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by wskinner 6y ago
This was discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26819319
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by wskinner 6y ago
Looks interesting. How do the infrastructure layer features (deployment, cloud resource management) compare to the open source alternatives? If I am already using Kubernetes and terraform, would it still make sense for me to build applicati
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by wskinner 6y ago
Care to elaborate?
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by wskinner 6y ago
Can you be more specific about what happened with Disney?
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Chesa Boudin by the Numbers(marinatimes.com)
1 points by wskinner 6y ago|0 comments
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by wskinner 6y ago
The long term historical trend is falling interest rates. So at least for the last 100+ years, the standard case scenario has been that your highly leveraged and refinanceable asset outperforms the market.
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by wskinner 6y ago
It’s unclear if this article is satire or not. Given that you will be spending 20 hours of at least two people’s time (one candidate, at least one employee), the space of alternative interviews is quite large. You could, for example, spend
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by wskinner 6y ago
No. They are being offered five months of pay and six months of healthcare to quit now. Or they keep their job. It is a personal choice.
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by wskinner 6y ago
GP is talking about safety for pedestrians, not safety for passengers. Is Tesla the safest vehicle for pedestrians who are accidentally struck?
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by wskinner 6y ago
I was surprised to reach the end of the article and find that Trio is just a python library. Doesn’t that mean that even if you use Trio, if you also use any other libraries, you still cannot be sure about the concurrency properties of your
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by wskinner 6y ago
How do you compute real value? And does your model for real value include the quantity of money and future expectations for the same?
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by wskinner 6y ago
If you already hold fixed income assets, you do not want rates to rise, because when rates rise, the price of your holdings will fall. When rates fall, those interest bearing assets look better in comparison to the new bonds (e.g.) that are
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by wskinner 6y ago
Can you point to any examples that you found particularly annoying?
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by wskinner 6y ago
What is the marginal environmental impact of a company adding 1BTC to its balance sheet?
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by wskinner 6y ago
This is easily avoidable in python by using single quotes for the outer string and double quotes for the inner string, or vice versa. Or, use triple quotes for the outer string.
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by wskinner 6y ago
> The big difference between the American healthcare system and the one in these countries is that people don’t have to worry about the bills, which means healthcare providers have a much bigger incentive to learn what cost benefit analy
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by wskinner 6y ago
At some point, you must rely on someone else's infrastructure. What if your DNS provider boots you? What if your ISP won't carry your bytes?
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by wskinner 6y ago
> The only explanation I can come up with is that Tether is being used to skirt financial regulations or launder money, which doesn't bode well for Tether either. This may well be true. But it also seems to be the case that for a lo
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by wskinner 6y ago
When the Bitfinex’d posts came out in 2017, I found them fairly convincing. It seems likely there is something not quite right at Bitfinex and Tether. But I have yet to see any evidence that the scale of “not right” is so large as is freque
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2020 Letter(danwang.co)
2 points by wskinner 6y ago|0 comments
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by wskinner 6y ago
DoorDash and Postmates would deliver from every restaurant, whether or not they had a relationship with that restaurant. This helped them grow quickly. A DoorDash competitor that started today would not be able to grow that way because it i
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by wskinner 6y ago
Looks like this is from Lorena Gonzalez, the author of the notorious AB5. Like that law, it seems rather too broad. By my reading it would ban a hypothetical app that worked on behalf of customers to deliver orders, even if the app explicit
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by wskinner 6y ago
A scenario where public health authorities don’t allow the public to have a test because the public might not understand how to interpret the results will likely undermine trust. It will solidify the belief that these authorities treat us l
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by wskinner 6y ago
University of Washington is a great university. But it does seem like presence of universities is at most a small factor here.
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by wskinner 6y ago
I learned the same thing while writing a log structured merge tree. Single threaded writes are a must - not only for performance but also simplicity of implementation. I'm curious what about your use required implementing your own stor
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by wskinner 6y ago
Indeed. I bought a secondhand Aeron - with the old armrest design, like yours - and it needed new wheels. I called Herman Miller attempting to buy replacement wheels, and they just sent them to me for free. Other than the wheels, it is in p
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by wskinner 6y ago
It seems there are three separate issues: 1. NO2 produced by gas appliances 2. Various pollutants produced during cooking 3. Poor venting The article mostly pushes for legislative solutions to 1, namely banning new gas stoves and incentiviz
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by wskinner 6y ago
Bitcoin, and to a slightly lesser extent Ethereum, are schelling points for crypto. There are good reasons for this. Both bitcoin and ethereum created something new and interesting. In a world where you are trying to pick the coin that ever
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by wskinner 6y ago
Probably a tiny but vocal minority who use internal tools to amplify their message, becoming a nuisance to their colleagues. From the outside, it reads similarly to the recent struggles inside Coinbase. But this being google, the company’s
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by wskinner 6y ago
The speaker of the house lives in SF. If there is a federal bailout of state and local governments, San Francisco will likely be first in line.

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