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by mountainofdeath 3y ago
IIRC, The IRS has a specific 20 point test and many states expand on it. Being responsible for your own costs and the "relative" flexibility in that, you can start and end deliveries whenever, wherever, however you want. It gets m
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by mountainofdeath 3y ago
Food costs are up overall because (assuming USA) 1. COVID and immigration enforcement severe restricted immigration (legal or otherwise) of farm workers who formed the backbone of farm labor. 2. Oil and gas is critical import for food prod
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by mountainofdeath 3y ago
How does this compare to what Tuya offers as well as Amazon's and Microsoft's IoT device solution? To me, it seems like higher level interface to ready made commercial devices that you can then perhaps plumb back into a building m
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by mountainofdeath 3y ago
I agree that it isn't in the "everyone and their grandmother will have it" pricing territory. It will definitely sell well at least within a niche but won't have the deep penetration other products have. If you recall, f
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by mountainofdeath 3y ago
Oh no, I mean literal state propaganda. The parent company of Russia Today leased an AM radio station to spout literal Russian propaganda (English language of course). * Radio Sputnik for 6 hours a day* https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by mountainofdeath 3y ago
Most of the APM programs require a quantitative if not technical background but that isn't the real selection criteria. The selection criteria are "go getters". The people who graduate at the top of their class while preparin
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by mountainofdeath 3y ago
If you start as an analyst in Investment Banking at bulge bracket bank (the same hiring pool as for Google APM program and similar), you fall into one of two categories. 1. The coat-rider who sees everyone doing and how can the consensus be
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by mountainofdeath 3y ago
One of the side-effects of the technology crowd becoming saturated with the straight-laced, standardized-test oriented, topper types is that LeetCode aligns neatly with how you prepare. Right secondary school grades + near perfect exams -&g
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by mountainofdeath 3y ago
In my youth, console gamers were considered basement dwelling weirdos by normal people and PC gamers were considered weirdos by console gamers. Such was the hierarchy.
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by mountainofdeath 3y ago
I can confirm. When I graduated in the early 2010s, one of the professors I was close to mentioned that the cohorts where turning away from the typical hacker types and to the high-achieving money and prestige seekers who did not really car
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by mountainofdeath 3y ago
My wife (former investment banker who pivoted to risk management) was half-joking when she said that high-finance is always the apex predator, even if at times it doesn't look like it. It sits at the center of all major institutions.
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by mountainofdeath 3y ago
I mean, AM radio is basically dead (as is FM radio). Most of the stations are foreign language, talk-shows and and in at least one case in the USA, overt foreign propaganda by an unfriendly nation. I imagine the radio spectrum can be repurp
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by mountainofdeath 3y ago
FWIW, I learned the startup I was at was doing this when I was fired after not even 60 days (as a Senior SWE mind you) for "browsing personal internet too much" in addition to a bunch of other stupid reasons. Like how much time di
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by mountainofdeath 3y ago
At a prior company, this was the case. If you wanted to access a personal website, they had a fleet of repurposed Citrix servers running Windows Server 2012 that had nothing but Internet Explorer, Chrome and Firefox for this purpose. The ac
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by mountainofdeath 3y ago
Always this. The separation of intellectual property concerns alone is reason enough.
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by mountainofdeath 3y ago
One of the major focus areas of the last 100 years or so of management theory is row to reduce bespoke professional white-collar roles where judgement is involved to assembly-line workers. The thinking is, if you can't force the job to
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by mountainofdeath 3y ago
It's probably more-so that above a certain income threshold, your tax return becomes exponentially more complex. Free-file is useful when all you have is 1-2 above-board wage earning jobs, maybe with a 1099 contract job where the emplo
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by mountainofdeath 3y ago
True. I had a professor mention SNOBOL a few times in lectures. The same professor only taught classes in Scheme, including CS 101 and Software Engineering. The man was stuck in the 80s in every way.
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by mountainofdeath 3y ago
"Criti-hype", I like that word. It indeed is like car salesperson hyping that the very thing they are selling is almost not street legal, begging the buyer to try it on and placing that seed of thought. On another note, everyone i
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by mountainofdeath 3y ago
That makes sense. Perhaps go to the full SaaS model like Rolls-Royce did for jet engines with "Power by the hour" where you lease the engine on a per flight-hour basis with all maintenance included.
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by mountainofdeath 3y ago
This is most certainly not the case. Rental licenses are their own thing and usually get their own media stock. For DVDs, the discs usually had basic monochrome screen printing and came in paper sleeves that would later be processed into re
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by mountainofdeath 3y ago
Yet another self-inflicted wound the Congress of old men do to make the US software industry even less competitive. I would argue this is political because the tech industry is a convenient target at the moment, full of young people who ten
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by mountainofdeath 4y ago
Given what has been open sourced so far, it makes sense that content that is likely to be controversial, or content that generates neutral to negative engagement would have a smaller probability of being displayed. I suspected this and told
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by mountainofdeath 4y ago
This has been happening for at least the second half of the prior decade. I graduated in 2014 and that was the second year EE/CS had a significant uptick in enrollments. When I started in 2010, it was mostly the "runs Linux on the
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by mountainofdeath 4y ago
This already exists though and is a technical solution to an economic problem. The reason the money transfer fees exist, slow confirmation, etc is there is no incentive to do so otherwise. Crypto transfers for say USD->EUR via USD->BT
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by mountainofdeath 4y ago
You would be surprised how many brand-new investors through their money in 3x levered ETFs and/or way out-of-the-money options and were right 3/4ths of time on accident. High school students were writing Hedge Fund managers asking
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by mountainofdeath 4y ago
Same here. Luckily, I pulled out of pretty much all of them in February when Putin invaded and I saw the writing on the wall.
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by mountainofdeath 4y ago
Money Market funds already do this and the collapse of money market funds is usually a harbinger of worse things to come. Money market funds are non-FDIC insured places to park short term cash, typically backed by some combination of AAA co
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by mountainofdeath 4y ago
Grand opening...grand closing. There was a time when CNN was real news like the BBC and not a somewhat-centrist entertainment channel.
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by mountainofdeath 5y ago
Indeed this is a major problem in public service. Everyone from your local street police officer up the the president of the USA. Nobody cares when things are done correctly and go well, but everyone cares when things go wrong, even if (the

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