dmoy

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by dmoy 10mo ago
Well maybe not in 1999. Adwords didn't launch until 2000? Google's 1999 revenue was...... I forget, but it was incredibly small. Costs were also incredibly small too though, so this isn't a good analogy given the stated yea
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by dmoy 10mo ago
5 years is maybe referring to the accounting schedule for depreciation on computer hardware, not the actual useful lifetime of the hardware. It's a little weird to phrase it like that though because you're right it doesn't me
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by dmoy 10mo ago
Yea I think Calhoun also read the article before posting, and agrees with you; they meant the full title should be > "The Death of Software Engineering as a Profession" ... is greatly exaggerated. As in "is greatly exagger
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by dmoy 10mo ago
> What was the value of the transaction? I think this is being intentionally kept under wraps, so nobody who can say anything knows.
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by dmoy 11mo ago
In the US you can do both (and often that's what happens - parallel criminal and civil cases) US legal system is kinda weird
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by dmoy 11mo ago
I once played a song that I swear had no verifiable beat. It was some insane Stravinsky piece, sounded like random-ass noise. But other than weird avant-garde stuff that seems to intentionally try to not have a beat, I agree all music tend
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by dmoy 11mo ago
Vanguard, Bank of America, and a tiny handful of others do support hardware tokens. But yea you're right that most don't. Not that it would help in this specific case I guess.
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by dmoy 11mo ago
I wish that the remake focused on the new bureaucracy stuff (or even new technical stuff), instead of being a near 1-for-1 rehash of the old one. E.g. it's not like anyone is being recommended to serve out of a bigtable for the last d
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by dmoy 11mo ago
I gotta say, of all the corpo speak things, the whole verb/noun normalizing thing is maybe the least distasteful to me. Not that I particularly like it, but compared to all the other stuff it at least seems tolerable. The penchant for
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by dmoy 11mo ago
There's the FELA Idk about anything else
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by dmoy 11mo ago
I guess GP didn't provide enough info, but to me it looked like it was the underlying infra that is networked That is I'm assuming: 1. Customers are meatspace only, never use any computer interface 2. The network access is for adm
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by dmoy 11mo ago
It's not insurmountable to set up initially. And when you get email denied from whatever org (your lawyer, your mom, some random business, whatever), each individual one isn't insurmountable to fix. It does get old after awhile.
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by dmoy 11mo ago
> Is anyone else as confused as I am about how common anti-openness and anti-freedom comments are becoming on HN? In this specific case I don't think it's about being anti-open? It's that a business with only physical pre
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by dmoy 11mo ago
So if we're doing anecdotes... One of our parents pays about $20k/yr all in for ACA - $12k/yr of premiums and $8k/yr on top of that (all unsubsidized) Her (also unsubsidized) Medicare would be $6.5k/yr partA premium
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by dmoy 11mo ago
GP is pointing out that Medicare costs for the individual are about the same as ACA or cobra. It's not cheaper, unless you have the work credits to cut down on part A premiums. So Medicare as-is for kids wouldn't be significantly
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by dmoy 11mo ago
SimpleFIN is a layer on top of MX that you can pay $15/yr for. It's still MX under the hood though so it's maybe not quite as satisfying of a solution? I agree I wish we had better consistent APIs between financial instituti
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by dmoy 11mo ago
I will use hledger if I'm handling someone else's money, like as a trustee. Double entry accounting is nice for being precise about things. But for my own accounts it's too much overhead to deal with reconciliation. Don&#x
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by dmoy 11mo ago
It's also maybe more useful in the US where we're behind the times w.r.t. better APIs for accessing banking & investment data
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by dmoy 11mo ago
Besides big ones like soccer that you mention, more niche sports are often partially or totally outside of school systems. Fencing for example, is usually clustered around external clubs. Very few high schools will have fencing teams, an
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by dmoy 11mo ago
Yea English be like that sometimes Look up some crazy sounding 20+ character word, takes three steps, and then you get a definition of the sub-sub-sub word and it says ".... blah blah, derived from the Greek base <abc>- and then
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by dmoy 11mo ago
> Oh yeah, there are so many patents with obvious prior art, or that are so much "the obvious way to do it" (to anyone with expertise in the field) that they're inherently unpatentable, but which get through the US Patent
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by dmoy 11mo ago
USPTO doesn't really have the budget or even often the expertise/depth. > Like the legal standards are easier for the patentholder at USPTO or something like that? It is much easier to get a patent than it is to use that patent
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by dmoy 11mo ago
> I'm sure Cloudflare spared no expense in that part of their infrastructure yet here they are Almost everyone developing software spares some expense. It's maybe the main argument you can make for why it's engineering vs
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by dmoy 11mo ago
$3M translates to indefinite-ish (handwaving) expenditures of about $70k-$120k per year depending on tax rate, etc. In the US, that covers unsubsidized healthcare for two people ($30k-$40k/yr range), rent in a 2-3BR, and like a decent
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by dmoy 11mo ago
IBKR will loan you vs your stocks at a cheaper rate than pretty much any place will for a heloc on your house. Not like a lot cheaper, but maybe 0.5%-1% cheaper if you have <<$1M, and a little better at higher amounts. Most other bro
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by dmoy 11mo ago
> Debug compiles super fast and allows unused variables etc, but the resulting binary runs super slowly, maybe with extra safety checks too, like the race detector. At least in the golang / unused-vars at Google case, allowing unuse
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by dmoy 11mo ago
5 year view drops META, I guess it loses continuity with the previous ticker? That would be a cool bug to fix, because companies do switch stuff from time to time (see e.g. GOOG -> GOOG+GOOGL)
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by dmoy 11mo ago
So debt financing (Oracle) vs fund-it-more-on-your-own (other big tech?) vs fund-it-with-equity (startups?)... I guess that makes some kind of sense? Oracle raises 4x the debt of e.g. Google?
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by dmoy 11mo ago
And sales tax varies a loooooot, and change constantly There's 12000+ distinct sales tax regimes in the US https://sovos.com/content-library/sut/state-by-state-guide-t...
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by dmoy 11mo ago
For me the thing that pushed me to reinstall windows after I got a cheap $10 copy was Kerbal Space Program. Though, in my specific case I strongly suspect it was older hardware & driver issues than anything else, since I've not ha

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