chadash

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by chadash 6y ago
The system as we know it needs to be overhauled. We need to scrap everything and then think carefully about what should be patentable with the goal being a system that’s good for society. Drugs that cost $1B to bring to market? Seems like t
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by chadash 6y ago
> I suppose it might seem like a more reasonable value if you have kids I'd be surprised if their strategy involved going after anyone BUT families with kids.
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by chadash 6y ago
Big Tech just happened to be at the right place at the right time right now. There’s no competence that got them there other than the fact that the entire country is in quarantine and than happens to work out well for companies that can sel
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by chadash 6y ago
Not to mention the fact that pricing pandemic insurance is going to be very hard. Insurance companies generally don't like to take risks... they like things that are highly predictable and can be modeled. The percentage of people aged
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by chadash 6y ago
> In America at least, the defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty. Is this true for civil cases? I presume no one is being charged with a crime here...
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by chadash 6y ago
It's nice that they have an easy opt-out system. But this is kind of like spammers who have easy opt-out... better than nothing, but I shouldn't be getting spammed in the first place.
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by chadash 6y ago
Can you point out some specifics that you disagree with? The author doesn't make the case that students are gonna die. It's more the staff and faculty, plus the possibilities that students are vectors for spreading the virus.
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by chadash 6y ago
> Found one stall in a giant market selling weed? Ban all sellers. No one is suggesting this. It’s more like if you find one stall selling weed and then five hundred other stalls selling various illegal things, and then you go to the mar
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by chadash 6y ago
> How, exactly? What "long term decisions" would not have been worse off if the 2008 bailouts hadn't been made and a large chunk of Western retail banking had gone insolvent, tying up accounts until it could have been reso
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by chadash 6y ago
That's not the intention of these laws though. The basic presumption is "it's a free country, so people should be able to discriminate for whatever reason they want". However, when there's an overwhelming need for i
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by chadash 6y ago
I agreed until I had a kid, which makes Uber much less practical since it’s a hassle to install the car seat every time.
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by chadash 6y ago
For freelancing sites, you need to focus on stuff established businesses need and shy away from anything catering to individuals or startups. Payment is all relative. Someone with an idea for a new social network might think of $10,000 as
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by chadash 6y ago
F-35 program. There are much better uses for $1.5 trillion.
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by chadash 6y ago
It was fought over states rights. Their rights to allow slaves. Misleading, but not exactly untrue.
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by chadash 6y ago
Some of these numbers seem to be off. For example, Harley Davidson has a median pay of $187k? Where is that coming from? They've got 5000 employees... I assure you that 2500 of them aren't making more than $187k. Meanwhile at th
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by chadash 6y ago
With all of the talk about companies going remote lately, I worry that the logical next step to this might be management saying "well, we are already hiring remote developers, why don't we just outsource to cheaper countries while
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by chadash 6y ago
There's nothing self-evident about it :) Crude oil was going for $113/barrel in 2014 (which is likely around the time that Hertz made the decision to buy sedans) and then went down to less than half of that a year later. While the
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by chadash 6y ago
Same here with USO. I didn't fully understand it at the time, so I used USO because you can buy and sell like a stock. I thought that it would just be a proxy for investing in oil futures contracts, similar to how buying SPY is basic
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by chadash 6y ago
> As for the article blaming their fleet for sticking with sedans for too long, to me as a European traveler, this is a feature. One time, I rented from a different company, which "generously" stuck me with some monster SUV, a
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by chadash 6y ago
Agree completely, but just wanted to point out that Elon Musk has an ivy league bachelor's degree. What he dropped out of was his Ph.D. program, which is more akin to quitting a job than "dropping out of school".
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by chadash 6y ago
This is so spot on except for this: > You don't know them because you don't get to them until 10y+ after you graduate. I think it's actually much quicker. A degree matters most for your first few jobs after you graduat
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by chadash 6y ago
I personally don't really give too much weight to education credentials when I'm screening resumes. However, I'd recommend that everyone looking to be a developer go to university: A) it's a great time to get a broad edu
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by chadash 6y ago
As a parent, I agree. It's a big expense and lots of work. I personally think it's well worth it for me personally, but for a lot of people, I agree that it's not worth the headache. I don't think there's anything w
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by chadash 6y ago
Ideal if you can swing it. One of my professors used to prototype in Python for development speed and then re-implement in C++ for runtime speed. You get the best of both worlds in a sense.
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by chadash 6y ago
> "He didn't want to go back to full C++, though, and he still codes mostly with Python." Exactly. It seems like he understands the tradeoffs and prefers quick iteration over "correctness". In my experience, for
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by chadash 6y ago
Both of these are good development languages, particularly for large projects. However, for bioinformatics or other science/academic projects, they have neither the wide range of libraries and ease of writing quick scripts that python
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by chadash 6y ago
> "I don’t see Julia a good replacement of Python. Julia has a long startup time. When you use a large package like Bio.jl, Julia may take 30 seconds to compile the code, longer than the actual running time of your scripts." I
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by chadash 6y ago
Venture capitalists are often looking for billion dollar companies. If you found a company and grow it organically to where it's worth $25 million, then sure, you are no Bezos, but you are fairly successful (financially) by any standar
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by chadash 6y ago
I spoke to a guy recently who works for a company doing $300 million revenue/year as a wholesale distributor of internet networking equipment (think finger optic cables and equipment for housing them underground). Their customers are t
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by chadash 6y ago
The office isn't dead [1]. There are plenty of people who didn't like working from home before and still don't. There are also plenty of people who just can't do their job as well from home. What seems likely is that som

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