kaashif

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by kaashif 3y ago
The House of Lords is at most a speed bump (they can only delay, not block), and legal challenges cannot block primary legislation.
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by kaashif 3y ago
I think about JFK all the time. In fact, I'm in JFK right now.
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by kaashif 3y ago
You seem to use wage receiver and wage slave interchangeably. The top 1% of wage receivers include people in literally millions of dollars per year who cannot reasonably be described as wage slaves.
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by kaashif 3y ago
Even for the ones with quizzes at the end and lots interactive elements throughout (not a video), oftentimes the most time-efficient strategy is to speed click through and just guess the quiz answers using common sense. Hasn't failed m
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by kaashif 3y ago
> You're just planning for some tomorrow that usually never comes for most people. That's odd, my impression is that a lot of people go to the Bay, save a lot, then leave. Do we have any statistics on this?
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by kaashif 3y ago
When I'm actually writing code and hashing out a solution over the course of a single hour in my job, I'm not going to commit the wrong turns. What you're really asking for is a candidate to spend extra time inventing a convi
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by kaashif 3y ago
But smaller developed countries can turn on the immigration taps a bit and continue population growth even as world population drastically shrinks. This won't work forever, but it may buy a century or so.
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by kaashif 3y ago
This is incorrect. If my income and expenses both increase by 10x, my savings increase by 10x. After just a few years of saving, I have the option of moving somewhere cheaper and living like a king. It's not like your savings and inves
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by kaashif 3y ago
I mean, not necessarily. A 300k job at a tech company may be less stressful than e.g. a 150k job at a non tech company with a toxic culture. To be clear, it can be true, there are lots of stressful high paying jobs, my point is that it&#x27
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by kaashif 3y ago
If someone really can't do that, then either they don't know how to count (very unlikely), they didn't understand the question, or they are really bad at translating what they would do on paper into a program. All disqualifyi
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by kaashif 3y ago
"Please timebox to an hour" is a bit dodgy though. If one candidate really does that, but the rest give it an extra 2 or 3 hours, that 1 hour candidate will probably be at a disadvantage.
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by kaashif 3y ago
Using the word "wageslave" to describe 300k TC office workers is out of touch at best and downright offensive at worst.
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by kaashif 3y ago
Agreed completely on all counts. Never ever use VLAs. My point is really just semantic, the overall argument I was responding to is intact.
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by kaashif 3y ago
Point taken, I was inaccurate. Out of order designated initializers still don't work in C++20, right? Which still means C++ isn't a superset of C.
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by kaashif 3y ago
> And since C++ is a superset of C that is certainly true there. C++ is not a superset of C. C99 has and C++ (at the time of writing) doesn't have: restricted pointers, designated initializers, variable length arrays, and probably m
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by kaashif 3y ago
If a native Chinese speaker said that person speaks like a native, then I believe them. However I don't believe it's possible for a non fluent speaker to make that determination. I think we're on the same page with regards to
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by kaashif 3y ago
If you're not fluent in Chinese, how could you tell if someone speaks Chinese like a native? I'm only a native speaker of English, but I know vast swathes of native Chinese speakers who have been in the US for decades and sound no
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by kaashif 3y ago
What's the problem with playing Russian roulette if you don't kill anyone?
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by kaashif 3y ago
When a bank makes a loan, they create a loan and a deposit from nothing, they don't need deposits to create loans. Banks are subject to capital requirements, and are concerned about profitability and loan losses, so they don't mak
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by kaashif 3y ago
A lot of people would rather save their pet than an unspecified stranger from a sinking ship: https://today.yougov.com/topics/society/articles-reports/202... That makes sense. But becoming a pet owner also ma
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by kaashif 3y ago
I think the examples on this page are clear: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cot%E2%80%93caught_merger where cot/caught is the same difference as don/dawn.
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by kaashif 3y ago
That doesn't work. People locally will decide that people far away should pay the costs while locals reap the rewards. People upriver will use all of the water. People in fertile, temperate, not low lying areas will be affected less by
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by kaashif 3y ago
How does the answer being "it depends" imply you should be an anarchist?
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by kaashif 3y ago
> no one ever professes to be a member of it Go to reddit.com/r/neoliberal, there are lots of people claiming to be neoliberals there.
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by kaashif 3y ago
Oh, I meant brother in law too, actually. But my point is, anything beyond that isn't something I've heard.
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by kaashif 3y ago
On the other hand, I've never heard of uncle meaning any family member other than the brother of a parent. At the very least, we can agree that using "uncle" like this is incredibly easily misinterpreted.
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by kaashif 3y ago
I don't know whether they should or not, but it's clear that there was a very unusual set of conditions and it is unsurprising it didn't last forever, right or wrong.
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by kaashif 3y ago
> The generated wealth simply doesn't make it to the workforce. Some of it does - real wages in the US are higher than in the past: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q
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by kaashif 3y ago
It is funny, people somehow think that a momentary episode of utter economic dominance after all other economic powers had been bombed into dust should be the norm. And the 50s and 60s weren't that great for e.g. black people or women
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by kaashif 3y ago
> Of course Boston predates the automobile, so I understand why. New York City's grid plan far predates the automobile: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commissioners%27_Plan_of_181... Grids are sometimes but no

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