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by pzh 10y ago
Isn't it already sort of scientifically proven that "if you don't use it, you lose it" wrt to the brain? In that case, the validity of the 'exercise model' follows from that, at least for 'maintenance&#x27
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by pzh 10y ago
And you can send them any blatantly fake/photoshopped ID, supposedly issued by a random country's government, and ultimately they'll accept it. If it doesn't work at first, just keep reposting it, and it will.
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by pzh 10y ago
> On the other side you have guys like George Hotz who had a reporter in the car with him when he turned on the self-driving system he had only gotten working that morning.. Do you think that's actually true? I thought it was just s
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by pzh 10y ago
FATCA only guarantees the transfer of tax information to the US, and not the other way around. Since the US is the biggest tax haven in the world (for non-US citizens/residents), it's higly doubtful they would ever sign any agreem
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by pzh 10y ago
Precisely that! But apart from the inability to predict table occupancy (for which you could theoretically come up with some ML solution), the other issue is that from a strict economic sense, having people occupy a table for 3 hours vs 1 h
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by pzh 10y ago
Not every place does reservations.
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by pzh 10y ago
It is a nice feature unless you're on the other end of the deal, walking from one completely full restaurant to another looking for a table. In a sense, it's an inefficiency because a table may free up shortly after you leave, but
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by pzh 10y ago
The problem with no tipping, in my experince (especially in Europe), is that waiters aren't incentivized to turn tables. If you go to a popular spot for dinner that happens to be completely full and ask for a table, the waiter will usu
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by pzh 10y ago
How would you do that without FB flagging you as having sent too many friend requests and then asking you to prove that you actually know those people?
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by pzh 10y ago
The problem with social networks is that you have to get your real friends to play along too, and that may be very difficult and time consuming. If you plan to add some random 'fake' friends, you'll very quickly become part o
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by pzh 10y ago
There are some outliers like Digital Ocean and Github, but these are not the common case...
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by pzh 10y ago
The problem is that we are talking about something like one fifth of the salary with no vacation and no benefits for remote. Also, projects boring as heck.
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by pzh 10y ago
I completely agree with the author's points, except for one small caveat--the overall quality of projects that one can find in remote work (at least based on my personal experience and search) is usually abysmal. At first glance, a goo
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by pzh 10y ago
But you can give Whatsapp a Google Voice number instead of your real phone number. That way if they decide to sell it as part of your profile, you can easily change/cycle it (or apply better filtering, DND, etc.)
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by pzh 10y ago
And then there are people who just use a Google Voice number on Whatsapp instead of a real phone number, and many don't even have a phone number listed on Facebook. I'm actually surprised that anybody would give their real phone n
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by pzh 10y ago
My experience has been that pretty much every Lyft driver I've met also drives for Uber.
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by pzh 10y ago
On the plus side, the OP had plausible deniability. I wonder whether he could've been considered an accomplice or liable in any way, or not knowing who he was working for completely exonerated him.
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by pzh 10y ago
He kind of looks like Dean Winchester from 'Supernatural', and I thought that was a cliché.
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by pzh 10y ago
I guess when you say 'incubator' nowadays, most people would imagine something like Erlich Bachman's house from 'Silicon Valley'.
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by pzh 10y ago
The README is really good for users of the library. I was looking for a description of the algorithm, though, and I couldn't find any. Does anyone know what algorithm this library implements? (e.g. a literature reference would be help
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by pzh 10y ago
It's interesting that many people consider lock-free algorithms to be appropriate for real-time programming, but by the formal definitions, lock-free doesn't guarantee that a particular thread won't be starved or that an oper
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by pzh 10y ago
Here is one more: https://github.com/pzhivkov/SPConcurrency (Mostly targeting iOS / macOS).
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by pzh 10y ago
I think there is this misconception that there is a 'proper C++'. C++ was designed to support various programming styles, including this 'transitional' style where you have a C codebase that you slowly convert to a more
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by pzh 10y ago
I believe it's only if you had a US citizenship or if you were a legal permanent resident (i.e you had a greencard) for 8 or more years. You can search online for 'IRS expatriation tax' or form 8854, or better talk to a lawye
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by pzh 10y ago
True, but there is a difference between residence for tax purposes and residence for immigration purposes. You may live a certain number of years (7-8?) in the US, give up your greencard, and still be considered a resident for tax purposes
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by pzh 10y ago
You need to renounce your residence with the IRS as well, and then they require you to pay an exit tax on the cash value of all your assets as if they were sold on the same day. Because of the principle of citizenship based taxation, US res
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by pzh 10y ago
But then, can't you make the same analogy for early stage Google--basically, a big marketing firm that manually places ads in the yellow pages? Similarly, Facebook can also be executed over a phone system ("Press 1 to hear your fr
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by pzh 10y ago
Can somebody shed some light on how this is different from delayed/lazy evaluation? I thought languages like Scala and Haskell already support these patterns, but I haven't heard the term 'multi-stage' applied to them...
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by pzh 10y ago
Yet most of the remote jobs pay very little compared to non-remote jobs in the US, or either try to cheat you on benefits, or hours, or require you to relocate after a few months. I've tried to find a decent remote job for about 8 mont
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by pzh 10y ago
This a 100%! While I was reading his guide, I couldn't shake off that jazz track from "The Talented Mr Ripley"...

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