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   by ellisv 7y ago

   > The extremely simple and correct solution here is to not let index funds themselves vote. Only allow the votes to be cast directly by the index share holders. Problem solved, I don't know why people keep hand wringing about this a
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   by ellisv 7y ago

   I absolutely agree. If you could only invest in one tech company, who would have invested in Apple/Amazon/Google instead of IBM? These are now large, successful companies that were able to succeed because investors were able to he
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   by ellisv 7y ago

   > No, company would have to split itself (create separated business entity) so you would have to sell your competing part of the company. This just isn't practical though. Apple/Google/Amazon/etc would have to be brok
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   by ellisv 7y ago

   > So the way we can solve this problem is to outlaw shares ownership of competing companies? Seems like a fair solution. This just isn't practical. What if I'm invested in Big Bank and Big Tech Co. but then Big Tech Co. creates
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   by ellisv 7y ago

   > Taken with the yield curve inversion in 2019, and other leading indicators, it appears the US economy is headed for the first recession in over 10 years. The research using yield curve inversion as a leading indicator of recession is b
6. 426.▲
   by ellisv 7y ago

   Do you have any recommendations for someone earlier in their career (<50 yo) to avoid or minimize ageism? Go into management? Be prepared to pick a new career?
7. 427.▲
   by ellisv 7y ago

   ZigBee has worked much better than Zwave for me.
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   by ellisv 7y ago

   HAVING COUNT(*) > 2; I'll take 9% );
9. 429.▲
   by ellisv 7y ago

   Was this because of using cash or simply paying more attention to spending? I’d love to see a well done research paper to get a sense of the expected value of cash vs credit.
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    by ellisv 7y ago

    https://www.troyhunt.com/banks-arbitrary-password-restrictio...
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    by ellisv 7y ago

    > I have code that has continued to run, untouched, for decades. This isn’t always a good thing. I usually don’t like when a piece of software feels like it hasn’t been updated since the 90s. But I guess we don’t want some military defen
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    by ellisv 7y ago

    The release was scheduled and planned for quite some time.
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    by ellisv 7y ago

    They’re referring to two tier wage scales [1]. Workers hired after a certain date have worse pay and benefits, and it takes longer to earn benefits. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-tier_system?wprov=sfti1
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    by ellisv 7y ago

    IIRC Postgres 12 is suppose to remove most of the optimization fences around CTEs.
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    by ellisv 7y ago

    It's nice to see such clear language about the language release process.
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    by ellisv 7y ago

    Here’s the HN discussion from 3 years ago: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11692155
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    by ellisv 7y ago

    Came here expecting to see this as a top-level comment. Really not sure why someone (here on HN) would pay $30 rather than just write a simple script like this.
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    by ellisv 7y ago

    > Andy Pavlo wrote a paper looking at this comparing different concurrency control strategies under very high levels of concurrency. I think you mean his paper "This is the Best Paper Ever on In-Memory Multi-Version Concurrency Cont
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    by ellisv 7y ago

    > Popping those long coordinates into Google Earth, it looks like the georeferencing puts the point somewhere on ILI's back wall Perhaps the Google Earth image is "wrong". Stitching aerial and satellite images together and
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    by ellisv 7y ago

    Data is also available from the Federal Reserve https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/T10Y2Y
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    by ellisv 7y ago

    Thanks. Whalen is a smart(er) guy (and you probably want to work with him instead).
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    by ellisv 7y ago

    Powerley | DevOps Engineer | Royal Oak, MI | Full-time | http://www.powerley.com/ Powerley is connecting the smart grid to the smart home and building the next generation of home energy management. Here are some of the thin
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    by ellisv 7y ago

    I switched from psql to pgcli a few months ago and love it! But every so often it fails to remember some of the \ commands. Do you have anything special in your config?
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    by ellisv 7y ago

    Personally I like "filetype:id_rsa"
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    by ellisv 7y ago

    As an R user of some 10+ years, I think some of this is spot on and some of it is just silly. Pretty much everyone knows the Tidyverse is slow to run, but many of us find it faster to write and very readable because it avoids one-time-use a
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    by ellisv 7y ago

    There are, very broadly speaking, two strategies for tackling climate change: 1. Innovation (e.g. find new and better sources of energy) 2. Mitigation (e.g. reduce energy consumption) For example the Tesla Solar Roof is an innovation strate
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    by ellisv 7y ago

    Not necessarily. Different RDBMSs have different implementations so what isn’t bad in one might be comparatively bad in another.
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    by ellisv 8y ago

    > I never understood Tile and the rest. People lose things.
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    by ellisv 8y ago

    Why would it be illegal?
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    by ellisv 8y ago

    Yes. The language is much more stable since 1.0 (intentionally). However some packages are still being updated.