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721.
by sailfast 7y ago
Mortgage rates track more closely to 10 year Treasury notes and not by the Fed's discount rate based on my findings of late and tracking mortgages over the past few years. The Fed funds rate doesn't really do much to near-term mor
722.
by sailfast 7y ago
You're talking about Teams? Or Office365 / OneDrive? As a software developer how have you found it? We've had great luck with not Teams so far and are likely going to have to transition because [enterprise change] and I haven
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by sailfast 7y ago
Too many places to move my neck for my preferences, but this did get me looking at something like the Samsung Space 27” for this use case - seems like it would work well and weighs in at 12 pounds each so two of them would hit the 12 kilo r
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by sailfast 7y ago
From the article it doesn’t sound like he was forcing them to take the base salary but rather making that the minimum salary for everyone at the company.
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by sailfast 7y ago
Typically (at least under US law) you cannot legally discuss someone’s health issues without their consent. Not saying it’s a factor here but there is a good reason for these protections to exist that may be slightly less advantageous in th
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by sailfast 7y ago
Absolutely. It's scary as hell in that context and I likely was typing that trying to cope with the reality. I'm really hoping we get more data on this so we can figure out what's happening. With the lack of testing / co
727.
by sailfast 7y ago
Agreed - I was trying to get a sense of the problem to-date, mostly. It's extremely important to ensure proper controls and I agree the burden of proof falls on the government to ensure they have controls in place to prevent abuses. Pe
728.
by sailfast 7y ago
Thanks
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by sailfast 7y ago
Thanks. This is very informative. I completely agree on future misuse, but I'm also not sure how to put any of this back in the bottle. What regulation are people proposing that would prevent compilation and sale of this kind of data t
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by sailfast 7y ago
I agree it is terrifying. Is it really preventable with regulation though? You can't really put the data back in the box.
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by sailfast 7y ago
Are there any examples so far around gross mis-use of this data? Building a large list of potential suspects and/or getting some direction for further study based on a face match sounds very useful, but sending a swat team to someone&#
732.
by sailfast 7y ago
Did it ever occur to you that if there is open / reliable information about the disease people might choose not to go out and/or engage in these conferences? The whole reason all of these cancellations are happening in the first p
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by sailfast 7y ago
No? There's a legal definition of predatory for most regulators that is a pretty clear line. The fact that they are regulated means that you have some ability to pursue your case / complaint outside of arbitration with the company
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by sailfast 7y ago
"How do the CIA, NSA, DHS, and FBI all share critical data without breaking the law with regard to specific details about certain types of collection targets (like citizens?)"... FEDRAMP it. Now run that as a service inside a secu
735.
by sailfast 7y ago
> Money in a federal reserve account is functionally equivalent to a floating-rate perpetuity What assumptions allow serious players to assume this? Do those assumptions still hold if the instruments are actually converted to cash, or wo
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by sailfast 7y ago
There is never a bad time to read Barbarians At the Gates to understand how the incentives work in these deals and to help judge for yourself whether they're going to work out or not. Spoiler / Hot Take: if you're overloading
737.
by sailfast 7y ago
So many of these arguments assume that financial players will keep doing things the way they always have once the monetary playbook since Breton Woods gets thrown out the window. Why would actors continue to behave the same way given a mass
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by sailfast 7y ago
You might be surprised how quickly people shift to another currency once yours becomes unstable. Why don’t they use their own currency again?... something something hyperinflation / instability / bad monetary policy. Printing mone
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by sailfast 7y ago
Those organizations aren’t the same thing. It’s not in debt to itself. I’m not sure what this means. You could make up new money, perhaps, but it’s tough when you’re still running $1T in the red each year, knowing you need to do it again. T
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by sailfast 7y ago
I would prefer to stay somewhat solvent so that we can use actual money to stave off the inevitable crisis in the 2-20 years. We know these are coming, we know we need reserves of capital to fight them. Going into debt now (except maybe in
741.
by sailfast 7y ago
Andy Grove mentions something similar in saying the job of a manager is to focus on "high leverage" activities that enable everyone in your work unit to be more productive, which is more valuable than your individual impact.
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by sailfast 7y ago
Is the hypothesis that _most_ managers that get promoted are incompetent, or is the question really "Why do any incompetent people get promoted?" Easy enough to quote dynamics / principles that might lead less capable people
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by sailfast 7y ago
LICEcap is amazing. It's also been especially good for front-end pull request documentation. Sure, include your code, but a GIF of the feature, working is a nice way to drive home the change.
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by sailfast 7y ago
Totally. This took us months to figure out, even after a lot of "hey this is gonna be hard" pre-planning. I started by sharing Rands' "Nerd in a cave" post among others talking about interruptions and remote work (
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by sailfast 7y ago
Indeed. But it seems people keep finding new and innovative ways to crash spectacularly as well. Maybe it's foul play all the way down, but I'd bet most of money on Marylanders :)
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by sailfast 7y ago
The issue I find with "flexibility to work from home" is that if it's conditional / occasional then it's also an outlier, and you're not used to working that way. This is why most "telework" programs
747.
by sailfast 7y ago
Working in a different room (NOT your bedroom) is critically important to me. Sometimes it's fun to kick back and code, but the separate space that is yours, optimized for work, and assigned mentally to work is useful in that you can w
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by sailfast 7y ago
Agreed. Mindset / routine is important here - not just to get you started but also to separate home and work. I wear office dress code most days (or some comfier version that is "nice-enough-for-video"). I work in a separate
749.
by sailfast 7y ago
Have you ever driven on the beltway?
750.
by sailfast 7y ago
Wikis work pretty well for this, provided you use them. If you can't be bothered to put together documentation as you build the software (sometimes I can't be bothered), you should at least make sure to document as you troubleshoo

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