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by logshipper 3y ago
Also relevant Byrne Hobart post on how frequent flyer miles programs are worth more than the airlines themselves: https://archive.is/yUTay
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by logshipper 3y ago
I'm seeing a lot of comments here about how its the government's fault for relying on a private service for public communications. The sentiment, while understandable (and not entirely unfair), assumes that the government has armi
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by logshipper 4y ago
Math: - 3Blue1Brown: https://www.youtube.com/c/3blue1brown - Numberphile: https://www.youtube.com/c/numberphile CS: - Computerphile: https://www.youtube.com/user/
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by logshipper 4y ago
I wanted to like this article - I couldn't. The author lost my respect right off the bat when they hand-waved recent trends in Ontario education as "Marxism" or derivatives thereof - a failing of intellectual rigour on the au
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by logshipper 5y ago
This is a good and thorough article. The author got down to brass tacks pretty quickly and brings up interesting hypothesis about $MSFT. That said, I do have one gripe: > To oversimplify Notion to its demographics, it is Office 365 for p
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by logshipper 5y ago
There's a very cool 3Blue1Brown video [0] that helps give you an intuitive feel for Bayes Theorem. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZGCoVF3YvM
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by logshipper 5y ago
I don't think the author's American-ness disqualifies them from writing about China. On the contrary, it is their very experience as a Chinese American that helps me (an outsider) see things from a new and interesting perspective.
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by logshipper 5y ago
> Easy resets for when you fall off. I like this feature. When the pandemic first hit, I realized how important routines and (associated) metrics would be in keeping me afloat in a tumultuous time. To that end, I built my own little CLI-
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by logshipper 5y ago
I see comments talking about Stripe's "PR", not just in this thread, but also the one from a couple days ago [1]. I agree that Stripe's hiring practices, based on the information available, certainly warrant criticism. B
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by logshipper 5y ago
> The humans preparing and serving the food are the only weak link in the chain, and they’re treated as such. I worked nights at a McDonalds about 4 years back (first year of university) in Canada. You are spot-on about them treating hum
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by logshipper 5y ago
Seeing the comments here debating the semantics of taxes, now seems like a good time to mention Poe's Law. [0] I personally took home the message that the "game" was satire and meant to contextualize Bezos' wealth. Sayin
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by logshipper 5y ago
[Meta] Looks like the article is from 2018, perhaps it would help to reflect that in the title? Another really cool Pudding project was the "How bad is your Spotify?" [0] [0] https://pudding.cool/2020/12/
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by logshipper 5y ago
Disclaimer: I am not an Apple insider by any means, and this is all a hypothesis. Their management of the bug bounty program seems like a reflection of their secretive (and perhaps sometimes siloed) internal culture. I'd argue that for
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by logshipper 5y ago
I am somewhat interested in reading about plane crashes and such. Are there any books/resources you can recommend to me?
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by logshipper 5y ago
More recently, the New Yorker published "The Plague Year" [1] in Jan 2021. IIRC, this was the first time since the Hiroshima issue that they dedicated almost the entire magazine to a single article. I quite liked it, and it was ev
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by logshipper 5y ago
I really respect that attitude. I happen to be doing a security assessment on some products (PuTTY etc) at the firm (Fortune Global 100) where I am interning. It baffled me to read a directive from management that said that we should shy aw
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by logshipper 5y ago
> DomainTools’ record for briansclub[.]com says the domain was abandoned or dormant for a period in 2019, only to be scooped up again by someone in May 2020 when it became a phishing site spoofing the real BriansClub. Reminded me of the
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by logshipper 5y ago
From what I understand, the labour/complexity in K8S lies not with the deployment, but with managing said deployment over the long term. This is a real problem for system architects/security professionals that need to maintain a b
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by logshipper 5y ago
Quite an interesting article! I am curious as to how this "limited collection" of IR firms adds to or drains from the overall security ecosystem. On one hand, having a limited number of firms allows for seamless knowledge transfer
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by logshipper 5y ago
> Most of them don't. I end up bullshitting them as much as possible and getting a B so I can focus on the courses I care about I hear where you're coming from on this (and have been in similar shoes), but I suppose there is m
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by logshipper 5y ago
Circuit Gilles Villeneuve is a fantastic place not just for cycling, but also running and roller-blading. I have been there for a couple of runs - the lanes are clearly demarcated, and the track is a real treat to run on.
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by logshipper 5y ago
> Users can post a TikTok video resume to the site rather than a traditional resume. The idea is for users to give an elevator pitch or work experience summary via the video in a unique way. Genuine question. Can anyone tell me how recru
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by logshipper 5y ago
The story, in fact, was mostly bullshit. It was being "narrated" by Belfort (DiCaprio) all along, and the mere presence of some very obviously outlandish/fickle claims serve to establish the unreliability and narcissism of th
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by logshipper 5y ago
I am operating under the assumption here that said articles can pertain to any topic, and not just diamonds. If that is not the case, I do apologize. I am a huge fan of William Langewiesche's work (some of which, incidentally, has bee
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by logshipper 5y ago
> basically their worldview is that they're ripping off some first-world asshole who would be just as happy to destroy the scammers own country if it could make the cost of consumer goods slightly lower. I happened to watch "Th
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by logshipper 5y ago
You're right in that home is also a question of identity and belonging. It's just that while I would say that I am fairly well adjusted to Toronto (heck I started playing hockey on a frozen pond this past winter), there's alw
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by logshipper 5y ago
I moved for university to Toronto, Canada (from India) when I was 18. Despite having lived here for (nearly) 4 years, and loving absolutely every single minute of it, I don't know if and how I will ever be truly claim myself as being &
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by logshipper 5y ago
I was having this exact conversation with a friend the other day. To engage in any form of (even remotely) political discourse on the internet is to step into a landmine once you consider the 20-year horizon. People are now being fired for
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by logshipper 6y ago
Thanks for clarifying :) I suppose it is not _entirely_ out of the realm of possibility, but I'd be willing to bet that they won't end up taking that "route".
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by logshipper 6y ago
I'm sorry, this is is dangerously close to conspiracy theory territory. I am by no means, an apologist for Google, but I seriously doubt they have the ability/resources, or even motivation to manage route planning at such a micros

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