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Why are DP problems so popular for interviews? I am doing leetcode now and they seem to be everywhere.

Yeah...I'm inclined to say the hardest working people are the ones that are juggling two minimum wage jobs, driving for Uber on the side, and a family to take care of. The idea that working "harder" correlates positively with income or wealth is a myth that needs to go away.

Convinced part of the problem with political offices is that elected politicians have no incentive to actually consider second order or third order effects of any piece of legislation they pass. Everything is optimized for first order effects only e.g. optics because that is what they think "shows" they did something.

I honestly think there's an opportunity to create a YouTube channel that literally does nothing more than explain how X makes money, whether it's a VC firm, a Subway franchise, a toothpaste manufacturer, etc.

As someone with an entrepreneurial tick but not someone who's gone all in it would be so helpful to have edu videos that just explained the basic business model of XYZ.

I agree there's a phenomenon happening here and elsewhere where being "normal" doesn't cut it anymore, meaning if you're just an average person of average intelligence you have it harder now than someone in your shoes 40 years ago to live a good life. OTOH, if you're extraordinary in some way, and smart enough to know how to capitalize on it, you're in a much better position now than someone who was equally extraordinary a few decades ago.

When people say Cyberpunk w.r.t crypto, do they actually mean Cypherpunk? Or can someone explain what the difference is?

Funny how the number of upvoted crypto articles seem to correlative positively with prices.

Do we have until 2050 for cities to go net neutral?

The fact they haven't even provided a very simple admin panel for end users to revoke access is all you need to know about this company's ethics.

It's sad how many times I walk around in SF and see basically crumbling buildings or empty parking lots and wonder why new housing has not been built there yet? And more importantly who would actually oppose development on crumbling or wasted land?

Not every language is class-based...

I'm relatively bearish on Slack, but who knows what will happen in 5 years. Anecdotally I find a lot of people (myself included) have long shifted from "Slack is the greatest thing ever (e.g. 2015/2016)" to "Slack is more annoying than email." At the same time, I don't feel like there's been much new outside of changing the design of their homepage every 3-4 months (can someone explain why it makes sense to throw design/eng resources on this?) and search is still terrible.

I am a recent graduate of a well known bootcamp in SF, and impressed there are a decent number of graduates from last 2-3 cohorts that have landed jobs at Google. The only trick is knowing how to land an interview in the first place. If you can do that, succeeding at the technical interview can be easily taught/learned.

I think it's great that the interview process is so learnable. Why wouldn't you be happy knowing pretty much what to expect going in when for most roles that isn't the case at all?