levels?

Posted by TrashQuestion on Thursday June 21, 2018 @06:43PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I have taken a few ML/DL courses (college, Coursera, Udacity) and have implemented a bunch of models (SVM, KNN, Neural Network, etc) from scratch. I learned some tensorflow and made a CNN, RNN, and even a GAN for generating human faces (Udacity Course). I do hardware/firmware design professionally but i dabble with software and machine learning as a hobby.I liked the courses where math was a...

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