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by jfim 6y ago
That's definitely doable at big corporations, which is why they can afford to hire generalists and assign them somewhere, train them, and reassign them somewhere else in the company if they don't pan out. For smaller companies, an
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by jfim 6y ago
Keep in mind that the plan is tied to your employment, paid by your employer, and better than what many Americans do have as a healthcare plan. It's a good place to be if you're in the upper middle class and above, but people work
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by jfim 6y ago
What talent are you looking for, though? FAANG companies and many companies are okay with generalists (eg. can code on a whiteboard), but if you're looking for specialist expertise (eg. computer vision, control engineering, operations
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by jfim 6y ago
This would be a pretty long topic to discuss, but in general monetary policy is something that governments really do want to control. If a national economy is not doing well or there is little demand for their goods or currency, the value o
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by jfim 6y ago
I don't disagree with you, I just don't personally believe that it will become a major instrument of trade due to it removing a major component of economic policy. I believe that most countries would rather have their citizens use
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by jfim 6y ago
Feel free to substitute "real estate" for "housing" in my post.
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It's just a risk that the value of it drops to near zero if it's outlawed. Or it could become highly regulated and be much less useful for trade due to onerous compliance requirements. For example, how do you prove that wallet X t
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by jfim 6y ago
Purchased, not rented. GP was also referring to house prices, not rentals.
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Keep in mind that the US government has an incentive to keep the US dollar as the currency used for most of the international trade. If Bitcoin would become a risk to that status, would the US government just give up and admit defeat or wou
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by jfim 6y ago
> I think it is a sensible expectation that if inflation was said to be 2% for 20 years then I should be able to buy a house that cost $200K 20 years ago for ~$300K now Housing is a bit particular because it's a good that's alm
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by jfim 6y ago
> Then your dplyr example above doesn't work, because active_users doesn't exist. You can assume that it would contain the same data that would be in the CTE in the SQL query above. There's no such table in the database, i
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by jfim 6y ago
There's an aggregation part that comes after the CTE, at which point the "friend_count" or "last_login" fields are not available anymore. "active_users" isn't a table, it's the result of the CTE
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by jfim 6y ago
It would be gamed anyway, you'd just get sellers saying "we'll give you twenty dollars for not returning the item."
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by jfim 6y ago
It's for more complex queries, eg. active users per country: WITH active_users AS (SELECT DISTINCT user_id, user_country FROM ... WHERE last_login >= NOW() - 1 month) SELECT user_country, COUNT(user_id) AS user_count
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by jfim 6y ago
SQL doesn't compose all that well. For example, imagine that you have a complex query that handles a report. If someone says "hey we need the same report but with another filter on X," your options are to copy paste the SQL q
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by jfim 6y ago
Interestingly enough, the ultra rich would probably like to move to a sales tax model too. As a fraction of income, I'm sure that billionaires do spend less than any of us. For a sales tax to derive the same amount as an income tax, it
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by jfim 6y ago
Not sure about iOS, but on Android it's in settings > chats > chat backup and it creates a backup periodically if enabled. When reinstalling signal one can point it at the backup and enter the code to restore messages.
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by jfim 6y ago
MathML support was removed eight years ago from Chrome, actually. See https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=152430...
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by jfim 6y ago
In the comments, the author suggests that one could pay out less than the cost of the book, turning it into a "discount for fans of the material."
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Pihole works pretty well. I have it set up on a VPN, and the difference between regular internet and no ads internet on mobile is pretty impressive. As a bonus, it blocks ads in native apps too.
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by jfim 6y ago
> Or are post office vehicles already outfitted with cameras and I just don't know about it? There have been a few LLVs that have been seen with nctech mapping units. [0] [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/SelfDriving
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by jfim 6y ago
Renewable energy doesn't mean that there are no ecological impacts to building out these new sources of energy. The process of extracting minerals, transforming them into solar panels and wind turbines still pollutes, transporting, ins
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by jfim 6y ago
Sometimes outcomes are regulated, not the means of getting to that outcome. In your case, murder is illegal, but the instrument could be completely legal. For example, water is perfectly legal, although one could force someone to ingest too
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by jfim 6y ago
> is that right now there is no "better" use for that electricity than bitcoin [...] the best option for the collection of arguably the most brilliant minds that have ever walked this planet is to work for Google, trying to get
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by jfim 6y ago
There aren't that many European EV products in the US market that are available. The ID.4 is announced and it can be reserved, but you can't drive one today from what I know.
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by jfim 6y ago
You could just reuse the code from opentaxsolver and run it through emscripten. Here's an old version I made a few years ago: https://github.com/jfim/1040.js
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Jetbrains or netbeans?
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> at no-point in the past 10 years have I come across any "serious" PHP web-application software intended for private or on-prem usage since vBulletin or SVN. There's Phabricator [0], which incidentally uses MySQL. [0] ht
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by jfim 6y ago
Tilt and turn windows, with triple or quadruple panes, low-E glass, and two gaskets for air sealing are much more common in Europe than in the US for residential construction, where they would only be seen in highly energy efficient high en
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Lexan (polycarbonate) is actually used for that purpose. Plexiglas (acrylic) is also transparent, but not as resistant to impacts.

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