JackFr

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by JackFr 3y ago
After getting sucked in by the phosphine on Venus hype, I refuse to get hurt again. . .
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by JackFr 3y ago
Yes, there is an obvious public health interest in food labelling. I feel that the compelling interest is not obvious here, and given that the law is not censorship, but lives in the same zip code as censorship, the state should demonstrat
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by JackFr 3y ago
If the state made a similar law demanding newspapers provide their editorial policy would that be ok? You know in defense of democracy...
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by JackFr 3y ago
> It does not dictate anything, just requires companies to report what they’re doing. And what possible interest does the State of California have in gathering this information? It's close enough to have a chilling effect, and thus
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by JackFr 3y ago
TIL what “point blank” actually means. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-blank_range
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by JackFr 3y ago
> Hand-waving at the garbage collector whilst seemingly doing very little to understand what’s happening doesn’t convince me that there isn’t another, possibly pretty obvious issue going on. This is pure voodoo profiling. “The job is slo
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by JackFr 3y ago
Object pooling is typically not a common pattern in Java these days outside of HFT stuff, and even in those cases it’s often not performance, but determinism that’s the issue. (Connection pooling is still common as with other expensive obje
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by JackFr 3y ago
But the thing is the software is largely written. Presumably they'll be updates, but it would be surprising (and probably a bad idea) for them do a massive software projects. It's also unlikely that they are going to grow their
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by JackFr 3y ago
> probably moreso the higher-performing ones That's a pretty big assumption there.
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by JackFr 3y ago
> It's a software company! But it's not actually a software company.
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by JackFr 3y ago
No, you don't get to back out. But a starting point would be to find out where the investors would be willing to be bought out, and then start negotiating from there. One can put a dollar value on how bad this deal is, and that is
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by JackFr 3y ago
> People willing to openly state their bigotry towards people I consider my peers disqualify themselves from my respect. That is to say, people with whom you disagree.
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by JackFr 3y ago
And my mother sets all her clocks ahead 10 minutes so she's never late.
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by JackFr 3y ago
If cost accounting is done correctly, business units will give them back willingly.
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by JackFr 3y ago
Why wouldn't you assume that if I'm asking for it I have a good reason? Are you going to rearchitect my system for me?
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by JackFr 3y ago
> "Allow end users to programmatically configure widget xyz" That's an extremely poorly defined requirement, and I would say that's the ultimate source of the issue. Your team took that and made a crud api. Another
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by JackFr 3y ago
Natural disasters are especially problematic, because while burglaries and house fires are nicely distributed across time, when the earthquake or hurricane comes, every policy holder in a region makes a claim at the same time.
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by JackFr 3y ago
You fail to account for the cost of accurately underwriting. They can do what you suggest fir cars because it involves testing a few dozen car models. If each car needed to be tested they wouldn’t do it.
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by JackFr 3y ago
And yet they are CEOs and you and I are posting comments Hacker News.
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by JackFr 3y ago
I’m curious about how the partnership works and would have liked more details on how it works. In particular after 6 months, do people still have to put in $1000? If the staffing level increases does everyone’s stake get diluted? When you
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by JackFr 3y ago
Yea, Nordstrom is supposed to be their high-touch high end, and Nordstrom Rack is supposed to still be high quality, but less high-touch. And they're trying to figure out the right mix without diluting brand.
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by JackFr 3y ago
To be clear, if you read the article no one from Nordstrom says anything remotely close to that. They're closing the store because it's losing money, and it's losing money cause there's no foot traffic. The spokesman f
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by JackFr 3y ago
Well, there's no "correct" answer. Depending on the context, the "correct" thing might be 1) to log and swallow the exception and move on; 2) Let the exception percolate up to caller, who can handle and recover; 3)
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by JackFr 3y ago
The problem is most people aren’t Nabokov. (And Nabakov as a poet, translator of poems and expert on prosody was very, very good at writing fluidly - he could afford to be wordy.)
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by JackFr 3y ago
It’s utterly malicious on the part of the government. Note the only complainant on the lawsuit is the Justice department, who have standing as part of the law. No one harmed individual is suing SpaceX. The idea that SpaceX is pursuing some
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by JackFr 3y ago
In bond trading a BWIC (bids wanted in competition) or 'bid list' is a list of bonds for sale that a seller would send to a number of banks with a set time for all bids to be in. As a bidder you would be notified of whether or no
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by JackFr 3y ago
I worked at a defense contractor in my twenties and felt like a sucker cause all the managers in in their forties had full pensions.
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by JackFr 3y ago
Prisons?
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by JackFr 3y ago
People who claim to be brutally honest, typically believe that the virtue of honesty somehow balances their brutality.
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by JackFr 3y ago
But what does it mean? Are there kilofactories and megafactories? The rarely seen obscure myriafactories?

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