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EpicEng
8y ago
≥Object lookups are fast and they're faster as their size grow It's difficult to imagine a switch large enough where the performance difference would matter, but this ignores the memory required to store the lookup in the first pl
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EpicEng
8y ago
>Could you imagine being in her industry, and having the patience to go through years of trials and testing and passing through regulations? I have worked at two reasonably successful healthcare startups. No 'unicorns', but the
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EpicEng
8y ago
That would disallow many tech companies from doing business in China at all, no? Does search result filtering count? Analytics? Cell phones?
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EpicEng
8y ago
Nope, checked that before posting here. https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/asmvxc/til_a...
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EpicEng
8y ago
Did you swipe this from reddit? https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/asmvxc/til_a...
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EpicEng
8y ago
Per their definition: >avoiding a (worker that engages in behavior that is harmful to an organization, including either its property or people) (or converting him to an average worker) enhances performance to a much greater extent than r
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EpicEng
8y ago
Fair point! All that time and money wasted on weapons systems.
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EpicEng
8y ago
I judge my teem members by the quality of their work and the efficiency with which they do it. Ass in the seat time is a dumb metric and is always used in a power play.
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EpicEng
8y ago
Unfortunately he wasn't trained in mechanical engineering and failed to spot a serious error during design review.
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EpicEng
8y ago
>Between the cost of daycare, health care/insurance, pet care, car payments and maintenance, student loan payments, and then a mortgage (even a cheap mortgage) on top of that, not to mention saving something for retirement, forget t
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EpicEng
8y ago
>But all that is because of one stroke of luck - I am proud of the fact that I was able to use that luck to my advantage but under no illusion that all my success is due to me alone. I would call you fortunate, not lucky. You didn't
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EpicEng
8y ago
In what world does a broken window total a car? While we're at it, in what world does your insurance premium not increase drastically after you collect on a claim? Your math is incredible flawed?
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EpicEng
8y ago
Sure, if you were part of the tiny fraction of kids who were actually tinkering with computers. Most weren't. I'm sure the overall level of technical competence is higher today.
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EpicEng
8y ago
The posted price has to be the CC price, but retailers can offer a cash discount. They don't want to see a CC surcharge. https://www.cardfellow.com/blog/cash-discount-eliminate-proc...
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EpicEng
8y ago
Yes, God forbid the variable appear more than once.
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EpicEng
8y ago
I have a hard time believing any programmer with more than a couple of months experience would have a moment of difficult figuring out what an interpolated string is doing.
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EpicEng
8y ago
>a fairly obvious decrease in clarity In what's ways specifically? Using String.Format you have to keep your indices correct and 'compiling' the string in your head requires jumping back and forth between the format string
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EpicEng
8y ago
I don't believe any of the people saying this: >oh no suddenly foreigners are paying huge amounts for speech we don't like Are also saying this: >money is speech and there are no values higher Reddit is very young/liber
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EpicEng
8y ago
It's certainly possible, but as you say "You just have to make choices with your time management". You end up sacrificing what little free time you have to more work. If that's the most important thing to you then you do
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EpicEng
8y ago
ok I misunderstood what you meant by "where [you earn it]". Still though, things get more complicated when you have residence in state A and spend a significant portion of your time working in state B. You're paying taxes wh
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EpicEng
8y ago
That's not true. I was a resident of TX for two years while still working for my SD company was not subject to CA state tax. If you're not present you don't pay.
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EpicEng
8y ago
I'm enjoying my high paying job in Austin while paying no state income tax, thanks. Moved from SD two years ago, it's great.
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EpicEng
8y ago
We're talking about specifics here though, not an overarching economic theory which is defined by political buzzwords. I agree that the idea of trickle down on the whole doesn't work, but that doesn't mean every one of its id
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EpicEng
8y ago
Yeah I don't imagine anyone will actually do this if they actually care about what's on the other side.
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EpicEng
8y ago
Yeah... but I really want to buy that <whatever>, so meh, I'll put up with it. There are only so many hills I'm willing to die on.
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EpicEng
8y ago
How does growing a business benefit citizens? Jobs, economic stimulus, eventually larger taxes would be the obvious three. If you start disincentivizing reinvestment then, well... growth will slow. Same goes for losses. A calendar year is a
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EpicEng
8y ago
>This isn't an extraordinary claim and I would put the ball in your court to disprove it... That's not how this works. You make a claim, you back it up. If you don't, you're just adding noise.
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EpicEng
8y ago
So no, you're not aware of anyone actually being successful in such a suit. Good to know.
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EpicEng
8y ago
What does that have to do with anything?
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EpicEng
8y ago
Ok so which illegal acts are they committing exactly?
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