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by curun1r 10y ago
I don't think Netflix and Amazon really compete yet. Very few people see the two services as either/or. They're more allies against the cable companies at the moment.
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by curun1r 10y ago
I wouldn't worry about what it looks like to leave Uber at the moment. Job hopping is bad when it is unexplained. There's not a tech company in the valley that would fault you for leaving Uber in solidarity or because you didn&#x2
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by curun1r 10y ago
I feel like there's an analogy to software in this story. Someone put in a hack that, while ugly, works. I'm sure many city planners over the years have looked at it and thought it should be fixed. But when the current solution is
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by curun1r 10y ago
> Why can't you be intellectual and educated, yet still "have a beer"? You're forgetting your 2000 election cycle. It was the GOP and pundits that made the distinction between the two as a way to cover for GWB's
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by curun1r 10y ago
> The multi hundred [million] dollar stadium renovation is now, with laser like 20/20 hindsight, considered a disaster Is it though? The Pac-12 distribution per school is over $25m/yr, and despite lagging the Big-10 and SEC, it
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by curun1r 10y ago
It kinda sucks that they changed to rule to require you to promote a pawn to a piece of your own color. The mate-in-1 puzzle on that promotion page that requires promoting a pawn to an opponent's knight is pretty neat and I can't
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by curun1r 10y ago
> alongside the perception that conservatives are anti-intellectual, hostile to science and at war with the university. This seems like the main reason. Republicans have attacked the importance of education, trying to sell candidates &qu
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by curun1r 10y ago
When it comes to immigration, there's two different concerns that we shouldn't try to conflate. There's the security aspect and the work permitting aspect and they should be handled almost entirely separately. As far as secur
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by curun1r 10y ago
As the Sinclair quote goes, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." Intuit has a $3b/yr interest in thinking that return-free filing is a bad idea. I thin
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by curun1r 10y ago
The above mentioned security. The workload, which has two spikes in January and April, moderate traffic in between and is basically non-existent April through December is pretty much the poster child for cloud since you could spin down capa
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by curun1r 10y ago
> I am very doubtful that Intuit or H&R Block, for example, invest in security sufficient to protect themselves against that level of attack. I can't speak to H&R Block, but I used to work for Intuit and I can attest that th
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by curun1r 10y ago
Intuit's lobbying isn't limited to opposing return-free filing. They also lobby to keep the tax code at a certain level of complexity that puts the most Americans in the sweet spot between too complex to feel comfortable using sof
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by curun1r 10y ago
It's kind the way that credit card companies don't allow you to charge a higher price for credit purchases but do allow businesses to offer a cash discount. So businesses raise their prices and offer that cash discount, effectivel
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by curun1r 10y ago
The wellness programs were never about changing behavior or making people healthier. They're about satisfying actuaries to reduce the cost of insuring more healthy individuals. Determining how much someone's health care premium sh
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by curun1r 10y ago
This is only when you look at it as a zero-sum game, which is only the case because there's not enough new construction happening. If you addressed the inequality between homeowners and non-homeowners by getting rid of the protections
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by curun1r 10y ago
I feel like I've been digging a metaphorical hole for the entirety of the time that I've learned about programming. Often times, I'll look up at the surface where I started and feel pretty impressed with myself at the depth a
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by curun1r 10y ago
This is perhaps not the place for this, but as a user of a password manager, here's and idea in this area that I've had for a while. I'd like the various password manager vendors to get together and produce a standard/sp
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by curun1r 10y ago
I have this same problem. My finish rate is abysmal, but I've actually finished a few. I've realized that finishing a project is roughly 10% exploration another 20% getting to working and at least 70% polish. The exploration phase
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by curun1r 10y ago
Well...there's ways to call into Go, Rust and C++ from Node with very little performance penalty. Rust and C++ can even build native Node modules with no need to even write a single line of glue code in JavaScript. If you need performa
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by curun1r 10y ago
> they see anyone telling them what to do, regardless of the reasons or outcomes, as taking away their freedom But they're more than happy to tell gay people not to marry, women not to get abortions, transgender people not to use th
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by curun1r 10y ago
Umm...If I don't quote the entire code snippet, I'll end up with just the indented lines being quoted...the joys of HN formatting.
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by curun1r 10y ago
Under the "Improving our I/O Project" section, there's this little paragraph: It would be nice if we could use ? on the Option returned from next, but ? only works with Result values currently. Even if we could u
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by curun1r 10y ago
I'm not sure if this is inherent in your #1, but there should be an increased focus on alternative methods for dealing with pain. For instance, since starting meditation training, I haven't needed so much as a single Ibuprofen. It
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by curun1r 10y ago
Heh...freediving is the context in which one learns to hold his breath for that long :) Unfortunately, my static times don't translate as well into dynamic times. I'm basically limited to 2-3 minutes underwater when I'm movin
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by curun1r 10y ago
You said: > Everybody can be high status if they care to define status in terms of the things they're good at. I'm arguing that you don't get to define status for yourself, so there are limits to how you can distinguish yo
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by curun1r 10y ago
The problem with that argument is that status isn't determined by the person seeking it, it's determined by those deciding whether to mate with the status seeker. That's where our hardwired impulses toward status seeking deri
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by curun1r 10y ago
It's similar to the entirety of human history, minus the last little bit. The notion of most men finding female partners is a relatively recent development. Throughout most of our history, most men haven't procreated. There was a
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by curun1r 10y ago
Or, you know, given how wed conservatives have been to the Evangelicals, you tend not to vote for people that tell you you're a sinner and demonize your lifestyle. Homosexuals similarly vote more Left than Right.
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by curun1r 10y ago
No, it's because there are new, low-end PCs that can be bought. There's no low-end Mac, so it means that people who don't want a Mac but don't want to spend as much buy used Macs. If Apple sold a $400 Mac, you wouldn&#x2
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by curun1r 10y ago
> The Mac is a victim of the iPhone's success - pure and simple. From a short & medium term perspective the business/ops guys will tell you that any engineering resources spent on Mac would yield better results in iPhone la

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