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thisisnico··on Parents' income, not smarts, key to entrepreneurship
As a landlord, and landlording in an area with restricted rent, it makes zero difference. It's only good if you stay where you rent, but if you move, it's market rent. You can't adequately control market rent because there are so so many variable on what market rent is for every individual unit, location, type, etc. I'm all for the eliminating zoning restrictions though.
thisisnico··on Heavy social media use associated with lower mental health in adolescents
And for many, the ego had increased exponentially with the attention gathered.
thisisnico··on German police take down 'world's largest darknet marketplace'
Gotta look good to the media and your bosses.
thisisnico··on Intel is dying and we can’t save it
Interestingly, there was a time when Intel's Fabs were the industry's absolute best. They were far ahead.
thisisnico··on Intel is dying and we can’t save it
Sad really. I was so passionate about hardware then. I lost interest because the innovation just dropped off a cliff. We were nearly exponential before the Core i series. Interestingly during that period Servers have had many-core CPU's. It just seems that Intel hasn't had a reason to push the envelope on the consumer side.
thisisnico··on Intel is dying and we can’t save it
The Core Architecture in the mid 2000's was such an incredible shot back to the top. I remember seeing the benchmarks absolutely dominate AMD on every level, power, performance, TDP, Cost, etc. etc. This is almost immediately after Athlon 64 and the Athlon 64X2 started to gain market share, spanking Intel's Pentium 4 at the time. IIRC Intel ended up dropping the Prescott architecture, moving to the Pentium M architecture for development of the Core CPU's. Moving away from chasing max frequencies, and instead looking at IPC. Then Nehalem Dropped, (The first Core i CPU's) making the gap even larger. Q6600, Quad Core, Low power, decent cost. That was the CPU to have at the time. I miss the days reading about all of this.
thisisnico··on Workaholism leads to health problems, work addiction risk depends on occupation
Honestly my home life is significantly calmer and more stable than my work life. Working in IT as a sysadmin, your entire work life consists an abundance of chaos, and a lot of things are out of your control that you can get blamed for anyway, even if you are not blamed for something out of your control, say office 365 is down. It still looks bad on you. It would be nice to work in an Industry with structure and actual rewards for your effort.
thisisnico··on The Sperm Kings Have a Problem: Too Much Demand
Doing a 5k jog twice a week would be decently above average, since the average is so incredibly low IMO, after a while you'll get into pretty decent shape. But I wouldn't call myself a runner.
thisisnico··on The Sperm Kings Have a Problem: Too Much Demand
That is truly a nightmare situation that would drive me to suicide. I couldn't imagine a more horrible situation to be in.
thisisnico··on Who Wants to Be a Thousandaire? (2011)
I'm almost certain the Mafia does not care about committing fraud.
thisisnico··on Facebook Indefinitely Suspends Trump
Keep your enemies close.
thisisnico··on Automatically fixing packet loss on my connection
Working in IT as a Systems Engineer, My thought process is always first -> Existing solution or Tool, if not exist, Patching existing tools together, if not exist, code our own solution.
thisisnico··on 2-Acre Vertical Farm Run by AI and Robots Out-Produces 720-Acre Flat Farm
I think a lot of it is based on locale. Many of the foods may not be easy or possible to grow local, imports are expensive, food grows faster in greenhouses, additionally you can have many grow cycles over the entire year including winter, where that may not be possible with just typical land. They are growing greenhouse operations exponentially, it is a multi-billion dollar business in our locale.
thisisnico··on 2-Acre Vertical Farm Run by AI and Robots Out-Produces 720-Acre Flat Farm
Idk, where I live there are massive greenhouse operations that produce insane amounts of high quality food.
thisisnico··on Estimated 1.56B face masks will have entered oceans in 2020
If we make it that far.
thisisnico··on U.S. Treasury breached by hackers backed by foreign government – sources
This isn't going to help if the discussed is essentially tunneled through the Nat using legit protocols and traffic to the vulnerable service, where most of the attacks actually happen on the software side. How do you architect a firewall to accurately know if the application layer traffic is legit or not? It might not even be possible to fully implement something like this. Sounds complicated already. There is a reason firewalls are complex because the application landscape is extremely complex.

Source: Am Sr. Systems Engineer.

thisisnico··on A 4-month online dating experiment using 10 fictional singletons (2012)
Some of the absolute BEST women to date (Personality, Character, Career, Family, Attractiveness) that I know, always typically prefer dating through social circles. Almost all of the women I know, especially women that are extremely attractive, with average or below average attractive partners, are through social circles. A friend of a friend. These are men that typically receive near zero likes on online dating platforms, yet, in the real world, can do extremely well with women because of their character (Charming, Funny) etc. This I know Anecdotally of course.
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Why is this on the front page?
thisisnico··on On Learning Chess as an Adult – From 650 to 1750 in Two Years
AoE2:DE Player here as well. It's a fantastic game and I love the current community.
thisisnico··on A pacifist's plan to survive the violent world of prison
As a Canadian, 10 YEARS for a non-violent property crime??? What.
thisisnico··on Eric Schmidt has applied to become a citizen of Cyprus
This is the real problem. The EU shouldn't allow sale of citizenship in host countries, essentially paying a way to get into the EU. I highly doubt that would be possible to enforce though.
thisisnico··on Kim Dotcom can be extradited to US but can also appeal
They would let you in just to spite the US.
thisisnico··on A 20kg hybrid drone that can fly at 50kmh for 4 hours
That does make a lot of sense. I wonder, would a better design include making the arms attaching to the rotors have the same aerodynamic profile of a wing, made of carbon fibre to reduce weight. For propulsion the rotors can rotate do different angles depending on desired speed?
thisisnico··on A 20kg hybrid drone that can fly at 50kmh for 4 hours
Maybe stability in windy conditions? or additional mobility issues at low speed.
thisisnico··on A 20kg hybrid drone that can fly at 50kmh for 4 hours
I believe they are discussing large transactions. Maybe Monero is a better alternative.
thisisnico··on A 20kg hybrid drone that can fly at 50kmh for 4 hours
Would it make sense as to build such a design where wings are integrated but Tilted at an upward angle, so when the drone is angled downward to improve forward thrust, the lift is generated by the wings and the motors are used mostly for propulsion, dramatically improving efficiency and getting the best of both worlds?
thisisnico··on The Untimely Demise of Workstations
The "PC Master Race" Community is booming, more people than ever are building their own rigs, customizing. The market is very very hot for hardware and the latest graphics cards. I can only see this continuing. Workstations/Desktops are continuing onward.

This is a different market though, Dell/HP/Lenovo are mostly targeted toward businesses or the common consumer just looking to get a laptop for school.

thisisnico··on I got 10k post karma on Reddit with (and without) fast.ai
I've never looked at anyone's points. It's pointless. Pun intended. It's not a descriptor of anything of value. Essentially I take information on reddit as it is, and use my own critical thinking skills to judge the opinion or value the opinion has to me. Sometimes there is great information, sometimes it's just people trolling. Everything is taken with a grain of salt.
thisisnico··on Women Using Less Feminine Terms in Cover Letters Are Less Likely to Get Hired
I personally don't like working with people that are too assertive, male or female. There is an intense energy and forced viewpoint that I don't enjoy the experienced of being pushed down my throat. Being more loud and more confident in what you're saying does not make you more right.
thisisnico··on Women Using Less Feminine Terms in Cover Letters Are Less Likely to Get Hired
Cover letter is completely useless and a waste of both parties time IMO.

Look at experience. Look at skills. Do they fit the position.

If yes, interview. If no, do not interview.

The fluff around everything else is just fluff.

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