lrajlich

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by lrajlich 7y ago
This sounds like a sort of Malthusian trap like argument. The economy is de-materializing while continuing to grow so I don’t think this paradox is a stable truth.
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by lrajlich 7y ago
It’s to prevent flash crashes. If you don’t like the rules of the exchange you can always trade your securities elsewhere (eg otc)
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by lrajlich 7y ago
housing is a market so low vacancy == price increases. That's the actual story. This is the case in markets more generally (eg, wage increases tend to be higher when unemployment is low).
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by lrajlich 7y ago
Yea, exactly. Housing price increases and low vacancy rates "should" be correlated (eg, not enough supply in the market) and in fact are, which the original article's argument completely ignores and instead implies that the r
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by lrajlich 7y ago
Counter argument: SF has one of the lowest vacancy rates in the country. https://sf.curbed.com/2019/3/21/18276227/vacancy-rate-san-jo... This article is promoting a bad faith argument used by anti deve
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by lrajlich 7y ago
This author made a small amount of fame a few years back (2012) claiming the dx format is dead. He was obviously wrong about that. He’s wrong about this, too.
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by lrajlich 7y ago
this is a thing, happened to me today in fact on a neighborhood street.
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by lrajlich 7y ago
in strictly legal sense you can if you dismount... There are other options (aka "box turn")
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by lrajlich 8y ago
bootcamps have been around for only a few years so that's also likely filtering based on years of experience.
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by lrajlich 8y ago
I'd suggest 90-100% creating software; 0-10% algorithms. The percentage on algorithms should be directly applicable to what you're working on. In practice, algorithmic knowledge primarily helps when dealing with performance issues
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by lrajlich 8y ago
I assume he means something like the Moritz's article about China's "996" work hours expectation and its negative reception in silicon valley press.
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by lrajlich 8y ago
what's the tl;dr? I only read the primae facie rights section and 1) this is reasoning by analogy, 2) the analogies don't make sense..
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by lrajlich 8y ago
The issue is that distributional losses historically have been significantly underestimated in terms of scale and persistence or glossed over as insignificant. Economists traditionally have held that workers who lose their jobs to free trad
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by lrajlich 8y ago
While no economist is yet advocating tariffs, except perhaps Peter Navarro (who's not taken that seriously), the attitude among economists that free trade is unequivocally a good thing is starting to change. There is traction for the w
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by lrajlich 8y ago
> There will always be demand for interest bearing risk free government debt. This is really naive. Question is always at what price? I could argue there is always a demand for the common stock of a company in bankruptcy, just at a reall
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by lrajlich 8y ago
> higher interest rates lead to higher net income to the private sector which is a bit inflationary. There a paper for this? low interest rates tend to be associated with poor economic conditions, in the extreme liquidity trap or secular
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by lrajlich 8y ago
Foreign demand for USD does in effect lower US govt borrowing costs given our situation of having a fairly large trade deficit as well. Petroleum is one example of foreign USD demand (china buys oil with USD, for example), as are central ba
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by lrajlich 8y ago
It requires ~250W. Most portable USB batteries you can buy put out like 20W or so, this idea isn't really feasible.
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by lrajlich 8y ago
There's a saying "90% of life just showing up". Being consistent is more important than anything else, so the only suggestion I can give is to find something you actually do consistently, even if it's as low intensity as
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by lrajlich 8y ago
Of course luck and any inherited privilege matter a ton when considering all factors. I'm thinking of trajectory, some people keep on advancing in their careers, others get stuck or spin their wheels. Over time this difference adds up,
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by lrajlich 8y ago
Yes, big 5 is a good model for disposition. However, to be precise, conscientiousness isn't the same thing as grit. To illustrate the distinction, look at John McCain - he embodies a sort of tenacity and resilience I would call "g
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by lrajlich 8y ago
You're (mostly) missing the point. This is, more or less, the point... "Yes, some careers do require smarts. But even as high intelligence is increasingly treated as a job prerequisite, evidence suggests that it is not the unalloy
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by lrajlich 8y ago
The takeaway I got is that it seems like the React stack has worse or non-existent separation of concerns and thus it'll affect how your frontend engineers work, possibly to their detriment if they're not proficient in javascript.
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by lrajlich 9y ago
the irony is that you're far more likely to get killed in a car accident than by a serial killer on public transit.
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by lrajlich 11y ago
I agree with this summary assessment of the article. I like docker and I believe it's potential is huge, but I don't like this article. At all. It's based on a false dichotomy and it's intentionally divisive. Trying to g
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by lrajlich 11y ago
What's the use case for deploying a database in a container instead of a VM? If I want dedicated resources for my database (anything else would be undesirable in a live production environment), that implies running it on a dedicated ho
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by lrajlich 12y ago
The cause would be due to weather patterns changing - For example, we've currently got a drought in CA due to a high pressure zone being parked off of California for last 2 years in winter (the "ridiculously resilient ridge")
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by lrajlich 17y ago
Not all caches have the cache invalidation problem that Karlton is referring to (memcache doesn't). He was talking about invalidation of multiple copies of an object in a cache.
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by lrajlich 17y ago
If you plop a big limit buy order at $26.40 and the market's at $26.20, you will wind up paying close to $26.40 because you'll eat through all the sell offers and transact inefficiently. It's called slippage. However, what's preventing you
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by lrajlich 17y ago
all the more reason to understand it...

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