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by eszed 1y ago
Tech might be the only high-paying (or, hell, reliably middle-class white-collar) field where this is true.
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by eszed 1y ago
Strongly recommend Casa Batllo - it's magnificent. It pulls off this trick of being slightly surreal, but yet completely cozy . There's not a single inch of it that isn't unique and interesting to look at, and yet far from b
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by eszed 1y ago
This is a legitimate use-case for targeted tariffs and / or subsidies. (And, you know, environmental regulations, so mining and refining sites don't turn into what's described in a sibling comment.)
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by eszed 1y ago
I will only buy "antique" furniture, for precisely this reason. When we were looking for a house, I prioritized homes built before 1933 (when asbestos materials became widely used). We bought a house built in 1929, and the materia
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by eszed 1y ago
The cherry on top of that is the out of order numbers on the "gauge" in the photo.
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by eszed 1y ago
Funnily enough, my brain went there, too - only to derive opposite lesson. When I was a teenager I spent a summer in central America, living in mostly un-air conditioned spaces. The first few weeks were hellish, but I became gradually used
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by eszed 1y ago
Love that compensation plan. I wish my (and every) company did that.
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by eszed 1y ago
I agree. I'd argue for an additional "generalist" category, as well. Generalists won't be famous, like the exceptional specialists in your example, but an excellent generalist will be able to do good work in any situatio
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by eszed 1y ago
Next they'll crack down on folks logged on in more than one location. Netflix does this, and when my wife and our kid visit my in-laws over the summer the device in one of the two locations loses access a few days before they return. T
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by eszed 1y ago
Wait... Do I have ADD? I've never thought so, because I have three close friends who do (diagnosed and medicated), and they've never described it like this. And, like, they're always starting things they don't finish. I
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by eszed 1y ago
I mean... Yes? That looks correct to me°, but it's been a minute since I worked with Temporal, so I'd run it myself and examine the output before I cut and paste. Or have I missed your point? --- °Missing a TZ assertion, but I don
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by eszed 1y ago
Don't #1 and #3 become true when you consider capital gains on an appreciated account? Genuine question, because how I'd thought of it, and your assertion shakes my confidence in my understanding.
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by eszed 1y ago
That's a prime example of the GGP's point about the interests of individuals being manufactured. [Edit] Ha! Didn't see you were the GGP. I got your point, even if I am an unobservant idiot.
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by eszed 1y ago
Wait... So that's why it's called " cut over"? Amazing.
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by eszed 1y ago
No. As explained in the SO answer, the worry is that the enemy will have been able to decrypt one or the other of your messages, at which point the identical underlying plaintext will help them crack the second cypher.
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by eszed 1y ago
You're right, and oh my god: don't get me started on the abysmal safety record of theatres, particularly towards the non-union end of the scale. I never got a fight director credential, but I was competent, and served as fight cap
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by eszed 1y ago
I changed careers. Wrote a bit about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44699388 I never met a professional with a conceptual category of "selling out" within the industry. Scraping together any kind of
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by eszed 1y ago
It's all a matter of perspective. My uncle once brought his kids to see a big show I was in, and afterwards said just what you did. I looked at him, genuinely surprised, and said something like "dude, you're a surgeon. If I s
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by eszed 1y ago
Of course I have. I'm thinking of a couple of them right now, and I admire the hell out of them: it took courage to get up there and do what they did. I wasn't going to cast them in that show, right then, but within the limits of
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by eszed 1y ago
Hey! Good to meet a fellow artist. I made it to 40 before I sold out. You? One thing outsiders don't understand is that, for actors, auditioning IS the job. Getting cast, and working on a show, is a joy (some more than others, of cours
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by eszed 1y ago
This. I've hired in a number of roles, in several industries, and what they've all had in common is that rejection is never personal. My first career was in theatre, which a) is (or at least was, back in the day?) much more compet
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by eszed 1y ago
Yeah, the phrase goes back at least to Bill Miliken's monumental Race Car Vehicle Dynamics , where I first encountered it. The specific idea is that going slow(er) into a corner allows you to hit the apex precisely, optimally rotate t
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by eszed 1y ago
Probably, now? This was a while ago, when heat pumps weren't widely available.
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by eszed 1y ago
Yes, indeed. In my (at the time) sister-in-law's 17th c. two-up two-down stone cottage an oil-fired Aga was, in fact, the sensible choice. Not to say running it wasn't costly, but electric heat would have been far more expensive.
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by eszed 1y ago
Obviously the security thing is terrible, but this... > Want to match two random people? Just swipe right for both of them. ... this could be cool! I kinda think some dating app should add a rate-limited (and probably paid-for) Matchmaki
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by eszed 1y ago
Yes, exactly. The business team at my (rules-following) company were ecstatic when municipalities around us began disallowing cash payments during COVID. Taking cash is, for us, directly 2-3% (and actually more, if you count labor, which is
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by eszed 1y ago
Ah! It's penny stocks, then. My grandfather lost a ton of money "investing" in those, over the years - but his occasional hits, generally when he happened to piggyback a pump scheme (a gold mine scam in Papua New Guinea parti
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by eszed 1y ago
You can still "cast tab" from Chrome. That's mostly what I use, to be honest. Some sites / streamers do a poor job implementing the cast functionality.
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by eszed 1y ago
Sell your mainline crypto for money -money, and declare it on your taxes? Isn't that straightforward to do, nowadays? Not trying to be snarky: I've never been involved in crypto, but I thought I understood it in principle. Sideno
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by eszed 1y ago
> ~tech~ companies have largely forgotten that part of their job is to teach. Honestly, you could stop right there. Everyone ( everyone °) tries to kick the can of skills-acquisition onto someone else. Ultimately, in a hyper-individualis

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