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by milesvp 3y ago
I wonder how much of this was the result of food scraps from US bases? I've been told a number of Korean dishes use ingredients that were begged from American GIs during and after the war. Things like hotdogs and american cheese that t
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by milesvp 3y ago
Ha! I was tricked by this too. Was in the middle of linking to the wiki page when I noticed your comment. For further reason to click on the link, it's a consumer grade long range spread spectrum wireless communication technology that&
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by milesvp 3y ago
The passage where she runs and cowers in a corner from a random knock on the door hints at something gone really wrong mentally. Could be something developed as a result of poverty, but it’s certainly behavior that will perpetuate poverty.
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by milesvp 3y ago
I see you’ve been on hacker news for about as long as I have. Used to be content like this would pop up more often on weekends for some reason. I too appreciate anything this thought provoking.
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by milesvp 3y ago
Oh, ugly. Reads like some Milton Friedman BS. Hard to say if it was actually sarcastic, because by the time I was in undergrad these were sort of standard arguments used to challenge common thinking. Sarcasm can be very difficult, since it
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by milesvp 3y ago
Forgive me, but that quote sounds like something any economist would say. Is there more to it than that? was he pushing to dump toxic waste? or was he pushing to align insentives so dumping isn’t a dominant strategy? I’m having a hard time
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by milesvp 3y ago
Forgive me. I thought I was being clear that I was talking about throughput. My team, when we started to get better at not overcommitting in any given period was able to produce more countable work. Not just more story points (inflation is
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by milesvp 3y ago
This list is missing the most important one in my experience. Stop trying to do so much. I was on a team that really got good at pushing back on aggressive estimates. You wouldn't believe how much more we got done and the things we wor
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by milesvp 3y ago
Yeah, I know someone who years ago failed their drivers test by driving through a red light. The test took them through a part of town with horizontal lights and he didn’t know which end was red. Luckily these days, the green has some blue
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by milesvp 3y ago
Yeah, I’ve worked in some very toxic workplaces. The other reason to document, is that now you have ammunition that you can take to progressively higher levels of management. Bureaucracies hate paper trails, and the sooner you can establish
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by milesvp 3y ago
No. The answer isn’t nights and weekends. It is much easier to simply document interruptions. This also means that during planning you can now actually plan appropriately for your time. Please don’t accept the narrative that exempt means un
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by milesvp 3y ago
I've been under the impression that soldering crimped connections was a general no-no as well, since it doesn't actually help a good crimp with cold welds, and does make any stranded wire more likely to break where the solder stop
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by milesvp 3y ago
I think it was dealing with the myriad different environments they could be deployed in. I’ve done a lot of sysadmin work, and I can tell you that a lot of companies just don’t have a repeatable environment. That said, my suspicion is these
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by milesvp 3y ago
Be warned, most of the comments I’ve heard on HN are that self hosting options are disproportionately expensive to support. Charge accordingly
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by milesvp 3y ago
I hadn’t thought of this, but yes, it very much makes me feel connected to everyone who reads regularly (and interestingly I feel differently about the posts and people who read HN on the weekends too). It’s probably as important as the str
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by milesvp 3y ago
>My understanding is that stimulants do exactly the same thing in a person whether they're "cognitively healthy" I don’t know a lot about stimulants in general, but I know for caffeine in particular this is not true. As an
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by milesvp 3y ago
Shit I’ve had youtube try to brainwash me. I clicked on one lecture, that I watched and thought was generally good, if not slightly contrarian. Turns out his later work was hugely influencial in the red pill nonsense. Needless to say, just
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by milesvp 3y ago
Yeah, my experience is you don’t really want the people whose “productivity” goes up after a layoff. There are the people who don’t actually produce much, but are able to look like they do. Then there’s the people who used to provide the mo
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by milesvp 3y ago
Generally yes in any tier with a big enough pool, and has been my experience. I've been playing team based competitive shooters for over 2 decades, and while I occasionally notice an obvious cheater with amazing aim and improbable aim
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by milesvp 3y ago
This is a good point. And I think this may be the key. Finding some way for the alert to get up and walk every half hour be not a distraction, just something you react to without breaking concentration. Because I can totally see myself just
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by milesvp 3y ago
Oh, without a doubt healthier overall. It’s the breaking up of 3 hour chunks that I struggle with. I have seen developer productivity tank with just 2 15 minute meetings placed perfectly to break up both the morning and afternoon. I’m simpl
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by milesvp 3y ago
Please say more. I’ve been toying with this idea since hearing about this study, and the anecdote about someone on planet money “participating in the study” for a couple of days. I can imagine huge upside, but my fear is basically that I ne
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by milesvp 3y ago
And worse, they can get sucked into some very dark places and not realize they’re being sold some garbage ideology. I once clicked on some lecture that I thought sounded interesting. Next thing I know my feed is full of red pill/blue p
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by milesvp 3y ago
Game theory generally says offer as small as possible. Even 1% is better than nothing. Sadly this solution generally ignores payouts outside the game. We are pretty hardwired to have feelings related to fairness, and that changes the payout
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by milesvp 3y ago
My experience with underperforming workers is that often it is directly the result of poor management. I’ve seen entire teams underperform because of some arbitrary decision from a director. Changing priorities at times when it was guarante
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by milesvp 3y ago
I will share an anecdote. A friend of mine, his dad owned a construction company. I was talking to him at a party and made a comment that was fairly anti union thinking he’d agree with the sentiment. His response was he loved unions because
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by milesvp 3y ago
I find the downvotes for the above post to be quite distateful. I see nothing wrong with it and historically simply disagreeing (or agreeing) with a post is a poor reason to vote. I will add an anecdote to this post. I was talking with a cl
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by milesvp 3y ago
This is only true when prices change slowly. If I use a computer to do my pricing, the here’s what can happen in real time. Player A raises prices. Algorithm automatically raises everyone’s prices to the new average. Player A lowers price
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by milesvp 3y ago
There are some drugs with known tinnitus side effects, you may want to look at meds you’re taking. A friend had good luck cutting out one of the otc pain relievers he was taking and having tinnitus symptoms go away
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by milesvp 3y ago
Yeah, selling for $289. I’m guessing these aren’t cheap to make. At least $30 BOM, but since it’s small batch, might have even made the mistake of letting the BOM get up to $100. I’m not sure who the taget audience is. I want to impulse buy

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