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by jldugger 5y ago
Can you expand on that? Russia's main export is oil.
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by jldugger 5y ago
The cost to the Russian people is high, but the cost to Putin and his entourage is yet another toothless freeze on overseas assets (the ones they know about), some irrelevant protests in Moscow, and a hefty increase in oil prices.
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by jldugger 5y ago
Even without the tax havens, the jurisdictional issues seem killer -- if I pay for software in Kansas and download blocks from Texas, California, Puerto Rico and Canada, who all do I owe sales tax to?
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by jldugger 5y ago
I'm pretty sure OSS gets a free ride on mirrors, because of peering agreements: if traffic between networks is equal, nobody has a case that they're the stronger party on negotiations, so no money changes hands. If there's an
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by jldugger 5y ago
> Where are our 'neural binutils'? Assuming you mean coreutils. binutils is for managing/inspecting binary executables. But to your point: there were two key innovations and criteria of UNIX pipelines: a common and underst
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by jldugger 5y ago
> Irken society in Invader Zim was supposed to be absurd Noo, our snacks! But srsly, took me a minute to realize you were referring to the Almighty Tallest.
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by jldugger 5y ago
> Do you take notes? I used to. 90 percent of them were about tools or other things to look up later. Now, I add those to the backlog, and the other 10 percent become Anki cards. These days the only things I write down are meeting relate
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by jldugger 5y ago
> This whole book is rational. But like, it literally _is not_. Most obviously an entire chapter is dedicated to how arming the general population is the best way of securing your noble estate, and that is objectively a bad idea for pett
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by jldugger 5y ago
I mean, I've never used it but Fearless Salary Negotiation[1] is commonly recommended? [1]: https://fearlesssalarynegotiation.com
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by jldugger 5y ago
> A Gmail account is the gateway for Android It's also an "in" on iOS, alongside Maps.
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by jldugger 5y ago
Man, this is a book that really needs to be paired with an explainer, or you will miss the subtext and come across the exact opposite conclusions: The Prince is a _satire_, a gift to the Medici family that arrested, tortured and exiled him.
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by jldugger 5y ago
> The second will teach you how to negotiate salaries, raises, and promotions among other things. “Never split the difference” is a really good book, but I'm really confused by this context. The book is 90 percent 'how to encou
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by jldugger 5y ago
> they were already on the way out of the team, so why not use them to fill up the PIP quotas Well, for starters, this LinkedIn post.
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by jldugger 5y ago
> In October 2019, Soli shipped in the Pixel 4, marketed to consumers as "Motion Sense." It provided users with a faster face unlock along with some basic touchless gestures like controlling music. Google must have decided it w
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by jldugger 5y ago
Well, it's the same amount of "effort" -- you supervise the same number of students, they just graduate faster. And most department metrics Ive seen measure PhDs granted as an output.
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by jldugger 5y ago
> This is a library and if you want to be promoted you have to be a librarian to get ahead" There's more to career development than promotion into management. Level promotions are a thing, after all. Or at the very least, annua
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by jldugger 5y ago
Grant more PhDs per year, while reducing the cost of education to the student. Grad student stipends are often meager, assuming you even get funding.
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by jldugger 5y ago
As a manager, you never have an immediate need for regularly scheduled 1-1 meetings. You can always just ask your directs for their time and expect to get it -- rare is the employee who says no to a request from their manager to talk. Regul
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by jldugger 5y ago
I'm just gonna put this out there: none of this sounds like a problem if you don't lie to your reports.
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by jldugger 5y ago
Okay, well, it still outlines clinical trial phases correctly, right?
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by jldugger 5y ago
> high-risk low-incidence diseases like this conducted If you're asking 'how do we test the vaccine without _trying_ to give people HIV", one option is to give it to a lot of people, and record their outcomes over time. B
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by jldugger 5y ago
> DEFINITELY say what you are doing. And then say why. My favored github PR template has 3 sections: - What does this PR do? - Why is that valuable? - Link to bug tracker.
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by jldugger 5y ago
> Your phone doesn't audibly broadcast your emails as you send them Funnily enough I used to know a blind woman who would use the iOS screen reader at like 4x speed when doing email. > your snail mail doesn't come in complet
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by jldugger 5y ago
I believe the discussion is about what Wealthfront is doing to earn their 0.25% fee. "Tax loss harvesting" seems unpersuasive.
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by jldugger 5y ago
Setting aside whether TLH is saving money or simply borrowing it from future tax liabilities, how much is 3k in capital losses worth to you? At what point does the 0.25 expense ratio cost more than the benefit to you? By my calculations, th
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by jldugger 5y ago
The only thing I knew about Ehrenfest came from a morose quote that opened a book I read last year: > Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on
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by jldugger 5y ago
Causal inference, a field I've been studying for a few months, is often touted as achieving this. That's not quite true -- the causes do not live in the data. What causal inference does is estimate the parameters of a given causal
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by jldugger 5y ago
Yea, AFAICT, Java has fallen off in schools in favor of Python, which is less opinionated about things like that. It has classes if you want them, lambdas if you want them.
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by jldugger 5y ago
> Also you’d be offering something that’s not on the market - a 30th floor view or whatever Does Davis have anything worth seeing? The Central Valley is all flat farmland with the dry side of some mountains in the distance.
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by jldugger 5y ago
> the Davis law that says very tall buildings are legal anywhere But theres also no law stating this would be profitable, even as a oneoff

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