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by cbanek 9y ago
> agencies try to capitalize on the environment of nerdy male engineers by having an unusually high number of attractive women to get a higher response This seems questionable. All the recruiters I've ever dealt with are over email
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by cbanek 9y ago
So the article is saying if you drink diet soda, and suddenly your body wonders where the calories are, your body may be thrown for a loop. I will say that if I'm just looking for something to drink, if I drink a diet soda vs water, I
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by cbanek 9y ago
This is hilarious and awesome. I'm reminded of the great Simpsons exchange: Lisa: poor predictable Bart, always chooses rock Bart: ah, good ol' rock. Nothing beats that!
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by cbanek 9y ago
That or true insanity.
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by cbanek 9y ago
It's she actually. And the patches are equivalent in terms of dosage, and I've been on both. They even look exactly the same. The only thing that might be different, as far as I can tell, is the adhesive they use for the sticky
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by cbanek 9y ago
No, I pay the full price myself out of pocket (and write it off on my taxes).
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by cbanek 9y ago
I'm actually self employed, and I got this health care policy on the health care exchanges - there's no employer in the picture, which is probably why they're trying to shift the cost to me, as opposed to paying for the brand
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by cbanek 9y ago
I have United Healthcare, and I have to say I've seen this happen to me as well. I'm on a long term maintenance medication, which is delivered by patch. I was on the generic in my previous health plan, so my new doctor prescribe
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by cbanek 9y ago
People use a low VIX to represent complacency, which is typically present before a market crash, along with the famous irrational exuberance. Once it goes up, it means there's volatility in the future coming, because the VIX is based o
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by cbanek 9y ago
There is actual money behind the number of the VIX, but I'm not sure if you'd call it value. There are ETFs and other vehicles that buy VIX futures, and either go long or short, which people can buy and sell. Like TVIX, XIV, etc.
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by cbanek 9y ago
I think you both have an excellent point about training kicking in. Many years ago I had done the professional CPR training, and I think even that has made me think about emergency situations that may happen around me differently. Also tr
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by cbanek 9y ago
I always find it really interesting how people handle crisis situations. Some stop in shocked horror. Others run, both away and toward the crisis. Some people get shaken up, while others can remain calm, and even turn commanding and cont
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by cbanek 9y ago
This reminds me of another recent story, about a language that doesn't use left or right, but uses compass directions. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/magazine/29language-t.html Imagine yourself s
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by cbanek 9y ago
> Suppose Company A is worth $100 billion and Company B is worth $10 billion. Buying $100 of Company A and buying $10 of Company B shouldn't push up the price of Company A faster than Company B. You're buying 0.0000001% of each
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by cbanek 9y ago
I agree we're not to over indexing in the US, but I think people really have to keep watching the central banks, especially Japan and the BOJ [1]. While the US federal reserve doesn't buy stocks, other central banks do, and a lot
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by cbanek 9y ago
But if everyone does that, that inherently pushes up the price of company A a lot faster than company B. Which reinforces the feedback loop of the bigger they are the more you buy. This is all done without anything needing to happen to th
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by cbanek 9y ago
The big investing fad now is all about indexing. That's what everyone recommends, including Warren Buffet. This means that with less than $1000, you can own a representation of the S&P500, weighted by market cap, either through ET
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by cbanek 9y ago
Because once they have "proof" that you're a criminal, then they get greater leeway in what they want to do in terms of searches and detaining you, and even if they turn up nothing, they still have something to charge you wit
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by cbanek 9y ago
> but I never understand why the big LV hotels agree to host it. Hence they tend to frequently change hotels. Some of the hotels (Alexis Park) would charge exorbitant repair fees for the rooms, and probably make at least some money for
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by cbanek 9y ago
What killed Windows Mobile/Phone? The iPhone (the first one) did. Windows Phone was complicated, and all about the enterprise. The business model was all about selling more server licenses, and everyone having a phone that tied them
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by cbanek 9y ago
I think if companies could actually predict crunch times I'd agree with you, but scheduling is not an easy science.
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by cbanek 9y ago
There's refreshes and then there's the speed of the vesting schedule. Some places offer a bunch to start, but very little after that, which means people tend to leave once they have vested all their options/RSUs. After the fi
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by cbanek 9y ago
But the vesting schedules sure make a difference. It's amazing how things change once you've made it past that cliff, and how people jump ship once they've got their first year. Also a year is pretty standard to get a signi
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by cbanek 9y ago
I also started with Cap'n Proto in my system, but then moved over go gRPC. Reason? There's no RPC support for Java (although there is serialization support). It was early on, so I decided to switch. Still wondering which one is
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by cbanek 9y ago
I feel like this is pretty frightening. I thought algebra was basically a high school requirement? Not only do I think everyone should be able to understand basic algebra, they should understand basic statistics and probabilities (which is
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by cbanek 9y ago
> If they start using these dice to generate cryptographic keys, I'll run for the hills, but so long as they are only used for playing board games over the internet, this is really cool. This just gave me a flashback to making crypt
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by cbanek 9y ago
Ah thanks, very interesting. This part was telling: "Precision dice with rounded (or cut) corners are recommended where a limited rolling area is available, the cut corners allow the dice to tumble, in particular the smallest size of
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by cbanek 9y ago
Probably. Even the extra security features probably make them cost a lot more than cheap dice, and there's a lot more QA like spinning them on various axes to make sure they are balanced. They make up a bit of that on the backend thoug
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by cbanek 9y ago
Really? I've never heard of this, and I live in Vegas where fair dice are considered pretty important. The pips on opposing sides always add up to 7, and each of the faces are balanced (1 is in the center, 2 is on opposing corners, 3
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by cbanek 9y ago
They aren't just sitting there playing the games, or designing test cases (usually) - there are actual documents laying out what the test case is and what the manual tester should do to exercise the case. These cases are split up usua

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