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by jonfw 6y ago
There are investments where the only risk is that the issuing government collapse- in which case the title to your property would be at risk as well.
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by jonfw 6y ago
What I've heard about game development (correct me if you disagree) is that it is typically higher demanding or lower paying than gigs in other fields. What I've heard is that it's only worth being in that industry if you&#x2
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by jonfw 6y ago
in my experience- the more I learn about nutrition, the more I realize that we're just talking about everybody's best guess. Hard facts are scarce in this space.
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by jonfw 6y ago
I feel like this argument lacks a full understanding of what 'net worth' even means. Bezos is not taking enough cash from Amazon to be even remotely relevant to what they pay their warehouse workers. His cash compensation in 2019
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by jonfw 6y ago
US developers don't have to live in those areas either, to still earn significantly more than EU developers earn.
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by jonfw 6y ago
You've also got to look at how doctors are being incentivized. Medicine funnels more money into the medical system- and kickbacks or 'rewards' programs from pharmaceutical companies are common. Outside of that- people like th
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by jonfw 6y ago
This is well understood by now. The issue is that most people aren't actually going to track their calories- they eat when they're hungry. If you adjust your diet- you can satiate your appetite on a lower number of calories. The i
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by jonfw 6y ago
I haven't had any issues with this in a Kubernetes context- but I can see how this could lead to issues in different contexts
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by jonfw 6y ago
Why would you do this in a Kubernetes context?
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by jonfw 6y ago
Why not parse the YAML- manipulate it like you would any other data structure in your language of choice, and then generate the YAML from there? I don't understand why you would want to directly edit markup language without parsing it.
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by jonfw 6y ago
Engineering quality is about nothing other than meeting the spec- how well does google accomplish that? It sounds like you have some issues with the design itself, maybe some issues with the business practices. Those are issues with the spe
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by jonfw 6y ago
Gmail, google maps, and google docs are all excellent
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by jonfw 6y ago
What's wrong with the YAML? It's easy to read and write, concise, and generally has sane defaults meaning you don't have to be overly verbose.
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by jonfw 6y ago
You're supposed to compare a service against it's competition, not the least productive thing you could possibly imagine in it's stead. If you walked into a car dealership and the best thing they could say is "It's
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by jonfw 6y ago
Open source isn't a term exclusively owned and defined by the OSI. You can define it however you like, but that term has long been used to describe projects that don't quite fit in OSI's box. To be clear- I think OSI has the
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by jonfw 6y ago
The lottery takes an incredibly high cut
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by jonfw 6y ago
What motivates technological and scientific development?
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by jonfw 6y ago
They're attempting to paint this advice as coming from experts- but without attaching names, we're relying solely on the credibility of the author from the NYT. Given the incentive structure of being an internet blogger (sensation
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by jonfw 6y ago
"I know of many exceptions to your evolutionary argument, which makes it entirely worthless" It's not controversial, but it's missing the point. Nobody is arguing that ever single woman in our history preceding capitalis
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by jonfw 6y ago
Women and men have significant biological differences, and from my understanding of our evolution, they've had these significant differences for a much longer time that capitalism has existed. Evolution suggests that these biological d
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by jonfw 6y ago
This seems like an exceptionally rare event- for a person to a) have nothing better to do than stalk your comments, going back 13 years, b) be in enough of a position of power that they could use it against you, and c) be irrational enough
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by jonfw 6y ago
Exactly. If a single test becomes important enough, it will be very heavily gamed. Conventional education avoids this somewhat, because there are so many models by which you are measured against, over a very long period of time. This makes
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by jonfw 6y ago
You think a quote he made to his own employees, painting the company in a strong light, will change everything?
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by jonfw 6y ago
Obviously it doesn't eliminate all the risk, but it does eliminate quite a lot. It doesn't need to be perfect to be effective
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by jonfw 6y ago
The nice thing about running a DB inside a cluster is running your entire application, end to end, through one unified declarative model. It's really really easy to spin up a brand new dev or staging environment. generally though in pr
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by jonfw 6y ago
That's the makings of great open source software- you have something very lightweight and unopiniated at the core, and distributions can pack all of the features and opinion they want on top of that to target more specific use cases. T
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by jonfw 6y ago
The point being made was your kid is more likely to be endangered by police than random criminals. Your math here isn't really attempting to prove or disprove that point, instead you're talking about likelihood of police vs averag
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by jonfw 6y ago
If the goal is to make a factual argument, then the facts are that the # of police murders is less than the # of police killings, because some portion of those killings are justifiable. Where we draw the line is debatable, but the person yo
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by jonfw 6y ago
Also worth mentioning- the government spends 2.3 trillion on healthcare and welfare, 90 billion is not a lot of money in this context.
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by jonfw 6y ago
I agree. Given this truth, complaining that people complain about your system of choice seems pretty silly

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