lacey

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by lacey 7y ago
This sort of argument comes up all the time, claiming governments somehow screw everything up but private industry has some sort of amazing track record at producing value. There’s a continuous stream of evidence to the contrary, particular
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by lacey 7y ago
Unfortunately I don’t recall which podcast it was, perhaps 99% Invisible, but one had a show on this. One of the things they mentioned was that during WW II now-liberal enclaves like Berkeley told the federal government that they wouldn’t a
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by lacey 7y ago
They try to address this up-front: > As it currently stands, this question is not a good fit for our Q&A format. We expect answers to be supported by facts, references, or expertise, but this question will likely solicit debate, argu
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by lacey 7y ago
Around the time of Occupy Wall Street I was predicting that we would either see populists start winning elections and/or a violent uprising sometime in the next couple decades. I still think we’ll continue headed in that direction unti
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by lacey 7y ago
I'm not sure exactly how to interpret "the bulk of commercial photographers' work are weddings". Do you mean by total revenue, or for a given photographer? I ask because in general people who do weddings tend to focus on
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by lacey 7y ago
My observation is that a lot of teachers knew they were going into a profession known for low pay but lacked the financial literacy and practical experience at college age to understand that “low pay” meant “struggling to survive” rather th
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by lacey 7y ago
I’m a photographer by hobby and you very often see people wanting to hire someone good but who isn’t expecting to make a living at it with offers like “I’ll let you shoot my event to help build your portfolio, and all you have to do is give
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by lacey 8y ago
> No they don't, they just hate harmful pranks. If that were the case, why don’t we have several of these prank days per year? Maybe monthly? It’s because on a scale of 0-10 these pranks usually rate somewhere between 0 to 2 in term
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by lacey 8y ago
I recall reading an article several years ago where they pointed out that 50% of PhD candidates in Biology who were surveyed were hoping for tenure track positions in academia. The other 50% expected to go elsewhere. Of the 50% wanting a te
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by lacey 8y ago
For what it’s worth I was told at one point that PVCs are the leading indicator for sudden cardiac death, so it may have been worthwhile to get checked out either way.
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by lacey 8y ago
It was definitely surprising to me to see grown men in suits throwing up on the streets nearly every one of the seven nights I spent in Tokyo. I don’t recall seeing any of that in the three nights I spent in Kyoto but having said that I did
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by lacey 8y ago
> The notion that "it could easily happen" that is being brought up throughout this thread should really only suggests that people aren't doing even rudimentary security assessments Precisely.
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by lacey 8y ago
You assume that storing passwords in plaintext is intent as opposed to gross negligence. In many past instances it’s been intentional and gross negligence because the people making all the design and implementation choices were not knowle
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by lacey 8y ago
I don’t think “pretty much”, it’s just inexcusable.
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by lacey 8y ago
I haven’t had a large number of interactions with unions but I have seen some things that definitely turn me off of them, e.g. requiring two or three people from as many different unions to set up a booth at a conference because multiple sk
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by lacey 8y ago
Usually operators are defined as being left-associative, right-associative, or non-associative. So e.g., a + b + c is interpreted as (a + b) + c because + is commonly left-associative whereas a ^ b ^ c is a ^ (b ^ c) because languages that
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by lacey 8y ago
I did file a change address a year ago and yet continued to receive the emails from my previous address. As mentioned in my reply to another comment, I tried unsuccessfully to convince them that this was a problem, and they told me it was m
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by lacey 8y ago
I had a similar experience after moving a year ago. I kept receiving the emails for mail going to my previous address. This was despite my having filed a change of address. I suggested that this was a privacy problem and was told that it wa
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by lacey 8y ago
I don’t think the argument is centered around impatience. There is a (perhaps wrong) belief that being first to market greatly increases your chances of success if not outright dominance in an area. People are unconcerned with the possibili
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by lacey 8y ago
How about: - investing time in things that ultimately do not pay off - taking risks - lots of small poor choices that add up - bad luck (yes, to some extent you can make your own luck but sometimes things are outside of your control) Hone
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by lacey 8y ago
Three hours of interviews with Cutler for the Computer History Museum: Part 1: https://youtu.be/29RkHH-psrY Part 2: https://youtu.be/SVgSLud50ss
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by lacey 8y ago
It seems like the cinnamon patrol comment is related to this, which does seem to indicate the interpretation of an EU law is to blame: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/12/25/256602581/w
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by lacey 8y ago
https://odomojuli.store/products/achromatic-series $400,001.00 “This is the most expensive t-shirt on the Internet.”
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by lacey 8y ago
While it is not the default literal type in Haskell, you can use coercion and the Scientific type to compute an (almost) arbitrary precision result. For example this prints 1.0 in the repl: import Data.Scientific (9999999999999999.0 :: Scie
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by lacey 8y ago
Do you have specific resources you would recommend for learning to produce better estimates? I'm also curious what kind of work you do that you find estimating effort to be reliable, and what kind of tracking you do to keep yourself ho
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Oral History of Dave Cutler Part 1(youtube.com)
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CMPS290S Fall 2018: Languages and Abstractions for Distributed Programming(composition.al)
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