matthewowen

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by matthewowen 4y ago
IME, that is quite unusual in Europe.
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by matthewowen 4y ago
> EVs
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by matthewowen 4y ago
I would suggest that most grandparents don't want to look after their grandkids for 40 hours a week. And for that matter, many grandparents have jobs of their own – the average age of a first time grandparent in the USA is 50.
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by matthewowen 4y ago
I think the generous claim would be that given that Puerto Rico has a manufacturing dominated economy, if foreign flagged vessels could pick up goods there and take them on to the USA, they would be more likely to build routes that included
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by matthewowen 4y ago
The arguments I've seen are: a) you would get more competition / lower prices on trade routes from the US to PR. b) foreign flagged vessels could stop in PR on their way to the US, drop off PR goods, and load PR manufactured goods
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by matthewowen 4y ago
That is already how it works. Transpacific eastbound ships typically call at LA/Long Beach, Oakland, and Seattle before returning to Asia. They just can't pick up cargo at any of those stops and then drop it off at another US port
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by matthewowen 4y ago
Although I do think that elements of the Jones Act make sense to repeal (the shipbuilding aspects are an example of something that has really bad outcomes on the whole), I think there are also aspects that ought to be retained and enhanced.
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by matthewowen 4y ago
It’s described in the first section of the article.
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by matthewowen 4y ago
Miele don't produce wet/dry vacuums, AFAIK? Just "regular" style.
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by matthewowen 4y ago
I find the premise of this... bizarre, I guess? Reddit is a site that lets you create your own community about whatever (within some pretty permissive ToS grounds) you want and run it however you want. Why would you get paid for running you
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by matthewowen 4y ago
Probably gonna get blacklisted by someone for this, but it’s astonishing to me that people can (with a straight face) say this at one moment then at another claim there’s no reason software engineers should ever unionize since they get paid
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by matthewowen 4y ago
BlackRock absolutely votes. The concern is arguably the _opposite_: in the index model ownership is concentrated in a few large institutions with very broad diversification, which creates some odd incentives. Matt Levine has a bunch of arti
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by matthewowen 4y ago
> It's also the BBC, the state propaganda organ of the UK, comparable to Russia's RT This is a very silly and misleading comparison. It’s true that the BBC has biases, but these are more easily explained as cultural biases that
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by matthewowen 4y ago
High end clothing boutiques aren’t cash businesses though, so they’re generally not good for money laundering.
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by matthewowen 5y ago
I wouldn’t make a _snarky_ comment not would I “snap”, but if 9 months in something hasn’t stuck that should have, I would absolutely communicate that (as well as helping with the problem). As in “here’s how you flerble the foobaz, but FYI
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by matthewowen 5y ago
Unless there’s something weird about that cooktop, you almost certainly don’t need new pans. Copper doesn’t work, but cast iron, carbon steel, stainless steel all do.
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by matthewowen 5y ago
No, in English this is a very common phrasing in some sports. For instance, major running events typically have an “elite” start vs the mass start for non-elites. And elite is the exact word used.
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by matthewowen 5y ago
Too late to edit, but I just want to reiterate: I don’t actually agree with this, I’m just trying to make the case. All the counterpoints about whether 10% is accurate, whether you get the right 10%, whether they’re evenly distributed, whet
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by matthewowen 5y ago
The devils advocate answer: Statistically, some of your employees probably aren’t good enough to be worth employing. But managers are human, hard conversations are hard, there are lots of incentives to not manage those people out. By having
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by matthewowen 5y ago
No. Before I interview, I definitely spend a couple of evenings working through leetcode exercises to sharpen up on those kinds of problems. But it’s just that, a couple of hours to sharpen up working in that format - the foundation that le
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by matthewowen 5y ago
Over 40% of land in the US is public owned. The federal government owns almost half off all land in the western US. You don’t even need to turf people off the land they own - just choose to manage more of the land we already own as wilderne
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by matthewowen 5y ago
1. Stretch your arms out to their full wingspan and then have someone draw four straight lines around you to the smallest area possible. What shape do you get? 2. It is quite common for beds to be occupied by two people simultaneously.
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by matthewowen 5y ago
No, it's meant to be moving backwards in time, so 2022 is in the past. I realize that this isn't how Benjamin Button works. It's not the perfect concept. I can't believe I'm actually spending time typing this explai
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by matthewowen 5y ago
The title here is misleading (there's no 2022 in the linked page). The joke is that this was released in 2016 when the new MBP with the touch bar came out, and was reviewing the _previous_ version as an improvement over the new one. I
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by matthewowen 5y ago
i think that _is_ synergy. we often think of synergy being where you can apply your skill in solving problem Y to problem X even though the markets for those solutions are wildly different. but you can also think about the "thing"
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by matthewowen 5y ago
Luck isn’t a trait, it’s just a thing that happens.
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by matthewowen 5y ago
This is just obviously untrue, and I have to think clearly so to almost anyone who has worked in the tech industry. Every tech company I’ve ever worked for absolutely has recruiters on staff who absolutely do outreach and shepherd candidate
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by matthewowen 5y ago
Not at all - I use daycare the same whether remote or in the office, as do basically all my coworkers with kids. I do save time tho by only having to travel between two locations rather than three.
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by matthewowen 5y ago
Right, but the campus of choice difference is huge! The UC system includes schools like UC Merced which just aren't that competitive or prestigious to begin with, just as the UT system includes schools that are much less competitive&#x
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by matthewowen 5y ago
It’s a Mexican thing too - Michelada

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