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I was denied the vaccine by my healthcare provider as a man in my mid-20s. Their reasoning being that I was likely already exposed.

It may have been true, but would still have liked to get the vaccine since it covers many multiple strains.

It also seems, really low?

A stack of bills is roughly 0.5 inches. Assuming a 12-ft joist-to-joist spacing, that's 12 feet per floor \times 12 inches per foot \times 2 stacks per inch = 288 stacks per floor = $2.88M per floor since a stack of 100s is $10k

So that would be a 1,000M / 2.88M ~ 347 story building.

Or is my unit conversion wildly off from dealing with sick kids over the holidays?

Not sure about this one in specific but assuming most of the time the system is idle at ~200W, you’d be looking at ~$25/mo for most states in the US.

Peak draw could probably be 2kW for a beefy system so electricity costs could really skyrocket depending on usage patterns.

> and learns how to say "where's the bathroom", "hello", "would you like to sleep with me", "thank you", "goodbye"

Quite a story condensed into those five phrases.

A few weeks ago I decided I wanted to get into this so I started self-studying probability theory (with measure theory) [0] as a bridge to start in on stochastic calculus [1]

I think the hardest part of self-studying anything that has some formal math foundations is knowing _what_ to pay attention to. There's so much in just the first chapter of the probability book. Is having a general understanding of set theory enough or should I actually know how to prove a function is a singular function?

That's why I often like to find a university course with lectures posted online so I can use that as a rough guideline for what's important, but I haven't quite found that yet for stochastic calculus. Would love if someone coul point me to one.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/dp/3030976815 [1]: https://www.amazon.com/dp/9811247560

Totally, it's going to take a minute to get it all working. On a positive note, they recently got some sponsorship from Modal [0], who is supplying GPUs for CI/CD so they should be able to expand their hardware coverage.

The Rust-CUDA project just recently started up again [0], I've started digging into it a little bit and am hoping to contribute to it since the summers are a little slower for me.

[0] https://github.com/rust-gpu/rust-cuda

Kevin Murphy racing to rename his Probabilistic Machine Learning series.

> This was possible because AI helped write the file system.

I have my doubts

I see this a lot as someone that came from a solidly middle-class background (parents were a teacher and secretary) and went to a "highly-ranked" university with plenty of upper-middle or upper class students.

I work in the same jobs as my peers, but there is a clear wealth difference in how our lives are spent.

We have a nice house in a good neighborhood, but our peers have very nice houses is some of the best neighborhoods due in large part to down payment gifts, gifts for remodeling, etc. We can both afford the mortgage payment, but the down payment would take us probably a decade to save for.

On vacations, we'll drive a couple hours away with the kids, while our peers will fly to Europe and spend two weeks since they pay for the flights and their parents pay for lodging and food.

And then there is family support. Some of my peers have parents who bought second (or third) homes to be closer to their grandchildren, or will pay for the very nice private school, etc.

It's taken me a lot to not very bitter about this -- and I'm clearly still a little bitter -- but I also know that we will likely be in a position to offer some of this support to our kids in 20+ years.

I'm trying to download my 1099 forms from TreasuryDirect and it's coming back as unavailable. Probably unrelated to everything going on now, but the fact I thought that it could be related for a second is crazy.

>>> TreasuryDirect is unavailable. >>> We apologize for the inconvenience and ask that you try again later.

I feel like his first term benefitted from his administration being wholly unprepared to govern, as witnessed by the numerous stories of there effectively being no transition plan for a vast majority of departments.

The only real policy victory his first term was the TCJA. Otherwise, it was a lot of bark, no bite.

But now with four years to prepare, they came in barking and biting like hell.

Ironically, losing in 2020 gave MAGA time to create a game plan which we’re seeing in action now. A second Trump term right after the first would have been more effectual than the first, but not to the degree we’re seeing now.

I know a similar number but they were "acquihired" to essentially return money to investors and get the founders promotions at their former companies. So an exit on paper even if it's not necessarily so in practice.

We're saying the same thing, really. Basically until AWS/GCP/Azure have minimal egress fees there is no way we can switch over to a different storage provider. They obviously know this so it will probably never happen.

Working at a startup that deals in large data (our storage is measured in PB), egress is the only thing thing that matters if we're going to choose a new storage provider. And an automated class management system a la S3 or GCS.

Was it an admin or the OP? Can OPs even change post links?

I'm amazed of the amount of great resources available to students today to learn complex topics. I'm not even that old (late 30s) but the only real resources available when I was in school were other textbooks. There were some math blogs but they were mainly focused on higher-level mathematics.

I read it more like "we hired when money was cheap and were hoping that we could create some new revenue streams but that didn't work out and now we don't have much hope of revenue growth in these areas so we have to reduce costs."

When I was in grad school (mid-20s) I was consulted not to get it.

NowI'm pretty sure any adult with insurance can get it through any pharmacy that does vaccines. I think the actuarial tables must have changed or the cost of the vaccine decreased.

They publish peer-reviewed articles in decent-quality publications.

How you judge the latter is tougher and very domain specific, but each field usually has 1-2 "target" journals where the best work goes, and another 2-3 "second choice" journals that aren't as prestigious but still have good works. Usually the research topics going to the second choice journals just aren't as sexy as the work that gets into the target journals.

I saw this anecdotally in grad school. Despite coming from a solidly middle class family I was definitely on the poorer side of my colleagues at the R1 I attended.

You also see it in pretty much any field that confers status in exchange for lower pay. Starkest example I can think of is journalism, where you do a lot of schooling and low-paid or unpaid internships before you're able to get your first low-paying job.

In the early days of COVID, before we knew anything, I would go for runs outside and wear a mask (N95). I live in a densely populated city so this seemed like the appropriate thing to do.

While it was not pleasant, at no point did I start having issues you described so I have trouble buying the original claim.

I assume all these high-profile crypto people have 10's of millions in crypto. Maybe I'm wrong. But if that's the case creating excitement around BTC seems like a good way to increase his portfolio value and $1M is really just marketing spend.

Why would they buy 10-year bonds when their depositors are startups, many of whom won't exist in 10 years? Seems like shorter-term T-bills would have been more appropriate, but I know next to nothing about finance.

The author of the tweet is also a very successful entrepreneur; he owns 70% of a ~$700M CAD business [0]. Though I do think he is somewhat anti-VC culture.

I only give the context in case people think the author is some bitter, failed startup founder.

[0] https://seekingalpha.com/news/3926662-wecommerce-agrees-to-c...

This works a lot better if you have parents that live in Palo Alto or SF compared to Tulsa, OK.

To the original post, I generally agree. There are some fundamental lessons about business you can learn, and if you follow them, have a better chance of success. But the magnitude of that success largely comes down to luck. There's plenty of thought leaders out there that just happened to join the right company at the right time. Much of their success is "beta" rather than "alpha", but they are treated like they have unique insight to drive amazing outcomes.

I have friends that live in Utrecht and it's great. The biggest adjustment for an American, I think, would be getting used to the smaller house sizes. It shifts how you see and value "stuff".

Exploring by car is a reaction to how communities of our parent's generation were built. Live in a single family zoned suburb where you can't walk to anything? Of course you're going to end up exploring by car and "getting away".

I'm an older millennial but enjoy living in a community where I only have to get into a car a couple times a week, but can spend the reset of the time walking or biking around my community.

The Netherlands ranks 36th on the list of cars per capita [0]. This is higher than I thought it would be but it's still quite a ways away from the countries I would consider to be car-centric like the US and Canada (ranked 6th and 8th, respectively).

I also found this plot interesting relating vehicles and GDP [1], though the data seems outdated compared to the first link.

I'd also guess, though I can't find the data, that the US is one the highest cars per capita rates in its cities. Outside of NYC and Chicago, there is a real lack of public transport infrastructure in most US cities.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_vehicles_... [1]

I find it freeing to know that no one really knows what they are doing. Looking into startup world from academia, it seemed like these people really were thoughtful and strategic in how they operated.

After getting into a couple very well funded startups, and seeing how the sausage is made, you realize that no one knows what they are doing. It's not that they're stupid, just that business is hard and the environment is always changing. Sure there might be some "master of the universe" types, but you can create a good business solving the most immediate and pressing problems.