djannzjkzxn

15 ms·

61.
by djannzjkzxn 7y ago
How certain are we about the low mutation rate? Since many millions of people get the flu each year, there are a lot of opportunities for mutation. Also, perhaps it takes a long time for a mutation to spread widely enough for us to be aware
62.
by djannzjkzxn 7y ago
If he kept the shares until he died, his heirs would have gotten stepped-up basis so there would have been no capital gains anyway.
63.
by djannzjkzxn 7y ago
The credit card companies don’t seem to have any trouble applying my cash back rewards to my account balance without sending me a check. But if I do cancel my account and end up with a positive balance, they do send a check. Seems like basi
64.
by djannzjkzxn 7y ago
> it's very likely a paid hit piece against bug bounty companies. A thought on the incentives behind such a paid piece. There is a big free rider problem here. All pentesters, or all opponents of big bounty programs, would benefits
65.
by djannzjkzxn 7y ago
My intuition is that you are correct that some marginal logistics operators will go belly-up, but I think the end result of that is a lot of equipment becomes available at low prices, and the cost of running a logistics operation goes down.
66.
by djannzjkzxn 7y ago
I think it’s pretty normal to care about truth in advertising. Also, there have been many revelations in the past few years about internet surveillance. And to top it off, the EARN IT act that’s currently being considered in the US Congress
67.
by djannzjkzxn 7y ago
Often I’ve seen that the one person calling in the most senior person in the meeting, or anyone involved in sales. Someone who is traveling around to meet in person a lot. Often they are calling from the road or an airport. The mobile phone
68.
by djannzjkzxn 7y ago
>I don't think so, to me an internship is temporary by nature and does not have a "guaranteed" job at the end based on good performance. If you do a great job in a FAANG internship then you will get a full time offer at th
69.
by djannzjkzxn 7y ago
Sure, that’s exactly what an internship is and it’s why these companies offer it. If you gave a similar opportunity to people who are already in the industry, you would have a major adverse selection problem where the better candidates woul
70.
by djannzjkzxn 7y ago
I think given the growth these cloud providers are having every year, expanding to meet the needs of a temporary increase in demand looks more like moving forward projects that were already planned. It’s not like they are going to have to b
71.
by djannzjkzxn 7y ago
I found that one pretty compelling to listen to, although it didn’t have the significance of their investigative pieces.
72.
by djannzjkzxn 7y ago
Do you know if TL;DR exists in RSS feed form so I can go listen to the old episodes in a podcast player?
73.
by djannzjkzxn 7y ago
Is there anyone you worked with before who is now employed doing something you’d like to do? Have you tried asking them for a referral? Referrals from former coworkers are vastly more important than your resume.
74.
by djannzjkzxn 7y ago
Often I see tests that spend a lot of time mocking internal components of the application. Such tests are verifying the implementation details instead of the functionality. They often need to be thrown out if you do some refactoring, even i
75.
by djannzjkzxn 7y ago
I thought the headline was hard to understand so I found where the 30% number came from in the article: > Four climate models for which FWI could be calculated show that the probability of a Fire Weather Index this high has increased by
76.
by djannzjkzxn 7y ago
Amazon is pretty liberal about giving credits if you complain about Prime service. Not sure if that policy is still in place at this time.
77.
by djannzjkzxn 7y ago
I’d find local politicians who block housing projects more credible if they were also telling companies to go away and hire people somewhere else. But in fact they keep approving giant office building projects.
78.
by djannzjkzxn 7y ago
The cause of high housing prices are low supply and high demand. Housing supply is growing at a slower rate than demand. There are two ways to solve this: 1) build a ton of housing to catch up with demand 2) shrink your local economy to dec
79.
by djannzjkzxn 7y ago
If we restricted the manufacturing of cars, soon there would be articles about how car rental services are taking cars out of the car market.
80.
by djannzjkzxn 7y ago
The best case scenario for controlling this epidemic is containment through contract tracing. That means we find people who have it, figure out who they got and from and gave it to, and get those people to quarantine. This strategy is faili
81.
by djannzjkzxn 7y ago
Maybe being in the system with a higher speed tier gets you higher priority?
82.
by djannzjkzxn 7y ago
Without a doubt, you’re better off buying now than when markets were 50% higher a few months ago.
83.
by djannzjkzxn 7y ago
Everything I’m buying on Amazon now has delivery dates four days or more out, whereas in normal times it’s one or two days. Maybe they are quarantining packages. Or they could just be backed up due to increased demand.
84.
by djannzjkzxn 7y ago
Is babysitting even legal with the shelter in place order?
85.
by djannzjkzxn 7y ago
I agree completely. My advice to anyone who isn’t employed as a stock trader is to buy when you have investable cash. In particular my comment was disagreeing with the advice to “wait a little while longer.”
86.
by djannzjkzxn 7y ago
I don’t think it’s possible to tell the difference between volatility and things picking back up. Somebody trying to follow this advice might have bought on Friday when the market went up.
87.
by djannzjkzxn 7y ago
The gap between the rates on the 30 year treasury and the 30 year mortgage increased from ~1.5% to over 3% and getting worse, before QE4 was announced (and this was already pricing in some fed action). This indicates that investors stopped
88.
by djannzjkzxn 7y ago
I had the impression that Amazon’s house brand was about getting more margin by cutting out some layers of middlemen, not actually starting their own factories.
89.
by djannzjkzxn 7y ago
It’s interesting that we would interpret exactly the same behavior as evil when done by one faceless corporation and good when done by another. It’s almost as though our interpretations are a Rorschach test where we just repeat PR and media
90.
by djannzjkzxn 7y ago
Knowing 1% of reported cases are asymptomatic doesn’t tell us anything about what percent of asymptomatic cases are unreported. Only way to know what is testing with random sampling from the asymptomatic general population.

More ›