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by whack 2y ago
My favorite example of conventional ignorance: some guy was traveling on a plane the girl sitting next to him asked him whether there was wifi available so she could browse the internet. This was about 20 years ago... and the guy was convin
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by whack 2y ago
I can empathize with the article. Earlier in my career, I would interview with any company that offered a significant pay increase. "Why would anyone turn down a 30% pay raise" was my mentality. Then I had a couple of jobs that
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50 Years Ago, the World Trade Center Was Home to the Art Crime of the Century(nytimes.com)
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Defense Secretary Revokes Plea Deal for Accused Sept. 11 Plotters(nytimes.com)
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A Pattern of Lavish Spending at a Leading L.g.b.t.q. Nonprofit(nytimes.com)
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by whack 2y ago
If 20 different people all conduct the same experiment, and the 19 negative results are never published, there is no fraud involved when the 20th person publishes his positive result without realizing it is a 5% statistical anomaly. That pe
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Chaos and Confusion: Tech Outage Causes Disruptions Worldwide(nytimes.com)
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Bob Newhart, 94, Dies; Soft-Spoken Everyman Became a Comedy Star(nytimes.com)
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'Rust' Case Against Alec Baldwin Is Dismissed over Withheld Evidence(nytimes.com)
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The Deep Source of Trump's Appeal(nytimes.com)
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The Strongest Case for Biden Is His Resilience in the Face of the Onslaught(nytimes.com)
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'The Justices Dropped This Bomb': Three Legal Experts on a Supre (Cont)(nytimes.com)
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by whack 2y ago
Anecdotal: 8 years ago, Tesla would be at the top of my list if I was looking to buy a luxury or electric car. It had, and to some extent still has, a nice buzz to it. It was the Apple of the car industry. Today, I would feel downright asha
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The Killer Stalking Sri Lanka's Men(nytimes.com)
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For Older People Who Are Lonely, Is the Solution a Robot Friend?(nytimes.com)
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Reformist Candidate Wins Iran's Presidential Election(nytimes.com)
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How to Get Voters the Facts They Need Without a Trump Jan. 6 Trial(nytimes.com)
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Democrats: Stop Panicking(nytimes.com)
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Mikhail Baryshnikov on Leaving Everything Behind(nytimes.com)
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New Covid Shots Recommended for Americans 6 Months and Older This Fall(nytimes.com)
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Social Security could have been paying us twice as much(outlookzen.com)
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by whack 2y ago
> If you're writing a custom frontend for GitHub using the GitHub API and don't bother writing a decent set of mocks for how you expect the GitHub API to behave, your app will quickly require either full manual QA at best or b
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by whack 2y ago
> Once you know the prices are jacked up just for "you", and once you know you are being "played," you behave differently and resist. This isn't true. If you find out that only Tesla is customizing their car-pric
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by whack 2y ago
Why would they stop working when everyone does it? The methods described might be new, but the underlying principle is simple and fundamental - charge customers based on their willingness-to-pay. If customers are willing to pay $10 for your
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by whack 2y ago
My intuition is that at a certain scale, microservices are preferable to a monolith. Two principled reasons: - Autonomy over deployment rollbacks. If your team owns a microservice, and you noticed that you deployed buggy code, you can easil
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by whack 2y ago
> being completely convinced that one way of doing things is always wrong and one way of doing things is always right, and that people doing things the other way are just ignorant/stupid/wrong > people who talk/write li
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by whack 2y ago
Interestingly, your article seems to support the CEO's "no managers" policy: > It’s not uncommon to find engineering managers with 30 direct reports. Flatt says that’s by design, to prevent micromanaging. “There is only s
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Muscles in Knots?(nytimes.com)
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Trump Leads in 5 Key States, as Young and Nonwhite Voters Express Discont (Cont)(nytimes.com)
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The Simple Math That Could Swing the Election to Biden(nytimes.com)
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