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by wgerard 8y ago
> few people I know, even with high net worth and liquidity, have much of anything in a 'savings account' Really? It's fairly common advice to store an emergency fund in something akin to a savings account (or at least som
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> those who are earning less this year compared to last due to inflation and wage stagnation. The article discusses this briefly: > The trucking industry is instructive here: Trade groups have argued that it is facing a shortfall of 5
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The openings seem to be largely in trades or nonskilled labor: > Competition for workers has gone crazy, Joe McConville, who co-owns a popular chain of made-from-scratch pizza restaurants, told me. “At almost every restaurant that I’ve w
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by wgerard 8y ago
It's interesting (that's my equivocating adjective, anyway) to note that "social media" doesn't just include Facebook/etc. here, it also includes things like: * LinkedIn * Skype which, while sure, are "soc
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What an oddly modern version of The Truman Show (I guess?). > Denino resisted for months—Caroline made him happy—but eventually he relented. “It just got too much, dude,” he told me. “It was just easier to break up with her than to deal
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Sorry, I meant original podcasts. It looks like they do have some (I see Amy Schumer's is tagged as such), but curious to see if they get into it more heavily.
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I'm surprised Spotify hasn't broken into podcasts yet (or have they?). The platform works for it, and it feels like a natural transition to go from listening to music to listening to a podcast without leaving the platform. The art
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Yes: https://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/spy/stock-chart https://investor.vanguard.com/etf/profile/performance/vti
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Somewhat related, but I always wonder if things like this are symptomatic of something larger happening - i.e. I wonder if we're at the start of a recession of some kind, and this is a symptom of that. Of course the more logical part o
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I think this is one of those results that doesn't seem too surprising once you start thinking about it, as the article notes: > Mindfulness is perhaps akin to a mental nap. Napping, too, is associated with feeling calm, refreshed
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The book and movie do a pretty solid job about explaining what CDOs, derivatives, etc. are. What the book and movie don't do (unless I'm forgetting something) is explain how anything involved with the 2008 crisis was illegal - the
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What a trip. I used to go to the Times Square location with people who came in from out of town, as an attraction for when they inevitably wanted to check out Times Square. The article doesn't really do justice to what a spectacle it w
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Sure, but not from fact-check. I'm sure I could also dig up more if I spent more than a minute searching: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/26589529219124838... https://twitter.com/re
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I hate those notifications. I use Facebook pretty much exclusively as a way to discover and congratulate people on major life events (birthdays, weddings, babies, etc.). I use it maybe once a week, but I actually really do appreciate being
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I'm sure they could, or at least approximate it to a close degree. But even if you determine the proper amount of force and launch angle for a given position, that doesn't mean you'll be able to actually execute. Also, of cou
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> the compound annual return of the respondent group is 8.97% greater than the non-respondent companies. That's actually interesting, because I could easily explain away the opposite result: CEOs who waste their time responding to p
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Awesome! I once built something similar using shell scripts and tmux, but it was pretty janky. This looks like a much better version of that.
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SNS, not SSNs. SNS almost certainly refers to either: 1) Student numbers 2) Screen names (like for AIM)
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> But maybe it's not crazy. If given the choice; would you choose to live now, or in the future? There aren't many people I know who aren't cynical about the present. The more I think about it, the more I wonder just how _
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> One thing that irked me a little is seeing the candidate worked at her previous company made her instantly like him. I think that's a really hard bias to get over, even if people don't readily admit it like the author did. Pr
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Heavily biased question: Does this sort of matching work out for founders? I'm curious because I would only consider starting a company with someone I knew personally and was quite sure I could work with. Still, I realize I'm risk
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To be fair: Restaurants are extremely likely to fail no matter what even under the best of circumstances. If "Kitchen Nightmares" turns around even 1/4 of the restaurants they visit, that seems pretty good relatively (even if
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> I always thought it was too bad that browsers choose to show the blank page instead of sending the request and just rendering the difference themselves. FWIW there are libraries that work around this, e.g. turbolinks - which I heavily
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> I personally think that WebAssembly is the future so the web will finally just be another compilation target and I can't wait for it to be wide spread. Hmmm, I'm not sure about that. I've only done toy projects with WebA
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Minor nitpick which I can't let go because it's been on my brain lately: VC is not always equity, especially in the early stages of a company. Convertible notes are debt instruments (and SAFEs are warrants). They convert to equity
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> However, if you have any manual testing you need to run, then at some point you have to batch the changes & test them out together anyway. Wait, why is that? Manual testing should be reserved for workflows that can't be automa
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Sure, and I guess my point is: If you haven't invested in those things, waterfall-esque deploy processes are just as bad and perhaps even worse because there's more chance for confounding changes to cause a nasty error. The only r
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Hmm, I don't see how that changes with longer/stricter deploy processes - unless you have some of the tooling around that makes CD very possible in the first place (automated checks/etc.) I've certainly worked in places
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> There are some legitimate needs for continuous deployment, the rest of it is cargo culting. Maybe, but I wouldn't go that far. Small companies already often do CD, because there's rarely a rigid deploy schedule. It's a p
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Not a slack employee but worked at a company with similar CD views: (Likely) various groups of people are deploying to production throughout the day. Out of those 100 deploys, an individual is probably only involved in 1 or 2 a day. As soon

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