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by LargeWu 6y ago
Should we also be condemning our local gastropub for charging $15 for a burger? Shouldn't they be charging the same as White Castle? People gotta eat after all. These are customized. I mean, if this were the only company selling facema
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by LargeWu 6y ago
I don't know, what are companies supposed to do, not sell facemasks? That doesn't help either.
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by LargeWu 6y ago
This is the primary reason I don't shop at Walmart. Almost everything you find in their stores, save for grocery and branded household supplies, is of inferior quality.
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by LargeWu 6y ago
As a developer who's trying to move on to either a management or product role, failure modes is one of the things I want to emphasize in that role. The sad fact is that so many product owners really don't understand how software w
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by LargeWu 6y ago
I liked Reamde, but it's an atypical Stephenson book. Full of action, fast paced, pretty short on exposition, although there are some diversions about handguns and intercontinental aviation navigation.
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by LargeWu 6y ago
The downside of this is that it's often the complete wild west when building and doing maintenance. It's not uncommon to end up with wildly different state management solutions in every project because the prevailing winds change
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by LargeWu 6y ago
Re House of Leaves, I don't recall it being most pages. There was a flurry of those at the end, but I found it was an effective machination that heightened the drama rather than distracted.
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by LargeWu 6y ago
"testing performance under pressure" What kind of companies are these that their engineers need to write perfect code under severe (i.e. on the order of minutes) time constraints? Are they constantly opening sockets for Jack Bauer
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by LargeWu 6y ago
This is absolutely true. The university I went to is known for its commercial aviation program, and draws students from all over the nation and world to learn to be airline pilots. So many of them end up with huge debts, because flight scho
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by LargeWu 6y ago
Yeah, I mean, if you have it solved, then that's great. I just tend to see a lot of comments in some communities I'm in to the tune of "I spent $2000 setting up my store, lots of traffic, no sales, please help". It'
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by LargeWu 6y ago
I have sold some t-shirts in this manner, which is one of the primary subclasses of these stores. Doing this has the advantage of access to legit suppliers based in the USA, so you get predictable shipping times and pretty good quality and
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by LargeWu 6y ago
Many "successful" dropshippers simply sell success. That is, they make claims about how much money they're making, and sell courses or coaching to unwitting marks. And if their marks' stores don't pan out, they an a
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by LargeWu 6y ago
This is one of the reasons I haven't applied to work at Amazon, even though I'm sure I could do the work. The signal they're sending by interviewing this way says "We want people who are willing to put up with bullshit&q
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by LargeWu 6y ago
I think you missed my point entirely. I did those things for 10-15 years, and they led nowhere. Either it's one reason or another from a current employer, or none of it counts with prospective employers all because I didn't alread
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by LargeWu 6y ago
One can easily infer age based on career experience, college graduation date, etc.
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by LargeWu 6y ago
Forget CTO. I'm in the exact same boat as the OP, (20 years experience, over 40 years old) and I can't even get an interview for a manager position. I've been trying to move out of an individual contributor role for a while,
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by LargeWu 6y ago
If you want to call it "variance" instead of "luck", I would agree with that. There aren't that many decisions to be made in a given poker hand, and many times they won't matter anyway. So, I get what you'
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by LargeWu 6y ago
Not true. Consider the following example: Two players are playing, heads up. Both players always play every hand, and there is always exactly one bet and call per betting round. Under this scenario, the EV for each player is 0, since we cou
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by LargeWu 6y ago
I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of this. While it's true that the more skilled party in a traditional physical sport will do better over the long run, their advantage will also be more apparent over the short run. Skill
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by LargeWu 6y ago
I will give you 100-1 odds you could not beat me in rock-paper-scissors 20 times in a row.
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by LargeWu 6y ago
There's only "too much luck" in games like poker, or backgammon, sports betting, over a short timeline, which is probably longer than you think. That can be hundreds, or even thousands of hands or games. Over a statistically
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by LargeWu 6y ago
Discoverability is a huge deal. Looking for new, interesting projects? You know where to go. It's the reason Etsy is very popular. Could sellers open their own Shopify stores in order to have more control over their storefronts? Of cou
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by LargeWu 7y ago
While that's definitely true, I don' think that's the point here. The 7 yo had anxiety about proximity, which is very common in children that age. They just want to know that the adult is nearby and has not abandoned them.
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by LargeWu 7y ago
> No one could have predicted the magnitude of this. People did predict the magnitude of this, and it was ignored, repeatedly, which is why it got out of control in the first place.
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by LargeWu 7y ago
Fully stocked fridge, office decor, and Aeron chairs are either relatively small recurring expenses or moderate one-time expenses. Servers, rent, and salaries are the real culprits.
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by LargeWu 7y ago
What exactly would be the appeal of this, besides pure novelty? Commercial space travel? Of course. You're weightless, you get to see the Earth from an entirely new, potentially life-changing perspective. Commercial ocean-trench travel
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by LargeWu 7y ago
Well, that is certainly Taleb's approach. His books do contain some good ideas, but they are wildly unfocused and borderline unreadable.
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by LargeWu 7y ago
I sure hope so. Thanks for your effort educating people.
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by LargeWu 7y ago
The second lift would suggest that isn't true.
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by LargeWu 7y ago
So, this projects 3-months out. But what about after that? The graph for my state (MN) showed 3 months of sheltering in place would keep infections down, but then start to rise immediately afterwards. Then the graph ends. I think super-exte

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