slumdev

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by slumdev 5y ago
It's actually the math that I'm questioning, not the subjective aspects. The quantity of money required to support my family in the event of my death is not affected by the odds of my death. Whether I'm the perfect image of h
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by slumdev 5y ago
> the NVICP is perfectly sufficient for my own needs How do you reach this conclusion? At a max $250k per life, paid through a secret court with the deck stacked against the plaintiff, it doesn't appear to be sufficient for anyone&#
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by slumdev 5y ago
> Well, what would it take for you to change your mind? A vaccine that (1) did not use cell lines from aborted fetuses at any point in its discovery, development, testing, or production, and that (2) has been studied for 10 years to dete
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by slumdev 5y ago
See my reply to a sibling comment. The most damning evidence comes from the comparison between highly-vaccinated Israel, where there are many third-wave deaths, and mostly-unvaccinated Palestine, where there isn't a third-wave death s
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by slumdev 5y ago
A study demonstrating the mechanism for Delta ADE in vivo: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34384810/ Highly-vaccinated Israel's third-wave surge in both cases and deaths: https://www.worldometers.info
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by slumdev 5y ago
SARS-CoV-2 has four antigens. The existing vaccines stimulate the production of antibodies against only one of them, the spike protein. The existing vaccines are proving ineffective against Delta because it has mutated significantly enough
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by slumdev 5y ago
If you ever relinquish majority ownership of this company in exchange for funding, it will eventually become "Timeshares But As An App". Your approach might be more principled than the way timeshare companies operate. But it also
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by slumdev 5y ago
Who becomes owner of a person's share if he stops paying maintenance fees?
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by slumdev 5y ago
It's even more complicated than that. Some nutrients are absorbed in the stomach. Most are absorbed in the small intestine. Some are absorbed in the large intestine. Heck, some are even absorbed through the mouth and gums!
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by slumdev 5y ago
> Yeah, WTF is wrong with that Nothing is wrong with it. Donald Knuth proudly describes himself as a programmer. But a good chunk of the people reading this comment probably make more money than he does, and title inflation is part of t
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by slumdev 5y ago
The people who can't code any longer are still typically able to describe an algorithm, at least in pseudocode. Whiteboarding Yet Another Graph Search Problem With Perfect Syntax[1] might be beyond their current short-term abilities,
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by slumdev 5y ago
Yep. I think we run into a different problem, which is the diminishing return to the employer. Even if a person's growth is linear, most companies' ability to realize a return on that growth probably isn't. It's not tha
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by slumdev 5y ago
A lifelong learner with decades of experience will outperform a 5-year "senior" many times over, not just in output but also in the headaches and mess that they save you from having to experience. What we need is better titling.
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by slumdev 5y ago
> in several countries the bulk of transmissions are from mother to infant during delivery Is this the case in the United States, where the CDC makes recommendations? And if so, why not administer it only to those children of mothers who
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by slumdev 5y ago
Pray that the side effects are well-studied before the CDC decides to administer it to every infant within minutes of birth (like they did with Hep B, another sexually-transmitted disease to which most people will never even be exposed.)
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by slumdev 5y ago
Artificial sweeteners, from the time that they enter your mouth and encounter your taste buds, cause the release of insulin. This insulin lowers your blood sugar. Because artificial sweeteners provide only the sensation of sweetness and no
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by slumdev 5y ago
No matter what they say, nobody likes fruit enough to get fat off of it. Can't say that about candy bars.
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by slumdev 5y ago
> Was paying under $700 for the two of us. What did this buy, though? That premium sounds like either a "health sharing ministry" or some kind of barebones catastrophic plan. Both are smart options if a person has good income
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by slumdev 5y ago
> when I was working as a 1099 contract worker, I bought health insurance for my family for little more than what an employer deducts from my paycheck. How long has it been since then? What most people would consider "good" ins
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by slumdev 5y ago
Most ORMs don't let us do this, and it works well. Getting back the entire relation (rather than some sub-tuple) isn't the kind of expense that causes problems scaling. It chews up network bandwidth between the database and the A
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by slumdev 5y ago
This is real diversity--some single, some married, some with kids, some without, some older, some younger, coming from all different educational backgrounds, and living in different communities. If everybody went to the same handful of coll
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by slumdev 5y ago
It's a feature, not a bug, that the code blows up when the database schema doesn't match my models. Just as the necessity of DI frameworks isn't an argument against unit testing or the inversion principle, the necessity of OR
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by slumdev 5y ago
"OPEC Pivots To Renewable Energies"
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by slumdev 5y ago
This is how most non-tech Fortune 1000 companies run.
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by slumdev 5y ago
> I have arrived at the same conclusions as you wrt. static vs dynamic typing. A sufficiently powerful static type system entirely subsumes dynamic typing, and there is quite literally nothing you can accomplish with dynamic typing that
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by slumdev 5y ago
I bet they wish they had leased! This employer owns many large campuses...
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by slumdev 5y ago
And yet: - Cold-pressed, extra virgin olive oil is considered to be the healthiest due to its fat and polyphenol content. - Traditional cheeses are more nutritious than Kraft singles. - Whole grain is more nutritious than Wonderbread. - Fre
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by slumdev 5y ago
My employer administered questions regarding how many days per week the employees wanted to spend in-office versus WFH. Zero days per week in the office was not presented as an option.
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by slumdev 5y ago
Exactly. A flawless SPA backed by a flawless API that produces responses in tens of milliseconds is superior to the old ways. But a trash SPA backed by an API that produces responses eventually if ever and requires me to open the browser&
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by slumdev 5y ago
Martin, is that you?

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