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by jjav 2y ago
> I'm going out on a limb here, but if this is the viewpoint of the people who raised him, then I'm not surprised he cheated. At my child's elementary school and now middle school the teachers openly ecourage using AI chat
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by jjav 2y ago
> Usenet, BBSs, mailing lists etc. are social media In a generic sense, yes. People did socialize. But "social media" today really means: a proprietary platform controlled by a single corporation, where all the user interaction
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by jjav 2y ago
> As others mentioned, there are Discord and IRC pockets. Ah, discord, the proprietary service that demands a phone number just to be able to read anything (so I've never been able to). Basically the exact opposite of IRC.
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by jjav 2y ago
> I may have missed something, but I've never felt the "optimism" described by the article in the first place. I think it depends what the "old days" are for each generation. For me it is the early days of the In
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by jjav 2y ago
> Early retirement is nice, and earlier retirement is even nicer, but given a choice between retiring when my kid is 20 and being home with him every day throughout his whole childhood, there's no contest. Agreed. I took 3 years off
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> Insurance companies don’t actually make very much profit. Insurance companies usually (maybe it's always, not certain) are regulated to a percentage cap spent on categories. What is the result? They are incentivized to push prices
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by jjav 2y ago
> To throw in a data point on this for reference, as an American I pay around ~$220 a month (~$2,640 per year) on health insurance Having just filled my annual benefits selections tonight, here's my data point: health insurance is $
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by jjav 2y ago
> not even comparable to the risk in uploading docs to a website which promises they won't share user data with anyone. This is genuinely a pro buyer tool with no association with any 3rd party. I have no reason to think you're
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> It’s like the bar exam for lawyers. At least lawyers don't have to take the bar every other year for the rest of their careers.
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> Since when is studying, practicing and preparing, gaming the system? Fair question.. the problem today is the emphasis on studying and practicing irrelevant things like memorizing algorithms. That's become the paved short-cut to w
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> Just like with a calculator - it's important for candidates to know _why_ something works and be able to demonstrate that as much as them knowing the solution. And this is why I never give coding-puzzle interviews. I just have a c
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by jjav 2y ago
It is, in my observation, a popular HN myth that amenities only exist in hyper-dense and expensive cities. But it's not true. In my very suburban (low density suburban, surrounded on two sides by forest) area the library is a 10 minute
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by jjav 2y ago
> It’s really hard to be excited about the ACA. While your complains are all true and the ACA is a mess compared to any developed country, it is still very exciting to have the ACA. For anyone who was barred from getting insurance before
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by jjav 2y ago
> And yeah, it's stupid, and it makes the problem worse. It's the reason nonetheless. While that's true, it's also a difficult problem to solve. In tiny organizations like startups where the CEO personally knows every
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> It's gonna be 16 years in February that I've been a financial coach You mentioned doing this as a side gig? If you could give a few pointers to info on how you got started? Sometimes I think it would be rewarding to do someth
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by jjav 2y ago
> Now I’m in my 30s and I have no idea when I’ll buy a house, if ever. This might not be what you want to do, or hear; I know it wasn't what I wanted in my late 20s. But you could own a house within a year or so if you decide you wa
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by jjav 2y ago
> Then you write a justification which you defend, to higher ups and to those who weren't promoted. What happens next is this manager gets a low performance rating themselves, for making decisions not backed by metrics. So next year
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> Not a single person in the US is denied healthcare based on inability to pay. This is not true. Emergency rooms are required to take you in and stabilize your situation even if you can't pay. Everything else is not available if y
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Using only open standards and open source with a suitable license. Being disciplined about this is very difficult, see RMS. But it is the way.
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> The entire underlying layer of possible misconfigurations is absent in the cloud. This is true. Let's not forget there is a whole new, quite different, layer of potential (and easy) misconfigurations that exist only in the cloud,
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by jjav 2y ago
> ten percent cash back on groceries You must share which card is this, I will get one immediately. 10%?
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> You could just use a debit card. Debit cards are the worst of all options. Any fraud means the money is immediately gone from your account. Yes you can often get it back eventually, but eventually takes time. > I don't need any
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by jjav 2y ago
Sorry, I meant buying puts. I mostly sell puts on other things, but on TSLA I buy puts.
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> Feel free to put your money where your mouth is by shorting TESLA if you feel like it's so overvalued. and get crushed like everyone that did just that along the way. Selling put options on TSLA has been one of my more profitable
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The liability of allowing this. Liability to the company. It is factually minimal and inconsequential. Look at the stock price hit companies take when they have security breaches. The impact is basically none apart from a short-term dip w
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> This pattern has been played out time and time again. I wish more people would recognize it's a standard playbook, quite intentional.
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> That's because it's not understood what a liability allowing this to occur is. No, it's because they understand what the liability of allowing this is (minimal and inconsequential). So why bother?
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> Trivial, but 10 seconds vs. 4 man hours is quite the improvement. Sure. But now try sustaining that impact multiplier every minute, 8 hours a day for a year.
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> 3-10 juniors can make a massive expensive mess of a crud app that costs $x0k a month in amazon spend and barely works, while someone who knows what they're doing could cobble it together on a lamp stack running under their desk fo
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by jjav 2y ago
> I kind of assumed that already happened. Road layout can change daily, sometimes multiple times per day. Sometimes in a second, like when a tree falls on a lane and now you have to reroute on the oncoming lane for some distance, etc.

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