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by maxk42 7y ago
If all the images are paid-for you have the advantage of basically not having to worry about bandwidth. (Assuming you're not bloating the site with MBs of JS libraries.) Unfortunately -- Facebook has trained people to expect this feat
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by maxk42 7y ago
If Google calls for regulation then Google will be involved in the regulatory process. And they'll regulate their competitors right out of the market.
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by maxk42 7y ago
Corollary: Any company that holds "retreats" one or more times a year doesn't give two shits about you. They don't respect your personal time, your family, or your life outside of work. Every time I get a job candidate
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by maxk42 7y ago
return isMultipleOfThree(readInput());
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by maxk42 7y ago
Unless you are able to watch them every waking hour, there's nothing preventing your child from clicking on a video which is NOT labeled child-friendly. It is not Youtube's responsibility to raise your children.
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by maxk42 7y ago
In other industries, perhaps, but it's standard in tech work to move jobs frequently. Every time I hire a new dev I slog through 200 - 300 resumes, the overwhelming majority of which have never held a job longer than 18 months.
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by maxk42 7y ago
> they are leaving it up to the creator to decide if it's kids content. It's still not human curated. The word for this is "parent".
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by maxk42 7y ago
I noticed you don't have an eleven button: https://imgur.com/a/TK7Td2J To be clear: I tried each number 0 - 9 to make sure none are correct. This question cannot be answered and blocks further progress.
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by maxk42 7y ago
China also has "re-education camps". The numbers are unknown but the estimate for the Xinjiang re-education camps alone are estimated to hold 1.5 million. [1] So I doubt the 1.7 million number -- or, if accurate, it must discoun
550.
by maxk42 7y ago
The US is the third-largest nation by population. It stands to reason its prison population should be in the top three. China executes many of its prisoners. India lacks infrastructure. Most US prisoners are imprisoned at state jails -- no
551.
by maxk42 7y ago
This article seems to continually conflate "sources of randomness" with pRNGs. The linux entropy pool is not merely some estimation of randomness by the kernel -- it's a collection of bits accumulated from a variety of sourc
552.
by maxk42 7y ago
As an employee, you have no right to put up posters anywhere in the workplace unless condoned by your employer. She must be conflating this concept with the requirement for your employer to put up posters informing employees of their rig
553.
by maxk42 7y ago
The bar to acquire the technical skills of an ML engineer could, to continue the example, be likened to the bar to acquire the skills of an automotive engineer. It's a technically skilled profession. But the industries it empowered t
554.
by maxk42 7y ago
A VAT is a regressive tax inasmuch as the poorest people would end up paying the largest share of their income to the VAT. And yes, in Europe and other places where VAT is used the cost ends up being passed-along to consumers. The other thi
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by maxk42 7y ago
What's being omitted in most cases are (1) the increase in productivity allowed by things like robots at warehouses and (2) the new markets enabled by new technologies. The first can be estimated in various ways (revenue per worker, co
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by maxk42 7y ago
I believe Fastly CDN sponsors some of the development [citation needed]. Not sure if that means they use it in production or not, but I've been playing with it on some of my dev servers and so far it's amazingly stable and config
557.
by maxk42 7y ago
h2o [1] is a web server and C library that not only supports http 1 & 2, but also usually tops the TechEmpower benchmarks [2]. [1] https://github.com/h2o/h2o [2] https://www.techempower.com/benchmar
558.
by maxk42 7y ago
From your site: "Samuel has founded, advised, and invested in early-stage consumer and technology companies since 2009."
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by maxk42 7y ago
> I don’t notice much correlation between the school they attended and their interview performance. I've noticed one: About half the best engineers I've hired over the years have no degree at all. For the other half, there&#x2
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by maxk42 7y ago
Your math is right but the numbers you based it on were not. (70*365) / 500,000 = 0.0511 You have about a 5% chance of having your car stolen in SF annually. Or to replicate your process: 70 / 500,000 = 0.00014 1 - 0.00014 = 0.999
561.
by maxk42 7y ago
On the contrary, many of the lowest-paid jobs are lowest-paid because they're non-profits, volunteer organizations, or other organizations that provide some social benefit. Raising the minimum wage prevents these organizations from do
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by maxk42 7y ago
Unfortunately, central planning stifles innovation. We have the best cutting-edge medical technology in the world for the few who would like it and can afford it. But by eliminating pricing transparency we've also eliminated the ince
563.
by maxk42 7y ago
I got the same procedure at a cash-only walk-in clinic. (Eight stitches, actually -- a chunk of flesh was literally dangling from my finger.) $200. We will never get control of the insane cost of health care until we force medical facilit
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by maxk42 7y ago
Real worried when I see phrases like "secure by default" that this will involve some sort of security certificate or formal verification process which a government or other malicious actor can use as a weapon against its enemies.
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by maxk42 7y ago
> At the point where a startup is being valued at 800M (and therefore raising rounds of ~100M?) are the founders still making 150k? Yes. > At this point, wouldn't your business have hundreds of employees? Also yes. Why does this
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by maxk42 7y ago
It's a good solution, but it's a bitch-and-a-half to set up.
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by maxk42 7y ago
Can't even recall all the times I've posted on a topic I'm strongly well-versed in on reddit and ended up downvoted. It's very frustrating when something you know to be a fact is downvoted in favor of some popular conce
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by maxk42 7y ago
Don't do this. Don't FUCKING do this. I've spent the last 15 months untangling a mess of an e-commerce system that was built exactly like this. The problem is SQL is not a programming language and the only way to accomplish
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by maxk42 7y ago
Interest-driven communities online paired with censorship lead people to increasingly radical points of view. Before social media, people were forced to interact and get along with people with varying points of view. Now, we choose to iso
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by maxk42 7y ago
Unless required by law in your profession: Don't go to college.

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