quantguy11959

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by quantguy11959 7y ago
Do a speed test comparison as well. Serialization to msgpack is likely much quicker than json + gzip. This is for latency sensitive applications.
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by quantguy11959 7y ago
Thanks for the comparison against 23 and me but I’d be interested in how you plan to differ from Invitae/Fulgent/Myraid aside from the D2C aspects.
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by quantguy11959 7y ago
What are some good ways to avoid distractions? I often find myself watching YouTube/Netflix or on steam for endless hours before realizing it
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Ask HN: What are some interesting employment benefits to offer?
7 points by quantguy11959 7y ago|9 comments
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by quantguy11959 7y ago
I agree consider Singapore, massive pollution problems but one of the safest countries in the world.
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by quantguy11959 7y ago
I got downvoted to oblivion for reporting a bug to them, with several SO devs trying to explain it’s not a bug, this doesn’t surprise me.
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by quantguy11959 7y ago
No, it’s about where money flows to avoid taxes. The comment suggested money will flow into the UK from Europe after Brexit to avoid tax, however Europe already has Luxembourg.
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by quantguy11959 7y ago
Europe (and HK) already have Luxembourg for that.
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by quantguy11959 7y ago
No it won’t, most companies no longer offer pensions for new employees and instead offer a 401K plan. The pension problem will go away over time.
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by quantguy11959 7y ago
What’s 0.05% minus 1.5% inflation ? Negative
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by quantguy11959 7y ago
It’s positive for now, in Europe the deposit accounts are negative as well for the most part.
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by quantguy11959 7y ago
The main point behind the two currency system is to prevent money laundering. You can only convert offshore to onshore via state run banks. This also has the side effect of making it easier to control import and export flow thereby inflatio
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by quantguy11959 7y ago
Wait you even have to physically remove it ???
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by quantguy11959 7y ago
Yeah I’ll need to do some research, if I can only poll the db for just the time I need this will be a huge cost saving for me. I think the db only gets queried if a dag actually runs but I’m not 100% sure.
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by quantguy11959 7y ago
How well would this work with something like airflow ? If I have jobs that run only end of day for an hour on airflow, I pay just for an hour of the database ?
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by quantguy11959 7y ago
Did they control for food taste and preferences ? It could simply be the processed food happened to taste better as well. Not sure if pleasantness and familiarity cover that.
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by quantguy11959 7y ago
There are a few vendors built on top of multiple cloud vendors however they themselves become the lock in, zeit or Joyent are good examples of this.
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by quantguy11959 7y ago
It could be worse, imagine the inverse: You can’t do anything to make money; Every hobby is an attempt to have fun.
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by quantguy11959 7y ago
Agreed I got fed up with the notifications and turned them off after a week.