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by vbtemp 6y ago
All of the time when I hear that commentary, it has to do with them finding stay-at-home moms unintelligent, petty, vapid.
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by vbtemp 6y ago
> I think women have largely been presented a false promise by progressives There's a lot of sneering and judgment by women, toward women who choose to be a stay at home mom and not have a career.
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by vbtemp 6y ago
I completely agree. The irony for me has been how immensely helpful toolchains (PRs, awesome unit test harnesses, powerful CI systems, etc etc) actually kind of make things worse and support everyone missing the forest for the trees. Everyt
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by vbtemp 6y ago
I enthusiastically believed this in the past, but then I started observing the reverse: Code reviews became gatekeeping for junior developers... In other words, junior developers were using it as opportunities to assert power (via obstructi
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by vbtemp 6y ago
It's Normal Behavior with Chinese Characteristics
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by vbtemp 6y ago
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by vbtemp 6y ago
Have you had to pay for medical care, child care, housing, care for elderly or disabled loved ones and/or education?? How on earth can you say that inflation has remained low??? All of those have become insanely expensive and people di
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by vbtemp 6y ago
You will not find Thai people who support it, except cronies who benefit from the royal patronage network. The lese majeste laws are simply the work of an autocratic leader and institution that positions itself above the law. Any ordinary T
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by vbtemp 6y ago
I'm sorry you are getting downvoted for wrong HN think. People come up with all sorts of weird off-the-cuff justifications for things. Medical staff, various home contractors, grocery-store staff all wear masks for extremely long shift
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by vbtemp 6y ago
You and me both, friend. Except I normally get down-voted to oblivion for saying the opposite.
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by vbtemp 6y ago
Sure, I recommend opening a regular brokerage account with Vanguard. you can open it in 10 minutes, and it might take a few business days to transfer in the initial batch of funds. Then once you have one of the vanguard mutual funds (let&#x
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by vbtemp 6y ago
You literally just strung together a bunch of meme-related buzzwords. There are serious concerns about inflation, and better ways to address those challenges than culty catechisms.
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by vbtemp 6y ago
Advice I would have given my 22 year old self: Mirror with an individual brokerage account what your employer does with your 401k. Just dump $X/month into that blended target retirement index/mutual fund. It's not perfect, bu
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by vbtemp 6y ago
Wow, there are a lot of people making some very extreme and/or horribly informed commentary here. There is no way to predict the future. In general, simply keep certain principles in mind. 1. Avoid "terminal conditions" - i.e
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by vbtemp 6y ago
> the point being that an importing country should be held at least partially responsible for the emissions of the manufacturing country. Ok, so Saudi Arabia is responsible for America's emissions. Russia is responsible for Europe&#
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by vbtemp 6y ago
> It's worth noting that China does 28% of the world's manufacturing, much of which is exported to developed countries. You don't have to go to bat for china, you know. Does the fact that they have so much manufacturing ma
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by vbtemp 6y ago
Places where I've seen it, people who have the right of way take that to mean they get to play "traffic cop". E.g., at a 4-way stop the "extra polite" person who gets there first, instead of going through the inters
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by vbtemp 6y ago
Things like this are cool. What I would be curious to see though, rather than setting global parameters (i.e., politeness), would be to have each agent have its own politeness score (as well as other attributes). Models like the one linked
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by vbtemp 6y ago
Wasteland of white sameness? That's a funny way of saying simple and uncluttered.
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by vbtemp 6y ago
Yeah faces-in-circles is another one of many design tropes and fads that will soon be so dated, or look like lame Facebook knock off
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by vbtemp 6y ago
I'm of relatively strong opinion.. but why just not have faces-in-circles anywhere? It would feel so liberating from all the social network gimmicks out there. To me it would then feel so real and down for business, rather than have a
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by vbtemp 6y ago
Definitely beautiful and would love for something simple and clean to eat LinkedIn's lunch. I don't have much to add in addition to everyone else except this: I am really disturbed by the common meme of faces-inside-circles. Why d
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by vbtemp 6y ago
And housing. But since cheap crap remains just has cheap and crappy as ever, somehow some people take that to mean inflation isn't a thing?
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by vbtemp 6y ago
Honest question, please don't snipe at me. Can someone please point me to significant leaks from out of china, russia, iran on wikileaks? Edit: since it appears no one can actually answer this question with an actual answer, and only d
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by vbtemp 6y ago
> We are in a period of rapid inflation but mainstream economists and the government pretend we aren’t. It has been going on for decades but the official inflation rate is supposedly sub-2% while healthcare, education, daycare, high-qual
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by vbtemp 6y ago
Pretty much!
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by vbtemp 6y ago
State machines implemented in-line with code usually end up as a mess. It's best if they are factored out, and implemented as a DSL inside a true state machine engine running as a somewhat independent service or library.
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by vbtemp 6y ago
People who gloss over this do so at your own risk. This technique is applicable for so, so many applications - even when it doesn't appear obvious at first. Factoring out complex control system logic into these (and related) formalisms
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by vbtemp 6y ago
Software engineering needs to be learned on the job. I see lots of new grads that take classes in "Agile" and I cringe just knowing how instead they could be taking difficult courses in graph theory, theory of computation, abstrac
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by vbtemp 6y ago
Challenges that benefit tremendously from just a bit of a dive into theory are all over the place. This has been true for me in my career as a software engineer whether I'm working at an energy company, federal research lab, tech start

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