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by jsjsbdkj 5y ago
Yeah, somehow I never get catcalled or followed around by lesbians, it's almost like being a creep and being attracted to women aren't inextricably linked?
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by jsjsbdkj 5y ago
Yeah I'm conflicted on the value of congestion pricing (which feels like a regressive tax on people who don't have the flexibiltiy to bike to work or live in a city center) versus pedestrianizing streets, increasing public transit
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by jsjsbdkj 5y ago
Benefits only work if there's a large population where the risks can be averaged out. If you let people pick and choose whether they want insurance, people with known health problems will overwhelmingly want insurance, and the price wi
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by jsjsbdkj 5y ago
I love biking in the summmer, and I've avoided a moped or motorcycle because it would basically overlap with my bike in terms of usefulness around the city. I haven't done a ton of resarch but I haven't seen a good complement
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by jsjsbdkj 5y ago
This. I currently work with a CTO whc has less experience than me, because he founded the company, he's CTO by default.
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by jsjsbdkj 5y ago
11% is brutal! One of my favorite local climbs is about 450ft and maxes out at 7.5%, there's always people walking their bikes up the shoulder.
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by jsjsbdkj 5y ago
We had a multi-year project called the Truth and Reconciliation Comnmission which came up with a very exhaustive collection of testimony and calls to action. Their findings are heart-breaking, and the government has done nothing to follow t
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by jsjsbdkj 5y ago
They're from idaho based on the username, so they haven't caught up to chaucer yet...
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by jsjsbdkj 5y ago
Quebec gets most of its eletric power from hydroelectric sources (95%), while Ontario gets >60% from nuclear and 26% from hydroelectric. It's wild to compare the breakdown compared to western, oil-rich provinces which are basically
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by jsjsbdkj 5y ago
I'm imagining margaret thatcher holding a pillow over their faces while they're sleeping saying "they just died!"
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by jsjsbdkj 5y ago
IME the success of shopify is less tobi being some kind of genius than luck, timing and protectionism from the canadian government. He's very eager to point to specific things he thinks make him successful, but it's all post-hoc
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by jsjsbdkj 5y ago
Go is mostly very good, but the module ecosystem continues to be a nightmare, and having a deep dependency graph can make build times brutal. I work on a project which depends on k8s, which means a cold build take several minutes. Not to me
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by jsjsbdkj 5y ago
"Diversity and inclusion" as a separate function is mostly an exercise in giving the rest of the company cover. In my experience the people in these orgs have very little power to do anything, they just recieve the complaints, em
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by jsjsbdkj 5y ago
Spark's initial path to success was "a faster way to process your data in HDFS". Cloudera was selling users Spark before DataBricks was even founded. The idea was that Hadoop was an ecosystem of tools for processing data buil
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by jsjsbdkj 5y ago
I don't think startups really care about saving 20% on salaries - I think if we're going to get 4-day workweeks the argument needs to be around attracting candidates, and pointing to improved productivity. It's mind-boggling
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by jsjsbdkj 5y ago
Sales tax is highly regressive because poor people spend most of their money staying alive, while rich people can save and reinvest their pre-tax money. You're just reinventing the current de facto regime, where rich people don't
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by jsjsbdkj 5y ago
Basically this lets the employer retain more of the upside in stock appreciation - your equity bonus is now recomputed every year at the current stock price, and presumably expressed in dollars (not shares). So they'll say "oh you
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by jsjsbdkj 5y ago
As someone who lives in a city with a pretty active winter-biking culture, overcoming the problems of winter with an e-scooter is a non-starter. Riders here have fat bikes, studded tires, and gloves that slide onto the handlebars. Even conv
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by jsjsbdkj 5y ago
Please sign my petition to never use "sexy" to refer to anything ever again.
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by jsjsbdkj 6y ago
1 in 10 americans lives in poverty, which is 25k/year or less for a family of four. Your position is that those are just the stupidest, least capable 10% of people and they deserve to be impoverished? If you work full time and you don&
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by jsjsbdkj 6y ago
ACME HTTP challenges (Let's Encrypt, for example) literally do this. Your web server gets a challenge from the issuer, serves a special page with the response to validate that you own the domain, and the issuer gives you a cert for tha
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by jsjsbdkj 6y ago
This is extremely condescending. For someone with assets (retirement savings, a house, etc.) playing the lottery doesn't make sense - you could save that money and have a marginally better life just by investing it. For people on the o
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by jsjsbdkj 6y ago
> Lupin show a clear tendency to override history fidelity toward a much more political narrative... Lupin wasn't about recasting Lupin, it's about a modern person who is inspired by the stories. I'm not really sure what t
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by jsjsbdkj 6y ago
A supreme court clerkship is very impressive, but "saved by one of these people" is strong. My understanding is the justices have a conference, stake out their positions, and then the chief assigns cases based on who can attract a
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by jsjsbdkj 6y ago
> The idea that just because your code solved the problem then it's good enough is bullshit, especially if you're not the one that has to maintain your monstrosity of a codebase going forward. It's a lot better than beauti
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by jsjsbdkj 6y ago
I think it's worth thinking about why you were successful as a freelancer and in smaller companies. I started my career in a simmilar place, and I was very successful because I loved learning about the business, talking to stakeholders
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by jsjsbdkj 6y ago
> minimum wage is the equivalent of $1700 USD Your first mistake is assuming you can get a minimum wage job for 40/hr (with benefits?). Maybe you can get 2 20hr/week jobs with no insurance, if you can schedule them right and tr
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by jsjsbdkj 6y ago
If you make 35k a year, what would you sacrifice to save up to become a millionaire? What if you need a car to get to work because public transit has been gutted in your community? What if you have kids? The whole "personal responsibil
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by jsjsbdkj 6y ago
From the article: Most millionaires opt for stealth wealth. Their friends don’t know, their coworkers don’t know, their extended family doesn’t know. In a few cases, not even their children know! Wealth is accumulated through habits; at
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by jsjsbdkj 6y ago
This is the most basic pattern for distributed joins - you hash on the join key in both tables and shuffle data based on hash ranges. In some systems like Redshift you can designate the key for distribution so that "related" recor

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