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by pg_bot 8y ago
I would say the two greatest factors are an increased supply of low skilled labor globally, and the rise of the computer. First world labor competes on productivity to make up for the cost differential of third world labor which wasn't
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by pg_bot 8y ago
I know then tent is getting a lot of criticism from the public but it is a smart move. The tent gives extra space to add more individual steps to the assembly line and humans are best suited for tasks that are rapidly changing. I think some
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by pg_bot 8y ago
As we currently stand the tradeoffs for Blockchain based companies make no sense in the business world. The author's conceit is that Blockchain based businesses trade scalability for "trust" and that new business opportunitie
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by pg_bot 8y ago
Under HIPAA you have a right to access your health information.[0] (with some minor exceptions) Just ask and you will be able to get it if you need it. [0]: https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/
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by pg_bot 8y ago
The NYC subway became unprofitable due to the terrible contracts that the operators signed.[0] Specifically they could not increase the fare greater than five cents, which doomed them because of inflation. The city took over the BMT and IRT
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by pg_bot 8y ago
Even better: "Hello,How,Are,You,Today" |> String.replace(",", ".") |> IO.puts()
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by pg_bot 8y ago
Contact your insurance provider to get a list of doctors that are in your network. Otherwise it is word of mouth and research.
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by pg_bot 8y ago
The FDA regulates the labeling of food and for obvious public health reasons (allergies) people are interested in having a commonly understood definition of food products. I wouldn't be surprised if the FDA doesn't send a strongly
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by pg_bot 8y ago
Isn't the point of the scooter to carry you around ;) Remembering to charge isn't a big deal. I do it for my phone and my car. I would buy a second charger and keep it at work to keep down on the hassle. A lot of offices have bike
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by pg_bot 8y ago
How much does it cost to buy a comparable electric scooter? I just don't see how any of these rental scooter companies survive due to the capital and storage costs being so much lower than a car.
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by pg_bot 8y ago
Principles of Economics by Greg Mankiw is the intro text at most universities, it's very well written. [0]: https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Economics-7th-Mankiws/dp/1...
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by pg_bot 8y ago
Office Assistant aka Clippit aka Clippy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Assistant
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by pg_bot 8y ago
Anecdotally every flowchart loving dev I've worked with has been utterly useless. If someone's first step is to create a flowchart of the entire structure of the project then I immediately know they are going to be a disaster.
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by pg_bot 8y ago
Inflation is typically calculated via two indexes in the United States. The consumer price index (CPI) and the producer price index (PPI). The consumer price index does its best to calculate difficult issues such as improvements in technolo
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by pg_bot 8y ago
It is incredibly important to see that the world on a macro level is improving at an incredible rate. Hans Rosling was a brilliant educator and while I haven't read this book yet, I will be adding it to my backlog today.
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by pg_bot 8y ago
Typically I would initialize an AppUser object and print out its default representation. You can quickly find info on an object by doing something like: AppUser.new => prints all properties of the object with nil values
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by pg_bot 8y ago
I don't find it unbelievable, I just personally don't get the appeal because you have to do that work when you name things anyway. e.g. I would never expect a variable named "first_name" to be anything other than a strin
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by pg_bot 8y ago
The languages that I've used with static typing are Java and Objective-C so perhaps those languages have negatively impacted my perception of type systems. I can do more research on other languages to see what they have to offer. I use
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by pg_bot 8y ago
This would be true for any industry other than tech. It feels like every single tech IPO follows the same formula of going public while posting large losses. See dropbox, box, twilio, spotify, snap, or any other high profile S1 of the last
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by pg_bot 8y ago
The biggest surprise to me was that Github was running at a loss for a considerable amount of time. Given their roots as a bootstrapped company, I would've assumed that they would be more disciplined in their spending. I'm disappo
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by pg_bot 8y ago
I would disagree with the statement that coding is faster in statically typed projects. The ease of onboarding new devs is solely based on the code quality of the project. Well written programs are easy to understand regardless of typing. T
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by pg_bot 8y ago
I don't understand the appeal of static typing. It always feels like I'm adding overhead without receiving any benefits. I've worked in some fairly large dynamically typed codebases and have never run into issues with type er
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by pg_bot 8y ago
I'm fairly certain that the decision in Alice Corp v CLS Bank International put the nail in the coffin of Intellectual Ventures' business model. A large percentage of the patents in their portfolio[0] are of the abstract idea impl
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by pg_bot 8y ago
Given that you are dealing with medical data that falls outside of HIPAA what are you doing to ensure that PHI remains secure?
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by pg_bot 8y ago
If the pipeline operator gets accepted into JS[0], I think we should go in the direction of copying those as static methods. An example would look like: [1,2,[3,4,5]] |> Array.flatten() |> Array.filter((x) => x % 2 ==
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by pg_bot 8y ago
I wish they would've gone with Array.flatten() instead of Array.prototype.flat. We have `Array.from` and `Array.of` in the language already why not continue that trend? Am I missing some reason why that couldn't have happened? Als
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by pg_bot 8y ago
A lot of people ignore the cost of discrimination to the person who is discriminating. When you discriminate against someone you are eliminating the profits you would gain from doing business with them. In highly competitive markets with lo
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by pg_bot 8y ago
The best advice I've heard recently was said by a playwright. It was something to the effect of "People don't go to the theatre to see a movie" Focus on the things that distinguish a mobile device from other platforms. T
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by pg_bot 8y ago
The issues of taxation and rent control are orthogonal. You don't have to own a rent controlled building to be an anti rent control advocate. In fact, owners of market rate buildings benefit from the existence of rent control and I kno
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by pg_bot 8y ago
Your statement is not inconsistent with mine. This is economics 101, price controls act the same way with housing as they do with oil. If those apartments could not be converted to the market rate, the investment would not be made. Market r

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