Will_Do

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by Will_Do 10mo ago
National median home price is $410k[1]. Texas is less than $300k[2]. Only thing that's unrealistic is most people who buy a house for $400k will probably get an FHA loan and put 3% down so will have a higher payment because of (1) mort
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by Will_Do 4y ago
> Getting screwed in industry means you lose your right to an income and might never get it back. Why is this? It really easy to get hired in industry after you've been fired from one job -- especially if you've been there for
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by Will_Do 5y ago
This is a silly argument but I disagree. Seemed like a perfectly neutral statement to me, including "I insist on living in NYC because I think it's the best place to live"
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by Will_Do 5y ago
I think this is really neat and I also like the HN tagline "learn computational science by tinkering with code" better than learning how to code and Data Science for Middle/High Schoolers. I've been wanting to see somet
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by Will_Do 5y ago
I am really pleased Epic is conducting this lawsuit. Even if they lose the lawsuit, it seems likely they'll end up with at least a partial victory by shining light on Apple's practices. Apple has been a great thing for the world b
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by Will_Do 5y ago
I’d be very surprised if an Indie creator would create a 1-2 minute read about bikes that 500k people would find worthwhile to read. Video is offen a compelling medium— especially if you can’t write for a major publication
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by Will_Do 5y ago
It'll be harder for you than it would be for him but I still wouldn't discount it! Considering the alternative is (1) trying to get into a PhD program (might require a year or two of remedial classes with no guarantee of success)
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by Will_Do 5y ago
I guess the question I have is "Did any *previous* research done by UMN successfully introduce bugs into the Linux Kernel git commit log?" There are weasel words in this statement that make it unclear and the researchers have be
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by Will_Do 6y ago
I've been skeptical of the AZ vaccine for awhile. I don't know much about biology but I do know statistics. And many of their published results smelled of p-hacking[^1] by cherry-picking the best countries and the best (often acci
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by Will_Do 6y ago
Yea I agree. It all relies on (2) but they do a very poor job explaining what exactly the simulation is. If there is a paper by McNight, it isn't cited and I can't find it. Can't find it on his webpage[0][1] or google scholar
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by Will_Do 6y ago
Question: Would using R inside Docker on one of these Macs work somewhat well? Previous benchmarks[0] show that the overhead on Intel Macbooks for the Docker Linux VM is quite low for scientific computing. Would the x86 emulation hurt perfo
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by Will_Do 6y ago
> Under the new rule, the required wage level for entry-level workers would rise to the 45th percentile of their profession’s distribution, from the current requirement of the 17th percentile. The requirement for the highest-skilled work
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by Will_Do 6y ago
That's pretty interesting! In my view, the set your own fare part and penalty removal definitely moves them from the "employee" zone to "self-employed" in the everyday definition. I guess AB5 is much more strict.
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by Will_Do 6y ago
Yea this is probably the best year to introduce unpopular, rent-seeking rules. You'll never be forced to see any of these people in person and the government has enough on its plate to even consider thinking about anti-trust issues. I
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Shareholder Short-Termism Theory Has Died of Covid-19(chrisstucchio.com)
1 points by Will_Do 6y ago|0 comments
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by Will_Do 6y ago
Yeah I agree this looks like one of those times where the researches aren't interested in doing the stats at all so just mail it in. Just ignoring the stats though the results seem pretty solid. 3x the number of citations with ~100 obs
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by Will_Do 6y ago
I think the Buffalo incident yesterday[0] gives us a good indication of just how rare a good cop is. Even though there were dozens of cops that witnessed it, they all lied and claimed that "During that skirmish involving protestors, on
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by Will_Do 6y ago
What a strange comment. Taiwan informed the WHO in December that person to person transmission was likely taking place[0]. The only sense in which it hadn’t been confirmed is in a tautological sense the WHO hadn’t confirmed it. Doctors in W
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by Will_Do 6y ago
Yeah I suspect Youtube's policies is the main reason to switch rather than any limitations with the audio podcast in RSS. They always have an enormous amount of concern in trying to follow Youtube's policies and not get demonetize
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by Will_Do 7y ago
It is breathtaking that conferences organized and attended by affluent tech employees are not being canceled when conferences like SXSW and ComicCon are being canceled . It hurts the people behind SXSW and Comiccon much more to cancel th
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by Will_Do 7y ago
I find his COTI quite misleading/confusing. It seems he is counting 100% of health care expenses (100% of premiums) but not counting the ~70-80% of premiums an employer pays the median employee in median weekly earnings. In the college
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by Will_Do 7y ago
The article is also very confusing. He alternates between considering the inflation rate and not considering the inflation rate. I still don't know if he is claiming that BLS is claiming that, for cars, the inflation rate is 0. I also
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by Will_Do 7y ago
My guess: Facebook makes an enormous percentage[^1] of its revenue in the US compared to Amazon/Apple. This might make it legally more tricky to argue that its Irish profits are not actually US profits. Also the IRS would definitely go
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by Will_Do 7y ago
He will definitely save a bit of money on taxes. I suspect his marginal tax rate is ~24% (20% Cap Gains + 4% Medicare). So this donation will lower his net worth by ~7.6B. In any case, this is a giant amount of money by philanthropic standa
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by Will_Do 7y ago
A collapse in wages seems unreasonable. Wages are almost always sticky and so wages will go down at most at the rate of inflation. Also this line: > Compensation appears to be proportional to the level of sacrifice Is a doozy and not
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by Will_Do 7y ago
I agree with the general sentiment. It is staggering that they have spent at least 10s of billions if not > 100b trying to diversify away from ads and still do not have meaningful alternative revenue stream. It is one of the biggest myst
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Amazon’s new ARM servers: Graviton 2(lemire.me)
1 points by Will_Do 7y ago|0 comments
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by Will_Do 7y ago
As someone who worked on these models in the consumer credit industry, it is possible they there isn't any discrimination. The only thing that comes to mind is recent inquiries, which have a minimal effect on credit score but are hig
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by Will_Do 7y ago
What do you mean the old way? Will it print what foo is if I type logger.info("{foo=}")?
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Engineers without borders, silos, and vendor walls(rachelbythebay.com)
61 points by Will_Do 7y ago|16 comments

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