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nothing beats pay. Pay 20% more than your competitor.

I just dont get it. Why would any one use vpn instead of tor if all you want is to circumvent the censorship? Tor provides access to restricted site for free the same vpn charges .

Its good to watch youtube tech channels. But nothing replaces books in my experience. Get in to the habbit of reading books and watch videos only occasionally.

I see it now. "1.5" billion from 150 people contributes to making the distribution uniform where as 5 billion from 5 people is contributing to skewing the distribution. But is there a proof to that or it more of an observation.

> Here's the "paradox" that takes this phenomenon even further: the more choices people have, the less uniform the distribution is, and the more it favors the top producers.

How do you explain the pre and post netflix years. More movies produced more people get rich post netflix. Fewer movies produced less people got more rich before netflix.

Slightly off topic. What is the tech stack and architecture of "archive.org". How do they manage such huge storage. How do they forecast and how much does it cost per year to manage existing storage ? I could not find any links?

Was Andrej in to competitive programming?

He makes some great point on deepwork and cites verifiable research. But you should be careful as he is totally against watching porn and worse favors religion.

Emacs in itself is worth studying to become better developer. The best minds in the computer industry have worked on this editor's design. For example I used to think single namespace in elisp is bad. But after used it for a while it feels having single namespace is probably good for cognitive ease. In contrast C++ offers namespace but when "using namespace" is used at the top of the file, the rest of the file contains only part of the namespace. This makes it harder to grep while reading source code. Although emacs have longer symbol names its cognitively much easier.

C-h r C-s <search_term> - This almost always helps if not google - "<search_term> emacs wiki"

welcome to software development

was it atleast profitable to founder. Say working as an employee in a top tech company vs 20 years of unprofitable company.