mrfredward

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by mrfredward 7y ago
Yes, but likeability in an interview measures something only loosely related to likeability in the long run. Someone who is a little shy can make a great coworker/employee/friend/whatever, but you won't find that out wat
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So the time value of money is more or less zero now and loan rates depend much more on default risk than any opportunity cost in loaning the money. To an economist, the implications of that might be big, but to a regular person, it's r
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The point that is valuable to the discussion is this: businesses don't worry about disaster preparedness, so the responsibility falls on government, and government run like a business won't prepare either. Which party racists vote
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>The GOP have convinced scared white, Christian, racist, xenophobic people that all the government does is waste their hard earned money paying benefits to poor, non-working, non-white, non-Christian, non-citizen, LGBTQ's. It pains
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>Compare it to your own job - if I had the same tools as you, could I walk in and do the same job you do? Should access to a compiler be gated just because amateur programmers probably don't know as much as people with a degree? The
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And if you know the first character of a two character password, it's trivial to brute force the second, and so on...
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>It's still less costly than immigration. Can you explain this? Its hard for me to imagine how letting someone through a border could cost more than providing healthcare and education to an individual for 18+ years. If a government
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In the U.S. at least, most people consider it morally outrageous to eat a dog. And yet, many of the same people will eat a hamburger. While there are obvious cultural/emotional reasons people feel this way, I can't think of any lo
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Vending machines kill an average of four Americans per year. Forgive me for thinking we can't make barreling down the highway safer than buying a soda. With 300+ million people, it's not a realistic target until something superced
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A recession that costs 2% of GDP can drop the stock market 40%. That doesn't make mathematical sense, but it's been happening all through the history of equity markets because there isn't a strong mechanism to fight an irrati
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Another idea that could make this a viable business: while in general consumers won't pay for this sort of thing, there are certain problems that the medical establishment just does a horrible job treating, where I think people would g
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>That assumes that the number of available jobs is perfectly-sized and fixed, and that there's no other work that could be done No it assumes the exact opposite of a fixed number of jobs-- it assumes the other work wasn't being
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I'm obviously not the author, but I can think of a good reason not to use rust. The project works exactly as the original and recreates the memory state byte for byte, so like the original it has different tasks running at once that ar
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Well, the executives making the outsourcing decisions still have their paychecks and people who own stock are reaping the profits from cheap labor. It matches the gp comment's description of events just fine.
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Can we agree that "most young women" != "women in tech", just like "most young men" != "men in tech"? Most men don't want to talk about code either.
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>I cannot provide a well informed comment, but I can offer this: I am not surprised at all that fund managers are slimy and dishonest. And that explains why this article is on the front page of HN...not because the methods are accurate,
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> Diamonds may be symbol of decadence and Masonite maybe the logical answer but you can argue same thing about wanting to drive an expensive sports car where a humble cheap sedan would do the job. This comparison would be accurate if a T
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In fairness, I don't think the article proves much for the system either. A single month of data, when there is pent up demand for people to return books and a publicity campaign, virtually guarantees this month will be very different
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If Facebook really wanted to stop this they could make the eggplant less phallic looking or remove it entirely. Almost no one is going on Facebook to actually talk about eggplant. They don't want users to have the same plausible deniab
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Oh man. It's not as bad now with shaders, but I remember how horrible learning fixed pipeline OpenGL was. You'd try to write some simple code, the result would be a black screen, and you'd just keep adding glEnable/glDis
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In the sort run, sure, low interest rates make the assets of the rich more valuable, at least on paper. In the long run though, low interest rates push against wealth inequality. People who have more money than they need collect interest, p
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The word "panic" is usually used to describe someone behaving irrationally. If you see a guy running from a lion, you don't say "he's panicking". If you see a guy pacing and sweating because he has to do his ta
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A major oversight here is rate of acceleration. Every organism and vehicle on earth has the same gravity and similar coefficients of friction to work with, so rates of acceleration have roughly the same cap, but the speeds change by orders
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How many people are commenting here because the color of this badge meaningfully affects them? The debate on this post is happening because it's easy to have an opinion, not because there is anything of significance to be gained here.
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Honestly, I've met a handful of IT bureaucrats who enjoyed the power trip of holding up dozens of people on a multimillion dollar project over an outdated policy. These people are the exception, not the norm, but it only takes one.
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Sure, lots of it is automated. There has to be a fantastic level of automation to achieve that 1 minute per order. Amazon is one of the most brutally efficient operations in world history. We read every week about workers afraid to take bat
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30 seconds to grab an item off a shelf in a huge warehouse, wrap it, put put in a box, tape the box shut, print and attach a label, load it on a truck, and complete all the required tracking steps? And we still haven't accounted for ma
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Most people rely on some amount of self-delusion to cope with tough things. I've witnessed this tendency, and in reaction I sometimes swing too far in the opposite direction and end up with my own cynical delusions. When I get things r
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With W2 employment, you and your employer split the payroll tax responsibility. When you're self-employed, you pay both halves. If you adjust your rates accordingly, it's a wash for everyone involved (this is one of many reasons t
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Most kids in middle school don't have careers, property, deep responsibilities, or most other things adults focus on. They just have phones, a handful of friends, and some sort of position in an arbitrary social hierarchy, and so they

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