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·il y a 10 jours·discuss
So how much did they have to donate to the MAGA PAC for this one?
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·il y a 30 jours·discuss
I was hoping for Pantheon too (I’m 90% sure Holstrom uses EMacs instead of Vim?)
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·le mois dernier·discuss
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·il y a 2 mois·discuss
I’ll be honest this seems low for what he’s been through.
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·il y a 2 mois·discuss
There's not going to be many non-Ivy+ graduates at these companies. I make Jane Street/HRT/etc new grad pay 8 years into my career
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·il y a 2 mois·discuss
Cognitive elites are the MIT and Ivy+ grads that make up Jane Street like the speaker.

People like me aren’t getting $5m+ bonuses for being an SRE (I don’t have the pedigree to work at Anthropic either)
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·il y a 2 mois·discuss
I'll never understand how these cognitive elites live. They're just a completely different kind of human than the rest of us.
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·il y a 3 mois·discuss
Can we squint and say the gut microbiome is kind of like this?
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·il y a 3 mois·discuss
I’ll be honest, I had a hard time getting through the LLM writing
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·il y a 3 mois·discuss
Correct, as he should have
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·il y a 3 mois·discuss
I went to a state school, worked at Amazon and didn’t get a 2300 on my SAT - I definitively am lower caste but the caste/class divergence isn’t well understood in culture I think.
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·il y a 3 mois·discuss
As someone that thinks of myself as a low-caste, middle class American it's interesting seeing all of these people listed in the article making less than me
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·il y a 4 mois·discuss
>btw 99% of MIT people are no different then the rest they just worked hard or paid hefty amounts

I don't think that's true. I didn't get into any elite schools unlike almost all of them.
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·il y a 4 mois·discuss
I genuinely think this is because the elites like the MIT dropouts that started this company think the rest of us observers are stupid.

They have a billboard with the copy "Compliance before you tell your parents you dropped out of MIT"
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·il y a 4 mois·discuss
The problem may not be "intellectually interesting" to them at all, but building B2B SaaS does appeal to them from a lifestyle/prestige/pedigree perspective and will probably get them an exit to become a Venture investor even if they fail.
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·il y a 4 mois·discuss
Major red flag with this should have been that their expensive marketing predicated heavily on them being MIT dropouts instead of any expertise in the space
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·il y a 4 mois·discuss
As someone trying to monitor the situation using Twitter the last few weeks it’s awful and it used to not be!
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·il y a 5 mois·discuss
I don't think he has an obligation to do anything. I just think he's a hack and your friendship is blinding you to this fact.
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·il y a 5 mois·discuss
I frequently follow Patrick's tweets. He hasn't said a single goddamn thing about this corrupt administration but keeps talking about Gavin Newsome's vaccine policy that was in effect for 2 months in 2021
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·il y a 5 mois·discuss
Personally, I’d prefer a slow mode that’s a ton cheaper for a lot of things.