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by rmk 3y ago
This has quickly become my favorite, replacing my previous favorite, Monaco, in the terminal also.
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by rmk 3y ago
Wow. My mental image was that of tiny vile-like mammals cowering in the undergrowth while the giant reptiles such as dinosaurs roamed the Earth. This discovery changes that image drastically!
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by rmk 3y ago
I don’t see many non superhero or non franchise movies coming out of Hollywood. It sure sounds like the moneymen’s influence: why not milk a sure thing?
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by rmk 3y ago
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10687506/ An excellent movie starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Claire Foy. It's a heartbreaking story.
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by rmk 3y ago
My point stands, particularly w.r.t. individual software engineers. Do you think any of the companies you mentioned had one, or even two/three engineers build the complicated marvels you are talking about? Do you think they would inc
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by rmk 3y ago
There aren't too many hardcore engineering jobs. They are being done in startups where hard problems are being solved, and even there the average startup is just a website which is acting as a broker in a two-sided marketplace, or some
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by rmk 3y ago
I do not know if Canada has done aggressive QE to keep asset values afloat, like the US has. As people with larger incomes are the larger holders of assets (including stocks, real estate, other property), they are the biggest beneficiaries.
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by rmk 3y ago
Apparently the Japanese believe that they can have their cake and eat it too. The striking thing is that a majority are concerned about China, but also a majority are against additional taxes to pay for increased defense expenditures.
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by rmk 3y ago
Not a proportional vote but a territorial vote nonetheless.
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by rmk 3y ago
In America, land can vote, although not in the Presidential election. The Senate.
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by rmk 3y ago
Pretty incredible that an airline has taken the time to put up a website that shows sights that can be viewed from the flight. You put in the from/to airports and you are presented with a bunch of pictures. Do you know of similar websi
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Scenery that can be seen from the air(ana.co.jp)
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by rmk 3y ago
There are other fast-growing occupations that pay way less than others. For example, wind turbine service technician pays way less than the top fastest-growing occupation.
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by rmk 3y ago
I would use https://www.bls.gov/ooh/fastest-growing.htm and https://www.bls.gov/ooh/highest-paying.htm as a starting point, and see if the kid is willing to pursue training to prepare him/her
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by rmk 3y ago
Corruption. There is no need to write further.
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by rmk 3y ago
It's surprising that AZ gets only 9% of its energy needs from Solar. Will installing batteries for storage bump this up to a significant percentage? If so, how much?
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by rmk 3y ago
There is some truth to this. Having children and raising them is an unquestionably useful activity but most societies, particularly the industrialized ones such as the US, Japan, and Korea, do not 'pay' for. Many mothers are paid
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by rmk 4y ago
If you spend 6-8 hours per day on work, then that leaves fewer than four hours a day in which you have to do non-maintenance activities. Even fewer if you have family or are tending to aged parents, for example. This describes the majority
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by rmk 4y ago
Not practical, if you spend the majority of your waking hours working, as most Americans do. But having interactions outside of work is also important, and this is where 'go outside' would be helpful.
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by rmk 4y ago
I could barely understand the last sentence! Thank you for this hilarious passage.
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by rmk 4y ago
> We have our own take on exactly how we do it, but the gist is that all our software engineers are in a video conference with each other as much as possible and focus on a single task. This is a pretty fucked up way of working. People c
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by rmk 4y ago
Why does there need to be a metric? People with management experience can decide these things based on intuition. It's practically impossible to quantify anything in this industry, but 'data-driven decisionmaking' is fetishiz
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by rmk 4y ago
I have seen the 'manager does nothing' situation, and it is a bad idea. The notion that line managers just do people management and literally nothing else is just egregiously harmful to the industry. This is how you end up with th
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by rmk 4y ago
Yes, it's nonintuitive at first glance. A (good) loan is an asset, and a deposit is a liability as far as banks are concerned.
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by rmk 4y ago
Why should HN host Chinese propaganda, again?
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by rmk 4y ago
That's my point exactly. For some industries/companies, a 'bonus' is actually de-facto 'regular' compensation, same as stock.
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by rmk 4y ago
Communities have rights, and they can be overridden by larger communities that include them. Just as a majority can override the wishes of a minority. In this case, the state of CA, a larger community, has overridden the wishes of pricey Ba
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by rmk 4y ago
Companies set aside stock for option pools, can issue more stock, etc. It's like the treasury/fed rolled into one, that governs company stock. For instance, the typical SV company will put 20% of the company towards employee optio
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by rmk 4y ago
It's certainly a reduction because, until very recently, Amazon had a maximum salary number that was quite low. Therefore, stock was used to achieve parity with market rates. However the stock was issued under the assumption that it wo
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by rmk 4y ago
So is the idea here that the 'fixed' cells populate the body and form the basis of all future generations of cells that are produced in the bone marrow?

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