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by skizm 4y ago
> I'll never depend on a 3rd party dev as the main means of production again. I wonder if being a developer will mitigate some of the issues that come with hiring a dev. You'll be able to see if things are not working or gettin
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by skizm 4y ago
In what practical or observable sense does that matter if someone never acts as if they know what they're saying is incorrect? Also, assuming the Dunning-Kruger effect is mostly accurate, there will be large portions of the population
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by skizm 4y ago
HTML, css, js, (maybe jquery and font-awesome if I want to get fancy) and all static files dumped in an S3 bucket for as long as I can get away with it, then django if I need anything more. Not that I think python/django is the "b
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by skizm 4y ago
If these companies assets or stocks go to zero or are locked due to fraud or something that makes the actual public stocks untradable, how do you get out of a short position? Borrowing and selling the stock means you can’t get it back to re
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by skizm 4y ago
I listen to audio books anywhere from 2 - 2.5x speed these days, so I assume people do that with podcasts too. 2 hours becomes 48 minutes then.
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by skizm 4y ago
$1,800 is a lot to save relative to your income. 50/30/20 rule says you should be saving <$1,300ish and spending around $3,200 on needs, so maybe like $2700 on housing and $500 on utilities, groceries, etc. $3k / mo for an
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by skizm 4y ago
On 120k you can get your own apartment in NYC outside of Manhattan and the expensive parts of Brooklyn easily. Plus that is for a new grad / jr engineer. They’ll be making north of $200k in 5 years most likely.
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by skizm 4y ago
I mean if you look at the total number of employees by year, all these companies have still added massively to their headcounts in the last 3-4 years. It is not sustainable to continue adding 20-50k employees per year to your payroll.
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by skizm 4y ago
If you also have SMS codes enabled, in addition to the authenticator app, will the SMS codes with if you lose access to your authenticator app?
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by skizm 4y ago
> I’ve also discovered it’s endlessly entertaining to take 33 RPM records and play them at 45 RPM, causing everyone to sound like chipmunks. He discovered Nightcore for hipsters :P
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by skizm 4y ago
Which turns out to be completely wrong in the end though lol.
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by skizm 4y ago
I imagine this memo reading like that one in Snow Crash about the inter-office toilet paper sharing system, and employees dutifully reading the memo for exactly X number of minutes to ensure their computer's tracking software notes tha
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by skizm 4y ago
Just some initial Googling shows they had roughly 144K employees in 2019 and ~221K in 2022. If you take out 11k, they still added 66K jobs in 3 years. I'd be curious to know the breakdown of the kinds of jobs they added vs the ones the
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by skizm 4y ago
While on the topic, how about any books or courses that teach building a 3D game engine from scratch? I'm language agnostic, so any language is fine.
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by skizm 4y ago
Maybe unpopular opinion: NJ has better pizza on average, although you can find better pizza in NYC if you're looking for something specific. Just my opinion obviously.
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by skizm 4y ago
Where did the original set of meme images, gifs, and videos come from?
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by skizm 4y ago
> Compared with undertaking no resistance training, undertaking any amount of resistance training reduced the risk of all-cause mortality by 15% ... cardiovascular disease mortality by 19% ... and cancer mortality by 14% ... https:&#x2
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by skizm 4y ago
#1 reason is because they're running WhatsApp, a 2 billion+ MAU service, and not monetizing it at all right now. Hypothetically a single text ad on the home screen would add billions to their bottom line overnight. #2 reason is because
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by skizm 4y ago
Eh, they're not in freefall any more. Very strong is probably an overstatement since they're still down over 65% YTD and even more from ATHs. I'm a big Meta (stock) fan though. I think they're insanely undervalued at the
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by skizm 4y ago
Similar: https://xkcd.com/1227/ https://xkcd.com/1601/
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by skizm 4y ago
In the very unlikely event that the US (or any country in a similar situation) were to nationalize the railroads, what would happen to the labor unions and workers' ability to collectively bargain? If the railway were nationalized and
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by skizm 4y ago
Release a bunch of snakes?
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by skizm 4y ago
While we're here, what are the top CSS or front end frameworks that are just static CSS files (maybe a single JS file too) that I can either download or hotlink from a CDN? I usually fallback to bootstrap for personal projects or proto
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by skizm 4y ago
The amounts of money we’re talking about here are sort of staggering. I know they did a pretty good job of not keeping any records of depositors, but do we have any sense of depositor demographics, total number of depositors, or average acc
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by skizm 4y ago
My favorite bit about the FTX fiasco is the spreadsheet with assets and liabilities has an entry for negative $8B : > hidden, poorly internally labled ‘fiat@’ account
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by skizm 4y ago
> FTX shot its customer money into some still-unexplained reaches of the astral plane and was like “well we do have $5 billion of this Serum token we made up, that’s something?” No it isn’t! The upcoming series of FTX articles will be be
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by skizm 4y ago
I forget the exact phrasing, but something along the lines of: "Leverage almost always works out. But when it doesn't, you die."
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by skizm 4y ago
This is completely incorrect. They took on ~$10B in debt recently for stock buybacks when debt was cheap. They make around $28B in profit after metaverse spending and have $40B cash on hand.
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by skizm 4y ago
The worst part of these types of stories is every time I tell my non-tech friends and family about this stuff, the vast majority respond with: “so what?” They genuinely do not care about their own privacy from companies. Then they bash Face
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by skizm 4y ago
When cryptocurrency assets are seized, do they transfer everything all to a separate wallet, which is then held in custody? If there are copies of the "seized" assets, they can just be moved to a new wallet and then the only thing

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