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I would like you to know that I would gladly pay a monthly fee to have at least 1 proof (per month) explained to me like this. Not sure how that could scale to varying knowledge levels, but I would love to have a slow educational drip of math explanations.

How many folks here would like to give their DNA information to private equity?

There are so many fun (for various definitions of fun) things you can do with a home lab. I know a guy who collects fungi, just to sequence them - because he can. You can also design your own experiments to produce materials, engineer plants, and play with organs.

It's like modern alchemy, and it's super cool.

It's likely a nod to Mr. Robot, where the company that the hackers are infiltrating is called Evil Corp.

I once had a piano teacher who remarked: "why do musicians make so little money? For the same reason they do so many drugs. Professional musicians are paid in dopamine."

There is nothing like a crowd cheering for you.

But you're right, you can make a living being a wedding DJ, or if you can get gigs at upscale hotels/restaurants playing cello or piano, you can make a pretty decent living as a musician. But it takes a lot more work than learning to hook up a bunch of web forms to a database, and usually, it pays a lot less money. Then there's always teaching; and I believe if you have the ability to kindly teach music to children, you have attained enlightenment.

If you are striking out on your own, the grind is like founding a startup. If you build yet another photo-sharing app (or you're a guitar player who sings about love), you have to be uncommonly talented and lucky to break through. Similarly, startups come in many genres; maybe high tech startups are like jazz - often founded by PhDs, and very often failures because no one can wrap their head around it - even though it is brilliant.

If you can make it work - either startups or music, you get paid in dopamine and money. If you make it out the other side of that gauntlet, I believe you have also achieved enlightenment.

If you want to "make a living", it can be done in music. However, you will generally be more stable and comfortable in the world of tech.

That's prohibitively expensive for private markets. No one will take that bet. It needs to be proven to be possible first.

I have gone through a lot of note-taking iteration, and I have finally found something that really works for me. If anyone cares enough about the post, feel free to submit it on my behalf

"A startup is an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. The goal of your early business model can be revenue, or profits, or users, or click-throughs – whatever you and your investors have agreed upon. Most startups change their business model multiple times."

I disagree with the idea that a "startup" needs to be "optimizing for growth at all costs" - as you say. I think this is actually a rather dangerous approach because growth at all costs is how we get things like Ponzi schemes, WeWork, and other abusive organizations.

Your comment also seems to imply that you can't do anything meaningful if you don't have/raise money. This is simply not true.

The purpose of a VPN was never supposed to be the authentication layer to internal services. It's just a layer of security that makes it more difficult to carry out some types of attacks; thus increasing security defenses of an organization. Assuming that it has been breached is good practice, but doesn't mean that there's no point to it.... Unless layered security has been overturned?

If anyone is working on AI+programming languages, please send me a message. I'd love to work with others on this problem.

The difference you're describing is how far apart our brains are. This strikes me as an optimization over a phenomenon that the internet has already facilitated.

In other cases, they're small companies that own a market that's too small for a large competitor to go after. $10m/yr will not make VCs happy. But it will certainly pay nicely to a team of 12.

I wonder what today's version is. Maybe Fortnite?

I know this isn't really what the article is about, but scientists are allowed to be wrong unless and until politics is involved.

[0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/italian-scientist...

It's hard to push through tough problems to achieve a goal that you don't care about achieving. The pressure you grew up in now needs to come from yourself, or more reasonably, the situations you put yourself in. For example: take the life's savings of every family member and friend you have, and go try to make more money with it. The pressure will surely arrive.

An alternative possibility: It may be that your career is not high on your priority list, and you'd rather make some money so that you can fund a passion, travel the world, raise a family, or do something else. If those are the things that you are passionate about, a promotion will not fill the hole where they are missing (for long)

Do you have a source for this? I'm not finding it with a quick google search

Bill Campbell: "It's not about the money."

Ben Horowitz: "What's it about, Bill?"

Bill: "It's about the FUCKING money.

Remember when you were first learning to code, and everything was really hard? Things didn't fit together, and understanding why one tutorial worked and another did not required reading at least 3 other tutorials?

Well, that's where I'm at with biology. I'm trying to track things that are interesting to me in order to maybe help someone else one day see the path that I walked from 0 to knowing how to do stuff.

1) open a Robinhood account with a small amount of money ($100) ought to be enough. Buy in and out of stocks every day for a couple days until you can get approved for their level 2 trading. Then, start playing with options.

2) Open an account on ThinkOrSwim and use their tools to trade a dummy account or use real money. The learning curve of ToS is higher, but it is more powerful

The fundamentals are pretty simple, but the strategies for combining simple elements can become very complex. The fundamental questions are: will this "stock" (you can trade options on other financial instruments as well) move up, down, neither, on both? To what extent? Over what time period?

Getting off of Facebook directly contributes to their premise that everything online will be public. If you don't want it to be public, don't put it on the internet.

My take: Unfortunately, there are some places where we pretty much don't have a choice - banks, insurance, some government, etc. And the solution to this is to incentivize these institutions to lock things down better.

There is room in the world for hyper-realistic real-time raytracing games. But not a lot of room.

To any game developers reading this, my request to you is to please optimize for fun, especially at the expense of polish.