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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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"Oil" isn't one product. It differs widely in chemical and physical properties (viscosity, how much sulfur and arsenic is present, etc.) depending on how/where it was produced. Dif…
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I'll second this. "How to Prove It" gets recommended a lot, but I couldn't get through it. I found it terribly boring and unmotivated. Some people can power through dry material bu…
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> This is really comparing apples and oranges, those two wars are about 5-6 centuries apart, whatever you're comparing as proxy for 'brutal' or 'destructive' is very much c…
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It's been true literally since written records of conflict have been kept. Look at the Punic Wars vs. the Peloponnesian War for example. Look at the Japanese in the Warring States vs. Japanese in…
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> Slav fellowship does not work in wars. No fellowship works in wars. Historically combatants have treated their opponents differently based on race and existing cultural attitudes. Don't see …
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There are always going to be civilian casualties in war, but it sure looks like they are trying to limit them. Would be worth comparing to other, similar conflicts. Surely a full scale air campaign wo…
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Modern Coca-Cola is still flavored with coca leaves. Coca-Cola still imports the leaves and they are processed by a pharmaceutical company to extract the cocaine.
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The most efficient way known to share the idea for a story between two minds is to write the story, which obviates the need for collaboration.
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But the expectations rise too.
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They're not. I have a 2017 Macbook Air and gmail frequently takes many seconds to display an email when I click to open it. I used to use Mozilla Thunderbird and emails loaded basically instantly…
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The alternative is non-Apple phones.
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Interesting experiment. I don't think this applies to knowledge work in the same way it does to manufacturing.
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He was the top math student in his year at Cambridge, also Lee Kuan Yew's son.
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Singapore has only been independent since 1959. The date you gave is when the Misuse of Drugs Act was introduced. They still had harsh punishments prior to that through the legal system. Like I said e…
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Singapore wasn't always rich, but it's always had harsh laws with regards to drugs.
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Seems like it is much harder to get drugs in Singapore than in Seattle. Prohibition might not be absolute, but it seems effective at reducing the number of people using drugs. Is that a good or bad po…
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My ideal static site generator would have a locally run web app for editing files, styling content, etc. and then would just generate the static assets when you're ready to deploy. Not sure if an…
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For comprehensible input you shouldn't need to learn the meaning when learning kanji. You should already know the meaning/sound from spoken language. There is definitely memorization require…
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The places that have a track record of actually getting people to speak languages like the Mormons' Missionary Training Center, Defense Foreign Language Institute, or Middlebury all use methods s…
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It's interesting to me that that Japanese language learning community seems to take the opposite approach to what I think is the view you're describing. For example, they focus very heavily …
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Oops, duh, can't believe I messed that up. Too late to edit it now.