Kalium

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by Kalium 5y ago
In my particular case, I was dealing with fabrics I'm familiar with, size charts I can trust, and a tape measure I am comfortable applying to my own body. Combined, these factors cut down greatly on the uncertainty. I realize that I do
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by Kalium 5y ago
> Could your need have been satisfied with another product available locally? Was your need for that exact product really only created by browsing online? You raise wise and excellent questions! In short, no. My desires were not readily
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by Kalium 5y ago
Last weekend, I went looking for a particular kind of garment. I wasn't hopeful, but I thought I would give local shops a chance. I did it by going around, looking in various local stores, and talking to people. I did this in four or s
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by Kalium 5y ago
I heartily recommend taking up homebrewing. You can produce your own gallon-sized batch of Maibock!
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by Kalium 5y ago
At a time when the US has vaccinated under 50% of its population - https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/health/covid-va... - do you think it's possible that perhaps your area might not be a fully
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by Kalium 5y ago
I think you've hit it exactly. There's no reason to think that resolving IP concerns will speed up production and deployment in India. Problems there have more to do with the state of their logistical and healthcare infrastructure
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by Kalium 5y ago
It's pretty common in humanities in particular. It's much rarer in scientific, engineering, or technological fields. As a guideline, if the field has money to go around and companies have to compete for interns, they'll pay.
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by Kalium 5y ago
You're right, I forgot about PL/PD versus total coverage. Thanks!
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by Kalium 5y ago
(Disclosure: I work for a car insurance company. I am not an actuary and have no special insights into how premiums are calculated.) Gender famously matters too - a 18/M is (statistically) likely to be a worse driver than a 18/F.
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by Kalium 5y ago
Usually insurers get make/model/year of the car, and do a Kelly Blue Book or equivalent lookup.
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by Kalium 5y ago
I suspect - but obviously cannot prove - that this is an arena where being challenged means you've already lost because your claim is not credible. You're right, it's odd that something that's supposedly a clear signal i
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by Kalium 5y ago
I've encountered the idea of a Chaos HR Simian. People get random, unplanned, multi-week vacations. Mentioned here: https://www.cognitect.com/blog/2016/3/24/the-new-normal-embr... I know I've b
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by Kalium 5y ago
Nope. Nope nope nope nope.
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by Kalium 5y ago
I find it helps to remember that diamonds are a status symbol and a form of conspicuous consumption. People often want as much of that expensive, visible status and commitment signal as they can get. Part of the significance of the gesture
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by Kalium 5y ago
You're absolutely right. They can be. With that critical truth that you've touched on said... American civilian resident-facing government services tend to be organized and run with all the strong incentives being to make it good
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by Kalium 5y ago
One of the nasty things about a death march is that it drains you of the time and energy you need to search for a job that isn't a death march.
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by Kalium 5y ago
You are absolutely right, and I think the author would agree with you. Sometimes there are strong, compelling reasons that justify not changing things. Inconveniently, sometimes the reason is "a lot of work went into that".
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by Kalium 5y ago
> How can a handful of names across an entire industry meaningfully affect your career choice? I've found myself approached by recruiters for the exact large company and sizable department that one of these people has substantial ra
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by Kalium 5y ago
In my case, my bozo list is a handful of names that I use to help choose where I will and won't work. If one of these people is at that company, I will decline to accept a position that will subject me to their leadership. Some may see
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by Kalium 5y ago
Most of us in software engineering have, at some point, encountered someone who does not see a difference between technical criticisms of a system and personal attacks on its designers and authors. This is an understandable error in a junio
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by Kalium 5y ago
> how about at least a one bedroom, one bathroom apartment; nutritious, nourishing food; Walmart clothing at a minimum. It's interesting to see how standards have shifted over time. Not too long ago, it was considered sufficient if
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by Kalium 5y ago
I suggest looking up the process for making mozzarella at home. Then then process for making tofu at home. Your instructor was accurate on more than a purely nutritional level.
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by Kalium 5y ago
In feudal times, merchants were often derided for supposedly charging a price different from the "true price" of products. So perhaps not in any serious modern economic philosophy, but people definitely arrive at this idea in naiv
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by Kalium 5y ago
Thank you! That clears things up considerably.
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by Kalium 5y ago
> I guess I should also add that with the current web version, you can opt out of sending telemetry data via cookie preferences, and with the Premium version you choose whether or not you want your data persisted or not. Rather than amel
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by Kalium 5y ago
It makes sense if you believe value to be an objective thing, where each good has a fixed value that is a fact. In a slightly more complicated model - or the real world - the value of a good or service is informed by things like control and
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by Kalium 6y ago
It may, depending on the resources required. The thing about arms races is that they can easily impoverish everyone involved for no ultimate gain relative to one another.
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by Kalium 6y ago
That's a viable approach so long as three things are true. First, you can continue to do so in a way that your adversaries cannot follow your stream of novel changes. If they can follow they can adjust as you do and your novel ways fai
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by Kalium 6y ago
In my opinion, the FP/IP split is fueled in no small part by a wildly divergent set of vocabularies. A dozen different <greek letter> transforms are inscrutable to anyone who has not spent much time studying Lambda calculus, and
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by Kalium 6y ago
Companies like Moderna that are currently using IP are not always willing to license it. Sometimes they prefer to keep it in-house and reserved for their own use.

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