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by hibikir 1y ago
The math on whether you are ahead with the HSA or not is non trivial, especially if you are married and neither employer offers any subsidy when you put your spouse in your plan. HSAs are often better, but it's a very unfortunate math
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It's more common than you think in queen and pawn endgames. It might even end in a dear with two queens in one side: It wasn't on the board because there were other fighting alternatives, but it was pretty close to happening just
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by hibikir 1y ago
If you look at year over year chip improvements in 2025 vs 1998, it's clear that modern hardware just has a longer shelf life than it used to. The difficulties in getting more performance for the same power expenditure are just very di
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Hiring juniors is always great if you, somehow, have a much better filter for finding the stars than the rest of the market. But if you don't, hiring bad juniors is a disaster: No different than outsourcing bits to a bad satellite offi
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You'll find buses with no AC in northern Spain today. And it's not ancient ones, but ones running on natural gas: They option then without, making them a hazard in July and August. I've seen one specifically operated to take
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Even when it's not the insurer, it's at least a hospital. Many a doctor around me that used to have a private practice sold to one of the hospital chains, as they promised more money than by owning, solely due to superior collecti
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by hibikir 1y ago
Another relevant rule is a draw after 50 moves without a capture or a pawn move. But yes, the maximum number of moves would be extremely large when both players are trying. Just think of a first 2 moved allowing the king out, an outrageous
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by hibikir 1y ago
It's the natural result of tech gaining value, and a lot of it staying closed source: Once you are scaling, scaling very high isn't that difficult once you have the best offering, and when you are big you can do optimizations that
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by hibikir 1y ago
Anon profit, or even a random person, has their own motivations too that will not be aligned. Linus was herding cats in the kernel back when few contributors were paid by corporations to do it. Anyone that has spent any time on a large-ish
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He has a youtube channel where he performs most of the tricks in his courses (just not how to do them). After you watch for a while, you realize that he can get great effects out of moves that don't even take significant sleight of han
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Coming from Spain it was always a difficult game to see as a simulation: What do you mean, commercial zones? What in the world it this low density residential? It was basically impossible to try to make a city like the one I lived in. Seein
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They will make it worse, as it makes it easier to move a vehicle around. When the price goes down, the usage goes up. And it's traffic whether the vehicle has a human being transported, it's circling waiting for a fare, or it&#x27
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If there's a trillion dollar business there, it's on transporting goods, not people. Ultimately a self driving car is a cheaper chauffeur or a cheaper taxi. The addressable market doesn't change that much because of price, an
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It's a well known security problem. An attacker in this kind of environment is spending very little money per app, and gets a payoff for breaking through: The application process is their business. Someone actually building an app is f
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Because fast to deploy in theory fights quickly with permitting systems and NIMBYism. You need more permits, because a typical solar or wind farm doesn't come close to a nuclear plan's output, so the per-project bureaucracy multip
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I know of a certain large company I will not name that is sending people back to office while also having a huge percentage of staff augmentation consultants living outside of the US. So you can find teams that have two people in the office
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Stripe used to live and dir internally off of hackpad with some custom search engine attached to it. It was all binned after the Atlassianfication, but I don't think many devs saw the move away as positive.
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Possibly a better alternative than, say, Bridgewater when Ray Dalio was in charge. Adherence to principles was part of a high percentage of decision making conversations, but since is book is so big, they might be best compared to theologic
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When the hardware is complicated enough that the software required to run it al all would take many millions of dollars to replicate, hardware freedom alone doesn't cut it. Just like a modern processor needs mountains of microcode to d
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I have seen subscription systems built following that rule of thumb. It collapses pretty well, as the data structure then becomes impossible to engage with unless you are an expert, and the callers are never experts. Things make more sense
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by hibikir 1y ago
I never worked for PayPal, but I did for a competitor. Dealing with fraud is a red queen game: The fraudsters can keep trying until they find what gaps are there in your system, and will sometimes communicate with each other: Part of our de
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by hibikir 1y ago
There's a few companies doing direct indexing like this, where you can give them a ban list for any given index: You can, say, also take out Microstrategy or something like that. Now, as to whether those companies will remain solvent l
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It works quite well in Scala, which still tolerates nulls due to being in the JVM and having Java interop. Realistically nothing in the language is going to return null, so the only time you might have to care is when you call Java classes,
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And don't miss the situations where the subtitles are baked into the stream: HBO Max is very fond of just not letting you remove subtitles at all for at least a few non-english series.
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It's the other way around. If you think 3% is normal, you buy now and refinance while people think that the house is unaffordable. Remember that lower interest rates make home prices go even higher! If you think it will stay at 7%, tha
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It's a very difficult belief to have in the long run, because if the source of the "error" is always in one direction, it will compound to price level differences impossible to hide. It's like the traditional view on GDP
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A lot of the concentration comes from companies just gobbling others, and therefore being more large conglomerates than anything else. Alphabet could easily be 5 separate stock tickers if they felt like it, and most would probably be big en
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A very high percentage of businesses which in Europe would be running a Ford Transit are instead using pickup trucks. It's not everyone: Electricians really want their cargo area to not get wet, but if there's a choice between a v
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The story about picking an unpopular disease that was easy to test reminds me of why Monsanto went with glyphosate resistance as the first serious GMO target: Trivial testing. Back when Monsanto started that kind of research, the technology
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It's not just filing the X-rays. Back in the day, for a big crown you got yourself a full mouth cast, ship it away, and eventually you got a crown which hopefully fit. Today you get a much less invasive scan before the root canal. one

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