andrewfong

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by andrewfong 4y ago
U.S. political campaigns are by far the worst offender. If you give your real email and phone number to one candidate, twenty unrelated candidates will contact you next cycle.
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by andrewfong 4y ago
Actual DOE press release here: https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/department-education-...
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by andrewfong 5y ago
I'm a coder turned contract lawyer turned coder again. People often ask me why I switched from law back to software. My answer: The meat of the job is basically the same thing. You spend a lot of time writing things in highly precise p
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by andrewfong 5y ago
> If an organization thinks their systems should be available 24x7 they should staff people 24x7. This is hard to do well. Ideally, you need an eng culture where things are well-documented and product development is regularly handed off
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by andrewfong 5y ago
> At least in this case someone appears to have done that already. Where do you see this?
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by andrewfong 5y ago
I don't know the timelines for these things, but how would this work if someone wanted to introduce a hypothetical USB-D? They'd just need to petition the EU once a new standard was adopted?
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by andrewfong 5y ago
I wonder what would happen if California just passed a law that called for unlimited PTO to be paid out (using some pretty high implied accrual rate, like 8 weeks a year or something).
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by andrewfong 5y ago
That raises an interesting possibility. What if we made donating to a campaign itself taxable? Like, for every dollar you donate to a Congress critters or PAC, you donate $1 to the government. Lots of reasons why this wouldn't happen (
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by andrewfong 5y ago
It's not entirely unreasonable to regulate on the basis of psychic impact over straight up mortality. Not saying our focus on mass shootings over suicide necessarily makes sense, but the collective trauma of 20 kids dying in a school s
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by andrewfong 5y ago
There's a dynamic aspect to this that's difficult to capture in terms of straight up mortality risk. For starters, we're more interested in the marginal average reduction of mortality per dollar invested rather than point in
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by andrewfong 5y ago
We sort of have this in the concept of a micromort: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort
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by andrewfong 5y ago
The "cobra" here would be to engage in behavior that makes you more likely to be selected for this program so you can then be rewarded for stopping that behavior. I suspect the odds of unexpected outcomes would be low here though
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by andrewfong 5y ago
Anec-data, but I've seen pro-lifers both for and against birth control, so perhaps this is some variance here. In any event, I don't think being against birth control suggests the belief that a fetus deserves the rights of a child
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by andrewfong 5y ago
From where I sit as a dev, it's less "I want shiny new tech on my resume" and more "we need to refactor / simplify everything for ease of maintainability". It's a hard problem. Sometimes it's unnecess
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by andrewfong 5y ago
It almost certainly wouldn't have been legal in the U.S. to dock an exempt employee's pay, but I've seen plenty of U.S. startups with absolutely no understanding of wage and salary laws. The $100 / month thing was for a
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by andrewfong 6y ago
Reminds me of the story about the Yale donor who wanted a cathedral, but Yale wanted a gym, so they built a gym that looked like a cathedral. https://www.gpsmycity.com/attractions/payne-whitney-gymnasiu...
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by andrewfong 6y ago
Given that his explicitly stated goal is to move on from this, probably a bad idea. Right or wrong, a lawsuit would invite the Streisand effect. As for whether there's any legal basis to sue, it's doubtful. There isn't a whol
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by andrewfong 6y ago
The funny thing is that Section 230 was added to _encourage_ moderation as part of the Communications Decency Act. The historical context is that prior to 230, imperfect moderation would be used as proof that a service could moderate but ch
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by andrewfong 6y ago
Well, the funny thing is they're mostly protected from legal exposure by Section 230, that thing Trump keeps trying to get rid of.
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by andrewfong 6y ago
Maybe Coinbase sets things up in such a way that the cap gains event is triggered only when the balance is paid off? E.g. imagine I incur $10 USD on the card. From Coinbase's perspective, I just owe them $10 USD + maybe interest at the
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by andrewfong 6y ago
One of the advertised upsides of remote work is reduced carbon emissions but I wonder how that works out when you have required on sites as well. Back of the envelope math suggests if you have remote works flying in from, say, NYC to SFO, i
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by andrewfong 6y ago
It's much more of an issue without headphones. Anyone who ever their laptop start playing audio in a meeting knows.
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by andrewfong 6y ago
PDFs are terrible for screen readers for very much all the reasons listed here. This article does make me wonder though if we'll ever get to a point where OCR tech is sufficiently accurate and efficient that screen readers will start
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by andrewfong 6y ago
Independent of whether the law is a good idea generally speaking, there's a pretty simple patch the legislature could make that keeps the intent alive. Just exempt the first N contractors a business hires. Let's say, a thousand. M
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by andrewfong 6y ago
You get sick more often, especially with an open office setup. Even pre-COVID, it was kinda common during flu and cold season to have a big chunk of your team sniffling or wheezing. Someone who should stay home inevitably shows up because o
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by andrewfong 6y ago
In the current environment (a significant percentage of Americans are afraid of almost any police interaction and are demonstrating to that effect), the welfare check seems ridiculous as well -- especially when a phone call to the parents w
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by andrewfong 6y ago
I don't think that's what the original article is getting at though. It talks about user privacy rights for instance, and it would be harmful to certain companies to not spy on their users, even if it's the right thing to do
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by andrewfong 6y ago
I'm not against the idea, but analogizing to medicine isn't great. There are a number of challenged that need sorting before an oath is feasible: * Medicine is thousands of years old. Software is decades old. There's still a
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by andrewfong 6y ago
I'm a developer and I think it'd be useful. I'm semi-fluent (conversational?) when it comes to CLIs, and this looks like a great way to recall stuff for less frequently used commands or edge cases. Two reasons why I would dow
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by andrewfong 6y ago
The political argument in favor of universal basic income stresses the importance of the universal. That is, when the argument is "the others are getting cash", some will oppose it. But if it's "we all get cash", th

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