drchopchop

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by drchopchop 6y ago
Yep, I spent many years at a large, public US mobile game company and it was the same. We had a considerable number of players who had total spend in the 5-figure range, and a few into the 6's. And that's on one single game. The c
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by drchopchop 6y ago
No, you're thinking of /r/conservative, which literally has "flaired users only" posts, and insta-bans people who express even mild criticism of conservative talking points. "Do not violate the Mission Stateme
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by drchopchop 6y ago
Oof, that's a pretty brutal deductible, although I assume you have an HSA paired with that. FWIW, I'm on an Aetna corp plan that isn't much better, half the deductible for 2x the price.
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by drchopchop 6y ago
How on earth did you find standalone family coverage for $950/mo? What's your deductible / co-insurance?
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by drchopchop 6y ago
Can an institutional investor get $100M+ out without crashing the market?
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by drchopchop 6y ago
Chase is pretty good about giving me debit cards, credit cards, FDIC protection, e-checks, safe/reversible transactions, and fraud protection. They also do actually answer the phone when I call. Maybe you just need a new bank? Bitcoin
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by drchopchop 6y ago
If this is true (which I think it is), then aren't all these institutional investors going to get crushed when it crashes? And won't it circle even faster downward if they try to sell their positions once it starts doing so? How a
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by drchopchop 6y ago
Agreed, just because you're a senior engineer with decades of experience doesn't mean you shouldn't brush up on general fundamentals every once in a while. Leetcode, while being pretty useless in the real world, does get your
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by drchopchop 6y ago
Exactly, and they have no incentive to make random public stablecoin bagholders rich.
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by drchopchop 6y ago
Should all expressions of opinion be given equal weight? Is an average person able to evaluate what's factually correct, and what's not? Just think of all the assumptions that you need to make when you figure out "should I ta
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by drchopchop 6y ago
>I suspect a similar story can be told about our slide to defaulting that free speech is bad, that the status quo should be the priority, and that perfect is preferable to good. These are mistakes, even as they are understandable. After
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by drchopchop 6y ago
They'll run out of money before they attract enough whales to survive, because I don't see anything resembling a fun game here. It's like Minecraft, if you were farming for meaningless loot boxes all day. Just read some of th
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by drchopchop 6y ago
Well, you wouldn't buy Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, Magic: The Gathering cards if you hadn't at least spent some time playing. Those are games which have had, at least at some point in their lifespan, large communities of players. I kinda
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by drchopchop 6y ago
The creator was ex-Zynga, so of course it's largely built around a whale-first monetization strategy. Even more dangerously, it's inside of a game that appears to be largely vaporware, and has no high-profile company to give weigh
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by drchopchop 6y ago
>Bitcoin seems like a good inflation hedge due to its fixed amount. ... until Tether explodes, and then it's musical chairs to figure out who the bagholders will be. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/16298999
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by drchopchop 6y ago
Also, even if you get a job at a AAA game company, you're looking at a 50-75% pay cut from what you'd be making in FAANG. Even salaried game developers are very underpaid, because there are so many people who are willing to take t
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by drchopchop 6y ago
Perhaps. But it's rare that an industry just sits around and stagnates to the extent that 20+ year old knowledge is applicable to current day problems. Even in the graphics industry, 20 years ago we were still discovering perspective c
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by drchopchop 6y ago
Kids don't care about internal inconsistencies. Frankly, neither do many adults (see: practically all Marvel movies) The show is pretty educational - kids learn about sharing, professions, sing songs about the universe, go on crazy adv
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by drchopchop 6y ago
Also, if you change that to "children's shows" instead of "children's books", most of them are set in something resembling a suburb: Peppa Pig, Paw Patrol, Bubble Guppies, etc. Sesame Street is a notable except
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by drchopchop 6y ago
>Besides skills, I think it comes down to your attitude and how you relate to your younger co-workers Also an engineer in my mid-40's. This is key. You need to be the "cool" dad in the room, and someone people can go to fo
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by drchopchop 6y ago
I had to do a bunch of interviews recently and did something similar, multiple pages of notes with bullet points in a big font just out of view. Was very helpful for those moments where your brain just freezes up and you can't remember
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by drchopchop 6y ago
We need to band together and stop rewarding companies who pull this shit in interviews. Leetcode problems are not applicable to 99% of the actual work in most software engineering roles. There are other, gentler ways to find out if someone
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by drchopchop 6y ago
... but it didn't. The SEC did. XRP has a $40B "market cap", which sums up the crypto mentality in general.
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by drchopchop 6y ago
Or they're just, you know, prosecuting crime, which is their job.
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by drchopchop 6y ago
And the vast majority of people "investing" in it have no concept of the underlying tech/utility/scalability/whatever, they only care "token go up!" and essentially treat it as a penny stock. It'll ev
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by drchopchop 6y ago
Had a 5% equity stake in a startup that got acquired for ~$20M + earn-out. Actual payout was low due to investor 2x prefs and all kinds of shenanigans, but after earn-out/taxes it was enough to put a down payment on a nice house. Only
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by drchopchop 6y ago
From first-hand experience, however, bootstrapped companies often don't have a ton of cash in the bank. They can quickly fail if there's an adverse event (COVID, for example). You can also get crushed by well-funded competitors wh
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by drchopchop 6y ago
Yup, left AAA a long time ago. Way more money, work-life balance, and job opportunities available when you leave the game industry. It exploits developers who are initially passionate about the field, and then leaves them in a state where i
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by drchopchop 6y ago
I think it's a lot more likely that Trump pushing outlandish/false/inflammatory claims starts the civil war, not the fact that some YouTube videos suddenly vanish. If you can prevent the former by removing viral reach of the
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by drchopchop 6y ago
The POTUS makes claims which have no evidence backing them, which is why he keeps losing over and over again in court. Why should any random claim be called a "proof"? Should flat earth videos get the same equivalent as NASA progr

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