LargeWu

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by LargeWu 7y ago
The "less capable" Keep in mind, we're not all born with the same socio-economic advantages. The idea that you're more capable because you're successful is merely confirmation bias. Furthermore, your comment necessa
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by LargeWu 7y ago
How much money does a gas station actually make on fuel, anyway? I would guess most gas stations make more money on junk food than they do on gas itself.
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by LargeWu 7y ago
Anecdotally as a resident of Minneapolis, I'm not sure what its inclusion on this list is supposed to signify. I think it's a great town to raise a family. We recently chose to build a new house just a few blocks from our current
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by LargeWu 7y ago
Exactly what Minneapolis is seeing right now with it's 2040 plan that requires upzoning basically everything to allow at least duplexes in interior neighborhoods, and more dense allow corridor routes, etc. The main arguments are "
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by LargeWu 7y ago
I think the problem here is that those values are not in fact being defined by the community, in toto. They are being defined by a very vocal and relatively small subgroup. Furthermore, the author doesn't even seem to be opposed to tho
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by LargeWu 7y ago
It's not a fallacy; it's that using a purely probabilistic approach here is not warranted. It requires some Bayesian reasoning. The main difference is in the SIDS case, you have a sample size of 2. In the Postle case, we have hund
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by LargeWu 7y ago
Are you saying you've never written code and then later came back to it, saying "Who wrote this shit?" and did a git blame, only to find out it was you?
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by LargeWu 7y ago
It is nothing like that. Predictions about climate change, while often imprecise, are largely evidence based. Religious prophecies are not. Regardless of if you believe the doomsayers and the timeline, we are clearly trending in that direct
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by LargeWu 7y ago
No, because it's a government agency. The point is so that elected officials and other government agencies can get nonpartisan guidance on tech issues that is independent from corporate interests.
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by LargeWu 7y ago
Because they are cosplaying as a tech company.
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by LargeWu 7y ago
That works for unit testing a specific component, but not so well for testing your system end-to-end.
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by LargeWu 7y ago
It's actually pretty awesome. Combines the benefits of library lending with convenience of an e-reader. Check out the Libby app.
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by LargeWu 7y ago
You still need to have pretty intimate knowledge of your stack provider though. Terraform is a way to formally express your infrastructure via code, but you still need to know how all of your components need to be configured and wired toget
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by LargeWu 7y ago
I guess I was referring to the quote that was posted, which certainly seemed to lump WeWork in with tech IPO's.
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by LargeWu 7y ago
Fair enough, my mistake. I wouldn't say that fundamentally changes their business model though.
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by LargeWu 7y ago
I know this has been covered before, but WeWork isn't really a tech company. They're a real estate company. They buy buildings and then rent space. And they certainly don't scale the same way tech companies do.
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by LargeWu 7y ago
Fair enough. I've heard of craps players teaming up to play huge on both sides of the pass/don't pass, which would still have a negative EV. But they racked up comps pretty quickly which supposedly gave them a slight overall
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by LargeWu 7y ago
Making a living on poker? Absolutely. Making a living on craps or roulette? Not mathematically impossible, but highly improbable. How do they get their edge?
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by LargeWu 7y ago
I think it's overblown. My kid watches YTK sometimes, and he watches mostly people playing with Lego and hotwheels cars, and animal videos. I've never actually seen any of that sort of questionable content.
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by LargeWu 7y ago
It can be very hard to know the state of a piece of information within your system unless you fanatically log its state at all times. And even then, you might have to look through lots of distributed logs to find that. Of course, logging th
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by LargeWu 7y ago
I've always wondered why these bees get shipped all over the place, instead of just keeping local colonies. Is it just the pure economics of having "idle" bees in the offseason vs. keeping them employed all year?
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by LargeWu 7y ago
Also, the two chambers are not equal. The Senate is very clearly the upper chamber.
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by LargeWu 7y ago
Counter arguments to that: 1. Rural places do have representation, through Congress. Abolishing the EC will not change that. 2. Rural areas already have outsized representation due to how the Senate is set up. 3. The electoral college only
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by LargeWu 7y ago
This is kind of how I feel about Tim Ferris as well. I think Ferris is pretty blatantly self-promoting during his interviews ("When I was writing 'The Four-Hour Body'..."), which turns me off. And he has a thing for Tony
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by LargeWu 7y ago
Wouldn't exist =/= wouldn't be as wildly profitable
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by LargeWu 7y ago
The average grocery store chain, even the largest (Kroger) doesn't have online dominance and potentially anticompetitive practices on the same scale that Amazon/Google/Facebook do.
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by LargeWu 7y ago
It would only be a Bill of Attainder if it targeted and punished specific entities. From what I can gather, this just sets parameters. It would likely fall under our existing antitrust framework.
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by LargeWu 7y ago
> If you get $10 worth of enjoyment out of a really good chocolate bar, and you can afford it, then it's perfectly reasonable to do so. I think the insinuation here is that the purchasers of this chocolate are deriving their enjoyme
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by LargeWu 7y ago
A good talk about the "technical debt" metaphor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XakfJ2spb3w tl;dr: Technical debt can be categorized on 2 axes: Planned vs unplanned, and high interest vs. low interest. Interest
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by LargeWu 7y ago
There's certainly a trade-off. However, grocery stores in the US discard massive amounts of produce, and then still more is wasted when consumers bring it home and don't use it. It feels like we would have plenty of room to reduce

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