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by _huayra_ 4y ago
Semi-related, but Equifax runs The Work Number, which is basically your "employment credit report / record"; they hoover up the data by agreements with employers that they will share employment info with them. You can freeze
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One thing that worked for me for other addicting behaviors was to properly and deliberately harness regret. If you call upon it in advance of making a regrettable decision, it can be a tool instead of a cudgel. This book goes over this phil
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
> You're paid what it costs for you not to work somewhere else. This is largely decoupled from how much value you create. I bet quite a number of HNers have liked a given workplace, but done the "job boomerang" where they
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
Damn, this guy speedrunned getting fired with maximal consequences. I don't even know if any of us could ever pull this off unless one works for a defense contractor. Even if I did something horrendously malicious like selling trade
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
The chart cited in that tweet seems to have a very suspicious trend. I highly doubt some consumption trend has such a sharp inflection point like that. I would suspect that it is either both of the following: - data is based on some food su
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
Indeed, and god forbid separate bike paths / infrastructure. The main complaint is that bikes don't pay tax / registration, but usually after I get them to agree that vehicles should pay in proportion to the damage (and comme
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
Why not both? Many folks on here have hobbies that just are not public-transit friendly, e.g. windsurfing for me. However, I would love it if I didn't have to drive between my urban area and an adjacent one because of the dearth of pub
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
> We've tried nothing, and we're out of ideas. I'm gonna use this line whenever my pro-car cheems mindset [0] family complain about new bike lanes getting installed :D [0] https://normielisation.substack.com&#x2
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
BREIT is above $50b [0], which is basically enough to buy up literally all of the inventory for many housing markets combined. I'm hoping there is some sensible legislation, as we can't rely on the Fed hiking the rate to the moon
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Not to mention the time it would take to rebuild the industry that is between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. That combined with the fact that the major shipping route to deep water ports to export ag commodities (corn, wheat, soy) to the rest
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
It's because payment processors basically calculated that people would be less likely to use their credit card if they had the hassle of entering a PIN (or god forbid some rotating code thing!). They're willing to put up with slig
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
I take it you live somewhere with ample parking lots? I definitely don't miss the dance of clutch, handbrake, and gas whilst trying to parallel park in a spot I would barely fit into on a hill.
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
All of the "smart driving" stuff like adaptive cruise control is why I finally bought my first non-MT car. I guess the manual was more fun (although I had it living in a condo complex with a ludicrously steep driveway -> goodby
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
Not only that, but I think those companies that are not burdened with enormous costs related to having an office will be more likely to reward / retain / hire employees. It seems absurd that some WFH-only companies will basically
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
Yes, scale is a huge factor creating the margin. I'm actually on a team that is responsible for guiding the cloud part of the company in what hardware to buy (among other things), and I've seen the purchase orders; it is indeed in
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
This is actually my approach: move things to "self hosted in the cloud", then move to on-prem (hopefully timed to when I finally get a house after the housing slump gets worse in a year or so fingers crossed ). Although the costs
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
This is why I'm finally slowly starting to self-host things. It's not really convenient compared to *aaS, as it's a whole lotta new stuff to learn with great consequences for an error (because of the security issues), but I w
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
Yes, it actually totally makes sense, but the issue is that if one draws the mental picture the wrong way the first time (and is left uncorrected), it's equally easy to draw the mental picture (i.e. of commits "flying around"
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
Damn you've got 2 orders of magnitude on me with my bare-bones Comcast plan! What's this run you per month?
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This temp branch (or even `git tag my_orig_branch`) approach is usually a better on-ramp than the reflog. It's still too easy to misread the line in the reflog of a prior HEAD change and go to the wrong commit, whereas the tmp branch i
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
> The checkout command is severely overloaded; I've been using git since 2008. I just learned a few weeks ago that I had the opposite understanding of what --theirs and --ours does on git-checkout during a rebase operation. (brief
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
How ready is Linux (or a BSD; I'm willing to learn!) for home server use? I understand there will be some growing pains for ARM chips as they venture into server land; the x86 ecosystem with a bazillion different motherboard / com
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
Exactly. I'd have to make a giant stroad-y detour to/from the office to go to the grocery store. Even if gas wasn't $5 / gallon, the time sink isn't worth it
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One current advantage: FaaS is sold below cost by every cloud provider at the moment, so if you can design your app to take advantage of it, you'll save $$$. Don't know how that'll hold up into the very long term though...
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
Every one of my coworkers who boulders gets injured (usually lightly) on a regular basis. After climbing (on a rope) for more than a decade, I've never had an injury. Due to the fact you have to ramp up the per-move difficulty much fas
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) has been mentioned by others, but this is the best book (imo) by the originator of ACT [0]. I reread it once a year just to remember all the gems in here. [0] https://stevenchayes.com/
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I have used this to buy cars with great success (including getting well below MSRP during the pandemic). I even have a cheap aliexpress wedding ring I wear so I can more convincingly talk about "my wife" as the decision maker in t
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
Most people are just performing the narrative that they use to shape their life in front of you (and the rest of the world). When someone comes at you overwhelmed with a disempowering emotion (e.g. locked up by anger, envy, snark, etc), how
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
What about the user experience is better? I'm weighing this option myself now, but honestly between an iOS device and a mid-tier Android phone, it's hard to tell the difference. Email / chat apps / web browsing is more o
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
There's a difference between hearing about a social event that you missed after the fact and seeing it going on live without you in real time. High school was hard enough for me when the web was just barely coming out of its primordi

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