Mikeb85

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by Mikeb85 4y ago
On the flipside, nowadays the school matters more than the degree. Saying you "went to Harvard" is far more prestigious than having a bachelors degree from some forgettable school. And most employers don't care about whethe
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
In Canada you get what you pay for... Healthcare is free but it's also pretty shit. Care in Europe is far better, care in the US is far better if you have money.
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Sorry it's been a few days. But most turn based strategy games fall into this category. The whole Civ series for example. Card games like Pokemon or Hearthstone. RPG games, while slightly less 'strategic' still offer deci
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
This. I regularly live in 2 different countries, Canadian cell plans are exorbitantly expensive when roaming so I have 2 phone numbers and its extremely annoying when 2FA relies on said phone number...
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Blame the other vendors for not doing as much as Red Hat...
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Not as regularly as you think. Earnings vary a lot. As for how long a session is? 8 hours. I made a living from poker for a few years.
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Gotcha. I assume Poettering probably working mostly on systemd no? That's what I associate him with anyway.
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
I mean, SPAs were overkill for half the shit they were being developed for. Your average web app is a CRUD app and works better as an SSR app. But there's still use cases for them, they're still a great way to build highly inter
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
When poker players measure variance, it's $$$ over time. And while some pros are indeed good are surviving the bubble in fishy tournaments, none make a perfectly consistent income. Even amongst crushers, the variance can be massive.
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
> Really? Wasn't Pulseaudio from their favourite "move fast and break things" developer? Probably. But the Pipewire developer is at Red Hat, and Fedora has it as default.
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Ah nice. Not gonna lie, Arch isn't really on my radar. I just know Wayland/Pipewire (among other things) were developed by Red Hat employees.
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Red Hat/Fedora were the ones to develop and push both Wayland and Pipewire, and Fedora was the first distro to make both default. Ubuntu is merely following their lead.
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
IMO chess is better for kids. And I say this as someone who played competitively as a kid, later who made a living playing poker for a year or so (then decided the lifestyle and stress wasn't for me). Poker is 100% connected to the mo
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Variance in poker evens out over months, not a single session. A competent but not great player can definitely beat a pro in a single session.
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Definitely not true for the top bots.
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Literally almost every piece of consumer facing software is created using languages or frameworks that derive from Smalltalk-esque principles (OOP, MVP, IDEs, etc...). And the creative spirit is what brings innovation. Tons of what's
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
> There's likely an optimal level of meat consumption. Just going to go out on a limb and say the optimal level is probably less than the typical North American or European diet... Societies that are more resource constrained eat a
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Get a better job, make some money, find hobbies and other things in life that you find fun. Work is just work, better to be good at something and get paid well than to be shit at something.
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Well forecasting is a small part of macroeconomics. For lots of traders and firms it also doesn't really matter and if it does, it would be only one small team of many. Most of the stuff I learned that I've used in my career is r
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Anecdata but one thing I've noticed over time between those who grew up on video games and those who didn't is that those who were gamers deal better with change, especially WRT learning new software in the workplace, starting new
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
> Dividend puzzle It's not a puzzle. When investors buy a stock that pays a dividend, they're looking mostly at yield. Dividend-yielding equities compete with fixed-income securities (bonds), not speculative equities. So div
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Ask any bank or mega-corp who hires economists for 7 figures what problems they solve... Up-thread it was pointed out that Amazon hires many economists.
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
> H1Bs starting companies in their home countries making the US look like an also-ran in the tech scene Everyone says this but no one does it. Startups abroad can't compete with US startups and it's not a talent problem... Th
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
China is socialism but allows a certain amount of private enterprise. They still have 5 year plans as pointed out, still have state-controlled enterprises and still maintain a large degree of control over private business.
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Hypothetically, socialism could solve the problem of allocation of resources by throwing enough smart people at the problem. To me the corruption potential (which has been realized everytime socialism has been implemented) is the main argum
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Public ownership = centralized ownership = centralized decision making. If you can't own anything individually you can't make economic decisions individually. It's like having a million business partners all with equal voting
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It's literally the defining feature of socialism...
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Everyone thinks it's a good idea and on paper it seems fine, however any time you centralize economic decision making you're basically inviting corruption. And even if you somehow avoid that, what's good for the majority oft
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Just imagine what comp would look like without all the foreign H1B holders...
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> You can work in the US for over a decade and start a family, and still be on a visa which requires you to leave the country if you spend just a bit of time unemployed. And it makes it very hard to switch jobs. Unfortunately that's

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