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by bbeekley 6y ago
Not defending fraud (in general or in this specific case), but who it being ruined for? Amazon is still making fabulous amounts of money, prices are still low there, and the policy is still generous to the customer.
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by bbeekley 6y ago
Absolutely. I think one of the fun things about that calculator is that you can mess around with the numbers to try different situations. Perhaps there's a way to account for that tax (e.g. by using ~5.8% returns as the after-tax rate)
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by bbeekley 6y ago
I semi-regularly plug numbers into this Buy v Rent calculator by NYT [1]. They're pretty equivalent in the 10-30 year range and match housing prices I've seen. It's hard to beat the SP500's >8% average return [2]. [1]
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by bbeekley 6y ago
No, that's editorializing based on the few differentiating factors I found. Though I think the idea that the more expensive model is pushed by dealers makes sense too.
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by bbeekley 6y ago
To give an example, the Subaru Crosstrek is a lifted Subaru Impreza hatchback. They share nearly all parts, and have the same interior and cargo space. The differences are: 1. Crosstrek costs more ($22,145 vs $18,695) 2. Crosstrek is less e
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by bbeekley 6y ago
We did this at a previous company in the healthcare space. It made audits easy since we could point to every instance of the design changing, who approved it, and the code that implements the change (all wrapped up in PR(s)). In general I l
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by bbeekley 6y ago
I believe you can add a delay for what the viewers see, which would give you some time to cut the stream in case any secrets are shown. Else, it's good practice for a secret rotation process :)
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by bbeekley 6y ago
The license is here [1]. It looks like you can redistribute with attribution and alike license. [1] https://design.gs.com/d/legal/goldman-sans-license/
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by bbeekley 6y ago
Also as someone without formal CS education: I'm surprised too, though not alarmed. I've very rarely felt like I didn't have the right education to do my job at giantmegacorp w/ CS PhD coworkers. The bigger problem is th
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by bbeekley 6y ago
> Not sure about what anyone here considers as libertarian, but if you were to ask a libertarian what they would tell you is that if you own property you are free to do as you please so long as you do not harm someone else. I think that&
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by bbeekley 6y ago
Housing seems to me to be one of the most government-planned markets due to the strict zoning laws, but I've only seen fairly lefty orgs advocating for relaxed regulation. I'm surprised there isn't more movement from libertar
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by bbeekley 6y ago
Doing some calculations from another direction: The maximum daily energy density of sunlight in sunny Los Angeles is about 6.4 kWh / m2 [1] (assuming perfect, moving angle of panels to sun). If we can turn the entire footprint of a Mod
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by bbeekley 6y ago
> then shouldn't Lyft or Flywheel or some new company that can ship much faster be better off than Uber? Isn't that the general startup success story: small scrappy team adapts faster to changes and the market, giving them some
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by bbeekley 6y ago
Grubhub is a good backup service in that case. I call first, then put in an order online if calling failed (which happens very rarely for me). Plus a lot of places are a little cheaper if you call.
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by bbeekley 6y ago
>I really don't like the idea of stamping out all single family homes and nice green areas in proximity to cities. I don't think anyone seriously wants to replace every single family home with something more dense (even if the
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by bbeekley 6y ago
Local HOAs and similar have loud voices against these kind of projects. It might take another big voice (like Sidewalk Labs) to counter. I've tried calling my local reps to support walkable community projects and have been told, nearly
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by bbeekley 6y ago
If it's a monitor lizard, then monitoring is a big part of SRE.
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by bbeekley 7y ago
They have a Patreon now. I recently started supporting them there.
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by bbeekley 7y ago
1.5 years is already very fast for a clinical trial. The average duration of clinical trials for "breakthrough" drugs is 5.0 years [1], compared to 8.0 years for drugs without that status. Plus O(1%) of trials actually make it to
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by bbeekley 8y ago
> My car is idle most of the time. I usually only use it for 1-2 hours a day during the week and less on the weekends. I could use Uber or Lyft instead but I don't. I could rent out my car when I am not using it but I don't. It
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by bbeekley 8y ago
Just did some napkin math and the potential gas savings number seems reasonable. (I expected it to be inflated and still think it's a dark pattern to include it.) Model 3: (50 kwh battery) * (0.166 $/kwh for Los Angeles re
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by bbeekley 8y ago
> a junior developer put on a major healthcare project could absolutely do some damage to their fellow human beings. Any compliant healthcare software project would keep a junior developer very far from the patient -- there are many laye
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by bbeekley 8y ago
What were you looking to get out of a Sonos? If you just want something that can play music wirelessly from various devices, I'd recommend getting a pair of bookshelf speakers and plugging them into one of (Airport Express, Chromecast
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by bbeekley 8y ago
I didn't download the library, but I don't think the author left out white people. Here's a screenshot from the humaaans page that looks white to me. [1] Edit: another commenter showed pale skin tone in the library [2]. Even
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by bbeekley 8y ago
"Job posts not specifying a seniority level are excluded." 13824 senior positions / 120548 total openings = 11.5% senior. If we assume "senior" only applies to "dev" and "engineer it becomes 13824&#x
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by bbeekley 8y ago
Games in general are definitely not getting worse. There are more excellent indie and medium-size studio games coming out than ever. If you don't like those things you complain about, play other games. Even the big studios are starting
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by bbeekley 8y ago
> Isn't a big part of the advantage of ride-share is that the vehicle is just there for your journey, you don't need to take care of it outside of that? That's what I use it for. They're great for situations where I w
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by bbeekley 8y ago
> The difference is that in California, the people who don't want it largely outnumber the people who want it more than in most places. Measure R (2008, 67% in favor) and Measure M (2016, 71% in favor) both passed with supermajoriti
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by bbeekley 8y ago
Yes, as long as it gets the necessary permits and green-light from my elected officials. The canceled tunnel was planned to go in about a block from where I currently live and I was excited for it. It wasn't even going to be under Bren
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by bbeekley 8y ago
I assume the 5 years means starting with a Bachelors. At least in the US, it's fairly unheard of to finish a PhD in 3 years or less.

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