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by tfehring 7y ago
There are basically 4 groups of people without insurance (though note that the distribution is based on 2015 data): 1. 42% make too much to qualify for premium subsidies but elect not to purchase coverage, typically because it's unaffo
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by tfehring 7y ago
Money is more fungible than votes. If you live in a very red or very blue state, it's probably more impactful to buy $100 worth of political advertising for your candidate of choice in swing states than it is to actually vote in a nati
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by tfehring 7y ago
The entities purchasing the ISAs will rely on Lambda’s success at getting people jobs to determine how much they’re willing to pay. Lambda has exactly the same incentives in the long term regardless of whether it keeps or sells the ISAs.
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by tfehring 7y ago
Wishful thinking, mostly. But Spotify seems like the most likely path to non-ad-based monetization of the “bottom 90%” of podcasts, despite the fact that Spotify isn’t currently going down that path.
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by tfehring 7y ago
I'll definitely emphasize the "if" in "if Spotify can pay them more" - I don't know what share of podcasts, if any, could be monetized more effectively through a paid subscription platform like Spotify than thr
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by tfehring 7y ago
Podcasters make abysmal returns today. If Spotify can pay them more than they make today while offering listeners an ad-free experience, that seems like a win-win-win.
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by tfehring 7y ago
As described in the article, Chick-fil-A (not the franchisee) covers all costs except for the $10k franchise fee, in exchange for a much higher share of revenue than competing restaurants. I'd hope that competitors' franchisees ma
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by tfehring 7y ago
For reference, here's the spreadsheet with the screenshotted link [0], I've copy-pasted the climate change deniers and corresponding sources below. Anastasios Tsonis https://www.businessinsider.com/scientists-who-d
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by tfehring 7y ago
It's also worth mentioning that the US dairy industry in aggregate operates at a ~40% net loss [0, p9], and Wisconsin dairy farms have collectively lost money every year since at least 2005 [0, p16], before accounting for subsidies. US
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I agree with all of this except the last sentence, which I entirely disagree with. The gap between elites and non-elites is growing, and as a result, the value of breaking into the social circles of the wealthy and "legacy" studen
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1. Public pensions in the US will start cutting benefits and/or getting tax increases to avoid bankruptcy. Which of these is done will vary by state/city; both will lead to drawn-out legal battles. Social Security's reserve w
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https://www.interfluidity.com/ , on economics and economic philosophy
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Government spending in capitalist countries creates returns to capital. Financing that spending almost entirely through taxes on labor, as the US does today, means that government spending is (in part) a direct transfer from labor to capita
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That’s accurate. But the data cited in the page I linked is based on CO2 equivalent, which accounts for the higher global warming potential of other gases, including methane. I suspect that the high global warming potential of methane is th
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by tfehring 7y ago
> A better one, like you mention, is rice - again a crop with substantially worse carbon impact than chicken. Do you have a source for that? The data at [0] indicates that chicken is about 50% worse than rice in terms of CO2e per Calor
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by tfehring 7y ago
It’s much better now since SQL Server 2017 added a new string split function. But I actually had to do basically the same thing in an earlier version of SQL Server (in my case, it was because I was interacting with a legacy application that
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by tfehring 7y ago
Not that this dismisses the ridiculousness of the original design, but couldn’t you just use materialized views as a workaround?
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This is completely different functionality than the parent comment's code. It's only joining on one "column", not two, and it only returns the values in that "column", while the parent's code returns compl
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by tfehring 7y ago
Oh boy. Not even gonna bother with a throwaway, draw your own inferences about whether I'm taking the thread title too literally. My current responsibilities: (1) Architect for significant updates to one of our financial projection mod
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by tfehring 7y ago
As I understand it, YC has the right to participate in priced rounds at the same valuation as other investors to retain their 7% stake. That does reduce the return on their most successful investments (since the denominator is bigger), but
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As is often the case, it's important to distinguish absolute value (the total net positive or negative created by, say, CBP or law enforcement in general) from marginal value (the additional net positive or negative created when yo
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by tfehring 7y ago
My comment referred to engineers at big tech companies, not the average engineer more generally. The job market is still really strong for engineers across the board, not just SWE. Experience at big tech companies still looks great on a res
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by tfehring 7y ago
Your and your children’s well being depend on your having a job. They don’t depend strictly on your current job. Approximately all engineers at big tech companies could put in their 2 week’s notice on Monday and find another job above the 9
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by tfehring 7y ago
It's form factor too, not just price point. The form factor is the only reason I switched from Android, and I'd happily pay the full iPhone 11 price for a phone the size of an SE with iPhone 11 internals.
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I think some candidates would be open to performing a half-day exercise. But the best candidates wouldn't, which is what drives the anti-selection I mentioned in my previous comment. More broadly, I don't think it's realist
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I completely agree, and that's exactly my point: the median data science screening process tries to be all-encompassing to an extent that would seem ridiculous (for a "take-home" assessment) in any other technical field.
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Any assessment that directly provides data sets - even with "gotcha"s like missing values - is testing, based on the conventional wisdom, at most 20% of a real-world data science workflow. And IMO it's the least critical 20%.
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by tfehring 7y ago
In particular, https://old.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/top/ is pretty entertaining.
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This seems like a failure on the part of the product manager(s), not on QA. It's not QA's job to decide whether minor bug fixes should be prioritized over new features, or at all. And if the product manager decides that they shou
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by tfehring 7y ago
There's an interesting and compelling take on the complexity of finance here (2011): https://www.interfluidity.com/v2/2669.html

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