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jeffreyrogers
11,353karma·2,915submissions·March 8, 2014
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Hedge Fund -> Defense Industry -> Big Tech
My career has mostly been at the intersection of hardware and software (including a couple of years designing FPGA gateware) and focused on designing and developing correct, performant systems, but I've been paid to do everything from PCB design to React frontends.
I also have an interest in improving clinical trials for novel therapeutics.
email: jeffreyrogers27@gmail.com
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Sure that's one line. What about all the other changes you have to make as a consequence? - You've now changed corporate governance, since companies can only grow to $2bn before a majority s…
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The government definitely thinks of SpaceX as a defense company. They have to comply with ITAR because if you have the technology to get to space you basically have the technology for an ICBM.
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> The CDC completely eliminated malaria and other mosquito born illnesses in the US By spraying DDT over all the places mosquitoes live, which is now banned.
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I'm not sure how he proposes to limit people to less than a billion dollars (or $100m as he also suggests) without completely overhauling the financial system. Seems like the harms of that are gr…
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Given enough time abnormal becomes normal and everyone who couldn't fit in is selected out. Several thousand years ago agricultural societies were abnormal, but they allowed high population densi…
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Sounds like the Warren Buffet approach applied to tech companies.
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The ability to set the tab focus order if you have a large group of inputs (so that tab and shift-tab cycle through them in appropriate way). The last time I checked SwiftUI had no straightforward way…
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It's unlike any other UI Framework I've used and at first I didn't like it. If you approach SwiftUI without doing things the way the framework expects you too it's going to be frus…
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It takes several days to drive across the US. You need a logistics network with warehouses spread across the country to service a meaningful portion of the country in 1-2 days.
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People still talk about millennials as if they are still in their 20s, but the oldest millennials are now 40. I'd guess that age of first home purchase has been trending up for a while.
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Go's main selling point is that it is extremely easy to deploy and it has good standard libraries for most routine programming problems. It works really well for providing web services running on…
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It's sad to realize how quick a substantial number of people are to discard what are ostensibly core principles when they conflict with their ability to exercise power.
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It embrittles steel, but not aluminum at the temperature/pressure it would be used at for this sort of application.
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My home internet (in Seattle) is T-Mobile 5G. Only chose it because there are no high speed wired options for my address, but it works pretty well.
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There are a couple of blogs I read that get good comments, but most either do not or have the comments closed. The commonality between the few with good comments section is that the topic of the blog …
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Thank you, had no idea this existed. Here is a link with a list that someone compiled https://blog.nina.coffee/2018/08/27/all_nature_method_books.... . The French link i…
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The way I think about software is it's basically about processing data. Most of the time that data is someone else's, but sometimes it is generated either by the software itself (e.g., CAD o…
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This book is awesome. I wish they made something similar for other languages (actually French has a video series, French in Action, that is similar but not quite as effective as LLPSI).
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I randomly picked Code off a library shelf when I was a child, not sure the exact age but probably 13 or earlier, and it drew me into programming.
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> The game of Go, is the big Chinese game of strategy. Warlords and generals from the past 3 millennia have played the game of Go. Surely this has also affected Chinese war and strategy? One of the…
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Command: Modern Operations models a lot of that. I believe it is also used within the military. Wargames were used by the Prussian army and are credited with helping them defeat the French in the Fran…
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London is known as "The Laundry" in Russia. No one in power has cared for two decades and only care now because it serves their interests to. Maybe they will crack down on it, maybe it will …
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The important aspects of agriculture were mechanized/automated decades ago. There's a lot of room for growth in Africa[1] just by taking tech that's old but works and using it there. If…
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Audiophiles are different from the other groups you listed since the things they care about aren't measurable and probably don't exist or have a real effect on performance. There are audio e…
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Yes, the feedstocks for petrochemicals are distilled as part of the refining process and different varieties will have different amounts of the various compounds that are distilled out.
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One on one a single soldier can take a tank, but war isn't one on one. First there isn't going to be one tank. There's going to be a bunch. The tanks are basically immune to small arms …
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The pay gap is much smaller if you compare identical jobs like you're suggesting.
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He pretty much says the opposite of what everyone claims he said in that book. People who've never read the book read the title and assume they know what his argument is.