LargeWu

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by LargeWu 8y ago
s/investors/speculators/
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by LargeWu 8y ago
I don't think the plan is to rehabilitate them. I think the plan is to mitigate the consequences of addicts taking harmful actions towards others (robbery, assault) in order to get their fix. The theory is it's cheaper and safer t
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by LargeWu 8y ago
Because the upside to these companies has a pretty low ceiling, especially if there is downward price pressure because insurance companies can't differentiate on risk or coverage. This leads to very thin profit margins. However, due to
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by LargeWu 8y ago
What is the motive then for a for-profit company to even exist? If every insurance company has to take everybody, that implies they have to also provide the same coverage to everyone at the same rate. Barring cartel-like collusion, which is
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by LargeWu 8y ago
SpaceX is trying to develop a new kind of rocket, with insane upfront R&D costs. MoviePass is trying to sell movie tickets for less than they paid for them. I don't think those are similar at all.
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by LargeWu 8y ago
I agree we need better education about this sort of thing. I think it would be useful for all public schools to include this as part of their curriculum; I think you could easily spend an entire semester on learning to qualify media sources
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by LargeWu 8y ago
Here's a thought experiment, and a challenge: When was the last time you learned something really important at a standup meeting that you wouldn't have learned otherwise, either by talking to someone directly or in some form of as
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by LargeWu 8y ago
The fact that everybody tunes out these updates suggests that the things being communicated are of low value.
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by LargeWu 8y ago
They're not useless. They're designed to find non-obvious issues that might have structural or safety implications. I've bought and sold a few houses, and most homes I've looked at either have obvious disqualifying probl
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by LargeWu 8y ago
Prices are definitely rising, but it's debatable whether that's due to a labor shortage.
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by LargeWu 8y ago
You'd better believe they are absolutely hiding things. Dont believe me? Go into the CEO's office and ask about the financials, and see what they do.
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Venmo: how the payment app exposes our private lives(theguardian.com)
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by LargeWu 8y ago
I did a couple of 2-year stints there as a contractor; about a dozen years ago, and a few years ago. When I worked there most recently, my team was at first given a lot of leeway to use our own toolsets and and processes, things were going
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by LargeWu 8y ago
Reducing the amount of music and movies they sell in store has helped a lot in that regard. They've reclaimed a lot of that space for the "store within a store" concept for things like wearables and smart home stuff, which br
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by LargeWu 8y ago
Somebody once posted in a Slack channel I was part of asking for things they should include in a course they were teaching for new programmers. My #1 recommendation was how to read a stack trace. The second was how to put a logging statemen
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by LargeWu 8y ago
> Trump has already been President for over a year and the country has by no stretch seen changes that I could "not imagine." It typically doesn't happen overnight; rather, your rights erode over time, usually in the name
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by LargeWu 8y ago
I thought Sweden was burning it for energy, not recycling it.
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by LargeWu 8y ago
Nitpick: Australia is in the Asian confederation, not Oceana. Still, Asia as a whole is a weak confederation.
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by LargeWu 8y ago
Disappointed to see that "See a doctor or mental health professional" has not yet been mentioned. So I'll recommend that. My anxiety had started manifesting physically as panic attacks. After verifying my situation wasn'
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by LargeWu 8y ago
Same here. I'm ready to make a move, and there are some products I would really like to work on, at companies that have openings, but the leadership is so questionable that I would rather just stay away.
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by LargeWu 8y ago
Con: The leadership is typically really, really bad. Either clueless, sociopathic, selfish, or a combination of those three. Many founders become C-level by default without ever having to learn the skills they would need to have if they had
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by LargeWu 8y ago
The article mentions this method can also be used to sequester the carbon. So if we can extract more than we consume as fuel we could theoretically solve that problem as well.
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by LargeWu 8y ago
> The new paper says it can remove the same ton for as little as $94, and for no more than $232. At those rates, it would cost between $1 and $2.50 to remove the carbon dioxide released by burning a gallon of gasoline in a modern car. If
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by LargeWu 8y ago
Here's the original post I responded to: > > The interfaces between server- and client-side code should be well-defined and language-independent. > They dont have to be and that is the point. If you write JS/TS front and
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by LargeWu 8y ago
I'm not talking about overlap in simple language features, I'm talking about actual code reuse. It's often touted as the reason to use JS on front and backend, but it's a pipe dream. It almost never works in practice. If
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by LargeWu 8y ago
I get what you're saying, and yes, async/await is much better. But the entire reason it has to exist (and be used everywhere) is because javascript's default async behavior gets in the way so often. The irony is that when I d
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by LargeWu 8y ago
But I know lots of languages, and just because I'm using JS on the frontend doesn't mean that's the best backend choice. Whether I'm using React or Angular or Ember or Vue or jquery or vanilla JS on the frontend doesn&#x
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by LargeWu 8y ago
I would argue async-everything the biggest hassle with Javascript. Most of the time, I need things to run synchronously. Do this thing, then do that thing based on the result of the first thing. The need for async is the exception. So what
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by LargeWu 8y ago
But in what specific way way does it make it simpler? What are the tangible benefits? I've been working in a Node/React environment for the last 2 years and there is virtually no overlap between the code we use on front- vs backen
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by LargeWu 8y ago
Make it explicit for some period of time as you introduce them. If they need review they can be part of the weekly/biweekly retro. If it needs more personal reinforcement then 1-on-1's. It's the manager's job to communic

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