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by cheezebubba 1y ago
Aha Thanks!
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by cheezebubba 1y ago
Thanks. I still don't understand where the bits live that tell you which type T is for a given node. Is this something like "list starts with type A, and that will tell you if the next node is type A or B"? Is there a way to
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by cheezebubba 1y ago
How can you have elements of different types? I don't understand how you would know which type a given node was in?
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by cheezebubba 4y ago
I haven't seen anyone talk about the elephant in the room - only part of the reason for giving estimates is practical. Most of it is political/psychological: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23093789 The poli
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by cheezebubba 5y ago
Best I can tell it's extremely situational. Depends on the person and also family/kids/environment. A friend cashed out mid 40s but is the kind of person who doesn't stop. Did real estate, baking, landscape, had a kid,
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by cheezebubba 6y ago
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFRGDA188S Graph of Federal Government receipts as percentage of GDP. Does this show that gutting the IRS has resulted in lower tax revenue?
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by cheezebubba 6y ago
There is no way to correctly assess how much tax should be owed in even moderately complicated situations. Income tax law is way too vague and relies so much on the intentions behind activities. It's also always playing catch-up to n
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by cheezebubba 6y ago
"Within the next 40 years, increases in global temperatures are projected to raise global mortality rates by the same amount—14 deaths per 100,000." This is the first I've heard this kind of statistic. Does anybody have a re
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by cheezebubba 6y ago
Well you can take a look at their job openings pages: https://www.hudsonrivertrading.com/careers/ Looks like c++, python, and linux sysadmin stuff.
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by cheezebubba 6y ago
This book shows that many of our institutions have both visible, socially-respected goals, but also hidden goals nobody likes to acknowledge. Example: Health Care Visible goal: Improve Health Hidden goal: Show how much we care ("kiss t
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Ask HN: 3rd Party Postal Mailers?
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by cheezebubba 14y ago
I wrote an iPhone app with placeholder text, but users kept leaving fields blank, thinking that the app was autofilling them. Ended up ripping all the placeholder stuff out.
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by cheezebubba 17y ago
"...predictive effect of our test has failed to live up to that early promise." A later paper by them backs off: http://www.eis.mdx.ac.uk/research/PhDArea/saeed/paper3.pdf Abstract: Learning to program is notoriously difficult. Substantia