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by ripper1138 4y ago
Source for “sea level rises will massively reduce the amount of arable land”? Seems like an exaggeration. My naive estimate would be that maybe 1% of arable land would be destroyed by sea level. I’m far more concerned about drought.
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by ripper1138 4y ago
Agreed. And I think these changes will still develop slowly enough to adapt to. It would really surprise me if the Midwest and eastern US farmland doesn’t stay productive for a long, long time. But it would not surprise me if there are occa
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by ripper1138 4y ago
> “He said it is so hard being him in the world because of his intelligence,” she later recalled.
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by ripper1138 4y ago
Ha… it’s not like the earthquake will stop at I-5 like it’s a magic shield. If the quake knocks out utilities and services everywhere west of the cascades, this I-5 ‘line’ is meaningless.
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by ripper1138 4y ago
Easier said than done. No system with real usage can achieve 100% up time. When problems inevitably occur, what do you expect Stripe to do? Wait until 10am the next morning??
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by ripper1138 4y ago
Thanks for the anecdote. “it’ll be alright at any scale” is just naive.
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by ripper1138 4y ago
Not always that simple. 2-3 times a week is nothing! Try being on call in AWS, or any product/service at that scale. How often you get paged has less to do with your organization and more to do with the scale of your systems and busine
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by ripper1138 4y ago
Inevitable. Working 2 hours a day while getting paid 300K+ is unsustainable. Most of the Googlers I know have been spending 20% of their time on Google and 80% on side projects for the past year now.
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by ripper1138 4y ago
Out of touch? That was a top of the line laptop when it was released and it cost >$2000
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by ripper1138 4y ago
There are certainly managers and directors that would be mesmerized by the architecture diagram in your example, and immediately put that dev up for promo.
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by ripper1138 4y ago
There is heavy investment into anti-drone weapons and defense systems. Directed energy weapons in particular are quite effective against small drones.
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by ripper1138 4y ago
Take it from people who have lived in Seattle, it’s not the amount of rainfall. In the winter months you can literally go weeks without seeing clear skies.
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by ripper1138 4y ago
Is it fair to call dating preferences “race discrimination”? And without looking at any real stats, I’d guess that the US has more interracial dating/marriage than most countries.
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by ripper1138 4y ago
Manpuku Tokyo BBQ in LA does charcoal bbq at the table. As long as they don’t ban that, we’ll be fine.
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by ripper1138 4y ago
Dividends are gold the next 2 years.
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by ripper1138 4y ago
Are there no cars in Europe?
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by ripper1138 4y ago
Thanks to the garbage truck driver.
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by ripper1138 4y ago
That could be true but the impact would still be limited compared to 2008. Credit/bank failures are far worse for the general economy than some tech startups failing.
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by ripper1138 4y ago
Totally agree
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by ripper1138 4y ago
The amount of hiring in the past 12 months is insane.
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by ripper1138 4y ago
All those crazy 500k+ offers going around over the last 6 months are already softer thanks to RSU value dropping. Some people are already getting 30% less then they thought they were getting (at least for now).
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by ripper1138 4y ago
You know it’s ok to get rejected on an interview. Almost everyone has been! You don’t need to have an excuse about wrong level even if it is true.
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by ripper1138 4y ago
Very successful is a stretch. It’s a transactional business for cryptocurrency. Their large margin depends completely on inflated crypto prices.
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by ripper1138 4y ago
He’s absolutely not a visionary.
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by ripper1138 4y ago
Good luck
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by ripper1138 4y ago
After GDPR almost all companies need to have something like a “universal delete”. There are safer ways to deal with data retention policies but I can understand why such a script exists.
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by ripper1138 4y ago
So many opportunities missed to avoid this! Look at one ID and ensure it is what you expect it to be. Run the script in a dryrun mode. Run the script for 1 customer. Probably more!
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by ripper1138 4y ago
This is a joke right? Kind of like rioters looting local businesses and then saying “society stole from us first”?
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by ripper1138 4y ago
Idk, at this point it seems pretty safe to say that the value has dropped.
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by ripper1138 5y ago
I’ve seen way too many people show up after a 12 week “SWE interview bootcamp”, pass interviews, and not know how to read an API doc and write code against it. I’ll take the experienced dev.

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