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by akavi 5y ago
"Schadenfreude"'s English translation is "schadenfreude".
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by akavi 5y ago
Why do you want to avoid investing in stocks? (Also, a 401k is an investment vehicle, not an investment in and of itself)
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by akavi 5y ago
Depends on the private university. At the very top (HYPMS), that's true (unless your family is very wealthy). It was cheaper for me to attend Yale than my sister to attend UT Austin, despite my parents being fairly affluent (dual-inc
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by akavi 5y ago
My friends who spent their 20s at FAANG would disagree with you.
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by akavi 5y ago
Nope. Instead of roast turkey, my (Indian-American) family makes a turkey meatball curry. Cultural fusion at its most delicious, and guaranteed never dry.
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by akavi 5y ago
FAANG started as a stock ticker acronym. Facebook's stock ticker's now $mtvs, Google's is still $goog/$googl. That's a justification at least.
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by akavi 5y ago
> It's gained widespread adoption, a whole economy, thousands of businesses. What percent of those business denominate their prices in bitcoin? What percent of those businesses do anything but immediately convert the bitcoin back
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by akavi 5y ago
To add another data point, _every_ teacher I know (I know three) use less than a month of their three month break on lesson planning/continuing education/staff obligations.
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by akavi 5y ago
Oh man, as the engineer who was more or less responsible for PD scheduling between 2013 - 2015, it really hurts to hear they still haven't solved this :/
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by akavi 6y ago
I think most people here would agree that working on a side project in your free time using your own resources (Ie, not using your employer’s) is perfectly reasonable and hardly comparable to fraud. (Disclaimer: happy PD employee from 2011-
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by akavi 6y ago
PagerDuty’s front end was 100% coffeescript until at least 2016
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by akavi 6y ago
He knows (Matt Levine always knows), and addresses that very fact in a footnote: > To be clear, market makers are not required to do what the model tells them, and the “common sense” answer is perhaps ambiguous. Arguably the fact that so
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by akavi 6y ago
> This morning Robinhood conspired with Citadel to halt trading Do you have evidence that happened, or are you arguing from pure cui bono circumstantiality?
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by akavi 6y ago
Are these users trading on margin?
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by akavi 6y ago
Non-FAANG companies that I personally know pay senior engineers more than 400 k$/yr in TC: AirBnB, Slack, Square, Uber, Lyft, Dropbox, Twitter, Pinterest, Spotify. (This isn't to name the even longer list of private companies that
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by akavi 6y ago
> A simple solution is to not include stock options in how you value your comp package when going to work at a small company. At face value, that's saying a senior engineer in bay area should be willing to take a ~150 - 200 k$/
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by akavi 6y ago
I'm not sure I agree with the author of this book that that counts as an example of "The Strategy Pattern" (vs. simply "passing a function as a parameter"). Is having parameters at all "The Parameter Pattern&qu
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by akavi 6y ago
It's a bit incoherent to offer subsidies to encourage the creation of new tech and then get mad at people for taking you up on the offer.
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by akavi 6y ago
My reading of Tanden's tweet is that she's rebutting Trump's first sentence, not the second. Ie, Asserting that Russian hacking (in the form of releasing sensitive emails) was plainly sufficient to flip 70 kVotes (Donald Trum
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by akavi 6y ago
Coinbase arguably is just a casino in another form. Reddit's incentives are aligned towards a similar addictive loop as Facebook. Stripe, Cruise, Dropbox, Gusto, and Gitlab are pretty unassaible IMO, though.
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by akavi 6y ago
I'm reminded of a 6 ft tall, blonde roommate I once had who advised me to "make sure your photos have you doing something in them, so the women you match with have a hook to start the conversation with.". (If you don't s
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by akavi 6y ago
So are we going to see this chip in MBPs at some point, or is there a reason that's a bad idea? Furthermore, is there any reason to think there's a less throttle-happy version that might be available for the Pros?
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by akavi 6y ago
Chiming in as someone else who started experiencing severe muscle aches after starting statins and which resolved a couple weeks after I ceased taking them. Prior to experiencing them I hadn't known it was a possible side effect of the
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by akavi 6y ago
Life expectancy of affluent Indians is considerably higher. Further life expectancy of affluent Indians who make it to 85 is probably a good 5 years more at minimum.
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by akavi 6y ago
Interesting that they keep showing shots of the empty auditorium. You'd think they'd try to gloss over the lack of audience.
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by akavi 6y ago
Is this list still being updated? PagerDuty isn't listed as exited, despite IPO-ing last year. Edit: And Flexport isn't listed at all (Should be W14, IIRC)
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by akavi 6y ago
Am I understanding this correctly that typescript provides a type-level property on tuples called `"length"`?
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by akavi 6y ago
> while most countries opposed the US invasion of Afghanistan, opinion polling in India—which shares a border with that country India does not de facto share a border with Afghanistan (Its claimed extent of Kashmir does have a small bord
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by akavi 6y ago
> right between those two neighborhoods So, in the tenderloin? Suddenly not a great deal.
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by akavi 6y ago
Is it just me, or does Reef sound like nearly pure regulatory arbitrage of the screwed up zoning laws in American cities? Ie, zoning oversupplies parking spaces relative to commercial real estate, and so if you can put your business in a &q

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