kenhwang

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by kenhwang 6y ago
Snapchat is fun. If you're not on it, it's hard to understand.
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by kenhwang 6y ago
Which is why many East Asian countries have big PR campaigns that focus on how stylish cotton masks are and how they're "more effective" than medical masks* *more effective at slowing spread through the population, not more e
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by kenhwang 6y ago
Definitely see it being dragged through the courts. But it'd be the most tolerable enforcement mechanism to the wealthy elite who wouldn't mind just eating a fine. The East Asian solution takes it one step further with mass survei
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by kenhwang 6y ago
It's the difference between a wall and a water filter. Much easier to block the exhale than filter the inhale.
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by kenhwang 6y ago
Even more American would be to fine/arrest people caught without a mask.
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by kenhwang 6y ago
Seems like you're comparing between languages that end up being the default choice due to their low learning curve (Python/Go/Java) and languages chosen because the default choice wasn't good enough (Ruby/Rust/
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by kenhwang 6y ago
I agree that this likely wouldn't have passed even with Bernie since McConnell can easily whip a vote to switch. That being said, this puts Bernie's incompetence at politicking in the spotlight. Any half decent politician would&#x
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by kenhwang 6y ago
Voluntary vs involuntary. You get unemployment if you're involuntarily out of work (laid off/furloughed/reduced hours). If you voluntarily chose not to work when offered, or at fault for termination, you're typically dis
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by kenhwang 6y ago
Your rights end when it infringes on the well-being of others. It's certainly not in violation of the law or the constitution, state or federal. The courts have defended that viewpoint multiple times over the centuries. The power to de
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by kenhwang 6y ago
I've written a "just use threads" approach to a web server in Rust, and if you're just juggling IO and not doing any real work like most CRUD webapps, just about every other async-capable language scaled more gracefully
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by kenhwang 6y ago
Every time I read one her posts, I think, wow she must either work for literally dirt cheap or her code is expected to run on several thousand machines. Most projects just don't reach the scale or steadystate where developer time is ch
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by kenhwang 6y ago
The cloud providers' main advantage when you're unicorn scale is their engineering team acts as an extension of yours. We regularly hop on calls with AWS to scope out features for them to build for us. Our parent org can pretty mu
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by kenhwang 6y ago
On one hand, this makes sense because interns (and junior engineers) are often terrible productivity/$. Internship programs tend to be more a marketing/recruitment tool which is a bit of a luxury right now. On the other hand, this
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by kenhwang 6y ago
Ford for their current ICE lineup does rely heavily on volume and does appear to be in a hard spot. Ford doesn't sell EVs yet. They have the Mach-E starting at $44k for 230mi launching in 2021. That does seem to have higher margins tha
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by kenhwang 6y ago
Tesla relies on high volume to make money; the other automakers are pricing EVs based more on margin. An economic slow down hurts volume much more than it hurts margins. Tesla also relies heavily on first-mover advantage to grow. With the v
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by kenhwang 7y ago
All the protobuf implementations I've worked with (especially protoc descendents) just feels like they wrapped the C implementation with some FFI and called it a day. They're all ugly and unidiomatic. So it's not exactly a hi
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by kenhwang 7y ago
Ah, yeah, can confirm the travel segment cratered into the ground. I can see adwords being an unpopular product overall at the moment. It's just an awful format for rebranding/storytelling/marketing.
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by kenhwang 7y ago
Google's advertising focuses heavily on ROI/CTR metrics min-maxing and for the most part, well timed and targeted ads. That's not what companies seem to care about right now. Everyone is running feel-good awareness campaigns.
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by kenhwang 7y ago
I work in digital advertising. Spend* is up. Companies are diverting their traditional advertising budgets into digital. I'd be surprised if Google is unable to capitalize on this. edit: I want to clarify it's strictly ad spend&#x
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by kenhwang 7y ago
My Gmail tab that I leave pinned regularly loses connection and stops updating. It seems more and more these days Google things just break when you don't use Chrome. Using Gmail with Firefox hasn't felt fast in a long while.
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by kenhwang 7y ago
Only if you succeed in becoming a monopoly. Otherwise it's just how capitalism is supposed to work.
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by kenhwang 7y ago
If I had to guess, it's by having typically 6-figure salary delivery drivers replaced with near minimum wage gig workers. But yes, I've also noticed when my package ends up in a completely different building on the other side of t
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by kenhwang 7y ago
I've rarely not had an issue with shipping from Amazon. Turns out when you randomly gig-hire a different person every day for delivery, they never learn how to get into an office/apartment building. USPS/UPS/FedEx have
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by kenhwang 7y ago
We use both Zoom and BlueJeans at work, and Zoom Just Works™ while BlueJeans has all sorts of compatibility headaches; if it's not Chrome/Windows, it's pretty much a crapshoot. That being said, the AV quality between the two
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by kenhwang 7y ago
Mass market automakers usually target ~7% margin, so a 9% change in exchange rate without adjustment in price would make an automaker flip from profitable to unprofitable (observable with Nissan as a real world example). It doesn't dec
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by kenhwang 7y ago
From what I can tell from the investor docs, the overall loss was from exchange rates and tariffs from losing access to sharing Ford's factories and costs and the high capex to building a replacement factory and generally transitioning
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by kenhwang 7y ago
In terms of sales volume in the US, you are correct: Mazda is not selling more cars. If you look at their financial reporting, they're making more money from car sales. Looks like ~60% more. Anyone with a lick of business sense would h
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by kenhwang 7y ago
My mom is responsible for updating all of Los Angeles' numbers. It's literally "someone sent an email with updated new numbers, put them on the government website/in the database". There's no "making sense
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by kenhwang 7y ago
Rust documentation is amazing because of the toolchain support for documentation tests. Markdown is just... there.
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by kenhwang 7y ago
Funny thing is my grocery store doesn't even stock green bell peppers anymore, probably for that reason. Makes the value even more biased towards the grocery store since it's cheaper per pepper and you don't get stuck with th

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