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by mason55 11y ago
The backlash was centered around the lack of communication and heads up to the mod teams. We don't know if it was "she needs to be fired right now, immediately" or if it was "she is not a part of future plans". If
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by mason55 11y ago
> The societal cost of the cash could be less than the aggregate cost of the crimes This is the idea behind a basic income. Some experiments are also finding it cheaper to just give people houses than to continue to run homeless outrea
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by mason55 11y ago
Yes exactly. Piecing together the state of all the foreign tables across the system at a specific point in time is difficult/painful. This is one place where document stores really shine as you generally keep everything in a single pl
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by mason55 11y ago
> There are auditing solutions to record all that, but the ones I know are (rightly) not really designed for building application logic on top of. Yes, a big problem with table-level audits is that you lose all kinds of information abo
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by mason55 11y ago
What is your opinion on Loving v. Virginia? Do you believe that anti-miscegenation laws should be allowed if the populace decides to vote for them?
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by mason55 11y ago
I am sure the fact that Joel was a product manager at MS influences their choice to stay in the MS ecosystem
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by mason55 11y ago
> No. They are worth $2, or the price you paid for them. Depends how you're defining worth. The ticket has multiple "worths". The first is probably around $2 which is what you could theoretically sell it to someone els
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by mason55 11y ago
Thank you. So it doesn't sound like there is much that specifically hurts middle class to lower upper class Americans, it's just that it contributes to continued power & wealth accumulation in the upper upper class, the preve
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by mason55 11y ago
Can anyone summarize why this is so bad for everyone except the super rich? I understand how manufacturing will be hurt and it sounds like agriculture comes out to be mostly a wash. But it sounds like the US services industries will be he
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by mason55 11y ago
I've spent most of my career in a client facing role of one sort or another. One difference, at least from what I've seen, is that the incivility mentioned in the article is generally directed at the clients (behind closed doors
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by mason55 11y ago
> Last year I was testing Stripe integration. I tried using my own credit card with a fake name. This sounds like a great way to get your account shut down. They provide test/mock APIs for a reason.
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by mason55 11y ago
Very few things in food are categorically bad for you. Even stuff like fat & sodium, which people generally think of as "not good for you" are required for your body. If you tried to make a list of foods that actively harm y
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by mason55 11y ago
> I am a bit shocked that pilots are ranked so high on the fatality list. Perhaps its helicopter and similar listed? Is that only professional pilots? It's due to pilots of smaller aircraft and, yes, possibly helicopters. Helicop
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by mason55 11y ago
And how does this explain the 17.5% increase in men? Or are you saying that the pill accounts for the 1% difference?
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by mason55 11y ago
> But $41 billion? Now? Maybe in a few years time. Here's the other thing. If you're investing in a startup you're not putting your money in based on some current metric like 3x booked ARR and saying you expect it to th
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by mason55 11y ago
> It'll take a single IPO flop to start the bubble bursting domino run just like v1. How about Etsy? Their IPO was a pretty big flop and there has been no domino run.
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by mason55 11y ago
> What's missing in software engineering is the rigour and ability to reason so precisely about what's being built That's only true if you choose for it to be. There are ways to formally prove that your software is corr
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by mason55 11y ago
> for anything but little fun side projects/POC's Which is exactly what they want. They don't want people scaling and running huge businesses off their API, they want lots of little experiments by people messing around.
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by mason55 11y ago
I think the problem here is that these systems are frequently set up to look authoritative. "Hurry up! Only 1 left!" is a common sight on Amazon. The user doesn't care about the challenges of a globally consistent distribute
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by mason55 11y ago
In some cases in NYC Amazon is using the subway
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by mason55 11y ago
There are so many problems with this article. > A cohort study of patients older than 65 who were their own control found that all cause mortality was 3.6% higher when patients were taking the newer antidepressants for one year than whe
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by mason55 11y ago
> "Why isn't this catalog a webpage yet?" Ah, Google's ill-fated attempt to scan all catalogs and put them online
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by mason55 11y ago
> Is it just me that finds the entire concept of the Dash ridiculous? I mean, what's the idea, having a button for every single product we buy? In markets with Amazon Fresh they are also trialing a single-device Dash. It operates
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by mason55 12y ago
I have a good friend who went into Amazon after his MBA (formerly a MechE at Intel). They have an awesome leadership program where they start you on the line at a warehouse and work you up until you're running a big part of it, then m
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by mason55 12y ago
> According to this, they could be profitable if they wanted to be, but they are using their profits and re-investing in growth Which is one of the things that differentiates a startup from a lifestyle business. It's the whole po
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by mason55 12y ago
> While I see the migration of check-ins to swarm as Foursquares way to say individual check-in data is largely useless, their data on latitude and longitude of businesses as well as their somewhat lengthy knowledge about the venues fro
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by mason55 12y ago
> I suspect it's by being wildly successful for a while and believing that you can translate that success in to a market that you can monetize Not only that but in Foursquare leadership's case it was a matter of being wildly
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by mason55 12y ago
This only works if what you are searching for has scrolled past since you started following. If you want to see other occurrences in the file you're out of luck. For example, let's say you are watching to see which error message
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by mason55 12y ago
> But, why don't later investors insist on also learning the lowest possible imputed value, taking into account how investors are acting to protect themselves. Risk is hard to compare, but isn't this what Wall Street does all
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by mason55 12y ago
> This might not cover or replace the existing subscriber base, but it would be an opportunity to bring additional customers on board at next-to zero cost. Just by shutting up and taking my money. Except now they can no longer sell exc

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