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by lkbm 4y ago
I read this, thought "This looks like it was written by GPT." Checked the profile: > Real Edwin exiled by HN moderaters, PC edwin has the same opinions but translated to silicon valley sensibilities using ChatGPT. Which makes m
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by lkbm 4y ago
I imported Coinbase Pro transactions and they all got counted as short-term gains because they'd been moved from Coinbase to Coinbase Pro within the past year, despite having been purchased several years prior. Now, you can definitel
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by lkbm 4y ago
When I first started using spreadsheets professionally (Excel 2009), I was confused—how do I name the columns? Surely you don't just enter the column names in the first row! I also tried putting my data into Access. I hated Access an
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by lkbm 4y ago
Okay, but...what are they supposed to do? Stores higher more employees for the holiday shopping season and then when the season is over, you reduce headcount back to normal. Shouldn't tech companies have expanded to take advantage of t
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by lkbm 4y ago
> What % of their 7000-8000 employees (ignoring any contractors I guess) are engineers? 60%? > > 4200 engineers to work on an app that at its core is... video conferencing? If you think 4200 is an absurd number of engineers, why d
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by lkbm 4y ago
I noticed yesterday that it's missing all the houses in my neighborhood (South Bend IN). A few blocks over it's complete, but I have some work to do on my block. It's not new construction. This house is close to 100 years old
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by lkbm 4y ago
Yes, some of my most valuable programming education came from code reviews. But...this article isn't about not teaching. It's about not trying to be coy, hinting that the code needs some unspecified change. Absolutely do tell me
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by lkbm 4y ago
A misleading method name can cause serious screw ups down the line. At best, they make reading through the code later much more confusing. It's not petty to ask for accurate and comprehensible method names. The problem here is the mi
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by lkbm 4y ago
I know inflation numbers are based on a mix of items, presumably weighted by cost and volume. What might be most relevant here is to filter specifically things that tend to be bought using credit carts: most shopping, but not apartments, ho
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by lkbm 4y ago
> “I feel like the older generation is constantly pushing you to do stuff like they did when they were in their 20s, but it’s not even comparable to when they were in their 20s,” To be clear, much of the older generation didn't do t
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by lkbm 4y ago
You've got it backwards. In 1923, your 8 million 1923-dollars was worth what $138 million 2023-dollars is today. You started with $138 million 2023-dollars, but denominated in 1923-dollars that's $8 million. If you just hold on
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by lkbm 4y ago
> Put another way, since 1928 dividends plus inflation accounted for 99.7% of the nominal wealth produced, as of 2008, by investing in stocks. I feel like I must be missing something. Why are dividends treated differently from price incr
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by lkbm 4y ago
OpenAI offered them work at $2/hour. You and I offered them no work for no pay. The workers have made clear they prefer OpenAI's offer. We could tell the workers that we know what's best for them. Sitting here in my rich coun
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by lkbm 4y ago
To be clear, this is the thread we're in: > > I think everyone was completely caught off-guard by the ferocity and pace of the crypto drawdown. > If you were caught off-guard then you've been sitting in a massive bubble.
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by lkbm 4y ago
I've seen hatred of crypto, constant insistence that it's 100% fraud, and claims that it's worthless and will collapse for many years now. In 2019, no one was saying it would crash in 2022; they were saying it would crash in
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by lkbm 4y ago
Ah, yup, thanks! As a personal TODO app, I would want things to default-assign to myself, but I realize this is meant more of a collaborative app.
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by lkbm 4y ago
Ahh, also lets me assign! Thanks!
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by lkbm 4y ago
Oh, I think "EMPTY" is the lack of a label? But I can't add labels, I also can't mark things as done. The screenshots seem more "complete". so either I'm missing something or I just don't have access
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by lkbm 4y ago
This looks promising. I immediately went in and created a Workspace and then a Space (which I gave the same name because I was unsure what a Workspace is or a Space is), and then added some tasks with subtasks. Then I went to "Home&quo
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by lkbm 4y ago
Context: One of the developers got cancer, and while he was okay this time (health-wise and financially), they realized maybe some financial security would be smart given how much treatment could cost: https://www.vice.com/e
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by lkbm 4y ago
Probably a typo—groups of 4 is (was?) standard. My Das Keyboard has this, as did all(?) the keyboards I used as a kid in the 80s and 90s.
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by lkbm 4y ago
In a few cases this is true, but usually people just want to achieve a specific task or answer a specific question, and if there's a button they could click to do it or a one-sentence answer, giving them that right now, vs. after a day
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by lkbm 4y ago
> browsers would just disable 3rd party cookies (or make it easy to disable cookies). Hasn't that been a standard browser setting since the 1990s? I remember Netscape had it.
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by lkbm 4y ago
There's definitely a lot of hostile design around stopping things like cancellations and probably refunds, but I can also say, having worked on a support team and built tools for said support team, our main focus is that most support r
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by lkbm 4y ago
Usually when someone uses lots of different cards to make purchases on a website, they're testing stolen cards. 2-3 cards is fine, but if you have over ~5 cards in a day, it's over 90% chance that they're stolen. You simply d
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by lkbm 4y ago
It's not capitalism, though. In capitalism, I could use money to build an apartment building on the land that I own. If wouldn't be capitalism if we demanded you let us build on your land, but it's certainly not capitalism
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by lkbm 4y ago
The basics of economics are that housing prices is a function of amount of housing and number of people who want housing. NIMBYism is about keeping the amount of housing low, thus pushing prices up.
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by lkbm 4y ago
I don't know about individuals in the government, but the government was held liable for some amount (seemingly <$10MM)[0][1] and top company executives were fined tens of billions[2]. [0] https://www.theguardian.com&#x2F
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by lkbm 4y ago
I foresee AI eventually replacing the need for soft skills as well. What happens when we have indistinguishable-from-human androids, or wireheading? But yes, the shorter(?)-term "all physical and intellectual work can be achieved by AI
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by lkbm 4y ago
It's worth noting that there are at least two very different things being expressed by artists, at least on Twitter: 1. This is theft and that's bad. 2. People who do this are getting gains without putting the work and that's

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