jbeam

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by jbeam 7y ago
Sure -- how can I send you contact info?
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by jbeam 7y ago
P&C actuary here. Can't speak for life or health insurance. The first part of this statement is definitely not true ("Insurance companies are coming out of the pandemic relatively unscathed"), but the second part ("p
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by jbeam 7y ago
Why would Cuomo spend his resources policing the rather enormous NY state border? What does NY have to gain from that? This whole thing smacks of the decision to suspend travel to and from Europe. Maybe not the worst idea, but also ultima
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by jbeam 7y ago
I would have to REALLY love your service to want to carry around an extra device to use it.
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by jbeam 7y ago
It’s still easier than if you had never previously written an if statement. If there weren’t a lot of differences between languages then we wouldn’t have so many languages, but that doesn’t mean that there are not a lot of concepts that are
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by jbeam 7y ago
This reddit comment has a good overview of the history: https://old.reddit.com/r/csharp/comments/f9i9hc/which_one_is...
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by jbeam 7y ago
I’m the other way. Started a large project in VBA once, jumped over to C# interop and never looked back. I found the libraries to map fairly well to the same named functions in VBA when it came to worksheet manipulation. My biggest issue
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by jbeam 7y ago
It’s not tortured. You may have the right under the law, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that the private service needs to make it easy for you.
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by jbeam 7y ago
For competitive markets to work, consumers need to be able to rationally shop around. The medical system is not even close to built in such a way. You cannot shop around when you are riding an ambulance to a hospital, and those with potenti
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by jbeam 7y ago
Simplicity comes at a cost. The pros of simplicity outweigh the cons in many cases for a small codebase. On the other hand, I have a lot of difficulty wrapping my head around how you scale a dynamically typed program with a large codebase w
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by jbeam 7y ago
Betting infinite dollars does tend to lead to extinction.