Afforess

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by Afforess 13y ago
To provide a contrary viewpoint here, NPR's Planet Money had a rather good piece a few weeks back on the downsides to drastically scaling back Military Contractors. The basic gist is that if contractors that supply all of one component
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by Afforess 13y ago
Why? DPR was a much bigger criminal threat than most of the users that went on the SR. You don't let the head of the cabal get away to nab the underlings, that's just plain stupid.
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by Afforess 13y ago
> when most programmers hit 25 they have already learned dozens of frameworks, know how to build compilers, machine learning, etc Really? I have yet to meet one of these 25-year olds.
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by Afforess 13y ago
Wow I thought I was cynical. Have you considered doing something new? Learning a new framework or language often gives me a fresh perspective on past projects.
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by Afforess 13y ago
This is awesome, in the sense that I am in awe that google lets you do this. Could you create a shareable doc to create a google powered DDOS of a site? Hypothetically, of course.
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by Afforess 13y ago
It is selfish to not inform your online contacts & friends of your death. Think of it that way.
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by Afforess 13y ago
There are several services of varying levels of service, but honestly it's not that hard to write up a small script to fire off an email to get you to turn off the switch for a month. After multiple failures it assumes you are dead and
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by Afforess 13y ago
This is why setting up a deathswitch with a trusted friend to manage your online accounts upon death is critical. Wills are nice and all but I don't trust my close family to be proficient enough to correctly close out my online account
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by Afforess 13y ago
So because other countries take an arm and a leg in taxes, but the USA only takes an arm, we should shut up and be happy? /FlawedLogic.
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by Afforess 13y ago
And hence why more people are renouncing their citizenship. The services are unwanted, the fee ridiculous.
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by Afforess 13y ago
Except your argument makes no sense if you DONT LIVE IN AMERICA. If you pay US Taxes but live elsewhere, you are in fact getting robbed. Your local and government services are not provided by America, you get almost no representation from A
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by Afforess 13y ago
Couldn't care less Could care less means they care some, and theoretically could care less than they already care. Couldn't care less means they already don't care at all.
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by Afforess 13y ago
Behind every successful commercial software product is a horrible codebase.
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by Afforess 13y ago
That's easy. Keep plenty of liquidity, buy undervalued assets post-crash.
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by Afforess 13y ago
Yes, it could have been a line right out of 1984. Highly Orwellian.
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by Afforess 13y ago
I can't believe I'm reading someone on hacker news saying 'polynomials don't appear in everyday problems.' Name a situation where solving a polynomial is something the average person has to do? The only one I can
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by Afforess 13y ago
I once asked a vice principal (way back, 10 yrs ago) why schools started so early when lack of sleep was known to be bad. He said it was so there was time for sports in the evening. If you started at 10 or 11 school would run until 6 and it
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by Afforess 13y ago
You clearly are very isolated from the world. Even if the author had a good math experience, polynomials do not appear in everyday problems. As for the start time, likely she is involved in extra-curricular activities, like cheerleading or
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by Afforess 13y ago
Yes. I reached college with 24 AP credits and a 31 ACT (never touched the SAT) 5 years ago and I did barely any homework (~1hr/week total). Instead I played a lot of video games, and when I was 17 taught myself how to program C++ to mo
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by Afforess 13y ago
You begin to think about the normal well-tempered mind, in effect, the well-organized mind, as an achievement, not as the base state As an aside, Almost no one ever really analyzes sanity. Somehow, despite not understanding why exactly we
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by Afforess 13y ago
You'd still be plenty wealthy due to dividends. Raw price indexes hide the true wealth.
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by Afforess 13y ago
4% return is conservative. 7% is actually the historical average. So my 4% left plenty of room for bad years. RETIRING in San Francisco would be a massive mistake. If you are retired why the hell are you living in a uber-expensive city. Loc
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by Afforess 13y ago
a 4% rate of return, on average from the S&P 500 index is reasonable. With 1 million, you could live off of $25000/yr, which is more than enough to live like a king if you do not have other debt payments. You could rent a $1000&#x2
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by Afforess 13y ago
No. If I understand correctly, your last two outcomes are wrong. There are 6 possible outcomes, not four. This is because when you choose the 2X correctly, you may receive 2(2X) or X. The 6 outcomes are: You select X, then you choose to sta
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by Afforess 13y ago
Google doesn't get "it" anymore. People used their products because they were free and provided tons more functionality over the "other" competition (mapquest/yahoo/askjeeves). If they aren't providin
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by Afforess 13y ago
I wish more people in software followed this kind of advice. I see posts about air hockey or ping-pong tables and fully stocked mini-fridges as if that is an acceptable replacement for ones free time and best creative years. Are we children
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by Afforess 13y ago
I agree. I tend to avoid Walmart due to its low quality on a lot of the store brand goods, but don't actually have any issues with how they run their business. They aren't exactly hiding that they are a low-cost retailer. If peopl
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by Afforess 13y ago
I totally agree that Firefox extensions are a massive pain. I tried the review process and after the waits, and rejections, I gave up and hosted it myself. You can host Firefox extensions and have them auto-update, but it's not well do
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by Afforess 13y ago
No, Raleigh NC.
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by Afforess 13y ago
People buy things they can't afford, with money that they don't have, to impress people that they don't like I realized I could live off of $25000/yr and maintain a modestly comfortable lifestyle at the same time. I am

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