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by LargeWu 5y ago
I don't know if it's that Sanderson is a bad writer; I think it's more that he's a bad editor. He is so prolific that he doesn't take the time to cut his books down to the length they should be, which is probably ab
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by LargeWu 5y ago
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind is in the same category. I don't really care if any of it was true, they're both phenomenal flicks.
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by LargeWu 5y ago
The entire "paternalistic" argument rests on the premise that the choice to smoke, or not, is for most people purely rational, and totally discounts the predatory nature of tobacco companies and the addiction that comes with it. M
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by LargeWu 5y ago
I think a more accurate way of framing it is "Menthols have been targeted specifically to black people, and also, they're even more harmful than regular cigarettes". It's definitely not "let's take this away be
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by LargeWu 5y ago
I see about 5 movies a year in the theaters; maybe 1 if you don't count children's movies. I listen to a lot of music, but almost none if it is music represented by the Grammy's. Of the Record/Song of the Year nominees,
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by LargeWu 5y ago
The alternative is that Foxconn is lying, and they never had any intention of actually opening the factory, which I think is a far more likely explanation.
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by LargeWu 5y ago
Same, as an American sports fan. Touching an official or yelling at them in any sort of aggressive manner is almost always an automatic foul or penalty, and possibly grounds for ejection. My only thought as somebody who never played soccer
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by LargeWu 6y ago
Room to exploit arbitrage does not necessarily imply meaningful market inefficiencies. HFT only works because people with deep pockets can build huge fiber lines directly connected to the stock exchange. It's a model where milliseconds
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by LargeWu 6y ago
Fair enough, although one can make a reasonable argument that arbitrage is not a value creating activity either, if the market is already reasonably efficient.
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by LargeWu 6y ago
Loans would be one of the classic value creating activities, because they allow others to use otherwise idle capital to produce something new. Currency exchange is fuzzier. If the exchange is happening to facilitate commerce, then sure, I w
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by LargeWu 6y ago
If you think about the difference between "investing" and "speculating" (ie. gambling), the latter involves no actual value creation, just transfer of assets based on outcomes the speculating party has no influence over.
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by LargeWu 6y ago
This is my favorite explanation of technical debt, framed as actual debt instruments. Mortgages, credit cards, etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XakfJ2spb3w tl;dw: Technical debt is equivalent to the interest you are pay
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by LargeWu 6y ago
Where do you propose we make cuts?
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Because on the main point, they're all pretty much aligned: Salvation is achieved through Jesus's death on the cross. And fundamentally, it's the only thing that really matters in Christianity. In that respect, shopping for c
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by LargeWu 6y ago
I get what you're saying, but there's plenty of disagreement on what those concepts even are. td;dr: Denominations vary wildly, and it's almost impossible to separate one's personal biases from choosing a congregation. F
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by LargeWu 6y ago
"More seriously, I'll admit I'm not a competent Node dev but the worst part for me is how convoluted you have to write large parts of code that don't need to be asynchronous or non-blocking in the first place. I also nev
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by LargeWu 6y ago
If anything, it makes it inevitable. The probability of a coronavirus from a bat eventually escaping a lab that regularly studies coronaviruses in bats almost certainly approaches 100% over time.
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by LargeWu 6y ago
They integrate with a lot of payment gateways, even if Stripe isn't one of them. https://www.shopify.com/payment-gateways/united-states
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by LargeWu 6y ago
I think your situation is atypical, actually. Certainly there are domains where the problem complexity necessitates learning more complex algorithms. But the vast majority of people coding for businesses, that's not true. Most of that
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by LargeWu 6y ago
Childcare can easily run over $1000/mo per child. More for infants. When my 2nd child was born, it cost us over $500/week.
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by LargeWu 6y ago
It's happened before. Watch or read 'The Big Short'. Both the film and book are fantastic.
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by LargeWu 6y ago
This is the underlying energy behind NIMBY. Cities have many stakeholders. Residents, sure. But also businesses, workers, the homeless, the environment. And there are tons of tradeoffs. Maybe by rezoning and not mandating single family home
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by LargeWu 6y ago
I suspect willingness to complete an undergraduate degree is a strong signal to masters' programs. The 4-year degree is itself part of the test for the master's program.
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by LargeWu 6y ago
I've done this occasionally. But really, how advertising works is it builds up demand by repeated exposure. The rule of thumb is that it takes somewhere around 7 interactions, on average, before somebody makes a decision to purchase. Y
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by LargeWu 6y ago
I'm not reading this as "Don't do distributed work". It's "distributed systems have nontrivial hidden costs". Sure, monoliths are often synonymous with single points of failure. In theory, distributed syst
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by LargeWu 6y ago
Don't Pump and Dump schemes generally involve baselessly promoting a stock with the private intention of raising its price artificially? This whole sequence of events seemed like they were pretty transparent about what they were trying
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There's a cost to everything, including enumerating just the fields you need from the query. When a new column is added, does a developer now need to revisit every query involving that table, update if necessary, and retest? That has a
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by LargeWu 6y ago
Nice find, I agree with a lot of it. I'm not sure I would be in favor of tearing them down; they are just soooooo nice in the winter, which is long. But the street level needs to be rehabilitated.
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by LargeWu 6y ago
This sounds a lot like downtown Minneapolis. In the 70's they went all in on the skyway system - a series of enclosed walkways over streets that went through the second floor of many buildings. The result is that all of the retail and
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by LargeWu 6y ago
Unless they are issuing new stock, or selling stock that they hold, I don't really see how its valuation helps the company. Likely it's very good for their execs, though...

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