lukejduncan

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by lukejduncan 7y ago
Except, most weather apps including the Weather Channel App sell your location data to hedge funds. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/10/business/loca... > The Weather Channel a
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by lukejduncan 7y ago
Tangential, and only kind of related, but a personal pet peeve -- I like YouTube kids, but really dislike that half of the videos are "unboxings" of toys. These aren't really ads, but man they act like them and they end up in
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by lukejduncan 7y ago
The first genetically modified babies have already been born, but agree this will be more mainstream. https://www.newsweek.com/china-third-gene-edited-baby-148002...
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by lukejduncan 7y ago
Why is it not possible to get a “phone” with data and no phone number?
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by lukejduncan 7y ago
I once had a landlord in Detroit who stopped paying his HOA dues In a large complex. I had a court order to pay my rent to the HOA and he was not happy about that. He threatened to evict me (not legal), but then his ex girlfriend got involv
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by lukejduncan 7y ago
Planet Labs runs Ubuntu on their Satellites. I wonder if there were any docker containers running on those or similar cubesats.
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by lukejduncan 7y ago
I found that I could buy books for the semester on Amazon used and sell them back to the school bookstore at a profit pretty consistently.
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by lukejduncan 7y ago
I wouldn’t expect a site to have a publicly available status page or anything like public grafana boards. Isn’t that what HTTP error codes are for? Can you share examples of where this is common?
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by lukejduncan 7y ago
Local credit union for checking, mostly because I’ve had it forever. I am a big discover bank fan, as they’re keep their high yield savings rates in the top 5 consistently. Mobile check deposits are super easy too. I recently made the switc
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by lukejduncan 7y ago
Can anyone recommend a good book to learn more about the GMO debate?
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by lukejduncan 7y ago
Matt Levine, Money Stuff
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by lukejduncan 7y ago
In previous research, I haven’t been able to find an economist that supports rent control. Does anyone have examples?
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by lukejduncan 7y ago
Why is this being downvoted?
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by lukejduncan 7y ago
It assumes there is only one fixed org chart and role. This isn’t true everywhere under all circumstances, but my personal experience in tech has been that companies make space for talented people who have a real impact. If you’re fighting
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by lukejduncan 7y ago
I think you're being downvoted too much for this. It's a reasonable statement, and it's the premise of the licensing mechanisms libraries pay for with ebook subscriptions. Books have an average shelf life, you can compute the
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by lukejduncan 7y ago
“my books are bought by enough people to provide me with a sort of middle-class lifestyle, but not enough to hire employees” This actually surprises me. With someone as thoroughly read and prolific as Stephenson I would have expected a much
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by lukejduncan 7y ago
Fortunately, not in California.
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by lukejduncan 7y ago
This type of issue is why I use LastPass, and not Apples Password manager. I'm very weary of how this would work on a non-mac device and I definitely use multiple non-mac devices regularly through a given day or week.
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by lukejduncan 7y ago
I’m not saying you need 100% code coverage, or 80%. Just some level of deliberate automation. In my personal experience, user testing as your only or primary form of testing gets painful fast.
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by lukejduncan 7y ago
"Loads of companies and startups have little or no tests" which should scare you, or at least it would scare me if I joined a team. You can definitely over test, but how can you possibly know what you built works (or still works w
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by lukejduncan 7y ago
Finger cross this includes a first class calculator...
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by lukejduncan 7y ago
It's hard to find much information on the website about what exactly the LTSE does. The website seems to imply that in addition to being an exchange it will sell (give?) tools to listed companies. Wikipedia gives some more details: ht
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by lukejduncan 7y ago
Yeah I thought that was super interesting. The podcast covers that too.
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by lukejduncan 7y ago
Currently, it's actually the definition of when something gets broken up or not. Anitrust today focuses on consumer wealthfare and not corporate power. However, there are some politicians like Elizabeth Warren who are argueing to chang
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by lukejduncan 7y ago
Not exactly the same thing, but related -- So the San Francisco school district gives priority to certain neighborhoods roughly based these criteria and gentrification has been a problem. Wealthy folks move into historically poor neighborho
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by lukejduncan 7y ago
"The score would not be reported to the student, only to college officials." That's... kinda scary.
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by lukejduncan 7y ago
Isn't this the premise of books like "The Millionaire Next Door"? Edit: Whelp -- not sure how I missed the link.
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by lukejduncan 7y ago
How do you write the origin story of Data Science and not mention DJ Patil and Jeff Hammerbacher?
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by lukejduncan 7y ago
I think many companies don't have exactly 1 job posting for 1 seat. For example, I've seen large tech companies have a single "Backend engineer" req that is used for every backend engineering role in the company (or org)
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by lukejduncan 7y ago
Tangentially related, it kind of reminded me of Snapshot Serengeti which labels images with animals. Interestingly, these labels aren't used to train models. They're just used to filter pictures taken by automated motion sensor ba

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