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by jrumbut 4y ago
They could also just buy a plan directly from an insurer, but if it's massively expensive like COBRA coverage (especially for the kind of premium plans universities frequently offer), it's not really a practical option.
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by jrumbut 4y ago
The thing is video hosting at scale is still a pain, I have a YouTube account because I have a Google account so they never nagged me to create one, and almost all their content is still free in unlimited amounts. I'm not sure I'v
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by jrumbut 4y ago
I assume the plan from day one was make a very appealing platform at a loss, gain a moat from a huge library of good content, then squeeze the profit out of it. It's a deceptive business model, and people feel deceived and no longer wa
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by jrumbut 4y ago
Yes, but that is a separate purchase (that is usually extraordinarily expensive). You don't just get continued coverage.
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by jrumbut 4y ago
That's interesting, every time I've left a job the insurance was canceled more or less instantly.
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When I went to some hackathons 10-12 years ago they were essentially parties with networking and light coding, from time to time someone might get into an idea and actually make something but it was mostly a social event and the goal was (a
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by jrumbut 4y ago
I like working for people like this, because often they look to increase both quantity and quality of the people they manage (if they can call you a senior engineer, then that must make them a senior manager). So they're often quite a
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by jrumbut 4y ago
What makes me upset is that the latest Galaxy has a horrific and completely unpredictable autocorrect which replaced a so-so but very usable and predictable predecessor. The bloat apps are bad too but the autocorrect is what's really a
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by jrumbut 4y ago
It's funny to hear someone say the quiet part loud. Wasn't servicing exactly those customers (people without recourse to stable currencies and the international banking system) always the answer to "what do crytocurrencies do
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by jrumbut 4y ago
Google Docs on the phone has been very usable for a long time. There really isn't much you can't do on a phone, it's whether or not you can take advantage of the facilities offered by the laptop/desktop.
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by jrumbut 4y ago
I've been working with a recent college graduate, in STEM, who did not know Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V or Ctrl-S because they had essentially never used a desktop/laptop computer. They had one, but it is something like my drill. It gets d
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by jrumbut 4y ago
This is beautiful, I've been using Debian for a long time and learned a few useful tidbits in a minute of clicking around.
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by jrumbut 4y ago
I am torn. While I am skeptical of a lot of IP concepts, I am much more skeptical of a law that is enforced against internet users who want to download MP3s but not enforced against technology companies that want to sell AI generated conten
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by jrumbut 4y ago
I agree. Data being placed on a map often has a hierarchical element (country, state/province, county/district, town/city, etc) and many of the data standards allow nesting such as GeoJSON. While R can handle hierarchical dat
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by jrumbut 4y ago
I would argue that a counterculture has to be oppositional and can't be happily compatible. The hippies who were burning their draft cards, dropping out of school, and living as mendicants were a counterculture that could not truly coe
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by jrumbut 4y ago
In the present moment, the counterculture is always hard to find and identify. That's what makes it the counterculture. Now you can read and listen to the Beat poets anywhere, but that would have been challenging in the early '50s
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They don't have to be, but they are. And we ignore that our peril. I'm not arguing against working from home, I think working from home is great. I'm arguing that to make progress we need to consider things like "now tha
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by jrumbut 4y ago
ClickHouse is one of those technologies I've had half an eye on for a while. In your completely unbiased opinion (I kid), do you think it's a good choice for the following problem? I have multiple sensors that read different types
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by jrumbut 4y ago
This is probably true to an extent, but I do think this analysis fails to capture the very real upheaval that happened in the life of a hypothetical blacksmith or wainwright that ended up at a car factory. A job isn't just a financial
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by jrumbut 4y ago
The difference between tests and comments is that comments become stale silently.
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by jrumbut 4y ago
Sure, but people never use those. Also it gets back to the discoverability issue. The ORM documents relationships with the rest of the model code, if you have a poorly named view in a large, complex schema it may be hard to find. You could
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by jrumbut 4y ago
An ORM allows you to encode a relationship once then use it for many different queries, I think that's the idea.
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by jrumbut 4y ago
I'm much the same, I've been down to having my whole life fit in a backpack and currently am spread all over a three bedroom house. Too much space and, strangely, too much organization make me anxious long term. I find my ad hoc o
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by jrumbut 4y ago
Funny enough I went to Canada for a quick trip in with my (non-real ID) driver's license and birth certificate, stayed a couple extra days, and arrived back at the border just hours before the switchover to requiring a passport/re
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by jrumbut 4y ago
Funny, I still get the illusion after turning the pigeons every color from dark grey to bright yellow. Brighter colors make it a bit less strong but still very much there.
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by jrumbut 4y ago
Yeah, but you don't have deal with her problem which is an inbox flooded with random noise. It might be flattering for a minute but after that I'm sure it's a burden not much lighter than the empty inbox. Besides, as long as
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by jrumbut 4y ago
I think this is all basically true, but what is interesting to me is that these incumbent tech companies were greedy when everyone was greedy and in so doing they created an opening for someone who is greedy when others are fearful to come
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by jrumbut 4y ago
These programs are the result of compromises. One side says the programs aren't generous enough, the other says benefits go to people who don't deserve them. The compromise between those two ideas is what we have today.
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You would think that, but the article text says otherwise: > the median income of taxpayers who left San Francisco would probably have been around $250,000. I am as puzzled as you, why not just calculate the median or email the people wi
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by jrumbut 4y ago
I'm sympathetic to the argument that there might be something unusual about the income distribution of the people who left San Francisco for various ski resort towns but pulling a very specific number like $250k out of the air is weird

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