RhysU

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by RhysU 11mo ago
I second the utility of the Kagi Assistant. I didn't think I would use it much but now do so constantly. Especially because ending a regular search query in a question mark will cause the results page to lead with the Assistant answer!
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by RhysU 11mo ago
> The problem is that hiring in New York City government is subject to possibly the most insane rules in the country.... And I say that as someone who didn’t think anything could be worse than the federal hiring rules. This piece is a gr
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by RhysU 1y ago
Therefore no one should study alternatives to the public schools...? We accept that different colleges (and other post-secondary training) at different cost points serve different populations. We somehow do not accept the same idea for seco
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by RhysU 1y ago
> The effective history of computing spans a lifetime or three. "Computer" goes back to 1613 per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_(occupation) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucli
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by RhysU 1y ago
The Sequel: Decline e-Delivery.
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by RhysU 1y ago
Too bad ska-punk beat him to today's value of 109 cents: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck-O-Nine
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by RhysU 1y ago
30% error.
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by RhysU 1y ago
The gap insurance will be more expensive. Resell still matters with gap insurance.
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by RhysU 1y ago
> The thing that's hard about the intellectual curiosity part is knowing what comments are from actual experts and what are very smart people opining outside the edges of their circle of competence... Three thoughts... 1. I really e
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by RhysU 1y ago
These guys are, after all, running a business. If they thought the best thing for their business was a rewrite, they'd do it.
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by RhysU 1y ago
This reminds me of Peter Egan's columns. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Egan_(columnist) For example: https://magazine.cycleworld.com/article/2016/11/1/the-very-l...
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by RhysU 1y ago
I don't understand why you think a seatbelt or an airbag is a better analogy to a helmet than a helmet. Helmets are perfect analogies to helmets. Motorcycle airbags exist, add safety, and are perfect analogies to car airbags. Motorcycl
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by RhysU 1y ago
If I gamble by joining a startup, I am trying to provide something of value to someone. Otherwise, my startup will fail. The bet is not societally zero sum in expectation. Long odds, sure, but possibly value creating. If I gamble on a sport
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by RhysU 1y ago
> A three-fold increase was found in the rate of organ donation for unhelmeted motorcyclists compared to helmeted motorcyclists (p = 0.006). First the statistics but then the following op-ed...? > From a public health perspective, hel
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by RhysU 1y ago
Suppose you buy bread, meat, and cheese and pay sales tax for each of them. You make a sandwich. You eat the sandwich. Do you now owe the government the difference in sales tax on the market price of a pre-assembled sandwich versus on the m
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by RhysU 1y ago
Licensing is a poor filter. Have you ever gotten a bad haircut? Is there a hairstylist or barber at your usual shop that you avoid? Those folks are licensed too.
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by RhysU 1y ago
With another ump.
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by RhysU 1y ago
The current state is such first-order thinking. When will we be able to bet on whether or not the umps have taken a bribe?
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by RhysU 1y ago
> ...unstable singularities are exceptionally elusive; they require initial conditions tuned with infinite precision, being in a state of instability whereby infinitesimal perturbations immediately divert the solution from its blow-up tr
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by RhysU 1y ago
> ...there were absolutely courses that were just a waste of time. How? Surely over 15 weeks each course taught you something about either the world or yourself. I just looked back over my undergrad transcript to double check my experien
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by RhysU 1y ago
I suspect the administration is indeed playing chess like you suggest. This H1B policy will put internal domestic pressure on India to put sanctions pressure on Russia. If so, waive the fees for the Indian consultancy firms. Anytime India l
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by RhysU 1y ago
> simply not enough cars to meet demand due to manufacturers constraining supply to maximize by price. Awhile ago, Harley-Davidson did this, not expand supply to keep per new unit numbers high, for years during their high demand phase. I
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by RhysU 1y ago
Meanwhile a 4-week T-bill has a 4.16% coupon equivalent with almost no counterparty risk relative to the 4% USDC. USDC should be paying more than T-bills to compensate for the counterparty risk.
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by RhysU 1y ago
It wasn't an "okay http server" but rather "a patchy" one. Also, "Oak Software" has name collisions.
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by RhysU 1y ago
Should fraud rates in public taxpayer-funded systems stay constant or go down over time, assuming no new fraud type is invented?
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by RhysU 1y ago
As claimed, light reading confirms this observation to be data not anecdata. "NY's COVID unemployment fraud topped $11B, partly due to system failures..." https://www.yahoo.com/news/nys-covid-unemployment
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by RhysU 1y ago
I do not trust NY job numbers. Their unemployment system remains a disaster from the Covid years. Source: Me trying to use it and encountering prior fraud. Light reading suggests many have experienced it.
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by RhysU 1y ago
> ...instead have massive wealth transfers from the old to the young... Free public schooling through 12th grade is one such transfer.
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by RhysU 1y ago
Fidelity offers such a product: https://www.fidelity.com/direct-indexing/overview > If there's a security you don't want to own, you can remove it. Dunno about Vanguard.
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by RhysU 1y ago
If my children had a $100K windfall this is precisely what I would tell them to do assuming they had an emergency fund and no debt. If not, I would tell them to create an emergency fund, pay off reasonable debt, and then to invest the res

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