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by nrmitchi 6y ago
> Worse, to pad hiring stats, lots of code schools also will hire recent grads that cannot find employment as instructors. They technically aren't lying when they say "95% of graduates get a job within 6 months", but their
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
I kind of suspect it's a bit of a light-weight Pareto principle: you can gain 70-80% high-level knowledge (note that I said knowledge , not understanding ), which is enough to get started with some real-world applications with suffic
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
> It's also worth noting that many contractors live paycheck-to-paycheck, and even though they know they should be withholding 30% for tax, in practice they have bills to pay first. I find it kind of dishonest to call this "liv
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
> But with contractors, the IRS only gets that money once a year, IIRC this isn't true. Non-W2 earners are supposed to do quarterly taxes. > and often times they're missing a piece of it. This is kind of a bigger problem, no
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
Heroku (and pretty much every PaaS) has features like this built in, and they tend to work really well... assuming you're using Heroku. If you're using a PaaS that offers this, you (99.9% of the time) shouldn't look elsewhere
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
I'd like a solid answer to this too; it's my biggest concern with any sort of "batch online requests" functionality in any language; unsafe shutdowns can/will always happen at some point , and it feels like this
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
I didn't mean to imply that the change was necessarily done in bad faith. I'm just used to them matching, and as such commented on the article title without considering that they didn't match.
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
I've seen this point made elsewhere too, but I'm not sure I understand it. The ISAs are, as far as I know, capped at 30k, and only apply if you're making 50k/yr. I can't imagine a situation where someone's deci
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
I may have been unclear and didn't mean to imply there there was a rush of students declaring bankrupcy, thus this law made sense. The law is, in my opinion, stupid . I was implying that education should never have been allowed to bec
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
Part of my point, that I did not make clear, is that this law came into effect January 1st. A 3 month turn-around between something becoming illegal, and a "settlement" being reached, feels awfully fast to me, and implies that eve
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
I didn't realize the HN headline was different than the linked article, which is "Lambda School Reaches Settlement with DFPI, Agreeing to End Deceptive Educational Financing Practices". "Reaching a settlement" with
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
For what it's worth (I learned this recently and was equally surprised by it) student loans were not non-dischargable until 2005. Ie, for all time before 2005, a student could do what you describe, and as far as I know it wasn't a
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
This headline feels overly clickbait: > The settlement is the result of a DFPI investigation that found that Lambda was engaged in conduct that violated the new law. So a new law was created, that Lambda was in violation of, and agreed t
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
There are a ton of viable and productive energy production methods that at least start to address climate change between where we're at now and "nuclear fusion". Fission may have plenty of issues, but lets not pretend that
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
It sounds like that only shows that they have the ability to cause a negative impact, not that they add significant value the rest of the time.
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
Is that not essentially what the Server Side Public License (SSPL) went for?
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
There are a variety of other, similar Preview Environment offerings out there, and most PaaS offer their own options built in. If you're using a PaaS with a built-in solution, you'll almost always be better off using theirs. A lot
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
What you're describing here is, unfortunately, very similar to the Trump playbook. And is something to be very wary of in the future.
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
> To be fair, all of his SPACS are up since IPO, except for the ones that aren't
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
""" Hey buddy, I’ll sell ya 100 shares of my company, which has 100M shares outstanding, for $1/piece. Sound good? Sweet! I’m now a centi-millionaire!! """
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
You're reading it wrong. The section includes income, or loss, depending on the situation. Losses (negative income values) are typically represented with parenthesis. Income of $25000: 25 Loss of $25000: (25)
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
Vigilant* While someone going all Batman on a fossil fuel power plant would be interesting , it would probably end poorly.
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
I like this, and the fact that it is self-hostable (I have a project that I was considering trying to integrate with Calendly, but this looks like a significantly better option for my use case), but I do have one comment about the pricing:
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
I don't particularly mind it, mostly because as you mentioned, it is much easier , as long as the sender is aware that it doesn't always work; a Calendly link isn't the solution to every scheduling situation. It also has to
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
Let me explain how that would play out. ``` Employer: We want you to take an extra and unnecessary vaccine dose, which you, as an RN, likely understand to be most-likely useless. Employee: That's useless and unnecessary. No, I won&#x27
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
> Other than the exchange point, which private exchanges for cash can circumvent "private exchanges for cash" (that really would have to happen in person) will never, ever, replace the scale at which an online exchange that can
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
Ya, you're right. I interpretted the statement as "for some use cases the price might go up", which was a poor interpretation.
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
> This will lower the price for most Lambda@Edge functions Isn't this guaranteed to lower the price for *all* Lambda@Edge functions? What is the case where it wouldn't result is a <= cost?
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
To further this point a bit, there is a difference between "gambling above their means yet within the realm of possibility", and "gambling so far above their means that clearly no one is using common sense". Gambling 100
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
> This comes up when you own rental houses. Yes, this is true, but there is a massive difference between a real estate investment, and a garage sale.

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