joncrane

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by joncrane 7y ago
It's minor kickbacks and a lot of information asymmetry. The big kickbacks come from the "benefits consulting" companies that "help" small to midsize businesses figure out what vehicles to use to offer benefits for
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by joncrane 7y ago
Oh you'd be surprised how many people at the $250k income level have been cruising along barely net worth neutral in spending and took out some kind of personal loan or used their credit card for that $10k "new roof" blip or
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by joncrane 7y ago
I got the same error and I don't use CF DNS.
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by joncrane 7y ago
I think people chronically devalue their time. Many schemes exploit this: free lunch to sit through a sales pitch is one. Another is the $0.05 "bag tax." Most rational humans would just pay because it's a hassle to carry
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by joncrane 7y ago
Interesting that the currrent CEO is buying Uber stock while founders are dumping it. It's unclear whether the stock Dara Khosrowshahi is buying comes at a discount, though.
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by joncrane 7y ago
Because some people dream of moving to the beach and working fully remote from literally a house on a remote beach somewhere. But they still want to make good money and can commit to a solid 8 hours "on" every weekday.
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by joncrane 7y ago
The point is that UW offers degrees that are easily worth it at that price.
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by joncrane 7y ago
The original JP Morgan essentially "saved" the US Financial system in 1907.[1] Jamie Dimon would probably love to get credit for duplicating that feat. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._P._Morgan#Panic_of_
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by joncrane 7y ago
>The temporary reprieve's value is probably a minute or two each direction saved tops. Do you have a source for that? How could you possibly know without knowing current distance and average speed?
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by joncrane 7y ago
Let's do a thought experiment. Today, Highway A that links suburban region A to city B has 2 lanes and there are Y number of people that can make a certain commute in a certain amount of time. We widen it to 4 lanes. We get 7-10 year
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by joncrane 7y ago
I studied this in a computer class in college. I can't remember if it was a computer testing class or a computer ethics class. But it was the first thing we covered and the point was, as you embark on a career writing software, BE CA
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by joncrane 7y ago
Put the Guac instance in a public subnet with appropriate security group rules. Put the target instances in private subnets. Add a NAT in the public subnet so that the target instances can get security updates and install new software. It&
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by joncrane 7y ago
My browser (FF) displays the link in a slightly lighter grey if I've visited it. To clean up my feed, I hide topics that I am "done with." That is, I gave it the amount of attention I'm willing to give it. This keeps m
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by joncrane 7y ago
Being obsessed with something is indeed a lot like slavery, or indentured servitude. But the difference is it was my idea.
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by joncrane 7y ago
I think it's like EC2 instance IDs. When they first came up with it, they never thought there would be literally billions of unique email addresses/EC2 instances eventually.
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by joncrane 7y ago
That's the most surreal, when you try to fix it and the behavior never changes.
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by joncrane 7y ago
Wiki means fast in Hawaiian. It came to be synonymous with online community editable websites for information. But it's original meaning is from the Hawaiian phrase "wiki wiki" which means quickly. So it makes sense. Quickbu
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by joncrane 7y ago
Second the tortilla chips. I used to fry them in a pan but I figured out how to get decent results in a microwave. My go-to is to spread butter on them then nuke them. Two weeks ago I went to Costa Rica and did a horseback/boat/h
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by joncrane 7y ago
Would both of those conditions be asymptomatic between the precipitating event (electric shock) and sudden death hours later?
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by joncrane 7y ago
Can you irrigate with water that has detergents in it though?
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by joncrane 7y ago
The figure quoted is a concentration (5%), not a dose. How much actual THC did the rats ingest? That's the question.
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by joncrane 7y ago
First of all, it's a terrible article, it's full of typos; why aren't we linking to the source article on ArsTecnica? Secondly, Later on in the article is the more relevant >The city figures it will cost $18 million to rec
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by joncrane 7y ago
LOL in terms of bang for buck, being a Developer/Cloud Ops person is way more lucrative more quickly than law or medicine. Also keep in mind it's much more egalitarian. In law yes you can eventually make partner at a white shoe f
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by joncrane 7y ago
They are trying to get students who can: 1) Pay 2) Stay the full 4 years So yes, the "best" students (the ones who will pay full price for 8 semesters) are very profitable for them.
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by joncrane 7y ago
The people who get caught are, on average, able to hide enough of the money from the authorities through various means that they have some money to come home to, if you will. This means some people exit jail penniless and some exit jail wit
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by joncrane 7y ago
It was about 20 years ago and the sources and writing are lost to the sands of time. But you might be able to Google it.
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by joncrane 7y ago
I hate to say this but I found the same when I studied this issue in my business ethics class in grad school (MBA). I wrote my end of term paper on this exact issue. What it boils down to is that, on average, white collar criminals can exp
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by joncrane 7y ago
It's not so much an advantage as a drawback; big families led by people with no formal (in the what society expects sense; Talmudic study is quite formal) education and strict gender roles. They also have to drop everything and pray t
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by joncrane 7y ago
>No one ever got fired for using Oracle. Yet.
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by joncrane 7y ago
The goal is to grow with the customer. AWS doesn't mind having a smaller piece of the pie because the pie is growing.

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