darioush

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by darioush 2y ago
Yeahhhhh get lawyers, most IPOs will tank in the short run leaving you footing the tax bill for money you never had (speaking from experience). At least you get capital loss carryovers for a decade, but it's so shameful that companies
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by darioush 2y ago
another reason to not refactor is management will start out supportive of it but some weeks in they will wonder wtf their engineers are doing all day and why aren't they building the new pile of stuff they want built yesterday.
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by darioush 2y ago
Yes, mixing some concepts in programming is a terrible idea. Perhaps this is also widely unpopular, but it's the parallelism that needs to be treated with care and the additional caution, as often the parallelism itself is the terrible
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by darioush 2y ago
Global variables are a programming construct, which like other programming constructs is neither bad nor good. Except, due to the takeover of workplaces by the best practices cult, instead of reasoning about tradeoffs on a case by case basi
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by darioush 2y ago
This is not the problem. The problem is a higher portion of people who just want to power trip apply to these positions, even if they are not the majority of the police force. Basically, it is the dream job for a bully. It seems there shoul
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by darioush 2y ago
You can also write a python script to achieve the same goals. Except it's not python's responsibility to interpret the intent of your script, just as it's not your phone's responsibility to interpret the contents of your
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by darioush 2y ago
Yeah I also wonder how come web scraping was so vilified in all ToS's but I guess if you spend a lot of energy on GPUs and pay OpenAI then it's legit.
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by darioush 2y ago
As the storyline unfolds "AI" seems to be code for "machine learning based censorship". Soon we will have home appliances and vehicles telling you about how aligned you are, and whether you need to improve your alignment
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by darioush 2y ago
Sure it does since luxury tax can be 10%-25% of property value. Let's see who wants to hold on to property then. And if they do they are paying their dues to society. When they are "removed" and owned by more people, presumab
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by darioush 2y ago
It obviously matters because then demand for housing speculation will be bounded by population density instead of greed, and corporations will not be able to do things like own double digits of the housing supply in some large metro areas:
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by darioush 2y ago
Why don't all these long term community people have a talk with the long term owner and have them not rent their place? To be honest, it sounds like there is no community whatsoever to begin with, at least not one that the long term co
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by darioush 2y ago
It doesn't need to be a human right, we just need to regulate housing to be owned by individuals and mandate a limit for how many residences one has. This is because due to the scarcity of homes and that they cannot be manipulated or p
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by darioush 2y ago
Doesn't the income for the jacked up prices also accrue to that community though? IMO it is not respectable to take someones money and give them a visa then act like they are a problem or unwelcome.
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by darioush 2y ago
The fix is to require residential properties be owned by individuals and place a limit on how many homes one household can own (3?) without incurring luxury taxation. Then we can let the short/long term rental market sort itself out an
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by darioush 2y ago
I somehow question these "community vibes", they certainly benefit from the presence of the tourist/nomad economically, but they also want to project a wholesome higher moral ground that's only attainable to "those
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by darioush 2y ago
This is true but the government is the biggest borrower, who then immediately spends the funds by "awarding" contracts, obviously they don't have any corruption or favoritism when they do this, nor do they place trades using
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by darioush 2y ago
In actuality fiat currency makes everything a pyramid scheme and allows the government to spend the wealth of the nation in whichever manner it deems fit, since the value of inflation accrues disproportionately to the asset owner (aka peopl
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by darioush 2y ago
Yes like gold, real estate, and also arguably the index fund investment (that everyone buys into via 401k). All these investments are only worth anything if someone buys them from you at a higher value. Yes you can generate revenue from the
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by darioush 2y ago
Inflation over the amounts needed to stimulate the economy (2-4%) is unauthorized taxation. Kinda whack how everyone is just "okay" with working hard, paying taxes, then having the value of their work spent without their authoriza
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by darioush 2y ago
Just because something is probabilistic in its response doesn't mean it's not useable. There are many probabilistic algorithms and data structures that we use daily. Yes, we don't have developed abstractions to integrate an L
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by darioush 2y ago
Doesn't this approach self-select for people who - value their time less, - don't have other things to do (family, hobbies, side-projects), - unemployed people It's one thing where companies are applying this to 1000 applican
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by darioush 2y ago
Agree, IMO even interviews should be compensated. Most software companies want to schedule 3-4 interviews each 2 hrs long so they should minimally compensate 1 day pay. If we assume 15 days off that leaves roughly 245 workdays per year and
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by darioush 2y ago
Kind of sad that paperwork is more important than work. In my experience I don't want to be in companies that have this culture, and I take my contributions where I don't have to constantly prove myself. In other words, if you are
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by darioush 2y ago
I agree with the sentiment of this article, more recently I have come to think the best refactoring is the one you don't undertake. Hoping to achieve consistency is a very high standard. Often code structure matters much less than data
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by darioush 2y ago
If only they had unveiled the single unifying abstraction of everything :(
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by darioush 2y ago
The current go dependency management is lacking: - If you want to make a change in one of your dependencies, you have to fork the repository, and in the forked repository you have to textually rename the package to the new name. This makes
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by darioush 3y ago
In my opinion one of the most important features of a commit message is that it fits in a single line so it can be read in git log.
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by darioush 4y ago
You got lucky. They terminated my data for "being outside the US for too long". It was a crappy experience since the whole advertisement is about the international roaming being the same price as the (overpriced) US data.
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by darioush 4y ago
This is not a valid comparison. BTC has a cap and LUNA can be minted. In fact if anything the LUNA collapse is just a demo of what money printing gets you and how people with capital leverage off-market lending to take (steal) assets for a
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by darioush 4y ago
You pay 35% taxes so that's like 150, then you max out retirement and you're left with like 130. You spend 50-70k and then save 60k a year which is like 1 year of your pre-retirement expenses (not including any children, just like

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