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by tharne 5y ago
I didn't even notice that, I mentally inserted the "to" without even realizing it. Good catch.
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by tharne 5y ago
The media needs to be more truthful with these headlines. This one makes it look like inflation rose 7.9% in February , when in fact it rose 7.9% in the last twelve months. Still bad, but very different from a 7.9% jump in one month. And y
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by tharne 5y ago
Well, regardless of how things should work, that's how they do work. I know some folks who've worked for politicians over the years and it's pretty transactional. For instance, it's fairly common for feedback from co
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by tharne 5y ago
Wait, is this supposed to be a punishment or a reward for Russia?
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by tharne 5y ago
What I'm saying is that the parties understand the makeup of independents insofar as they know there are so few true independents, that it doesn't really matter what they think. In today's era, you get much more bang for your
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by tharne 5y ago
> I really wonder whether any of the political establishment even has a clue as to the political makeup of the Independents. The do. The article is incredibly misleading. The drop in party affiliation does not mean that people are not p
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by tharne 5y ago
> What I really dislike modern cloud DWH such as Snowflake is that it hides a lot of things from me. This is by design. The less skill required to use a tool, the less some CTO has to pay the person using it.
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by tharne 5y ago
> I’d argue that for as long as Excel doesn’t support Parquet files, we haven’t seen the last of CSVs for a long time. It's easy to forget just how much analytic "stuff" Excel still powers.
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by tharne 5y ago
The Iraqi people would like a word. The Vietnamese too.
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by tharne 5y ago
As Dave Chappelle says, "Twitter isn't a real place".
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by tharne 5y ago
> The plan is to have the propaganda never end. It's quite scary. While I support the Ukraine, I'm shocked with how little media discussion there is about American hypocrisy on this topic. This certainly in no way excuses Putin
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by tharne 5y ago
> If Americans had faced consequences from having elected Bush once, and responded to that rationally instead of emotionally, they probably wouldn't have elected him again for a second term. True, but most people respond to most thi
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by tharne 5y ago
> What's the alternative? It's forcing Russians into tough decisions, hitting Putin and friends where it hurts, or letting Putin get away with it. I honestly don't know what the right path is here. Sometimes all the choice
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by tharne 5y ago
I worry that a lot of these sanctions are going to backfire. If I'm an average Russian citizen, maybe I'm against the war, or more likely I just don't feel very strongly about it. If the West then destroys my livelihood and f
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by tharne 5y ago
In the 1990's this was an extremely common view, at least in the U.S. Teachers, parents, politicians, and practically anyone else in a position of authority all routinely told us that sending all the manufacturing to the east was going
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by tharne 5y ago
Service economies tend to grow out of and get strength from related industrial activities. They can go on for quite a while once those industrial activities are gone from a certain era, but after a while the countries and regions that took
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by tharne 5y ago
This can cut both ways. Yes, if you choose Haskell, a Lisp, or something like Erlang, you can get smarter/better devs. But the flip side of that is that the types of people who tend to gravitate toward those languages are often more in
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by tharne 5y ago
Did we work together :) ?
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by tharne 5y ago
Yes. I didn't used to, but that was a very big mistake. Just wait until something you signed off on doesn't run and folks ask, "But didn't you review this code and say that everything 'looked good'? It doesn&#x
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by tharne 5y ago
Meh, I'm getting very tired of these types of articles. Why is it so hard to simply admit that it's really hard if not impossible to predict complex things like this? The types of people that write these articles also believed at
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by tharne 5y ago
> The people making these decisions are not idiots Most of the world would beg to differ. Particularly in the West, this whole situation was handled abominably and was an embarrassment at all levels. Even most doctors will tell you the C
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by tharne 5y ago
> And as far as the gaming goes, I cannot see how playing games is more noble usage of gpu than crypto mining. As usual the gaming crowd is utterly lacking in self-awareness. "Hey, those crypto guys need to stop doing dumb things wi
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by tharne 5y ago
> We live in a society, and as a society, we have agreed upon certain rules about how money is handled. If you want to opt out of those rules, then get out of our society. Even the friends of mine who work in the banking industry will te
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by tharne 5y ago
> Do you think the Omicron wave might have had more to do with the COVID restrictions than the VA governor's race? I don't. The case numbers in many, if not most areas, are still higher than they were during the delta wave in t
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by tharne 5y ago
> Elections coming up as well This is the big one. Ever since the upset in the Virginia governor's race, the Democrats have been very eager to end COVID restrictions no matter what. The Republicans have never cared about COVID so, a
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by tharne 5y ago
This reminds me of an individual from South America I worked with many years ago. Some well-meaning individuals were asking him how the company could reach out to its Hispanic employees better. He looks at them and wryly says, "Well to
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by tharne 5y ago
> Nigerian immigrants outperform most domestic US groups. So clearly "skin color" isn't the main factor (if at all). This is very true. Most of the time when people think they're talking about race, they're actua
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by tharne 5y ago
> There's a difference between stopping an action at a societal level, and targeting an individual through any means necessary. Yup. It always amazes me how often people conflate, "The U.S. government can't be bothered to
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by tharne 5y ago
It sounds like you'd very much enjoy working as a data engineer. Data engineers are actually more in demand than data scientists in most place right now, so you're in a good position if you choose to go down that path.
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by tharne 5y ago
That's a much bigger ask than you seem to realize. Overthrowing a dictator is an incredibly bloody undertaking. Even if you win, there's no guarantee that whoever takes control of the country will be any better.

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