chinchilla2020

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by chinchilla2020 2y ago
Sweden is a country that enthusiastically supported the Nazi regime. If we are comparing crimes I think Sweden should also stay within it's own borders. Yet the calls from Swedes for the US to provide more Ukraine aid are deafening at
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by chinchilla2020 2y ago
I did too. No longer. Video games tend to have a pre-built path. The real world has minimal feedback loops and millions of bad choices.
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by chinchilla2020 2y ago
Also Corman Mccarthy. His books carefully balance the 'sound' of the prose to help the reader imagine the story. That's why his writing has a poetic tone that drives some people crazy.
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by chinchilla2020 2y ago
Nothing. But Canada is a long long distance for many Americans. America is pretty big and Canadian cities are sparse along the border.
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by chinchilla2020 2y ago
You're saying joining a startup is going to result in success? Talk about detached from reality. A 30k job at a local dev shop in Poland is going to reward you more than most startups in the US.
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by chinchilla2020 2y ago
The expected value of startup equity is far, far, far below a casino. The ON bet at a craps table is 50% odds. Less than 1% of startups survive. You might as well go to the casino. You will save years of sweat, heartache, and stress-induced
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by chinchilla2020 2y ago
That's how I feel as well. I have far too many cloud services I rely on. Not to mention the need to check in with my email for business/personal at least once a day.
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by chinchilla2020 2y ago
Steam is a power generator. Electric engines are a power consumer. What you are saying here makes no sense.
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by chinchilla2020 2y ago
> In 2002, it happened again. The CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), and the rest of the intelligence community had concluded that Iraq’s Saddam Hussein was trying to build nuclear weapons This from the article is false. The CIA
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by chinchilla2020 2y ago
This seems really really easy to honeypot for a security team at one of these companies
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by chinchilla2020 2y ago
Many of them are. I'm not sure what is newsworthy about this one. Maybe it's the largest Caterpillar has done?
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by chinchilla2020 2y ago
You mean the E[V] is 103,000. He still gets to keep the 100,000 he withdrew and re-deposit it.
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by chinchilla2020 2y ago
Covid is one example. The PPP loans provided by the federal government to businesses were forgiven. That sort of stimulus, combined with massive inflation, is favorable to a debtor, not a saver. For many, taking on debt in 2018 to buy a hou
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by chinchilla2020 2y ago
My guess is that the profit margins are so high, and the marketing is so cheap, you don't need a ton of sales to make money.
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by chinchilla2020 2y ago
I enjoy my work as well. But I realize that things outside my control can force me into a poor working situation any day.
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by chinchilla2020 2y ago
I had a bit of an epiphany when I read this comment since you hit the nail on the head so succinctly. Wealth is the only true path that gives you options. All other paths are dependent on income. There really is no other exit plan except fi
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by chinchilla2020 2y ago
r/gaming has a series of "I made a game" ads that the moderators allow users to run promotional organic posts Some of the headphone and electronics subs seem to have promotional accounts. There are frequent issues in gaming s
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by chinchilla2020 3y ago
> with nobody hiring, a stagnating economy, and a terrible source of data, it's just confirmation that it's time to pick up a job at McDonald's or something, because things don't look so great out there. The jobs mark
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by chinchilla2020 3y ago
Agreed. I have never encountered a simple math bug in the wild. To a non-programmer, putting in tests for myfunc(x) {return x + 2;} sounds useful but in reality computers do not tend to have any issues performing basic algebra.
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by chinchilla2020 3y ago
Most likely a fake story. The internet is littered with blogs that make up stories like this to get engagement. After all, this one made it to the top of hackernews. Chances of getting proof that this happened are zero
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by chinchilla2020 3y ago
> I was astonished at how the most impressive of my colleagues could listen to a description of a complicated proof, stare into space for a few minutes, and then quip, “O.K., got it,” before telling you how to improve it. It was importan
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by chinchilla2020 3y ago
> I’m not trying to bash the agency here, so I’ll just call them DesignAgency. They’re based in the US, and I found them through a Hacker News monthly freelancer thread. First mistake is hiring people off hackernews. The amount of psuedo
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by chinchilla2020 3y ago
Not true at all. The local corner store, laundromat, and plumbing company are usually not something that can be sold easily. If they do, it takes years to find a buyer and they are getting a low sale price. Tech startups had high multiplier
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by chinchilla2020 3y ago
It's the oldest trick in the book. The nonprofit doesn't pay taxes. Nonprofit buys it's supplies from a for-profit. You mark up the supplies and buy them from the for-profit. Organize costs so that the for-profit incurs all t
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by chinchilla2020 3y ago
I have heard of it but know very little about it. I'm reading the paper. It's very intriguing but so is the marketing material for the new Tesla. I need to work with things like this before I believe the claims. Too many people he
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by chinchilla2020 3y ago
It seems like marketing copy. Not a technical blog post. It would be nice to see some actual use cases and examples. Instead, the writer just name-dropped a few big companies and claimed to have a revolutionary product that works magically.
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by chinchilla2020 3y ago
It's a marketing blog post, not a technical post. Something about the whole thing feels icky.
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by chinchilla2020 3y ago
The blog post has some impressive copy but is lacking details on how you implement their product. I am highly skeptical of any claims that something 'magically just works' without much configuration or setup.
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by chinchilla2020 3y ago
I have many meta colleagues I've worked with in the past. All of them are well compensated but none of them were outstanding, or 10x.
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by chinchilla2020 3y ago
The free market will reward massive retailers with lots of parking space that exist in the suburbs. There is no pre-existing infrastructure to bring customers to these parking-free locations in most cities. Furthermore, semi-urban neighborh

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