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by mandevil 3y ago
He says to avoid complexity, and the team he was on (cleaning up some bad queries) was probably improving along that axis (or at worst orthogonal to complexity) but, from having done exactly this, adding an optional 'query the read-rep
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by mandevil 3y ago
They try to get at that causation problem with the random assignments: they randomly assigned the couples into three groups: no intervention, must do joint finances, and continue their separate finances (all 230 couples in the study started
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by mandevil 3y ago
BTC seems to be very interest rate dependent- it goes up when rates go down and down when rates go up. That is pretty much the opposite of an "inflation resistant store of value". It's financial behavior over the last ten yea
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by mandevil 3y ago
And then the CTO complains that no one ever tells him the truth on how long a project will take.
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by mandevil 3y ago
Okay, so I'm confused. The bathyscape Trieste, paid for by the USN, went to the deepest spot in the entire ocean- the Challengers Deep of the Mariana's Trench- back in 1960 (it is on display at the US Navy Museum in Washington DC)
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by mandevil 3y ago
Evidence from the US mortgages before the Financial Crisis doesn't seem to support this. Middle managers at Countrywide (etc.) played even more games with their mortgages than normal people, interest-only up the wazoo etc. to get thems
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by mandevil 3y ago
I might get down-voted for this, but I totally understand why Netflix, who bought the Dahl Company in 2021, is editing these stories. I agree that it is important to have a full and complete historical record, but Netflix is interested in m
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by mandevil 3y ago
He says, in the FA, that the problem was that Reddit's prices kick in 1 month from now, but plenty of people have already pre-paid him for a year at the old price. So he loses 50k the first month, then 10% of his user base re-ups at th
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by mandevil 3y ago
The presence of a non-lawyer, non-client in a conversation makes it non-privileged. That is, if someone who is not privileged is part of the talk then it can't have privilege. Is your bank also your lawyer or a client of your lawyer? I
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by mandevil 3y ago
It can be bad optics for companies which took large sums of money from the government recently (say, for pandemic relief or major tax breaks of some kind) to then turn around and announce large layoffs. It guarantees that the CEO is going t
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by mandevil 3y ago
Intel announced losses of 2.8B in 1Q 2023, and warned analysts that they would lose money again in 2Q. So I presume that GP got the idea that Intel was losing money from the accountants that Intel pays to tell them what the company financia
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by mandevil 3y ago
Anything bigger than 1600MW, Westinghouse doesn't get a licensing fee for it getting built. So they are building 1600MW size right now.
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Fire Mark Zuckerberg(ez.substack.com)
142 points by mandevil 4y ago|144 comments
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by mandevil 4y ago
The algorithm is a little more complicated than that, as various judgements have been added in, but always with specific rules. When there was a trend of tech companies going public with dual classes of shares leaving founders in control fo
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by mandevil 4y ago
The original report is from Reuters here: https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sens...
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by mandevil 4y ago
The team I work for recently open-sourced a version of our SaaS code. Thanks to docker, we are pretty sure that it will work for you if you follow the regular install instructions- containerization is awesome for that. The instructions on h
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by mandevil 4y ago
But you'd take the exam once rather than having to do it every few years when you want to change jobs.
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by mandevil 4y ago
The actual thing that lines up a series of sell-at-this-price bids and the series of buy-at-this-price bids (or even more complicated types of orders, this the easy case) and crosses them over, figuring out who gets what bids filled by whom
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by mandevil 4y ago
A friend worked on a project in 2005 that had lots of K code in production. They had a contract with Kx Systems and Arthur Whitney in particular because, in my friend's opinion, only Whitney could really understand K code well enough t
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by mandevil 4y ago
Amazon (at least used to, when I last looked at joining them) had a cash compensation max of around 175k-200k for essentially all engineers, with all comp greater than that coming as equity (with, according to what I heard, a 15% per-year a
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by mandevil 4y ago
Matt Levine's invaluable Money Stuff (free newsletter) did a fabulous job of just that: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-03-09/crypto... was before the FDIC moved in, https://ww
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by mandevil 4y ago
This- fixing property tax to purchase price- is exactly what California's Prop 13 did, which has ended up gutting California local governments ( https://edsource.org/2022/californias-prop-13s-unjust-legacy... ). It
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by mandevil 4y ago
Basically, you can look at [the list of nuclear plants under construction]( https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and-fu... ) and see that the Russians VVER series are still going up around the word (over
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by mandevil 4y ago
But... pretty much any language can interoperate with C, it's calling conventions have become the universal standard. I mean, I still remember at $previousJob when I was deprecating a C library and carefully searched for any mention of
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by mandevil 4y ago
I have bounced back and forth between typed and untyped languages in my two decades of employment history, and I prefer typed languages myself, even when I've been writing libraries nested deep in what I think the author would describe
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by mandevil 4y ago
Well, the article is the author's attempt to answer that question. I'm not sure that it's convincing to me, but then again I have a preference for strongly-typed languages so I'm probably not the correct audience. I&#x27
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by mandevil 4y ago
Not the writer, but based on what the author wrote, I think it's based on the author's experience with Java. It can be a hideous nightmare of java.util.Date versus java.sql.Date versus java.time.LocalDate (just to pick one very we
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by mandevil 4y ago
I mean, I can tell a just-so-story as well. It's just that, like your explanation, it involves Putin making what seems to me to be a dumb decision. Some parts of game theory emphasizes ostentatious signaling that you can't turn ba
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by mandevil 4y ago
As I've argued before, the issue here is that invading Ukraine doesn't really make any sense from the Russian perspective. They've lost so much money in trade, their army is shattered, their soft-power is in shambles, and t
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by mandevil 4y ago
I would be very very careful with your analysis of what is and is not "in the Russians' geopolitical interests." Almost every analysis based on "what was in the Russians' geopolitical interests" ended up conclu

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