clavalle

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by clavalle 6y ago
Indispensable? No. Irreplaceable...maybe. I don't technically need my foot. But I suspect my life is a lot easier with the one I have.
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by clavalle 6y ago
True. And if I move to another country I'll let my employer know. Until then, good luck finding another me.
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by clavalle 7y ago
Your introductory rate is discounted because you recognize the risk the client was taking with their time by hiring you with scant evidence you could do the job and do it well. Your new rate reflects a reduction in their risk since they kno
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by clavalle 7y ago
>Less work means less is produced If we were all just moving rocks around, that statement might be true. But human productivity is a much richer equation than time work in == value produced. Where would we be if we took that to its logi
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by clavalle 7y ago
Sublime text isn't as featured as Talend tools but it does what it does well and quickly and stays out of my way. Great for loading up a text file, scrolling around, and doing quick find/replaces. Shell scripts using mostly sed a
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by clavalle 7y ago
If everyone in the United States with Hepatitis C was treated at a cost of $50K it would be $150 billion dollars. That's over 8 times what Viagra pulled in over the past 20 years. I'm not sure where the line between reasonable pro
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by clavalle 7y ago
Esperanto comes with its own brand of linguistic cultural assumptions that are antiquated, at best, this day and age.
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by clavalle 7y ago
The Doors of Stone by Patrick Rothfuss. Fingers crossed.
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by clavalle 7y ago
I'm getting solar put in and it's about that much.
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by clavalle 7y ago
Gestalt, context-aware UI. We have a lot of different ways to interact with systems but they are all separate and relatively dumb (not context-aware). I think there is a confluence of forces that will lead to a more seamless user interacti
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by clavalle 7y ago
I mean, why are there people who dedicate themselves and a huge chunk of their time on this Earth to a sports team? Or finding the best food? Or travel to the prettiest most interesting places? Or going to the best parties? There are ple
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by clavalle 7y ago
For some of the best, making and guiding companies is their art and obsession. That's the nice take on it. For others (or from a different perspective) for some making money itself is a bit of an addiction that swallows everything else
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by clavalle 7y ago
Yeah. I'd expect to pay some sort of cost.
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by clavalle 7y ago
I'm not sure why my question came off as anti-union. To me, the benefits seem obvious but I couldn't think of downsides. So I was, in fact, trying to broaden my views, just in the other direction, I suppose. I've never felt t
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by clavalle 7y ago
I don't know much about unions. What are some downsides to joining a union? Are there onerous obligations?
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by clavalle 7y ago
That assumes the work is repeatable. It also assumes no one but the employees would have to put time into recreating the repeatable work. For example, people turning in documents in order to get permits. Now they'd have to figure out
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by clavalle 7y ago
I suspect it is the type of situation where 99% are a complete waste of resources. But that 1% that turn out to be important are very important. And you can't tell before that time which will be which.
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by clavalle 7y ago
I know plenty of people on the spectrum that are pleasant to be around and work with. Engaging differently socially, while difficult in some sense, isn't necessarily unpleasant.
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by clavalle 7y ago
For the most part, I agree with you. But we need a fix and we need it yesterday. I think it is much more likely that we can implement Universal Healthcare than implement reforms that would bring transparency and other reforms that we'
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by clavalle 7y ago
Tip of the iceberg. I know a fellow that got a bill a drug testing company didn't mean to send him. He was meant to check for a single restricted medication because of some treatment regimen he was on. Instead, it checked for pretty
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by clavalle 7y ago
What table information does the bot take into account? Position? Other player's stack size? >Regardless of which hand Pluribus is actually holding, it will first calculate how it would act with every possible hand . Is this inform
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by clavalle 7y ago
>They will not say it is because drug company execs are selfish bastards. Because that is a given. Dealing with a selfish bastard is ok as long as you can walk away from a transaction if it is not to your liking. People bargaining for t
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by clavalle 7y ago
Water is a publicly managed resource (for this very reason). If T.Boone Pickens has his way, the rates will be jacked up for water. As for food, there are lots of options. If I charge too much for corn, you can buy lima beans. Plus, there
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by clavalle 7y ago
There is an even more fundamental blocker to a free market in healthcare: free markets don't work when one of the parties to the transaction has their very life on the table in a transaction. It's a minor miracle and a testament
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by clavalle 7y ago
>Why hasn't Amazon declared war on their customers? They're still building up an unassailable position. Wait until they are firmly embedded in critical supply chains to where it is almost unthinkable to remove them and see how
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by clavalle 7y ago
The trouble is that many of those regulations exist for very good reasons. Dropping enough of those regulations to encourage competition is a baby with the bathwater kind of situation.
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by clavalle 7y ago
I feel the opposite: automated tools are really useful for smallish POC type things -- MVPs and early stage work, but fail when things reach a certain level of complexity.
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by clavalle 7y ago
That's the beauty of the system...each one should not care what the other does with their 'allowance'. If one wants to save, or invest, or what have you, while the other one buys gifts for your neighbor's aunt because t
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by clavalle 7y ago
Sure. I've also heard them called 'Verification Tables'. They are basically check constraints but stored in a table for reference. If you are using a check constraint in more than one place and it goes beyond a simple &#x27
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by clavalle 7y ago
>As mentioned by the other comment, it's standard to use database triggers to ensure consistency. shudder Triggers are almost always the wrong level to handle consistency. It flies in the face of 'fail fast' if you need

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