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by dominotw 4y ago
thunder run on baghdad. It a documentary on iraq war seen from the eyes of bhagdadis, both military and common folk. This war was extensively covered in media but I've never seen it from the eyes of people who were on the other side. A
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by dominotw 4y ago
> Shortly thereafter Google started hiring them by the truckload. I wish I had ignored him. Google hires people without PHD by truckloads too, if anything they hire more ppl without phds.
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by dominotw 4y ago
> Even a string length api like len(s) is not exhaustively testable; But this has nothing do with what GP said. That isn't what gp is using TDD for. GP is using TDD for, 1. starting with api of a function vs code. 2. avoiding unused
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by dominotw 4y ago
YIYBY, Yes in your backyard.
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by dominotw 4y ago
yes if you have kids below 7 yrs.
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by dominotw 4y ago
If a doctor says to you ' you have hypertension because you've been eating pizza for dinner last 5 years' . Do you ask them to provide you with proof directly linking your pizza eating to hypertension? Would you just ignore t
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by dominotw 4y ago
I think there is no way to directly link 'lifestyle choices' and chronic diseases. All we have is intuition like yours. There is always going to be aggressive push-back from people who will get you on lack of data linking those tw
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by dominotw 4y ago
> . The SAP solution missed so many edge cases that a huge number of lab reports were either inaccurate or completely wrong because information was lost in SAP translation between different labs. Is this the story of every migration, eve
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by dominotw 4y ago
> I don't agree about the toxic part. I recently rejected an offer from AWS that paid significantly more that what i currently make because of this. I have family that work there ( on visa) that were adamant that i keep looking and
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by dominotw 4y ago
good luck convincing property owners that city is going to build 5000 units every year in their neighborhoods. How does vienna defang homeowners from being toxic and selfish.
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by dominotw 4y ago
I had a host write me a bad review. I challenged it with airbnb team with screenshots and proof, they agreed that review was incorrect but said couldn't do anything because it a policy to not change/delete reviews.
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by dominotw 4y ago
> because politicians how can politicians be directly to blame for everything bad. Surely majority people are electing this person to do what he/she/they are doing.
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by dominotw 4y ago
Has e-ink been shown to be better for eyes. I was under the impression that most of the damage comes from focusing your eyes on screen all day ( vs backlight )
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by dominotw 4y ago
Imagine thinking statins are used to 'treat' hyperlipidemia. Statins block the production of cholestrol, they don't treat the disease which is causing your body to produce high cholesterol. Maybe you need to ponder about the
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by dominotw 4y ago
Managment offers an escape route to people who struggle with tech competency. Just grind it out for a few years a dev, then transition into management. This is a standard formula for years and i've seen many many people follow this.
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by dominotw 4y ago
> just obesity/metabolic disease. yes we don't measure this and is impossible to measure.
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by dominotw 4y ago
> No, "diet and exercise" is not the only recommendation. What else is there though? I consulted many physicians for my hyperlipidemia and all of them suggested 'diet and exercise' as the only solution. It is the onl
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by dominotw 4y ago
> is often Would be interesting to know how often.
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by dominotw 4y ago
Do you know the right number by any chance?
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by dominotw 4y ago
I was using obesity as a standin for metabolic syndrome to compare populations. Not sure if measure how many ppl have 'metabolic syndrome. https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/metabolic-syndrome metabolic disease =
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by dominotw 4y ago
see: page 20 https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/tools/TL200/TL221... > We could certainly do much better, but blaming health care cost on metabolic diseases is disingenuous. How so?
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by dominotw 4y ago
> Singapore which has exceptionally low healthcare spending yea because they have healthy population, its not because of some smart govt policy( if only it was that easy). singapore obesity rate = 10% usa obesity rate = 42 % usa obesity
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by dominotw 4y ago
> countries without that or with less generally have better outcomes at less cost. > Looking for evidence to the contrary There was no evidence behind your claim either. 90% of US healthcare costs go to managing ( not treating ) obes
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by dominotw 4y ago
I guess that was an exaggerated example. People with 'software engineer' title in my company make a wide range of salary. Where you fall in that range depends on how well you do in the interview. So what the benefit to job seeke
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by dominotw 4y ago
can't you circumvent this by simply posting 50-500k range?
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by dominotw 4y ago
what do you make of things like dbt which is awkward mix of python templating and sql mixed into each other.
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by dominotw 4y ago
It only works if you are just running queries in console. Any serious work with sql requires all sorts of weird stuff built around it like dbt, cubejs[1]. 1. https://cube.dev/docs/
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by dominotw 4y ago
> Perhaps the reliable writing on the wall is in the stock market where the enterprise value of oil and gas companies has been falling since about 2011. Huh? ExxonMobil stock is near all time highs, they've been posting record never
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by dominotw 4y ago
> where there is little infrastructure for bikes. I've seen people ride these in bike lanes here in chicago even though law explicitly prohibits class 2 -3 bikes ( assist without pedaling). I've developed a real dislike for e-
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by dominotw 4y ago
I think there is definitely some interest in building 'data apps' where you send data file to client/browser and user slices and dices as they please instead of a set of predetermined queries/analytics. I heard of compa

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