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by hagy 5y ago
They only made $717 million in 2020 across all international markets. From the most recent 10-K, https://ir.aboutamazon.com/sec-filings/sec-filings-details/d... Category Net sales Operating expenses Op
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by hagy 5y ago
How can anyone look at the atrocities committed by every major government over the centuries of its existence and not see that large governments are orders of magnitude more sociopathic than the worst corporations? Its just a general featur
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by hagy 5y ago
What if far more drivers want to work 10:00-16:00 than are needed? In the current situation, the spot price drops and some drivers leave while more riders enter. As employees, Uber cannot dynamically vary the pay/minute rate, especiall
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by hagy 5y ago
Many employees will be assigned inconvenient hours regardless. That is a key difference between employees and gig workers. When there are more people who prefer convenient hours than shifts available, some will only have the option to take
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by hagy 5y ago
Similarly, many of us don't want to be chained to a comparably sociopathic and unaccountable government entity. We'd instead prefer to independently manage our own unique needs using our own individual economic agency.
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by hagy 5y ago
I agree. The CPSC graphic video [0], graphically demonstrates the "safety failure" of a Pelton treadmill with two young children playing on an active treadmill unsupervised. While I certainly agree Pelton and other manufactures sh
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by hagy 5y ago
I also strongly endorse the Boundaries talk and am re-watching it now, https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/boundaries The core concept of immutable values as the boundaries between components now seems self eviden
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by hagy 5y ago
I think we'll all reading too much into this. Without knowing the details of what specifically the CEO, CTO, and others did, I don't think any of us can express much judgement. This anonymous poster stayed on topic and told us abo
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by hagy 5y ago
The compensation progression for a manager generally consists of a slow (if any growth) in base salary and most compensation increases come from stock and bonus. I believe this is generally the same for high level ICs. Some companies make i
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by hagy 5y ago
Cash App uses Kotlin Multiplatform, including server-side code, https://kotlinlang.org/lp/mobile/case-studies/cash-app
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by hagy 5y ago
I've read through PEP 563 several times now and I just don't find the motivation particularly strong. The PEP itself outline two high level goals: 1. simply forward refs in types 2. reduce the runtime costs of type defs While I ca
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by hagy 5y ago
I've found jOOQ to provide the right tradeoffs and flexibilities for ORM vs. SQL. First, it can generate object models of tables from the database in development and therefore doesn't rely on any specific migration tool. These mod
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by hagy 6y ago
As a former DS hiring manager who phone screened over 200 candidates, Insight is the only DS bootcamp that I've found to be positively correlated with capability.The other programs had candidates that were weaker than the generic new g
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by hagy 6y ago
Naked short selling is allowed by market neutral market makers, but it does not function as convention short seller. Under current regulation, a naked short seller is not looking to make a profit from a future decrease in price, but instead
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by hagy 6y ago
When person A lends their share to person B, they no longer own a share, they own the right to receive a share from person B sometime in the future, interest payments on the lending, and collateral to ensure the borrower can make good on th
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by hagy 6y ago
I believe it's more complicated. Per Wikipedia [0], > Failing to deliver shares is legal under certain circumstances, and naked short selling is not per se illegal. There are arguments for why phantom (i.e., counterfeit) shares bene
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by hagy 6y ago
There numerous retail equity brokers that now offer free trades, mobile apps, and every other feature provided by RobinHood. Unlike Facebook, there is no network effect and unlike Google vs other search engines, different brokers are largel
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by hagy 6y ago
It's not that there is an expiration date, but instead that there is a collateral requirement for holding short positions in addition to the interest. As the shorted stock increases in value, the borrower must post additional collatera
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by hagy 6y ago
I think it's disingenuous to compare those two numbers. The mass majority of that trading is alogos trading within short time spans, not entities entering or exiting long positions. This includes all the market makers that have to hedg
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by hagy 6y ago
It's after hours trading, which is very low volume and generally not available to most retail investors. Probably just another hedge fund getting in their shorts at these high prices. The FUD spread due to the plunge in after hours is
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by hagy 6y ago
There is already a substantial inequality in consumption across different income bands. E.g., 2018 data shows that the "Bottom 40% of US income distribution account for no more than 22% of total consumption. Top 20% account for almost
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by hagy 6y ago
I strongly agree with this narrative and it matches my own experience. I spent 9 years of college and then grad school using exclusively either vi or emacs because I believed IDEs were a crutch that weak engineers relied upon. It wasn'
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by hagy 6y ago
I've found Jet Brains' CLion to do a solid job of code navigation, but I don't currently work in C/C++ and only use it occasionally for reading code bases. I do use Jet Brains other editors and Intellij has flawless Java
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by hagy 6y ago
Exactly! Every time someone brings up discarding standardized testing for college admissions, they ignore how the remaining admission criteria can be even better gamed by the wealthy and upper middle class. Standardized testing may be imper
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by hagy 6y ago
Durational-residence requirements still exists. E.g., paying in state vs. out of state tuition at a state university, which commonly requires a year of residency. [0, 1] State-provided healthcare could be provided in a similar fashion throu
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by hagy 6y ago
I think the best approach is for the US to move more concerns to the state level. E.g., it would be great if states would start implementing their own universal healthcare for their residents. States commonly have more internally aligned po
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by hagy 6y ago
Since there is a higher incidence of smoking among poorer folks[0], couldn't the same argument apply to the massive sin tax on cigarettes? We justify such sin taxes as being to the benefit of discouraging a harmful health behavior and
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by hagy 6y ago
Agreed. Further, in most instances master/slave terminology is quite misleading with the master and slave doing similar work and commonly the master doing even more work. Leader/follower and primary/replica are much better te
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by hagy 6y ago
I haven't used FB much in the last decade, but I have yet to see any news articles the few times I check my timeline each year. Don't you have to follow sources that provide news articles, including friends that post the articles?
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by hagy 6y ago
I don't believe that moderating away content and discussion of climate denial would actually result in climate change deniers changing their views. They'd simple disengage with the social networks that institute such moderation an

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