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by corrral 4y ago
I worked at a smallish (~20 employees, at the time) agency that hard pretty good management overall, but one day decided to do OKRs. I assume one of the owners read a book or attended a talk or something. But we had no historical metrics on
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by corrral 4y ago
TL;DR the Sun's slowly getting brighter, which will eventually (and LONG before the much-talked-about-as-the-end-of-the-world "Sun expands and eats the Earth" thing) break the carbonate-silicate cycle. This will affect availa
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by corrral 4y ago
> I didn't know that it was lighter on system resources, that's interesting. Makes me wonder if a FF-based Electron would ever take off, because the main issue with Electron apps is the insane amount of memory consumption Durin
814.
by corrral 4y ago
The main selling point is that it's far more respectful of system resources than its big two competitors. Noticeably lower power use, reduced effects on performance of other software outside the browser. If the rest of your stuff is al
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by corrral 4y ago
Is there a reasonable refuge for people who are: 1) Sick of YAML-as-a-scripting-language 2) Not on the k8s train yet 3) Fans of operational simplicity, like Ansible's (no persistent agent required on the other end, just operates over o
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by corrral 4y ago
Humidity's the thing I have trouble finding good info about. Weather maps of humidity don't seem to do a good job of matching with what's actually perceived. But 85F and humid feels a hell of a lot worse than 95F and dry, so
817.
by corrral 4y ago
They do, but it lags. If prices are going up fast enough, given the way these things are determined, it can easily be the case that damn near every house isn't appraising at what it sells for. The "solution" to this, in the
818.
by corrral 4y ago
> At that point, I'd bail, because the appraiser is raising a red flag. The point is, in a lot of markets, if you bailed on offers over this in the last couple years, you wouldn't be winning any bids in the first place, and wou
819.
by corrral 4y ago
Right, big-splash, chest-thumping investments are about the only thing that might be a problem. Not ordinary purchases. But that's not so much buying something, in the ordinary sense, as shifting investment strategy.
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by corrral 4y ago
Boring Midwestern City that's not even a 3rd-tier tech hub. Other boring Southern city that's also not even a 3rd-tier tech hub. Buyers are having to take on the risk of having to cover any extra over appraisal in cash, consistent
821.
by corrral 4y ago
It's not "emotionally attached", it's that it's been impossible to buy a house for a while if you're not willing to pay more than it will appraise for . You'll repeatedly lose to buyers who will do that
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by corrral 4y ago
Yeah, sorry, should have included that in my other post, but I do agree that Jobs is a decent analog, too. Similar public profile, sort-of similar reputation, though Jobs wasn't as prone to strident, public bullshitting.
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by corrral 4y ago
If you can get several tens of millions of dollars, liquid, on fairly short notice, there's almost nothing you can't buy on a whim. You may as well have infinite money. It doesn't matter that you can't liquidate another
824.
by corrral 4y ago
Henry Ford seems an apt comparison. "Industrialist and business magnate", from Wikipedia's Henry Ford article, seems to pretty much cover it. Though with less of a focus on making products affordable for the normal person (wh
825.
by corrral 4y ago
Oh, he deserves plenty of credit. He seems to be quite good at, at least, certain aspects of running a business, and happens to be interested in some fun and/or useful things, which is nice. But he's not a super-genius, and given
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by corrral 4y ago
There's tons of space in the US. It's just that lots of it's really humid in the Summer and really cold in the Winter (and, overall, pretty wet—go figure) and quite flat and you might have to drive an entire day or more to se
827.
by corrral 4y ago
> Many inventors were very difficult, problematic people Musk's not much of an inventor, though. Certainly, that's not why he's rich. Part of the criticism of Musk is that the popular view of him is totally out of whack wi
828.
by corrral 4y ago
As in "fruits of one's labor"? That's how I took it.
829.
by corrral 4y ago
Californians are always eager to remind everyone that theirs would be a top-10 global economy if they split from the US. Seems like this shouldn't be a problem for them to handle on their own.
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by corrral 4y ago
The solution of "move", which we give to people harmed by the economy and by economic policy—something which we have quite a bit of control over!—doesn't apply in this case?
831.
by corrral 4y ago
I haven't dug in, but I've looked into this before and you get very different results depending on how you define "school shooting". Everyone thinks of Sandy Hook or Columbine or something like that, but some stats als
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by corrral 4y ago
Been letting mine roam the neighborhood, unaccompanied, on foot and on bikes since the oldest was 7, I think. Youngest will be coming up on six, this Summer, when I let 'em join the others and roam ( only with their older siblings—nex
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by corrral 4y ago
> Their boat is so similar that its embarrassing for you to fall for the division. Sticks, stones. I'm rubber, you're glue. Et c. I'm well aware of the problem of false divisions distracting from the very real and much mor
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by corrral 4y ago
Nice, didn't know about that. Expanded-qualification FMLA-like unpaid leave and more limited provisions for paid leave, for some workers, is pretty good compared to most of the country.
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by corrral 4y ago
Seriously. HN: "Firing a millionaire on paternity leave—and by "firing" I mean continuing to pay for the rest of their leave, plus probably a bunch of severance—is horrible!" 99% of the rest of the US: "WTF is pater
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by corrral 4y ago
It's gotten a little worse, AFAI can tell. Every few days I have to re-load the Twitter tabs I've got in private browsing on my phone (without private browsing, the modals have always come much faster, basically as soon as I scrol
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by corrral 4y ago
I only stopped checking the websites of a couple YouTube channels I follow, because they stopped updating them reliably. I preferred that to checking on YouTube, because sometimes it takes me a bit to find a simple chronological list of vid
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by corrral 4y ago
I did go look. If the claim made is supported by that page, I sure didn't see it. You may also go look. We're all using the same link here, and it's already been supplied. [EDIT] Incidentally, I'm not making "the op
839.
by corrral 4y ago
> is finding that the Democratic Party is gerrymandering much more than the Republican Party Are those findings somewhere else? That particular page does not clearly support that claim.
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by corrral 4y ago
It's local lingo. From Wikipedia: > A distinct set of definitions of the term "republic" evolved in the United States, where the term is often equated with "representative democracy." The term "representativ

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