WkndTriathlete

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by WkndTriathlete 3y ago
> Can you? A defined benefit plan is ultimately involving someone taking a risk. Yup. No less than Warren Buffett, who spent literally his entire career performing risk analyses, could figure out a way to manage defined benefit plan ris
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by WkndTriathlete 3y ago
Yeah, if "around here" means what I think it does, three people died recently doing just that because they hadn't learned how to swim properly. And while you can learn to do some basic swimming in a lake or a river, it'
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by WkndTriathlete 3y ago
That's not the worst part. Rich families had their kids legally emancipated prior to age 16 so that the kids could legally show zero income and zero family net worth on their FAFSA applications. The FAFSA is such a load of horseshit I
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by WkndTriathlete 3y ago
I'll admit that when I saw the title I thought to myself "yes, I used to brute-force Rubik's Cubes all the time when I was a kid by taking them apart and reassembling them into a solved cube."
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by WkndTriathlete 3y ago
Funny, I've found that a hybrid scrum model works extremely well to address almost all items on your list, and works across the spectrum of personality types. M/W/F normal stand-ups and T/Th 1:1s with each team member o
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by WkndTriathlete 3y ago
Homestead exemption on property tax. In some states, property taxes are set by law to be astonishingly high unless the owning entity lives on the property for more than half the year. That owning entity can then legally claim the homestea
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by WkndTriathlete 3y ago
Not 100% true. When I see candidates with MS/PhD I always check the Bachelor's school since I've seen way too many candidates that get Bachelor's from degree mills, then somehow manage to get a Master's or PhD from
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by WkndTriathlete 3y ago
> PhDs on the other hand, regardless of the field, you've contributed something unique to the collective knowledge of humanity. Instant green card, it's even dumber to kick them out. Depends on the field. I've met PhDs th
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by WkndTriathlete 3y ago
> I'll never understand why we don't just staple green cards to master's degrees. As someone who has interviewed and worked with a number of international students with master's degrees, approximately 70% of them some
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by WkndTriathlete 4y ago
> but honestly, I absolutely hate the look of station wagons. Are you sure about that? Perhaps it's the $billions that US automotive manufacturers have spent to make you _think_ that. Or the peer pressure from having a vehicle th
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by WkndTriathlete 4y ago
> If depositors aren’t protected, then it’s going to have a lot of downstream impacts If depositors with deposits above the FDIC insurance limit _are_ protected then there will be nothing stopping this from happening repeatedly in the fu
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by WkndTriathlete 4y ago
There's nothing stopping _you personally_ from purchasing insurance on your $5m at the bank from an insurer (or reinsurer) instead of socializing the cost of insuring higher-valued accounts on everyone else.
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by WkndTriathlete 4y ago
> Almost all customers of this bank are Silicon Valley tech companies and startups. I.e. "high-risk businesses that did not assess the risk of their bank (or banks) properly." That's not a good reason to shift the risk pe
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by WkndTriathlete 4y ago
> Here in the US, people do not give a sh*. Already benefits have been reduced to the point were you cannot live on Social Security unless you pitch a tent next to a dumpster outside of a restaurant. This is a problem with Congress not m
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by WkndTriathlete 4y ago
> I guess it's easier to do when you have a stellar safety record. ... for the conditions that the Waymo vehicles operated in. Deployment of Waymo FSD across the board would seem to be a sure win in SF and Phoenix, so I hope that it
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by WkndTriathlete 4y ago
Not all companies have that plateau.
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by WkndTriathlete 4y ago
> Academia has obviously been historically discriminatory, and due to the massive problems with the structure of US universities it still has all sorts of problems. Which problems, in particular? At the big land grant school I attended
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by WkndTriathlete 4y ago
> If you start from a base of modern C++, embrace the standard library and newer, safer data structures, it's a pleasure! I write software in probably a dozen languages, including C++, and using the features/STL in C++17/C
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by WkndTriathlete 4y ago
That's why zoning in the US is classified Residential, Commercial / Light Industrial, and Heavy Industrial, and Residential never abuts Heavy Industrial.
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by WkndTriathlete 4y ago
Tell us you don't understand the theory or use cases for SQL databases without telling us you don't understand the theory or use cases for SQL databases. There are indeed times when a simple key-value store is appropriate, but the
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by WkndTriathlete 4y ago
> I think if you're maybe in one of those exceptionally bike-friendly places like Amsterdam that these hazards may be mitigated enough As a lifelong cyclist, I can assure you there is no way to mitigate hazards enough on a bike, eve
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by WkndTriathlete 4y ago
No, this is definitely wrong. You're comparing an apple (average returns by investors) against an orange (average annual index returns). 50% of of returns, over all investors, beats the median (not average) returns over all investor
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by WkndTriathlete 4y ago
California is popular because of its _climate_ and despite all of the batshit insane policies that have been legislated. I'm gradually approaching retirement age and looking for a place with better climate to retire to, but everywhere
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by WkndTriathlete 4y ago
Transmission lines went to aluminum years ago. What makes you think that EVs won't be using aluminum instead of copper?
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by WkndTriathlete 4y ago
> There is always an alternative to writing SQL queries by hand, and it's usually a better one IME. I spent years writing code using Spring/Hibernate, and I can state with certainty that both of those statements are demonstrabl
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by WkndTriathlete 4y ago
> Go executables don't require a runtime. Sure they do, it just happens to be built into every single executable. Something has to manage the GC and coroutines for the application.
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by WkndTriathlete 4y ago
I can't help but wonder if developers are simply off-put by the complexity of the language itself. Way back in 1989 I was fortunate enough to get Borland's C/C++ compiler, the K&R C book, and Stroustrup's C++ book -
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by WkndTriathlete 4y ago
If those places are relying on software to keep people from getting killed you should assume they are already dead. The Therac-25 case study (linked elsewhere in these threads) is an excellent study on why fail-safes should be mechanical in
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by WkndTriathlete 4y ago
The unfortunate truth with any publicly-traded company is that the CEO's job depends on that growth. The simplistic relationship is as follows: - The share price is (theoretically) a reflection of the future earnings expectations of th
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by WkndTriathlete 4y ago
> Checked exceptions are horrid. Came here to say exactly this. Exceptions are a poor-man's implementation of an error-handling applicative or monad type. Checked exceptions are especially terrible because their usage forces handl

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