AdamN

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541.
by AdamN 3y ago
The beta period is at least a month long and Xcode shows you deprecation warnings years ahead on this stuff. I get that there are corner case bugs that might happen once every few years but if this is happening 'every single release&#
542.
by AdamN 3y ago
That gain is just 'resulting'. More likely odds of success to sell 100% of RSUs and invest that money in some other company (or fund).
543.
by AdamN 3y ago
Self-hosting with the same availability/durability/security profile as Google would not be any cheaper (probably not more expensive either) - which is my point. His goal is to get off of Google and the other big tech providers fo
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by AdamN 3y ago
It seems like we really need to move forward to 'indefinite/active studies'. I believe some researchers are trying to get onto this pattern but of course there are major privacy/quality of care concerns. By 'indefi
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by AdamN 3y ago
It's good that people are doing this but this quote is an impediment: "The price is OK but it keeps going up, and so do our data storage requirements, what with all the cameras in the family. " Most of the people on this foru
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by AdamN 3y ago
They're still separated by floor. His cubicle farm is just for the very senior people who are already in (and anyway something very sensitive would happen in a room).
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by AdamN 3y ago
SLAs are more of a financial construct than anything else. Once the payback cost of missing an SLA is built into the contract then it just becomes a conversation about money. I've been at plenty of shops that obviously tried to hit t
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by AdamN 3y ago
WSJ has a few high quality articles and some local insight into things like commercial real estate in the US but that editorial section is so difficult to take seriously (as well as some of the real articles). It's generally not worth
549.
by AdamN 3y ago
Writing quality and critical thinking are double that of WSJ though.
550.
by AdamN 3y ago
WSJ is much cheaper than FT. I pay about 4x as much for FT as WSJ.
551.
by AdamN 3y ago
Editorials on WSJ are just insane. Straight reporting is often good but there definitely isn't a high wall between the two and the reporting gets impacted negatively unfortunately (not always though).
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by AdamN 3y ago
I wonder what your review of the WSJ would be :-) It's sad to think how many people respect their editorial board articles - so low rent.
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by AdamN 3y ago
That to me is the critical tell. By all accounts the Bloomberg office model is very well regarded but Bloomberg himself sits in a cubicle with his directs around him in their own cubicles. There are break-out conference rooms of course ju
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by AdamN 3y ago
I'm pretty sure car deaths are the number 1 preventable cause of death of children - doesn't seem like an exaggerated fear. Step 1 is to reduce speed limit to 45kph (25mph) anywhere a pedestrian could interact with the road which
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Submarine cables linking Africa-Asia-Europe severed(en.globes.co.il)
131 points by AdamN 3y ago|132 comments
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by AdamN 3y ago
There are other constraints like Five Eyes and bright lines around things like how the US would (usually) ask the German intel agencies to spy on Germans if possible. This is unlike the Chinese who probably have limited access to German in
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by AdamN 3y ago
Europe and US are allies so there is less (but certainly not zero) risk from US controlling European cranes than China controlling them. Also, US has more controls that would prevent them from abusing the position as easily (i.e. sure the
558.
by AdamN 3y ago
A large portion of those 200 bips goes back to the customer via points/cash refunds so it's not actually an amount that the interchange captures.
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by AdamN 3y ago
Three letter agencies are part of politics. For anything this big it's usually all three: 1/ an industry that can benefit from the policy (US-based crane builders), 2/ the government itself (extra port resilience), 3/ v
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by AdamN 3y ago
There are many conditions that confer a narrow fitness advantage and have significant disadvantages too: sickle cell anemia (malaria resistance), diabetes (cold tolerance) are two I can think of off the top of my head. Here's an intere
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by AdamN 3y ago
I doubt it's an ethical choice. Some junior dev in the early days probably just put it in there and now the bureacratic lift required to undo it (and pay for a similar set of analytics instead of getting it subsidized by data harvesti
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by AdamN 3y ago
Interesting feedback. As you rightly point out, in major tech projects most of these advantages to software don't hold up (determinism, rapid feedback loops, etc...). So I guess everybody is squeezed no matter where they are :-)
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Ask HN: When was the last time you climbed a tree?
4 points by AdamN 3y ago|5 comments
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by AdamN 3y ago
We had a small chain in Seattle that was an oldschool holistic health store but also had a modern pharmacy attached. The one location nearest our home unfortunately did not have the pharmacy because the owner of the building also leased ou
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by AdamN 3y ago
Plastic bags are far cheaper and even if they are not really recyclable, they have less of an upstream impact on the environment (a few grams of oil from underground vs a percentage of a tree farm that disrupts an ecosystem). In the end reu
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by AdamN 3y ago
Environmentalists can also focus on environmental beauty - which is the primary rationale for reducing single-use plastic bags so they don't end up in trees and on the street. This is more of a hedonistic environmentalism but it'
567.
by AdamN 3y ago
Don't want to judge but that's concerning. You can really mess up your internal organs with that much volume (even spread over a year with a family of four).
568.
by AdamN 3y ago
In the US, a drug store is a DM with a pharmacy in the back. There are way fewer independent pharmacies in the US nowadays as 'drug stores' have taken over.
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by AdamN 3y ago
Thanks for article - possibly it's 'retcon nonsense' but the explanation of 'pod' preceding 'iPod' was told to me in the very early days of iPods so if it was made up then it was made up nearly 20 years ag
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by AdamN 3y ago
I got progressives a few months ago - going back to reading glasses

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