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by alextheparrot 6y ago
My mother was raving about the service the other day. Speeds are 10-15x faster, she’s having an easier time with her online community college course and her job KPI is up by double digit percents [1]. She was worried that IT wouldn’t be OK
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by alextheparrot 6y ago
Thanks for letting me know, ordered a crate for pickup next week (Seems that they are doing well selling them in general)!
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by alextheparrot 6y ago
Damn, hopefully the SF location doesn’t change too much in response to this. There and the New Parkway in Oakland are the only theaters I really go to.
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by alextheparrot 6y ago
I think there’s a balance between accruing and exploiting in terms of converting delayed value into realized value [0]. The utility of a dollar goes down as your able to do less with it or have less likelihood of being able to spend it [1]
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by alextheparrot 6y ago
> He said the use of the larger test was appropriate because it could catch a wider range of diseases, particularly for those who were symptomatic. [0] Cant’t believe this isn’t an ethics violation, it is like going into the car dealersh
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by alextheparrot 6y ago
It is a difference in who decides how much they’re paid. In a traditional business their pay is at the discretion of the business and thus in competition with what could be the business’s profits. Tips are inaccessible to the business,
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by alextheparrot 6y ago
Last time I looked into Nanopore the cost wasn't that much better where you'd even consider this experiment. On the other hand, when doing a genome assembly, the Nanopore reads are good for a draft sequence and then the Illumina r
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by alextheparrot 6y ago
Three days ago there was a hacked verified account that had done a name change posing as one of the Winklevoss twins trying to get people to send BTC to a random address. That is to say trust is a reoccurring cost and not as trivial as “Ha
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by alextheparrot 6y ago
Definitely interested in how they articulate risks unearthed by recent events in their future S-1.
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by alextheparrot 6y ago
That's what I was asking about, though. If there are any crypto projects that provide this given that the traditional payment flow [0]. Chargebacks seem to be conflated with escrow a lot while also simply pinning chargebacks to an or
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by alextheparrot 6y ago
I think that post is representative of how only the market and time will actually flesh out this story. The GME holding party entrenches further because the graph is bad (Y Axis distortion) and the GME short party says the pressure has bee
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by alextheparrot 6y ago
Looking forward to it coming full circle when Twitter fully fleshes out the “Tweetstorm” as a product. Long-form content, high intractability
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by alextheparrot 6y ago
Are there any crypto projects that allow chargebacks? I religiously avoid using my debit card except at bank ATMs to avoid that once every few years when someone skims my credit card. That and rewards are the main value-add of a traditiona
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by alextheparrot 6y ago
I don't think hoteling is intrinsically bad, just when it is paired with the sort of space constraints the original poster described. If you only have space for 50% of the staff, it is going to be a bad time whenever an important meet
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by alextheparrot 6y ago
This really is the worst of both worlds for the employees. Employees are still bound to a physical location, but you also have to maintain a home office and heterogenous communications stack [0]. Also, coordinating who is in the office wh
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by alextheparrot 6y ago
> Learning from messing up does NOT come for free. This is a bit further down in the thread, but really is the core point new engineers need to hear. Many of us have sat through retrospectives after spending hours writing up what went wr
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by alextheparrot 6y ago
Remzi and Andrea [0] have a pretty well regarded OS book used to teach the OS course at Wisconsin [1-2]. Hope they’re doing well, Andrea’s course teaching Scratch to 4th and 5th graders at a local elementary school was a highlight of my ti
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An ambitious new system will track scores of species from space(nytimes.com)
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by alextheparrot 6y ago
What are you all talking about, the original top-level post has a reasonably presented assessment of Tesla’s strategy and the ramifications of such a strategy. Sure, that assessment might be flawed, but I don’t see how any of that is “anti
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by alextheparrot 6y ago
I think your historical assessment is fair, as usually legal has an allow-list of licenses and anything else is non-trivial to integrate. Moving forward, though, with multiple companies trying to solve issues via licensing (Mongo, Elastic,
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by alextheparrot 6y ago
In your post you talk briefly about licensing -- effectively (1) MIT/Apache are common and very permissive (2) AGPL sometimes gets shut down by legal (3) Changing licenses is hard. Given these primitives, do you think one solution to t
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by alextheparrot 6y ago
That quote is not supporting your point, though, because the author and your friend are in separate camps. They are separate on exactly the grounds you indicate — the author spends paragraphs supporting how Prop 22 is not turning out posit
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by alextheparrot 6y ago
I don’t see how the popularity of something necessarily corresponds to its utility. How is it counter-productive to speak to the reality of the bill, popularity at passage is entirely orthogonal to “Has it been beneficial”. People like hav
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by alextheparrot 6y ago
No, they don’t.
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by alextheparrot 6y ago
Thanks for the pointer, wasn't aware ZIO had an actor implementation. My interest was the inversion, though, which is “Could you make a (more or less) drop-in replacement for Future/IO/Task/ZIO that implements not just
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by alextheparrot 6y ago
I wonder what it would look like trying to implement something like the IO monad backed by Akka actors. Can't recall anything off the top of my head that would make that untenable aside from the aforementioned scoffing.
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The DIY Scientist, the Olympian, and the Mutated Gene(propublica.org)
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by alextheparrot 6y ago
There was an interesting comment made on the recent "Bio Eats World" episode [0] that genetic tests are not aligned with health care reimbursement cycles. Jorge Conda [0] cited two reasons that genome sequencing (Different from 23
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by alextheparrot 6y ago
I suppose the contra seemed a bit hollow, as the bit you quoted has an implicit “in the company” attached based on the context of the post. It was less that your statement was strictly false and more “Well yes, but that isn’t really addres
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by alextheparrot 6y ago
The entire post talks about effects on the company. If we’re trying to be unreasonably obtuse, it doesn’t change conditions for a worker either because a person not working is not a worker.

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