andrestan

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by andrestan 8y ago
These are almost exactly my thoughts as well coming from a 2015 MBP. I would only add that for me, I actually like the new keyboard. The low/firm travel of the keys is actually preferable for me. I felt like the old keyboards were &quo
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by andrestan 8y ago
Sure, that's possible but then you're just dealing with relatively blind speculation. I would assume there's no issues on the investment side unless there's strong reason to believe there is.
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by andrestan 8y ago
Primarily, from my understanding, it's related to diminished permitting and (most importantly) very lax zoning laws.
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by andrestan 8y ago
Stock market "correction" != recession. It's also not even remotely clear to me that a plot of 500 of the largest corporations in the US SHOULDN'T be growing extremely/exponentially fast.
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by andrestan 8y ago
RMarkdown and Knitr are dramatic improvements in terms of final outputs and VC relative to notebooks. Notebook believers (Satan worshippers, imho) would suggest that notebooks are best for developing in and not primarily made for use as fin
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by andrestan 8y ago
"people" aren't but you are able to for them? What makes you so much better than the workers at Amazon?
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by andrestan 8y ago
Citation needed. This makes no sense. There's always going to be heterogeneity in output per worker in every role. Amazon pays for a baseline of expected output and wants to ensure that within a role they can manage to capture those wo
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by andrestan 8y ago
Possibly, but generally the difference is one of power structure. With OSHA, workplace safety laws are put in place to protect workers from the tyranny of their need for wages. People need to work and therefore their workplaces should pose
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by andrestan 8y ago
I'm not taking an absolutist view at all. I was asking questions challenging a blanket statement without any supporting evidence that the workers or society or some very broad concept's welfare was improved by removing performance
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by andrestan 8y ago
Why? Are the workers completely and totally incapable of deciding for themselves what the proper tradeoff between increased income and whatever decreased health comes from working harder?? What is your calculus that helped you arrive at it
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by andrestan 8y ago
It was a really short doc and I didn't see it answer this question at all. Where do you see it answering it?
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by andrestan 8y ago
I think if you compare R's tidyverse to Julia, you aren't at all in Julia's wheelhouse. Julia's value comes from algorithm development primarily, not from interacting with data.frame type objects. If you really want to s
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by andrestan 8y ago
This is fair. I don't have a ton of heat issues but they could allow me to easily bump fan speed earlier on in the process of heating up. Would be a welcome addition.
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by andrestan 8y ago
As an alternative, I personally love the keyboard of the 2018 Macbooks and I'm not sure I'm aware of dramatically better CPUs that could be put inside of them? Certainly my new 13" with the upgraded CPU is fantastic. I would
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by andrestan 8y ago
There are plenty of public companies that reach a steady state. What happens for those companies is their PE ratios shrink, they start paying out dividends and their expectation is to be a big lumbering giant whose valuation isn't expe
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by andrestan 8y ago
They're only unsustainable if the employee's productivity is stagnant. If one year of experience increases an employee's productivity then you can more than happily increase their pay by greater than inflation.
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by andrestan 8y ago
Are those really the people you fear the most?
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by andrestan 8y ago
Wow! I didn't realize that! Thanks for telling me. Very unfortunate given how much I value the service :(
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by andrestan 8y ago
It's not xenophobic to want or expect a country to protect its IP from a country known to openly flout such rules.
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by andrestan 8y ago
I would specify that you're actually a founder of The Lobby, because otherwise I thought this post was spam until I clicked into your user page.
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by andrestan 8y ago
That's untrue. Uber lost huge amounts of market share due to the scandals in 2017.
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by andrestan 8y ago
A great example of an executive who has led the rapid development of a business but drastically needed more mentorship would be Travis Kalanik formerly of Uber. Running a large and successful company well is much, much more than just gener
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by andrestan 8y ago
Most likely credibility, publicity, connections and mentorship that major VCs provide.
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by andrestan 9y ago
Maybe it's a part of _your_ problem but I don't think it's a part of _the_ problem. What OP said is correct. Democrats continue to escalate and promote legislation that is deeply invasive.
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by andrestan 9y ago
Yup and then some other proportion are actually people you know/are friends with. You probably occasionally reach out to the ones you know/are friends with and ignore those who language you don't speak in the countries you&#x
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by andrestan 9y ago
The magical part where it solves all of our problems with magic.
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by andrestan 9y ago
"enforce its commercial appropriation of European culture, history and stories" How do you actually mean by this? It seems to me that the vast majority of big Hollywood movies are of US origin and not European. For example see her
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by andrestan 9y ago
Which news story about Uber makes invasion of privacy seem like a top-down policy?
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by andrestan 9y ago
Even by your source, US GDP PPP per capita is quite significantly higher than most European countries. Most larger European countries are ~75% of the US as a rule of thumb.
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by andrestan 9y ago
Irrelevant to his original point. That Southerners do the same does not justify San Franciscans doing it as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque

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