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by qqqwerty 3y ago
We went through the same thing with self-driving cars. All the talking heads were crowing about how many jobs were going to get eliminated soon and we needed to prepare society for the ramifications. About a decade into it and they are just
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by qqqwerty 3y ago
That is only the case for rank and file employees. From my understanding executives, particularly ones with large equity stakes, are not exempt from non-competes. Sam doesn't have equity though, and I am not sure if non-profit status c
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by qqqwerty 3y ago
No I am not. "worst of the worst" was intentionally vague. We are dealing with probabilities. There is a small chance We could hit a tipping point tomorrow and things could spiral out of control. Or a dampening effect could emerge
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by qqqwerty 3y ago
Most (if not all) CO2 monitors need to be calibrated. The ones that I have looked into recommend putting it outside and calibrating it to 420ppm. I am not sure how much local variance in outdoor CO2 concentrations one can expect, but my gue
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by qqqwerty 3y ago
You are confusing two different things. Most of the models show that the worst of the worst impacts are a few decades down the road, at which point most commentators on this site will either be very old or dead. But there is active debate a
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by qqqwerty 3y ago
As a new-ish parent in a HCOL area, this actually makes sense to me. Before children, we needed two incomes just to afford a relatively modest but comfortable lifestyle (both STEM related jobs, but not anywhere near FAANG salaries). But chi
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by qqqwerty 3y ago
I don't have a good explanation as to why the "fraction of terms" for DE is going down. But the decline seems to be coincident with the general decline in tech hiring, so my best guess is that the DE role tends to be a bit mo
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by qqqwerty 3y ago
> Most businesses' data engineering needs have been solved or will shortly be solved by managed services that 10 years ago would require endless and extensive self-built ETL pipelines, databases and tools A lot of what modern data e
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by qqqwerty 3y ago
Born and raised here. It is different (of course no city stays exactly the same over three decades). It feels like it is more concentrated now. Back then, there were a lot more areas in the city (and in the Bay) where one would be a little
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by qqqwerty 3y ago
That is my very rough understanding. They do a number on your gut, and they probably significantly alter the balance of the microbiome, but they don't give you a clean slate by any means. Not sure what the term of art is for the "
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by qqqwerty 3y ago
You are thinking about this entirely wrong. And quite frankly you seem to be doing everything you can to make crypto look favorable in this comparison. The only "fair" comparison, would be to estimate how much energy bitcoin/
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by qqqwerty 3y ago
> Traditional greenhouses (which the one at that landing site appears to be) are extremely energy intensive. Uhh, I am not seeing anything in that article that supports that claim, other than the first sentence, which does not cite any s
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by qqqwerty 3y ago
The definition of fragile ego right here. Name calling, circular arguments, and even a reference to reproductive organs. Just admit you were wrong. It is okay to be wrong sometimes.
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by qqqwerty 3y ago
For context, I eat meat too. And what I am saying (and to some extent the OP is saying) is that on balance, vegetarianism is more ethical and sustainable than meat eating. There is of course some nuance to it, i.e eating factory farmed meat
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by qqqwerty 3y ago
No one is forcing you to give up meat, and no one is forcing you to engage in this thread. The status quo of meat consumption is firmly entrenched in our society and if anything getting stronger (see the rise of the carnivore diet for examp
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by qqqwerty 3y ago
I am all for nuclear as part of the energy mix, but the amount of FUD being spread by pro-nuclear bros really makes it hard to get on board. > we really don't know what else would We absolutely can meet our needs with other clean en
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by qqqwerty 3y ago
> Unfortunately, high mortgage rates also work to reduce supply. A lot of homeowners who locked in 3-ish% mortgage rates in the last couple years don't want to move unless absolutely necessary, because that would mean refinancing at
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by qqqwerty 3y ago
The NFLX share price dropped something like 70-80% after that announcement. At the time, I was a very happy subscriber and it occurred to me that, despite being on a DVD plan, I had only been watching via streaming for quite a while. Got a
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
FED started raising interest rates in 2017[1]. The market didn't really start reacting until 2018, and by 2019 the FED got cold feet and was lowering rates again. [1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DFEDTARU
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
> Instead, she hijacked the event Did she use a gun to hijack the event? Did she use a knife? Or did she walk up to the podium, with the speakers permission, and perhaps got a little carried away from the stated intent of her speech?
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
> If she had asked him if she might take the podium in order to lecture him, I doubt he would have acquiesced. Does the guest speaker have some special right to veto the remarks of a Dean at her own institution? Is there a law that was b
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
I read somewhere that over 50% of all deposits in the US are uninsured. Making SVB depositors whole had much less to do with making hapless VC's whole, and much more to do with preventing wide spread contagion. Also, practically speaki
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
And just as a warning, it is still not clear how sweep accounts are handled in the case where the primary bank fails. SVB offered sweep accounts. But due to the intervention, the recovery process of those accounts was never tested in a real
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
If BTFP can only be used by banks with hold to market bonds purchased before March 12th, then wouldn't the impact on bond prices be negligible? I suppose we could hypothesize what the bond market would like in the absence of BTFP and t
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
That provides little comfort. I too would be optimistic that the funds would be recovered eventually. I am sure there are some vulture funds that will happily lend you some money at high interest rates while you spend six months in bankrupt
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
SVB offered a sweep account. Turns out it does not cover the lawyer fees that one will incur when trying to figure out how to recover those accounts. Maybe your HOA should hire a CFO ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
> It is economics 101. Please explain to me what happens to a sweep account when the primary bank fails. Asking for a friend, who quite literally tried to get an answer to this over the weekend. Also, I asked this question in the Mercury
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
That is not what they are asking for. Investing in t-bills either requires an account with Treasury direct, or some other brokerage. If you manage the t-bills yourself, then you have to manually initiate the transfers, which has risk of bot
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
This is the question that needs to be answered before everyone starts throwing their money at these sweep accounts. SVB offered sweep accounts. Guess how that worked out for folks with money in those accounts? They lost access just like eve
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
How many FDIC insured bank accounts would the cat sweater business need to protect them from Etsy withholding their money? I am pretty sure more bank accounts isn't really going to help with that.

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