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by mlac 5y ago
If it’s truly just the same numbers, scaled, with no other considerations beyond ego, then a person who makes good decisions with small amounts of $ would be equipped to handle the larger decisions. I’d argue the tools required to budget an
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by mlac 5y ago
Thanks. I guess it is just getting used to it and it’s not a skill one can practice before actually being in the situation.
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by mlac 5y ago
Yeah this doesn’t quite cut it. Maybe I’m over thinking it, but not everything scales that way. It gets wonky when you realize the difference between the top schools and the mediocre schools (as a proxy for talent) is 30-40k annually. That’
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Ask HN: How to get comfortable with large numbers?
2 points by mlac 5y ago|6 comments
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by mlac 5y ago
For anyone reading this and considering Advance protection, know that it causes a ton of problems with google home and other applications. I made the mistake of setting up google home with my primary google account. Which is necessary to ge
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by mlac 6y ago
I’m providing the numbers below for context, but cable news has a lot less daily active users than Twitter or Facebook. In my view, though, the daily news watchers are much more entrenched in their views, less likely to change, and believe
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by mlac 6y ago
This is also my experience. Since getting a watch (with LTE) I’m much more willing to leave my phone in the house or car on walks or when I’m out. I have a phone too - it’s just necessary for when I travel for work / if I need to do an
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by mlac 6y ago
I know that article is about your friend, so I’m trying to be sensitive here. The article says he was driving “80 to 100 mph in the 9000 block of Southwest Barbur Boulevard” in a Prius. This road has multiple stop lights, pedestrian crosswa
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by mlac 6y ago
I don’t. There is the consideration that more money comes with more problems. You can say that more money would fix those problems, but at the end of the day, you still had to spend energy thinking about it. You can quickly approach a situa
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by mlac 6y ago
>Is there good evidence for the topic actually being suppressed by anyone within the statistics profession? Unfortunately there's not enough evidence to show causation...
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by mlac 6y ago
I’m not saying they are easy to use, but they are the standard. I’m also not saying I like that they are the standards, but everyone with 3+ years experience at a large company out of college can use Word to edit text in a document. Or shou
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by mlac 6y ago
Yeah I see it as two items - total architecture rebuilds and redesigns for an organization’s IT system vs. blowing away enterprise resources each night and restoring with a known good application each day or week. That would be amazing but
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by mlac 6y ago
I wrote this in another comment, but I should have been more clear. Since this is the discussion about the Exchange hack, I was thinking in the context of large organizations and their internal IT architecture and being able to build from s
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by mlac 6y ago
This is a great comment and thanks for the feedback. I should have clarified the context and my experience. I was thinking this is a process for dealing with legacy bloat and mostly internal IT systems (IT Architecture) in mostly stable For
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by mlac 6y ago
I just don’t understand using Fibonacci... seems like they arbitrarily picked a “tech” sequence with a cool name to seem more legit or something. But 1-10 would do just as well in my book, with 10 being roughly the amount of effort and the
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by mlac 6y ago
Fair points. I would say if it is done well that turnover would go down. I’d think re-architecting from scratch every 4-6 years would be extremely engaging and keep the role interesting. Or it would be extremely tiring and lead to burnout.
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by mlac 6y ago
This is similar to the plain text argument, but the main thing about standard ms office apps is that they are accessible and easy to use. I can use excel to open a spreadsheet made in the last 20 years. I know everyone who has worked in an
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by mlac 6y ago
I’ve thought a lot about this. I think from a tech standpoint and a security standpoint, my ideal approach would be to rotate out an A team and a B team. Every 2-3 years, the teams switch off. So year 1-3 A team is running the environment.
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by mlac 6y ago
There is an exam for some positions [1], and others have many months of training (think 3 letter agencies) and extremely competitive application processes. Other positions receive a ton of applicants because they are a "gravy train&quo
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by mlac 6y ago
>"So at least I’m not wasting my life there." Do you enjoy that work and thinking about it? Sure, you may not make groundbreaking discoveries, but there is a lot of space between groundbreaking and implementation. If you can un
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by mlac 6y ago
"Contrary to their expectations, the researchers found that avoiding social media for one day did not result in participants expressing improved personal well-being, such as higher levels of positive emotions and lower levels of negati
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by mlac 6y ago
I hear you, but I still question how long those on UBI could get ahead of the rat traps before the non-rat trap options become their old cost + the cost of UBI, effectively transferring most of the UBI benefit to the landlords and ending us
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by mlac 6y ago
My concern is that lenders will start loaning against it at ridiculously high rates on UBI income streams - "Get 100K today for signing away your UBI payments!" or "just pay us the monthly amount of your UBI payment!".
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by mlac 6y ago
Your guess makes some sense, but I'd say it could also be that people who work out more often are typically involved in organized sports and have to work out x number of times per week. Organized sports often have a built in social cir
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by mlac 6y ago
I had the realization the other day that what I want is a self-driving truck bed. Just a truck bed. Maybe one with a cab on it to stop the weather, but 8-10ft would be enough. I could send it to get my groceries, have it follow me places if
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by mlac 6y ago
Take the bathroom ban in North Carolina. It got polarized into a trans/non-trans fight, where all people who supported separate gender bathrooms were dumb, transphobic people. The polarization marginalizes a legitimate argument: Women
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by mlac 6y ago
Votes in a functioning democratic society are anonymous. You can vote one way and tell folks you voted another to "fit in". But people become who they hang around. So if they are in a vacuum and they only hear that the election wa
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by mlac 6y ago
Many complex topics with a lot of gray areas are often framed in soundbites that are extreme - you're either pro-life or pro-choice. You're either pro-Trump or anti-Trump. A person can be a staunch supporter of women's rights
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by mlac 6y ago
I think we're in agreement here. Maybe it would have been better to say "republicans" than conservatives. But the point stands that not all Trump voters are Trump supporters that OP identified as racists with below-average in
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by mlac 6y ago
This is something I've had an issue with for a while. It's not a great move to assume that conservatives are dumb. There are plenty of brilliant people who hold conservative values. Their idea of "success" may not follow

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