jefflombardjr

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by jefflombardjr 6y ago
My experience with crony capitalism was frustrating, confusing and unfair There, I fixed the title for you.
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by jefflombardjr 6y ago
Bullshit Jobs describes this type of corruption pretty darn well imo. Whenever there is a big pile of money it entire industries pop up on how to get that money in the form of fees. It's a similar phenomenon to class action lawsuits an
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by jefflombardjr 7y ago
Really cool - I'm interested in this. Despite similar services - I like your opportunity indicator. Love the search functionality idea - but hit a bug so it took a couple of tries to get it to search. This has potential and I hope you
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by jefflombardjr 7y ago
> One thing that we're really big on is, wherever we can, we'll engage in a paid trial, or a paid test of some kind. For engineers, this is rather straightforward. We'll basically just ask what their desired hourly or day
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by jefflombardjr 7y ago
Generally curious as to why people are hiring onsite right now? Because otherwise this would be something I'm interested in.
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by jefflombardjr 7y ago
That is where I think Flow really shines. Seems to be less hiccups, but that is just my anecdotal experience.
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by jefflombardjr 7y ago
Where is this coming from? There are certainly things you can do to grow fruit in the city or at least reduce the effect pollutants have. I've seen so many figs that thrive in cities. i.e. https://academic.oup.com/biosc
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by jefflombardjr 7y ago
> In 2019, Berkshire sent $3.6 billion to the U.S. Treasury to pay its current income tax. The U.S. government collected $243 billion from corporate income tax payments during the same period. From these statistics, you can take pride th
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by jefflombardjr 7y ago
> prepackaged amounts of just enough salmon, green beans, butter and lemon for one meal, no leftovers—was for you. Maybe I’m not their target customer, but I feel like meal prep services are the opposite of convenient. 1. Instead of prep
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by jefflombardjr 7y ago
Eric Elliot does a great analysis on this: https://medium.com/javascript-scene/the-typescript-tax-132ff...
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by jefflombardjr 7y ago
I'll bite - I'm from the east and the business culture here drives me nuts. I've lived on the west coast as well, there are parts of the culture out there that drive me nuts but I much prefer to work with west coast/mid
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by jefflombardjr 7y ago
Typescript: Putting the Java™ in Javascript
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by jefflombardjr 7y ago
The Good Rain By Timothy Egan is a great book that talks about how important the Salmon are to the PNW https://www.timothyeganbooks.com/the-good-rain
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by jefflombardjr 7y ago
This is great. I hope they succeed, but the climate crisis isn't solely about emissions. Yes it's the largest most immediate threat. But we will continue to have the dust bowl, ozone crisis, emissions crisis, microplastic crisis,
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by jefflombardjr 7y ago
Ideal headline: Highly-processed organic matter is not food.
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by jefflombardjr 7y ago
> What happened in most of the world starting in the 70s was abstract data types which was really staying with an assignment centered way of thinking about programming and I believe that... in fact when I made this slide C++ was just sor
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by jefflombardjr 7y ago
> You are not made to eat plants This is completely false, please stop. We're omnivores: https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2016/12/23/how-humans-evo... McArdle, John. "Humans are Omniv
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by jefflombardjr 7y ago
1.) Environmental externalities are not included in the full cost of oil and now we have a classic tragedy of the commons problem.[0] It's not just the CO2 emitted in the burning of oil, it's also the energy loss in distribution,
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by jefflombardjr 7y ago
> They said that more people could be fed using less land if individuals cut down on eating meat. This. These articles are not calling for full vegetarianism/veganism. This is really quite doable. You really don't need meat wit
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by jefflombardjr 7y ago
1) Energy density matters. You cite no data to back your claims up, in fact the opposite is true. Lithium batteries pack just as much energy per kg. Lithium is at 41.7 kJ per gram [0], Oil is at 45 kJ per gram [1] Battery tech has more room
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by jefflombardjr 7y ago
If it is indeed a battle, like you say, infrastructure investment in wind + solar, reliable public transportation, a public health system, and free public education would do us 100x more than playing silly games with China.
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by jefflombardjr 7y ago
Not me, but a former boss: He had started a company that was profitable for a time, but things eventually slowed down.While it may not have been a huge financial success, he was able to provide jobs for a good number of people for a couple
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by jefflombardjr 7y ago
General advice: giving a brief historical context and why the stuff you're teaching matters is incredibly motivating for students. The best professors I've have had didn't just teach, they shared their love for the subject at
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by jefflombardjr 7y ago
Energy consumption from production aside, if it means preventing more microplastics from entering the environments I think that in and of itself is a marginal win. This is all based on the assumption that they are actually compostable and i
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by jefflombardjr 7y ago
It is quite possible to change microclimates[0], even in a small area, and guess what, you change enough microclimates you change the climate in the whole area. A great example of transforming large tracts of land is the UVM Jericho researc
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by jefflombardjr 7y ago
I am completely against a 'landed class' collecting malthusian rents. But, if these companies are adding value that shouldn't be overlooked. Not all people want to maintain a property, and not all people want to "rent fo
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by jefflombardjr 7y ago
I'm not against striking - I'm just undecided on the efficiency of it in this particular case. It seems to me it would be easier to get people to vote than to boycott Amazon in an impactful way. But as brundolf pointed out, it doe
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by jefflombardjr 7y ago
> It's not either/or Valid point. I do question how much something like this could realistically push the market though. Boycotting a public transportation system with only one revenue stream is very different from boycotting a
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by jefflombardjr 7y ago
And then what? Amazon will continue to do the bare minimum to appease these signals periodically. It is not the duty of consumers to provide a social safety net for workers. This is precisely where government should step in. If you really g
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by jefflombardjr 7y ago
I think your described 'Disney World' effect of nature tourism is a symptom of the misguided notion that pieces of nature can be cordoned off and preserved. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/08/opinion

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