momokoko

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by momokoko 7y ago
One of the unfortunate side effects of significantly reducing the power of democratically elected governments is that while the government has less power to do damage, it also less power to correct wrongs.
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by momokoko 7y ago
Another good point. New corporate housing development have a high bias towards boring and generic, or safe, tenants.
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by momokoko 7y ago
Because if you build the rows and rows of gross generic condos with corporate shops underneath that ruined Seattle, it will no longer be such a desirable place to live.
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by momokoko 7y ago
Or maybe he always had assistants to do most of that for him at work and now that he's retired he doesn't have that anymore so he's reaching out to you? Anecdotal evidence is dangerous.
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by momokoko 7y ago
If you have an AGI(meaning your income after deductions) of more than $66k a year you have to pay $40-$60. Meaning you likely make $85k+. Come on. Seriously? That's worth making this crazy fuss about?
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by momokoko 7y ago
I did. I should be extended. It makes sense. There is no reason to waste taxpayer money and risk when this is a solved problem that allows taxpayers to choose from a wide variety of tax preparation services. For free.
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by momokoko 7y ago
Please stop with this. Free File is provided free of charge to a massive portion of the population. This is a solved problem. It is significantly more productive to spend your time supporting awareness of Free File. The group that does not
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by momokoko 7y ago
There is already an oversupply of engineering talent outside of very specialized work and senior talent. The constant hiring is simply because a better engineer is fairly easy to measure once they've been on the job for a while so it&#
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by momokoko 7y ago
That is exactly what happens. It's direct human nature to defer that responsibility to "computers did it", and to believe they will not in the future is naive. The second part of that is that the human at the top can only mak
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by momokoko 7y ago
Cities are becoming expensive for two main reasons. People with unlimited funds buy them up because its an investment you can actually use, and dual income couples cannot move to smaller places where it is possible that only one of the two
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by momokoko 7y ago
Because at scale small changes can save or make a company more money than an engineers salary. Simply making a process 2% more efficient can save hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. Or increasing advertising conversions by 1%. etc etc.
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by momokoko 7y ago
What age would you guess a "Boomer" is? You might be surprised to realize they are mostly in their 70s. Fairly certain Facebook's user base is not almost exclusively 70+ year olds
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by momokoko 7y ago
What I feel is more interesting, is that TikTok did it with aggressive traditional Google and Facebook ads. This is directly at odds with the SV playbook for social media apps which relies mostly on viral and network effects boosted by grow
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by momokoko 7y ago
We've seen the phenomenon globally.
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by momokoko 7y ago
Literally and chart about automobile ownership from 1940 to 1980.
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by momokoko 7y ago
That is a vox article. It's fun to read and gets a lot of shares on social media. But it wildly exaggerates reality and wildly downplays that massive demand and growth in car ownership during that period. The idea that everyone hated c
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by momokoko 7y ago
> People should never forget how the car industry lobbied so that cars own most of the street. Please stop with the conspiracy stories. I hate cars more than anyone, but all this "Big Auto" stuff just discredits the entire th
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by momokoko 7y ago
Mercedes Benz? It's actually very common. It's just that the recent trend in private equity is to cash in past reputation for short term profits.
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by momokoko 7y ago
While beef is an easy target, we are able to produce chicken at an incredibly low price per gram of protein.
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by momokoko 7y ago
But PHP was essentially the original widely adopted lambda cloud function. 1,000s of dirt cheap shared hosting platforms showed up on the scene. The reason they could make the hosting so cheap was that the way PHP runs. You are only consumi
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by momokoko 7y ago
Hate to dry off the blanket but they just forgot the `new` keyword for `this` ;) var $ = new (function() { this.version = '1.2.3'; })(); console.log($.version); // '1.2.3' EDIT: Or if you really w
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by momokoko 7y ago
Do not live 20 miles from work. With that said, you may have extraordinary circumstances that absolutely require you to live 20 miles from your employment. No problem. Statistically, that would place you in the vast minority of people. As l
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by momokoko 7y ago
Just be honest. It's bullshit. That vote and any vote like it means absolutely nothing. You know it, and anyone with any knowledge of this knows it. We really really need to stop these fake feel good energy sinks. What you said was at
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by momokoko 7y ago
Heads up to anyone who might decide to comment in this thread. Its a great way to end your career if something gets read differently than you intended.
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by momokoko 7y ago
I'm not disagreeing with the premise that Amazon has issues. But I do not see a similar pattern with other companies and services. Of course, this is anecdotal, but it does seem significantly higher with Amazon itself. It is possibly t
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by momokoko 7y ago
At this point, anecdotally, it feels as though the top comment on almost every article I see on HN about Amazon is some variation of this complaint. Has anyone done any analysis on the HN posting dataset to see if that happens to be the cas
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by momokoko 7y ago
It's that the veteran workers got their pay hikes during earlier collective bargaining agreements. Recently, things like the crash in 2008 have caused newer workers to have different wage growth. They want to bring those wages closer t
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by momokoko 7y ago
I feel like its possible that you did not watch the video on the site.
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by momokoko 7y ago
Why would it be embarrassing to state "I currently have nothing to do right now, is there anything available I can help with." if you cannot figure out anything productive you could be doing on your own. Are people's managers
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by momokoko 7y ago
The tool this thread is about is designed with the expressed goal of changing your screen when your boss walks in.

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