cecilpl2

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by cecilpl2 4y ago
I prefer to err on the side of subtlety - it reduces your audience but delights them more :)
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
Glad I wasn't the only one that had this start playing in my head when I read the headline.
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
To add some numbers - your liver and muscles store about 500g or 2000 calories of glycogen. Each gram of stored glycogen is bound to 4 grams of water, for a total of roughly 2.5kg / 5lbs of weight. When you eat in a calorie surplus, yo
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
> The thing with those crazy Valley salaries that you hear about here is that a lot of the time a good amount is in the form of stock that vests on a rolling basis. This doesn't make any sense. Yes, your stock "vests on a rolli
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
You seem to be suggesting that basic adult skills like financial literacy and planning for the possibility of a layoff are completely unnecessary in today's world?
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
In the past there were companies that treated their employees well, and also companies that didn't. I am pretty sure that all the points you mentioned are not new developments of the last 20 years. In the present there are also both ki
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
You are subject to a blackout when you have material nonpublic information. IME the blackout remains until the opening of the trading window following the end of your employment.
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
If you selling a service that doesn't yet exist (or where you are an order of magnitude cheaper than the competition), usually you want to charge as much as you can while still selling all your inventory. Your actual cost is irrelevant
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
Australia is basically Hot Canada.
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
My completely uneducated guess is that GCC reports the entire value of the DB pension as "income" for that year, whereas all other institutions correctly report just the increase in value.
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
Almost certainly the value of pensions. There are teachers on that list making $65k with "benefits" of 1mm, which is probably the NPV of ~20 years of pension income.
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
If you like Agricola (as do I), you may also like Caylus. It's a perfect information game with no randomness, and it's also the only board game that has ever truly made me feel like I am incapable of planning out even a single tur
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
> I have also literally had my doctor google my symptoms right then and there, and the “I could have done that” feeling just doesn’t build confidence. Clearly it’s through the filter of his knowledge but still feels wrong. That's an
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
Savvy folks know that no CEO will ever say "yes, we are planning a layoff", and so they know that "there are no layoffs coming" really gives you no information. Naive and younger people will believe it though, so there i
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
Cities cannot easily be "redesigned". Infrastructure exists and you can't just refactor neighborhoods like software. Autonomous vehicles are an enormous market and well worth the investment.
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
This is surprising to hear, as I have had the opposite experience. I have had many fraudulent transactions or unauthorized charges on various accounts, such as: * Random charges appearing for no reason * Clear case of stolen card with a ser
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
I have family members that have done the following: * Email me photos because they don't know how to add them to a shared google photo album. * Aren't on Facebook because they can't figure out how. * Forget their email passwo
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
I have been using bittorrent for 15 years and still pay for Dropbox because it's a very useful service.
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
I take it you live Thoreau-style, in a cabin in the wilderness completely off-grid? You farm and hunt your own food and do not rely on civilization for any of your needs?
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
All games are created by external developers. Roblox is more akin to Unity combined with a publishing platform.
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
Roblox is not a video game. It's a platform.
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
sed can't rename all references of MyUniquelyNamedClass::Update() to MyUniquelyNamedClass::Update2(). IDEs understand types and context.
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
For me at least, once I hit my thirties I had just kind of memorized them all by osmosis.
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
Microsoft Money Sunset Edition still works. I can still download all my credit card statements in OFX (MS Money format). I use it weekly and have nearly 20 years of transaction history stored there. I have no idea what I'll do if it ev
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
Please take this the right way, but blaming your predecessors is not a productive mindset, nor is it really the topic of this post.
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
Non-tyrannical governments (ie most governments) also make very harmful things illegal for very good reasons, and a system which can facilitate these harmful things is in itself a harmful thing. I don't know how you can argue that faci
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
I once worked on a video game that was translated into many different languages for free by passionate community members. Since the game was frequently updated, eventually it made sense to give these "community translators" early
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
> They found that collectively, the whole Reddit moderator population spends 466 hours per day performing moderating actions on the platform at a minimum. I agree. 466 hours daily seems at first glance like at least an order of magnitude
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
Roblox already supports this on a centralized platform. You can buy items/cosmetics on the platform, and then use them in any game.
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
I certainly wasn't claiming it didn't happen, nor do I think I know the truth of the matter. I simply don't have the time or the resources to fully investigate the issue myself, and so I provided the information I do have. I

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