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by wgerard 8y ago
> The issue is that you can short any high risk high reward play and make money if they fail Or (as a short) you can lose massive amounts of money if they're incredibly successful - in fact, your losses are actually uncapped. And an
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by wgerard 8y ago
Worth noting: Matt Levine used to be a practicing attorney. The CYA stuff makes a lot more sense in light of that.
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by wgerard 8y ago
Matt Levine has another article that does a great job of summing up short sellers [1] (see "Short selling, etc."). I used to work on a product that tracked short sellers, so I had to read a lot of press releases and interviews and
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by wgerard 8y ago
It seems like you're more interested in arguing semantics and defending your viewpoint than having an actual discussion, so I'll leave you to it. Definitely feel free to point me to the studies showing familial wealth has no effec
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by wgerard 8y ago
> Unless your argument is that familial wealth impacts merit, which I'd like to see evidence of, it's the fairer way to administer aid. There's just assloads of studies showing high correlations between familial wealth and
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by wgerard 8y ago
> They aren't all trying to do that of course The vast majority of them aren't trying to do that, similar to how the vast majority of longs aren't trying to P&D. > But I don't like the people that push false na
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by wgerard 8y ago
That's a realllly simplistic and one-sided view of short sellers.
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by wgerard 8y ago
Hey! Sorry, I missed this comment. It's changed recently I've heard, but up until recently making a model without using ActiveRecord was a huge PITA that mostly engendered "don't do that" comments.
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by wgerard 8y ago
Maybe I've spent too much time on the other parts of the internet, but I kinda disagree with this: > Very often, useful comments are crowded out by one-uppy point scorers and the top half of a reasonable thread can be filled by long
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by wgerard 8y ago
> you have to talk to users... that should be done on your schedule, not on theirs (most of the time) so that when you are done talking to them and you have a good idea of what to build, you can go crank out a high quality first version.
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by wgerard 8y ago
> Compared to a Rails, Django, Express.js, or any similar more-traditional framework... SPA apps with frameworks like React are significantly more complex Hmm, I don't agree with that at all. I work with Rails and React daily, and t
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by wgerard 8y ago
> If you hate doing something then why continue doing it? Best to shift into an occupation you enjoy This describes, likely, a large portion of the workforce in general and isn't specific to streamers. The answer, of course, is that
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by wgerard 8y ago
> If you’re making $6 million / year, you have the resources with which to take time off and reconsider your choices. > > Sure, there are the mega-streamers who have (hopefully) saved enough money that they could absorb that g
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by wgerard 8y ago
> stop making videos for awhile It has a huge detrimental effect. Each day you take a break can set you back by several. From the article: >> “I left for less than 48 hours and lost 40,000 subscribers on Twitch. I’ll be back today…
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by wgerard 8y ago
Yeah, it was quite a reality check to hear our host talk very nonchalantly about how Amin took his father away and had him killed - it was just so common that men of his age had their fathers murdered by Amin, that it didn't even seem
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by wgerard 8y ago
The scenery is simultaneously beautiful and heartbreaking: Idi Amin's ghost is still very much around. I knew very little about Amin until visiting and every third conversation ended up involving him somehow. You can still go see the c
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by wgerard 8y ago
Yes! Pipelines can be incredibly rewarding if you spend the time to really dig into it and do a bunch of trial-and-error. Convincing other people on your team to do that with the current state of documentation is painful, and understandably
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by wgerard 8y ago
Super interesting, and definitely seems smart of SK to be that forward-thinking. Has anyone really ever dug into what happened to Japan's economy (i.e. what caused the stagnation)? A cursory Google search returns a lot of well thought-
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by wgerard 8y ago
AFAIK anyway, Webpack isn't automatically installed with every Rails app but is easily available via https://github.com/rails/webpacker . So it's not "bundled" necessarily all the time, but is quite
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by wgerard 8y ago
> If you had only tried a bit harder practicing lay ups in gym class, you could be just as good as Michael Jordan I don't think it's that - MJ obviously had a lot of things going for him other than his practice ethic (for one,
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by wgerard 8y ago
Dang, this sounds like a great idea and maybe I'm just mega-jaded, but I feel like the places where this would be most helpful are also the places least likely to: 1) Do this at all 2) Do this in a way that doesn't invite retaliat
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by wgerard 8y ago
> 112 is less than a rounding error when there are well over a million people currently employed in some sort of software development position. But there aren't over a million people employed in software development in the bay area
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by wgerard 8y ago
> FANG can only hire, what, 10% of all currently-employed engineers That number is probably growing over time (as the article alludes to). I mean, just take a look at how many positions Netflix alone is hiring for: https://job
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by wgerard 8y ago
I dunno - I don't think you're gonna win that battle. When a library is sufficiently advanced it often becomes a distinct entity (linguistically, at least) from whatever it's built upon. See also: React, Pandas, Numpy, Boost,
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by wgerard 8y ago
I think the "shift" that's most interesting is this one: > Alphabet and Facebook pay their employees so generously that startups can struggle to attract talent I've heard anecdotally from quite a few people that this
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by wgerard 8y ago
> But they are not leaving empty houses - they are selling them for millions as the world's would be movers and shakers move in. Er, not necessarily: > Last year more Americans left the county of San Francisco than arrived. Now,
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by wgerard 8y ago
It's hyperbole, but the point is that vanilla JS couldn't accomplish it easily without a lot of headache. Handling browser compatibility alone made jQuery extremely useful back when it first emerged.
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by wgerard 8y ago
Ah gotcha! Apologies, then. I probably should've read a little more closely.
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by wgerard 8y ago
? VSCode is definitely free in the "beer" sense.
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by wgerard 8y ago
I think that's a very simplistic view. While there are of course people who have been extremely successful relying on those two things alone (and they dominate the headlines, of course), there are countless successful people who succee

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