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by jakelarkin 8y ago
California and the Bay Area is so screwed. The Powers-that-be looked at SB827 like it was the work of lunatics, and did not engage in any of the significant concessions that were made. The bill was completely impotent at the end ... local d
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
ML is the new A/B testing
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond_credit_rating when major banks/investors refused to deal with BBB or lower they called it 'Junk'. When they realized 1) the credit risk can be safely managed with mod
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
nobody involved in buy/selling High-Yield debt uses the term 'Junk'. It's a term from the 80s before every major investment bank serviced that market. Even the journalists at bloomberg are spinning clickbait language,
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
the entitlement and whats unsustainable is the employer guaranteeing ALL of the downsides of market returns not being high enough, management risk (underfunding), rising cost of healthcare, and longer life times. If I live twice as long my
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
those are just the stations, the tunnel is bore
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
I don't really know that market but assume theyre not more popular because the companies that sell them charge high embedded fees, and also a very high risk premium? Similar to whole life insurance. Anyway, the crux of the problem it
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
is it humane or an entitlement? most people in the private sector work their whole life never get anything remotely close to a pension secondly, its just an intergenerational wealth transfer. another excess of the selfishness of the boome
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
the argument is that police work is more physically demanding and stressful, there's not too many desk jobs. that said the benefits in some states are ludicrous, cops spike their payout the last few years and retire with $200k pension
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
Tesla shareholder lawsuit against SolarCity deal set to proceed https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-shareholders/tesla-...
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
that's a great way to lose your CEO job and get sued by your shareholders.
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by jakelarkin 9y ago
eventually we just need to accept that a much greater depth of history is index searchable and adjust our actions, attitudes & judgments accordingly. Enshrining the old ways in rigid laws and bureaucracy is not going to work.
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by jakelarkin 9y ago
let me guess, ULA filed a complaint?
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by jakelarkin 9y ago
its a huge amount of mental and emotional work to decide what to get rid off. the storage industry capitalizes on people's procrastination.
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by jakelarkin 9y ago
just the wealth/livelihoods of people who don't know any better.
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by jakelarkin 9y ago
the abysmal state of their technology is completely to blame. problems described point to an inability to monitor trains or operators in ways that don't create massive slowdowns as knock-on effects.
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by jakelarkin 9y ago
"Sunshine Protection Act" oh ffs
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by jakelarkin 9y ago
- has anyone run it FB scale? for how long? - how many experienced scylladb devops are there globally that we can hire? Those questions asked at BigTechCo before it adopts somebody elses tech. FB already operates RocksDb and Cassandra so th
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by jakelarkin 9y ago
some of those cases will involve healthcare providers or energy distributors, so what? The case potentially affects all transactions where there is processing or market-making intermediary. There's no specificity on how it applies to
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by jakelarkin 9y ago
somehow in a case about the credit card industry, which actually extracts monopoly rent on most personal financial transactions its more important for author to talk about about "tech" bogeyman
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by jakelarkin 9y ago
saved you a click: time distribution follows a log-normal distribution (fat tail to the right) statistically modeling pathogen progression over tissue spatially (2d, 3d) seems to confirm the real world distribution
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by jakelarkin 9y ago
my co is moving from managers to anon committee, because it gives managers too much unchecked power to favor/punish. the wheel goes round.
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by jakelarkin 9y ago
one could argue that some large multi-national corporations are already acting as a collective & super-human intelligence. Indeed, isn't that the point of many human "institutions" which subscribe to the notion that rul
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by jakelarkin 9y ago
biggest gripe with Atlassian is all their products are slow as hell. Hipchat was sluggish and buggy but at least they were steadily improving. Now everyone has to start over on a new platform (?) Confluence, how freakin long does it take
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by jakelarkin 9y ago
the pace of making changes grinds to crawl as codebase becomes larger and more complex. eventually the time spent trying to understand code, figure out what changes can be made safely and paying down tech debt outweigh the time spend making
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by jakelarkin 9y ago
great, but how about also focusing on the MBAs and non-tech background managers/execs that fill out the 5-10 levels of hierarchy above line engineers at any BigTechCo. Not like bottom-of-the-rung SWEs necessarily have visibility or co
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by jakelarkin 9y ago
everything in housing is codified around the naive technology of early 20th century America homebuilding - mostly bespoke wood frame structures. Try something different and you will have to pay up for special consideration, mostly so that
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by jakelarkin 9y ago
starting to believe that homeless camps are our a logical outcome of the legal/governance system. If cities build housing for the homeless they become responsible (assume civil liability) for their health, well-being, property, safet
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by jakelarkin 9y ago
ah, the mythical $500 MacBook stand (4 or 5 college textbooks)
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by jakelarkin 9y ago
right but typically the company has to be close to a monopoly for the federal gov't to scrutinize their actions. and the bureaucratic/legal bar for monopoly has been contorted quite far from the common sense one, especially in th

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