Itaxpica

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by Itaxpica 4y ago
The thing about public health is that it's a game of averages. Smallpox vaccination, because of the specific details of the vaccine itself, has significant potential side effects well beyond any other modern commonly-administered vacci
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by Itaxpica 6y ago
I know one Covid long-hauler personally. She's in excellent physical shape, and has worked for several years as a paramedic (which is, in fact, where she caught Covid). She's got medical training, professional expertise, and is ge
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by Itaxpica 6y ago
Hilariously, around like the third sentence of this I thought to myself "I bet this guy would like Steve Ramsey". He really is head-and-shoulders above anyone else making content in the hobby.
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by Itaxpica 6y ago
Yeah, this sounds like an artifact of some kind of tax shenanigans rather than a real number
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by Itaxpica 6y ago
Standard practice for Google SREs in any serious outage is to communicate via internally-hosted IRC, since it has a minimum amount of dependencies outside of itself
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by Itaxpica 6y ago
Yes, though exactly why depends on the jurisdiction. In some areas a tenant blacklists is explicitly illegal; in others this would fall afoul of credit monitoring registration laws. Additionally the fact that they're using AI opens the
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by Itaxpica 7y ago
Closure, the printer spool “book” in question, is one of the best works on the philosophy of software engineering and life on the modern internet ever written.
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by Itaxpica 7y ago
It seems to me that while any one of those metrics isn’t particularly useful in isolation, if the same person is consistently at the top of all of them, that’s telling you something.
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by Itaxpica 7y ago
There are ~230,000 Persian Jews in Israel, ~70,000 in the US, and under 10,000 left in Iran. As a non-Persian Jew who grew up with lots of Persian Jews, I can tell you that 300,000 left for a reason.
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by Itaxpica 7y ago
I didn't go through a bootcamp but I know plenty of folks who have, and in my experience the overall average quality of bootcamps did seem to be significantly higher several years ago.
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by Itaxpica 7y ago
It means that your normal vest schedule doesn’t start for one year, so if your initial stock grant vests quarterly, none vests at all for the first year and then 25% vests all at once after year one, then the other 75% of it vests quarterly
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by Itaxpica 7y ago
Both of those sound tedious, neither of them sound particularly hard.
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by Itaxpica 7y ago
Switch teams, ideally to something entirely different than what you’re doing now. Google makes it easy and painless (in most cases) for a reason. I stayed at my first team at Google for years longer than most people do, and though I started
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by Itaxpica 7y ago
I take that back, it looks like it was pulled from the App Store a year ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/iosgaming/comments/8z6fyi/heroes_of... That’s disappointing; sorry to get your hopes up
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by Itaxpica 7y ago
Apple Arcade is a pretty good fix for this; for a basic monthly fee you get access to over a hundred games with no ads or in-app purchases
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by Itaxpica 7y ago
A simple port of Heroes 3 is currently available on iOS (though only iPad, not iPhone)
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by Itaxpica 7y ago
Heroes 3 did have multiplayer via LAN, and IIRC it had online multiplayer as well. It worked pretty well for the time; the fact that the game is turn-based probably helped in that regard.
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by Itaxpica 7y ago
Considering Tesla’s history, and the fact that this is pretty clearly a concept car, I genuinely don’t think that the designers have considered stuff as pedestrian as “crash safety”, no
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by Itaxpica 7y ago
“Strength” is the last thing you want in a car. Cars crumple in an accident because that significantly cuts down on injuries to both the passengers and whatever is hit; if your car won’t crumple all that force transfers in to flinging you
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by Itaxpica 7y ago
This is so absurd that the only response that would make any sense for the Times would be to double down. Sulzberger should challenge Fred Smith to a fistfight live on CNN.
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by Itaxpica 7y ago
This has worked so well for me in the past that back in my undergrad Analysis of Algorithms class, I would take extra showers just to work through particularly tricky problem set problems. It never failed.
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by Itaxpica 7y ago
It's nice to learn about the backstory of Stasis in particular. The card art in Magic was gorgeous all around back then, but Stasis in particular has always been one of my favorites. Totally iconic, highly unique stylistically but stil
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by Itaxpica 7y ago
For anyone interested in kicking in some cash to support his work, the ID Ransomware main page has a link to his Patreon, where for a dollar or more a month you get to see pictures of his cats ( https://www.patreon.com/demons
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by Itaxpica 7y ago
Yeah, I'd view Neumann a lot less negatively if it hadn't been for all the job losses. Someone getting paid a billion dollars to set ten billion dollars of Softbank's money on fire is hilarious in a vacuum, but someone gettin
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by Itaxpica 7y ago
Much of the Christian symbolism is just there for the sake of aesthetics, but this is less so true for the Jewish (and especially Kabbalistic) imagery - there's actually a lot of overlap between the plot of Evangelion and themes from L
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by Itaxpica 7y ago
The thing is, a PhD is in its own way a professional degree, like a JD or MD. The difference is that the profession a PhD is teaching you is research . If you don't enjoy research, there's really no reason to get a PhD. For non-r
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by Itaxpica 7y ago
The dynamic gets really interesting - I play Final Fantasy 14, and looking at content you can tell the moment they switched the core of their monetization strategy from subscription fees to optional cosmetics. The game got tighter and way l
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by Itaxpica 7y ago
Borscht with a T is the Yiddish pronunciation, unlike Russian which drops the T. It's a more common spelling in areas that historically had a larger Eastern European Jewish population (like the US, where the "borscht" spellin
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by Itaxpica 7y ago
I'd take this with... not quite a grain of salt, but maybe a small dose of healthy skepticism. Simon Baron-Cohen is a legitimate and respected researcher, but he's well known in autism research circles as pushing very hard a theor
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by Itaxpica 7y ago
Fully half of my current team at Google will be very surprised to hear that

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