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by lwb 7y ago
Does that really work for every version of SQL? This might change my life.
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by lwb 7y ago
Didn't know about "community property", that's very interesting!
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by lwb 7y ago
If they're penalizing all homemakers and women, wouldn't you expect to see millions more people getting their credit denied/limited?
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by lwb 7y ago
I was really hoping for \dt but looks like they haven't implemented it yet. The number one most common thing I look up when I'm using a SQL variant is how to show the tables. I suppose there would be complications with NoSQL but y
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by lwb 7y ago
I'm all for improving transparency in the credit system. Woz had/has the same situation as DHH apparently. My suspicion is that the algorithm takes into consideration factors such as "are you the co-founder of a highly succes
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by lwb 7y ago
This is what I want to know too -- seems like you have to have at least one common library, that is, the library that lets you write a service call in one line instead of twenty lines. IME Go can be quite verbose, especially with >3 line
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by lwb 7y ago
> 43% of collected plastic was marked with a clear consumer brand, like Coca-Cola or PepsiCo. Break Free From Plastic blames our “throwaway culture,” for much of the consumer waste. They argue that this throwaway mindset is at the core o
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by lwb 7y ago
> My issue is the incentive that would create to enroll students you in admissions know would likely not complete the program, and then still collect 40% of the value of the ISA. They only collect money if the student is employed in a te
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by lwb 7y ago
I won't be responding to follow ups to this conversation as it doesn't feel very fruitful but there's a couple things in your comment that just don't follow for me. How is an asset that holds its value a subsidy? How are
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by lwb 7y ago
I recently interviewed with them. They have their own regularly leased office spaces like the rest of us.
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by lwb 7y ago
> The fact that crypto coins in a free market tend towards increasing volatility makes them not very good as a medium of account to negotiate contracts and conduct business. Crypto volatility is not solely or even primarily because of th
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by lwb 7y ago
I'd love to hear some research on these claims. Especially this: > Deflation at some point causes people to build stashes of tokens instead of investing in real businesses with real production capacity. I am deeply skeptical of this
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by lwb 7y ago
His assertion here is that "Endless money-losing is a variant of counterfeiting". I just don't see how that claim stands up to any real scrutiny. Counterfeiting is a totally different thing. To your point about negative real
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by lwb 7y ago
He left in 2007 ... the company has changed a lot since then.
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by lwb 7y ago
Some of Facebook's primary competitors are traditional news media outlets. Chris Hughes still owns Facebook stock (I think). If Hughes can take down a newspaper, that's one less competitor for Facebook, and his stock goes up. htt
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by lwb 7y ago
I'm surprised there's no guidance for IC9. Are there just not any of those yet? At my last company (300-500 engineers) level guidance only went up to IC7, and there was a single IC8 who was sort of "pioneering" new level
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by lwb 7y ago
Works for me
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by lwb 7y ago
> It's akin to the story (I can't find it) where a company stopped providing free soda https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-ear...
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by lwb 7y ago
Very interesting. From the second to last paragraph: > They found that the higher the volume of new regulation in an industry -- measured by analyzing the text of the Code of Federal Regulation -- the less new entry is driven by high Q.
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by lwb 7y ago
I don't understand the second graph. If corporate after-tax profits are only 10% of GDP, how come they have the same number in the second graph?
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by lwb 7y ago
You can redeem them for like, 30 cents, so that's something https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/basic-attention-token/
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by lwb 7y ago
Do people ever worry that an entire cloud provider may go down, or is that too unlikely of a case?
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by lwb 7y ago
I don't see anything unethical about Superhuman using something that's part of the platform for literally every other business email application (as the author mentions: Salesforce, Mailchimp, etc). Sure it's a little creepy,
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by lwb 7y ago
Interesting! Are you guys switching to another EAV store like Datomic or something else?
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by lwb 7y ago
So this is basically a UI layer on top of OpenStreetMap? Would be cool to see Android/iOS versions -- I rarely look at a map unless I'm navigating somewhere, usually in the car.
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by lwb 7y ago
> Workiva has decided to discontinue closed development on Eva, but sees a great deal of potential value in opening the code base to the OSS community. I'm confused -- does this mean that Workiva themselves are not using Eva? Or are
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by lwb 7y ago
Am I right in thinking that this is mostly interesting for statistics-adjacent fields? I imagine someone using this mostly to embed charts and graphs alongside code a la Jupyter Notebooks. What would be fascinating to me is if these tools m
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by lwb 7y ago
Wait a minute. I thought Docker was useful because you didn't want to run a whole VM. But this project turns a Dockerfile into a VM specification? Have we come full circle?
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by lwb 7y ago
The biggest offender in my opinion is not the web, where you can install ad blockers and avoid certain websites, but television, where you're forced to sit through something before you can get to the content you're trying to watch
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by lwb 7y ago
At least part of this is due to just simple statistics, right? A 40 year old has likely started more companies than a 25 year old, because they've had more time. I'd like to see more data comparing the success of a startup with th

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