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by donavanm 6y ago
You should look at the breakdown of cases. I was very worried for Sydney in early to mid march. What I didnt see until later was the infection acquisition data. The majority of those march cases appeared to be infected citizens returning
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by donavanm 7y ago
Fair enough. That is noteworthy than. Id only disputed a few travel related charges myself and had the stereotypical positive experience.
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by donavanm 7y ago
When you open a chargeback case with Amex there’s a question specifically along the lines of “have you attempted to resolve this with the merchant?” They won’t start a case without it. After you affirm that you have attempted resolution wit
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by donavanm 7y ago
And in those cases you look at cause of death. Are pneumonia or respiratory related deaths elevated compared to last year? This is exactly the type of correlation that was being used to estimate infection in places like africa without avail
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by donavanm 7y ago
And are billionaires a meaningful portion of the populace or total payments? Or are you trying to both use means testing as a way of significantly restricting beneficiaries while still calling it “universal”?
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by donavanm 7y ago
Don’t forget that the total free cash flow returned via buybacks and dividends wouldn’t have been enough even if they had chosen for inefficient allocation of capital.
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by donavanm 7y ago
It’s a big difference in practice. Dividends force a taxable event. The event may also force those dividends to be treated as income. The buyback increases the value of held assets. By choosing when to sell you can control the tax rate, the
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by donavanm 7y ago
Im a fan of the pink p95 & p100 disposables with nuisance level organic filtering. I want to say 2097? I used them for small painting, welding, and brazing jobs. Work a treat with organic solvents & weak acid vapors and IIRC they we
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by donavanm 7y ago
Re: drone + artillery, do you have a link to more details? That accuracy look pretty crazy for first shot hits. I was under the impression that 10s of meters was state of the art for indirect fire. Is the drone acting as FO for very high pr
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by donavanm 7y ago
Ok, Id buy that hypothesis. $30 persist for many months, over exposed outfits fold, better capitalized outfits (majors & secondary?) acquire assets, price recovers, it takes months to recover instead of weeks due to organizational/
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by donavanm 7y ago
> my hope is that low oil prices drive US frackers out of business I dont understand this if the $30 price is driven by the saudis and russians. There was immediate talk of furloughs/layoffs and striking rigs. The rigs (and crews) c
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by donavanm 7y ago
Im guessing they meter users differently for traffic going inside and outside the country. On the upstream/provider side it’s not uncommon to see a 2-10x price difference between connectivity inside an island/country vs internatio
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by donavanm 7y ago
ROI or opportunity cost. I can continue to pay 3-4% on a few hundred thousand for a few decades. Meanwhile I have a few hundred thousand “cash in hand” that I can allocate to other assets/investments. I’m betting that my other investme
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by donavanm 7y ago
I am. I went through nexus because I travel a lot. For various reasons both CBP, DOJ, State, and other countries already have fingerprints and photos of me. There was no net loss in my case so it was worth it. As others have stated a clear
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by donavanm 7y ago
Ive flow delta on 10 international legs in the past year. It’s entirely unclear at boarding time. The gate agents simply ask you to look at the camera. Every time I’ve simply said “no thank you”, handed them my passport, and made sure my fa
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by donavanm 7y ago
Who gets options? The vast majority of public (tech) firm comp like this is done via RSUs for the last 20 years. Which, SURPRISE, is literally taxed as income at vesting at the vested value. It even shows up on the same W2 as regular paych
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by donavanm 7y ago
Ive seen bigger, scarier, potentially costlier time based bugs personally. I dont think this would make me reevaluate my employment if I was at robinhood. As the parent says you either learn these lessons the hard way or you havent learned
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by donavanm 7y ago
In the us the tech industry attrition rates Ive seen are around 15% per annum. Varies slightly based on company/year/market/location etc. 20% is “bad” and 10% would be surprisingly “good.”
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by donavanm 7y ago
+1 to this comment. My team is heading down a similar path. Theres a single, defined and versioned, external API. Internally there are a handful of “microservices.” All have their own APIs, models, versions, etc. Some are invoked over remot
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by donavanm 7y ago
The USFS has had defined color schemes for everything since at least the 40s. I cant find a reference offhand but I recall it goes back Pinchot around the turn of the century. They are very intentional about a consistent image and ensur
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by donavanm 7y ago
You are woefully underestimating the size of healthcare compares to emergency services. Neither emergency services nor the military are slack. They are both scaled for sustained operations; peak utilization is made up by volunteers or allie
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by donavanm 7y ago
+1 to waterloo. So many successful and productive individuals come out of there.
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by donavanm 7y ago
I dont know the context where ‘reactionary’ is right here. Unsupported holes or trenches are crazy dangerous. Its been a while since ive done construction but 3-4’ deep is where you’ll kill someone. A partial collapse traps the victim and c
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by donavanm 7y ago
I dont have the citation offhand but some of the recent fires have simply ‘jumped’ firebreaks and cleared areas as well. Add to that the natural firebreaks of damp/wet forest lands going up like we saw in QLD.
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by donavanm 7y ago
Its allegedly been trialed/used in china for a few years now. First quality result https://www.privacy-ticker.com/chinese-police-uses-gait-reco...
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by donavanm 7y ago
You’re welcome. My advice would be to keep the development up, but focus your efforts where they make the most difference. When it comes to grinding LOC, and even defining entire components, that’s what you have a team for. Trust them to do
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by donavanm 7y ago
Desal may be too little too late. Here in Sydney the desal plant is operating at full capacity and supplying 15% (250Ml/day) of needs. There is talk of expanding it to 30%, but how many years off will it be when the surface water suppl
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by donavanm 7y ago
I suspect the articles point is more the scope, frequency, and magnitude of these changes. The fires are just one symptom. The city of Sydney being down to 40% of its water supply, and plausibly down to 20% this year. The Murray-darling bas
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by donavanm 7y ago
Not as much as Id like. But that generally comes down to prioritization and the broad autonomy & area of responsibility in these roles. The self reported survey data of time spent is that principals are doing direct delivery 12% of th
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by donavanm 7y ago
> My 2c on being in engineering leadership is that it’s best to think of yourself as a manger without authority, rather than thinking of yourself as an engineer with authority. Im a principal at AWS. A coworker made a joke that resonat

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