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by orzig 4y ago
I love anecdotes and I have some of my own, but does anyone have real data-backed arguments for why Americans still get hired for 10x a comparable developer in India? Are we, (I’m an American developer) really 10x as productive?
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I actually freelanced on a project 10 years ago which was exactly that. Don’t take its failure as proof that such an idea cannot succeed, but the major headwinds were that most research is pretty difficult to explain (and scientists are not
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by orzig 4y ago
Where do you think engineers get their equations?
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by orzig 4y ago
For everyone reading, and appropriately outraged, I challenge you to put your money where your mouth is. Even $5 to someone with a long history of finding scientific fraud puts you on the right side of history: https://www.patreo
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by orzig 4y ago
It is a valid question, but to put it in perspective, the sun bathes us in dramatically more kWh than we need to annually power the world every few minutes. So fusion would be a drop in the bucket at a global scale.
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by orzig 4y ago
I think the people who said “10 years away “we’re assuming it would get actual serious investment. I would argue that this is year 1
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by orzig 4y ago
For me, it was eye opening to inside its progression in terms of dollars, not years. It’s barely had the chance to get started.
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by orzig 4y ago
As the world opens up, working from home doesn’t have to mean living from home. A lot of structure and friendship can come from self-selected groups and activities, not just those who the organization put on your team. The author mentions a
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by orzig 4y ago
I Duck Duck Go’d “child sink” “running water” and found both small water-recycling ones (like I’ve seen) and real portable ones which use separate input/output jugs. But you could of course dump back into input. Hopefully a good star
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by orzig 4y ago
Congratulations! Having tried a personal trainer who I ended up disliking, I’m curious: what do you look for when trying to find a good match?
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by orzig 4y ago
We know it’s bad, and while we vote for better, we also need to get problems solved in the near term.
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by orzig 4y ago
Thanks for the details, I was surprised at the 23andMe outsourcing of genetics. I didn’t want to give mine to that company and (while I’m sure that was in the fine print) I assumed I was only going to be dealing with the company I actually
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by orzig 4y ago
Strong disagreement Forward was expanding to my city and I joined based on SF friend’s recommendation. They charged me a total of $500 without ever actually opening the office. When I requested a refund they said they could only give one mo
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by orzig 4y ago
Can anyone give an anecdote about how costly (time and money) it is to pursue legal options in this kind of situation? I hate net-negative strategies, but (anec)data would be really helpful to many of us in the future.
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by orzig 4y ago
The decision to anonymize the agency is understandable, but I wonder about the systemic effects. Right now the reputation cost is born by all agencies, leading to a tragedy of the commons for shoddy delivery. But encouraging authors to name
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by orzig 4y ago
Docker is good at what it is good app, but sometimes I don’t want to deal with a whole other system just want to share code with five coworkers
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by orzig 4y ago
This is interesting; can you expand or point to some documentation? I don’t have this design requirement right not, so I’m trying to understand any growing pains I might be locking myself into
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by orzig 4y ago
pip-tools can hash as well: https://pip-tools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#using-hashes Using a tool specific config file seems like a design choice with upsides and downsides, which I respect
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by orzig 4y ago
I just discovered this after using (and being annoyed by) pipenv. I’ve heard good things about poetry, but I guess my big mystery is why either of them even exist when tools seems to pre-date?
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My advice would be to congratulate yourself on fitting much more productive stuff into a day than almost anyone else I’ve ever seen (sustainably). Don’t stress, and if you want to try to fit something else in, use a vacation day.
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by orzig 4y ago
This has the advantage, if you were doing it for “revenge“ is that you are giving your best freshest hours to the project
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Were there any other downsides of sleeplessness besides breakfast confusion?
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Having recently given birth, and breast-feeding, is (Ahem) the mother of all confounding factors
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Agreed! And they should be held accountable too!
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This is very true - some apartment buildings have great community (of course, plenty don’t). Demographics certainly drive part of the distinction, but just having a person step up and do the barest amount of leadership is also critical.
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And I think that the gains in healthcare discussed are under selling the point. I don’t have time to pull data, so discount my opinion appropriately, but just think about the minimally invasive surgeries that are feasible today, the life-ch
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Attempting a concise rebuttal to doom-forecasting about USA’s future: Which decade since 1900 was worse than the one before it? Did the daily newspapers predict the most impactful events of the decade (positive or negative)? I share most of
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There are worse descriptions of a country than “Zero risk shot at huge upside“! I’m certainly glad my ancestors took it.
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You do you, but a lot of the horror stories about the US relate to disadvantaged people (financially and otherwise). If “Any amount of money” is >$5M I guarantee you could buy a house in a quiet but close-to-a-city neighborhood, and have
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Concrete data point: My neighbor (a German) moved to the East Coast a year ago (for wife’s job) and has zero intention of moving back (they have bought a house). Obviously lots of details; they are in academia, have an 8yo, were most recen

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