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by chadash 6y ago
I posted this here after seeing essentially the same thing on lichess.org. Didn't post the link to that because it requires you to have an account in order to see it. Of course, this is only "security"-by-obscurity. Not only
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Chess Captcha(elioair.github.io)
46 points by chadash 6y ago|30 comments
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by chadash 6y ago
Only a small fraction of people with high net worths, say $50M+, are coming from founding venture backed startups. Many of the wealthiest people I've met do things like manufacture purses for Walmart, or towels for TJ Maxx, or sell net
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by chadash 6y ago
Eh, true wealthy people are against a tax that hurts them, but that doesn't mean that their argument is without merit. Think about what a wealth tax means. Say I found a company like WeWork (bear with me and try to forget the shenaniga
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by chadash 6y ago
> Instead of running into someone while grabbing coffee or water I now have to go out of my way to book time with people. Same. And for most people, I'm just not gonna book that time. It's time consuming (and sometimes awkwar
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by chadash 6y ago
I find that can do most of my day-to-day work just fine from home. Maybe even better because there's less distraction. But I miss the casual interactions at the office. Finding out what other people are up to. What other teams are up t
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by chadash 6y ago
Same here. What's was funny about losing my sense of smell is that unlike vision or even hearing, it's hard to remember how strong things were supposed to smell before, so it was also hard to know when it was fully back. But at ar
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by chadash 6y ago
Yeah, I think that's unusual. I assume most people lose their smell a bit when their nose gets stuffy, but complete loss... no.
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by chadash 6y ago
I had covid and at least my experience was very different. When I have a cold, I get stuffy and lose my sense of smell a little bit. With covid, it wasn't stuffiness... just couldn't smell, period. This remained after all other sy
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by chadash 6y ago
I generally prefer linux, but need windows for work related stuff (excel and visual studio). I have a full version of linux installed for duel-boot purposes and I still use it a bit, but WSL is getting better and better to the point where i
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by chadash 6y ago
The subtitle says all vehicles sold must be zero-emissions, so that presumably includes diesel. But this seems to only target passenger vehicles, not freight carriers.
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by chadash 6y ago
> "so we're looking at 2050" Probably sooner. In 2034, a year before this takes place, gasoline car sales will probably be small to negligible. In 2045, it'll be a hassle to own a gasoline car when most of the gas sta
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by chadash 6y ago
> Everything in the Hindenburg Report could have been exposed without the Company going public. Yes, but it went public and that gave someone the incentive to expose it. The fact that this stuff wasn't exposed earlier is a failure
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by chadash 6y ago
I would argue that public markets very much DID do their job here. Once you are public, people can go long or short your stock, unlike private companies where the latter is hard. In this case, someone took a large short position and then
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by chadash 6y ago
The work I do is fairly specialized and takes me a relatively predictable number of hours. Sometimes I'm wrong and it takes me more, but a good amount of unpredictability is baked into my charge. If you charge more for a fixed cost, th
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by chadash 6y ago
Agree. And on top of this, there's a value to predictability. If I go to my boss and ask permission to spend $10,000 to save $20,000, they can OK that pretty easily since it's simple math... they spend money and save more, so the
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by chadash 6y ago
It's a good argument for specialization. If your job is "I design web apps" then it's gonna be new and unpredictable work every time. If your job is "I do software consulting for small businesses to migrate from exc
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by chadash 6y ago
I do this very much part time and with recurring clients so I don't have a great generalizable answer. But for me, I charge a fixed price and then it's on me if there are bugs (actually, the incentives are nicely aligned here. Few
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by chadash 6y ago
I do some consulting on the side and I won't charge by the hour if I can avoid it because: 1) I hate keeping track of time. 2) hourly rates aren't how my customers think of the issue. They think: "this product will make (or s
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by chadash 6y ago
A few counterpoints: - This depends what you are doing with your business. Doing some software consulting on the side and making 10-20k/year from that? You probably don't need it. You have to decide for yourself what your chances
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by chadash 6y ago
My personal experience is that it costs about $180 to setup in my state (you can do it yourself, but i paid about $50 to an online service that helps with the process) and then about $130/year to maintain. The initial process took abou
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by chadash 6y ago
I haven't studied the original text myself, but I believe that #1 is slightly off. It's not necessary to do the charitable action before a person becomes impoverished. Rather, the idea is that: a) teaching a man to fish is bette
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by chadash 6y ago
parts + labor
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by chadash 6y ago
As a parent, yes. I prefer an office because there are fewer distractions. If you hear your kid laughing outside your office, it's hard not to want to take a look. Plus, my commute is me time, where i get to listen to podcasts/a
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by chadash 6y ago
> And that's aside from the point that, when everyone is remote, you're also competing with the world who is also remote. Yup... once everyone is remote anyway, won't take too long for some manager to decide to offshore wo
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by chadash 6y ago
I can't say for certain, but the tone of his response leads me to think that #2 is not the case. The risk might be minuscule, but the repo owner worried about it anyway, which is natural and doesn't mean they are being unfriendly.
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by chadash 6y ago
> The underlying reasons for this are financial: Restaurants can’t bother with low-margin dishes. They have fewer employees on the payroll, so they want to be more efficient with a smaller set of meals. They’re prioritizing fewer — and
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by chadash 6y ago
I don't think it's necessarily a holistic thing... i think it's more that the doctor specializes in this area and most doctors aren't familiar with it.
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by chadash 6y ago
> However, the wages are way higher b/c cost of living is higher. I think it's a little more subtle than this. The wages are higher because there's more opportunity for employees, who are being poached constantly, and ofte
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by chadash 6y ago
> The only reasons adults can do it is years and years of learning impulse controls and suppression of bad emotions for everyone's good. I'd go a step further and say that many--if not most--adults can't do this at all.

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