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by millimeterman 4y ago
Agreed, though at some point we run up against the inherent triviality of the example :P.
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by millimeterman 4y ago
While we're doing code review, in general there's no reason to pass a shared_ptr, even by const ref, unless you need to (e.g. if you might copy the shared_ptr within the function). It's better to pass a raw pointer to indicat
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by millimeterman 4y ago
Good vanilla extract is made using a more complex process than just putting vanilla in alcohol [1]. With that said, in most usages the differences between good extract, cheap extract, and even artificial extract are not noticeable [2]. 1.
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by millimeterman 4y ago
Terms like "capitalism", "socialism", etc. don't really come up in serious economic discussion. They're fuzzy words that no one can seem to agree on the meaning of and they don't describe any real economie
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by millimeterman 4y ago
> Fill your time with something else that you prioritize above work. For me this is by far the hardest part. (But also I'm the type to just idly waste time instead of filling it with work.) For most of my life, coding was by far my
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by millimeterman 4y ago
> Income and wealth after Gen X is trending down for same age groups according to your sources. While I see what you mean, the effect seems minor at best. I wouldn't feel comfortable coming to that conclusion without more future dat
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by millimeterman 4y ago
The perception that <current generation> is worse off than previous generations is very common but the truth is a bit more complex. - Household income trends per age group have remained relatively consistent. The youngest group has se
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by millimeterman 4y ago
Fair enough, though this union also has unconventional goals which I imagine would slow both employee adoption and Google's willingness to negotiate with them. > We will ensure Alphabet acts ethically and in the best interests of so
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by millimeterman 4y ago
The Alphabet Workers Union is fairly toothless. It has no legal power, is not officially recognized by Google, and has no contract or formal bargaining power.
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by millimeterman 4y ago
People like you are my worst nightmare :P. The last thing I want when shopping is interactions with random strangers. I'll even gladly take a slightly janky self-checkout experience if it eliminates interacting with a cashier.
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by millimeterman 4y ago
> Perhaps here the thinking is that the move signals troubles that were previously not priced in? Probably, yeah. Their earnings call is later this week and it's reasonable to assume that layoffs signal bad earnings.
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by millimeterman 4y ago
I think anyone who's spent time on HN can attest that both are clearly true. HN is absolutely no better than the platforms it loves to decry (e.g. Reddit, Twitter, etc.) in terms of user behavior.
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by millimeterman 5y ago
As someone who didn't grow up with the original Doom, I frankly think it looks like an incomprehensible jumble. That's not a knock against the artists - I think the technological limitations simply made a readable 3D game impossib
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by millimeterman 5y ago
I'm very curious what necessitates using glxgears daily.
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by millimeterman 5y ago
That sounds like a pretty good change to me. Modifying a several ton death machine sounds like the kind of thing that should require certification.
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by millimeterman 5y ago
There are plenty of aftermarket mods and tuning that are perfectly road legal. And if for some reason you need to stray outside those, I figure you can afford to keep a dedicated track car around. "Personal responsibility" doesn&#
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by millimeterman 5y ago
I disagree; I'd say US jelly is much closer to UK jam than UK jelly. US jelly is basically just jam that's had the fruit solids strained out before setting. Generally no artificial flavors or colors are used (I checked a cheap jar
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by millimeterman 5y ago
/r/badeconomics is a shockingly sane place considering the sad state of most of Reddit (and HN for that matter). It always disappoints me to see how many people have extremely strong opinions on topics they know nothing about.
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by millimeterman 5y ago
> Everything in a CS curriculum is easily Google-able. Not in my experience, it isn't. Maybe for the first two years of undergrad but after that I've found that Google rapidly becomes useless.
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by millimeterman 5y ago
I don't think Robinhood has any case here. The product is extremely and obviously predatory (as are the legion of copycats). Hopefully this is is the first step towards completely putting these companies out of business.
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by millimeterman 6y ago
> IB's CEO Thomas Peterffy said on CNBC that their intent was to protect large market participants, including clearing houses. This is the same thing I'm talking about, just arguably phrased poorly. If the clearing house is in
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by millimeterman 6y ago
Honestly, I haven't been able to find any good sources for the reasoning. It seems like it emerged as part of Dodd-Frank after the 2008 financial crisis, but almost no one is talking about why specifically the rule was enacted. My best
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by millimeterman 6y ago
> Hold on here... regardless of "infinite" volatility, the risk of a $300 buy order is at most $300, and when the brokerage is custodian of $300 settled real US dollars in the customer's account, there is no apocalyptic sy
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by millimeterman 6y ago
I see people who are knowledgeable about the financial system overwhelmingly agreeing that this is true. Here is a source from Money Stuff, which I think most people would consider very credible: https://www.bloomberg.com/op
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by millimeterman 6y ago
Yes, I believe they would.
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by millimeterman 6y ago
I am also no expert, so speculation ahead. - I have heard that the DTCC does not require collateral (or perhaps not as much collateral) for the party selling the stock. This would mean that allowing selling would pose little to no risk to b
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by millimeterman 6y ago
My understanding is that brokers are not legally allowed to use money in customers' accounts to put up collateral to the clearing house. So the broker must instead pull from their own cash reserves until the trade settles 2 days later,
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What happened this week(blog.robinhood.com)
30 points by millimeterman 6y ago|16 comments
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by millimeterman 6y ago
I have made multiple attempts to switch to Linux, spending days each time trying to customize it and get it how I wanted. And never did it ever approach the productivity and polish of macOS. Certainly I have issues with Apple, but it's
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by millimeterman 6y ago
I think public opinion on data collection and targeted advertising has really changed in the past couple decades. No one really thought or cared about it when Google was founded, whereas now it's devolved into mass hysteria.

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