JackFr

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by JackFr 4y ago
My father was a real estate appraiser for the New York State Department of Transportation whose job was to appraise land taken under eminent domain. There are plenty of parcels of land whose title is literally a pre-Revolution Crown Grant.
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by JackFr 4y ago
I used to be infuriated with colleagues who felt the need to preface questions with “Question…” and then ask the question. Just ask the damned question. I should be able to figure out that it’s a question. Now I am more patient.
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by JackFr 4y ago
In the case of Charo and Sofia Vergara, the accent and grammar mistakes are a cultivated part of the brand.
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by JackFr 4y ago
There was an article in the Economist 10-15 years ago about the prevalence of English throughout the world and the typical explanations for it were listed: the British Empire followed by post WWII American economic and entertainment hegemon
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by JackFr 4y ago
Bacon & eggs. The chicken is involved but the pig is committed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chicken_and_the_Pig
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by JackFr 4y ago
> We add and subtract for radiators and replacement cars, and when the dishwasher vomits all the soapy, dirty water onto the hardwood (only ever when we are on vacation), we don’t feel lucky, but we are. What an absolutely delightful pie
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by JackFr 4y ago
Joe Rogan popping up in the documentary seems to seems to set a lot of people off.
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by JackFr 4y ago
Twenty five seconds to amputate a leg with knives and handsaws. That is amazing.
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by JackFr 4y ago
I find academic fads fascinating. "Intelligence" has become a taboo word, and so we find "cognitive ability" in its place, which is I guess a shibboleth for the in-group when you mean intelligence.
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by JackFr 4y ago
> The Internet makes it easier... The printing press makes it easier... Radio makes easier... Television makes it easier... There is nothing new under the sun.
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by JackFr 4y ago
Not if you’ve heard a literal cat fight at 3 AM.
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by JackFr 4y ago
> If dieting doesn't work, how come the procedure he's talking about is basically reducing the volume of his stomach? Sort of a "Forced" dieting if you will? It's pretty simple actually. The forced reduction of
853.
by JackFr 4y ago
A famous American college basketball coach once said "A basketball fight generally lasts two punches. Make sure you throw both of them."
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by JackFr 4y ago
I’ve seen that in practice. A non-crypto fintech I was at was acquired by a traditional lender and a number of staff took off immediately after the acquisition. A bunch went to FAANG (or FAANGish) places and a bunch jumped to crypto shops.
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by JackFr 4y ago
> Treasury and Fed short of T-bills. What does that even mean? Is there a typo I don’t understand?
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by JackFr 4y ago
The second paragraph is in support of the first, that is, the value of building and maintaining relationships. In this case it was a benefit both to me and to the candidate. Does knowing people in a field give someone an advantage
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by JackFr 4y ago
Something I try to instill in juniors is to make and keep relationships up. Depending on your industry, it’s a very small world. I recall interviewing someone who had just a terrible technical interview, but honestly seemed like a good fit.
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by JackFr 4y ago
As an offensive lineman, hours of my life have been devoted to proper footwork for pulling (when a lineman doesn’t block straight ahead, but turns to the side.) Old school coaches love fundamentals.
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by JackFr 4y ago
Yeah. I'm on board for 'never', but by the second 'ever' you lose me.
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by JackFr 4y ago
“The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination.” RIP Frederick Brooks
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by JackFr 4y ago
My gut feeling is that media (and other) figures are still figuring out how to deal with the cognitive dissonance between their self-perceived intelligence and the fact that the whole crypto-space is a gigantic freaking scam — which has bee
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by JackFr 4y ago
I was 3 years hardcore Scala, but recently went back to Java for a role. I didn't really find returning to Java to be an encumbrance at all, and really enjoyed how productive Spring Boot made me. I still love Scala and if you don&#x27
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by JackFr 4y ago
In general not a Krugman fan, but this is brilliant https://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/interstellar.pdf The Theory of Interstellar Trade, in which he develops a theory of trade where differences in time due to relativ
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by JackFr 4y ago
I took his International Macro class in grad school. He was a great teacher and gave possibly the hardest multiple choice test I’ve ever taken for the midterm.
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by JackFr 4y ago
Well, speculators should not be backstopped at all. But if you feel there’s no difference between stocks (an enforceable legal claim on the real property and intellectual property of an on going enterprise), housing (real property) and cryp
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by JackFr 4y ago
The Soviets enabled the Third Reich by providing facilities to build and train an air force sand a tank corps when Germany was treaty bound not to have one. Additionally, they were happy to partition Poland following the Nazi invasion. Stal
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by JackFr 4y ago
Yeah - indeed I probably was a little hasty and uncharitable. I have a ton of respect for Knuth both as a computer scientist and as a religious believer. I will try to look up the interview, because I am curious to get the context around
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by JackFr 4y ago
> where he speculates that maybe God is a big computer. I cringe at phrases like that. It's empty theologically and technologically. It represents a complete inability in imagining what God could be, and a naive, childish pride in
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by JackFr 4y ago
The funny part of that is that you literally cannot have $1000000 in a crypto wallet, because that's not how dollars work. Oh, you've got something in your crypto wallet, but it ain't dollars.
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by JackFr 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headli...

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