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by pcai 4y ago
Author here: I actually discuss theories for why ~500 calories ad libitum is satiating thus leading to weight loss. Your “shocking alternative theory” is already an embedded assumption and requires no discussion.
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by pcai 4y ago
Performance reviews are precisely what you would NOT use to respond to market conditions, since they are about individual performance
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by pcai 4y ago
There are like 8 billion humans alive at any given moment though, so this trick doesn’t scale for usernames. “Just be a little creative” has been extremely unlikely to work for years now at say…gmail
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by pcai 4y ago
But their point was: FTX doesn't purport to be a bank
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by pcai 4y ago
once inflation is embedded in the economy the velocity of money matters more than the supply, because the sticky price effect causes a spiral. there will be enough money in that business's account because they will do the obvious thing
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by pcai 4y ago
spot on about money velocity. in addition to capital investment there's also a lot of impact by manipulating current consumption that responds to interest rates - like the housing market, which is mostly consumption.
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by pcai 4y ago
inflation is only initially caused by money supply. once inflation expectations become embedded, it becomes a self-reinforcing perpetual motion machine. e.g. imagine you negotiate a 13% raise because inflation was 13% last year (btw so did
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by pcai 4y ago
the scan as you shop technology is actually being phased out in many chains because the theft rates are unsustainable some wholesale clubs apparently counter this by randomly auditing every cart as you leave, but that seems to leave the who
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by pcai 4y ago
What would having a human in the loop accomplish in this case? Doesn't strike me as the poster child of a massive injustice
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by pcai 4y ago
Its coinbase's money though? Are they not supposed to be able to specify how their own money is used? I'm just not sure I understand what the objection is. I don't endorse it but I don't see how this is inconsistent or h
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by pcai 4y ago
One could argue it is _theoretically possible_ that in expectation, occasional massive breaches of hugely centralized services will actually be less damaging than much more frequent but smaller scale breaches of decentralized secrets on acc
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by pcai 4y ago
> while you as an employee can not support candidate B because of their trans healthcare stance - an imaginary distinction with no material political impact whatsoever. To be fair, coinbase's opinion is actually that an employee can
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by pcai 4y ago
> Somebody joked that it would be better if we just paid them that much to do nothing. I know this is in jest, but in economics there's this concept called "induced demand" that comes to mind. "Public extortion"
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by pcai 4y ago
Wait why? Do the students not have agency?
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by pcai 4y ago
We all wish intel could release a processor with similar power consumption to the m1, but it's not like they just overlooked battery life. x86 is just fundamentally not competitive with arm on that front, unfortunately. The only advant
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by pcai 9y ago
Privy.com | Boston | ONSITE | Full Time | Mid/Senior Backend or Full-Stack Developer | $90-$140k + equity Privy is a marketing technology company (500 startups, Atlas Venture) that helps marketers grow their businesses. We're look
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by pcai 10y ago
Most services, even if they aren't the size of Github, can't change their DNS provider on a dime.
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by pcai 10y ago
This is wrong. If the variables that affect estimates can be predicted, then they can be accounted for. Source: i used to work at an organization you've heard of that could reliably predict, down to the day, how long it would take ~400
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by pcai 10y ago
Uber moved from pg to mysql, not the other way around, and they very clearly explained the technical reason they did it https://eng.uber.com/mysql-migration/
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by pcai 11y ago
You're probably thinking AOL. AOL bought patch.com for hyperlocal and failed, laid off staff in an attempted turnaround, failed the turnaround, then sold to it to an investment firm www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/201
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by pcai 11y ago
FWIW our service is back up, and I'm hearing others are coming online as well.
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by pcai 11y ago
As far as I can tell, hobby / free dynos are unaffected, but switching a production app to a different tier doesn't seem to help; the router issue persists.
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by pcai 11y ago
Privy.com - Boston - ONSITE - Full Time - Frontend/Backend/Full-Stack Developers Privy is a marketing technology company (500 startups, Atlas Venture) that helps marketers grow their businesses. We're looking for an experienc
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by pcai 11y ago
I believe they have shipped EU-specific versions for years to comply with their mandate
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by pcai 12y ago
Privy.com - Boston - Full Time - Frontend/Backend/Full-Stack Developers Privy helps retailers drive & measure online-to-offline sales in real-time. We're looking for an experienced engineer who wants to contribute to a se