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by yellowstuff 4y ago
Consider that “Don’t ask don’t tell” was a progressive policy in 1994, and reassess whether even in the US things were better for most people then than they are now. The quickest way to contextualize this article is that it’s like asking cr
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by yellowstuff 4y ago
Eric Lippert taught me that if you see a bug in some tricky code, rewrite the code with a simpler approach, rather than put in a fix which will make the code even trickier and quite possibly create new bugs. More specifically, if you have a
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by yellowstuff 4y ago
Lisp is great, and Paul Graham has done some good things with it, but the only other people who ever actually listened to PG and tried to build something practical in Lisp lived to regret that decision: https://web.archive.org&#x
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by yellowstuff 4y ago
Good idea, but a lot of these feel like saying the professional way of telling someone to eat shit and die is “consume fecal matter and perish in an inferno”.
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by yellowstuff 4y ago
Not an expert but: married women covered their hair to make them less attractive to men. (Religious Jewish women now often wear wigs that look better than their natural hair, but that's OK. The Jewish God sometimes allows loopholes and
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by yellowstuff 4y ago
Most people will miss this reference and the rest will feel old. You owe us all apologies.
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by yellowstuff 5y ago
There was a lot of skepticism that their planes were real, even years after they had first flown publicly. Information spread more slowly in those days. https://generalaviationnews.com/2011/05/09/fliers-or-l
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by yellowstuff 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_pleading Using multiple logically inconsistent defenses is generally allowed in the US.
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by yellowstuff 5y ago
Good point. Related- stocks are traditionally considered a good inflation hedge. Even this article partially debunking that idea shows positive real returns in all inflation regimes, and suggests that inflation up to 5% doesn't hurt st
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by yellowstuff 5y ago
Consider that recruiters charge around 25% of 1 year of salary for helping to hire a developer, and the person-hour costs of hiring one person can easily exceed the recruiter cost for a small organization. Firing also requires a fair amount
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by yellowstuff 5y ago
This article does a good job describing one failure mode that's not understood well, but the opposite failure mode is much more common in my experience- having lots of ways to do the same thing can be very inefficient and brittle, even
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by yellowstuff 5y ago
> Sure, but that money you stole buried in your backyard is still yours. In what sense? > The rightful owner cannot just steal it back. The rightful owner doesn't get any special rights, so they can't trespass to get their p
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by yellowstuff 5y ago
That can't possibly explain all the difference. Mean family income is $115k, still lower than what they have for average salary in any region. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MAFAINUSA646N If this is meant to b
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by yellowstuff 5y ago
Mean personal income in the US is $54k. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MAPAINUSA646N This post shows an average in every region more than double that. It's not a representative sample. The charts are pretty bu
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by yellowstuff 5y ago
Most of these words don't have a 1 word equivalent in English but the full range of meaning can be easily captured with a short definition. Yiddish has good examples where words actually do not translate easily. EG, schmendrick and sch
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by yellowstuff 5y ago
"Credential theft occurs when attackers breach a system and steal users' access credentials -- usually ID and password. The ID is most commonly the user's email address. Credential spilling is when those credentials are made
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by yellowstuff 5y ago
Microsoft famously called that process “infinite defects methodology”, and decided it was a bad idea in 1989. "In general, the longer you wait before fixing a bug, the costlier (in time and money) it is to fix." https:/&#x2F
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by yellowstuff 5y ago
I get what you mean, but part of the whole initial appeal of Google was that it gave much more relevant results initially than Altavista or the other options. That was why Google put in the audacious "I'm feeling lucky" butto
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by yellowstuff 5y ago
I'm basing this on nothing, but at the time I thought Google figured that if Youtube lost the lawsuits it would destroy the video market for everyone, so they bought them with the intention of defending the lawsuits better than Youtube
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by yellowstuff 5y ago
There can be a thin line between doing too much of your own QA and too little. The flip side is when I've spent 30 minutes QAing an issue and another 30 minutes writing up what I've learned, and then the response is "I brough
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by yellowstuff 5y ago
Based on the story it's also entirely possible that the HR person just disliked the guy for some unrelated reason, or had someone else in mind for the role, and came up a plausible excuse for the rejection.
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by yellowstuff 5y ago
Tournament theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tournament_theory
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by yellowstuff 5y ago
I work in levered hedge fund strategies, so I have some insight here, although I don't negotiate financing myself. Banks tailor leverage to your strategy, so if your strategy is just to go long good stocks you won't get anything l
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by yellowstuff 5y ago
My opinion only- For the middle class going to college is not seen as optional. Doing the same expensive activities as the other middle class kids is not seen as optional. There are millions of working class people in the US with good lives
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by yellowstuff 6y ago
This wasn't really a two sided bet, Archegos bought a lot of stock and essentially borrowed a massive amount of money to buy even more stock, then the stock lost value. If Company X is worth $60B on Monday and $40B on Tuesday then some
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by yellowstuff 6y ago
That is certainly not true in all cases. It's possible that there's a second choice candidate, and the hiring manager wants to extend an offer to them as soon as the other candidate declines. Probably more common is an experience
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by yellowstuff 6y ago
This would make more sense as a narrative if there were any prominent examples of short sellers materially harming the operations of a company, but I can't find any. In theory short sellers could help push a company into insolvency, bu
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by yellowstuff 6y ago
Institutional Investor is targeted at people who work in finance, and I think "early" is meant in the sense of being early to trade a particular stock or theme that later becomes popular. So being "early" to GME would me
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by yellowstuff 6y ago
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you. It could be that worrying about doomsday is an innate human trait, and that as the article asserts, certain types of worries are motivated by racism. I sti
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by yellowstuff 6y ago
Hedge funds won’t necessarily have technical experts in every field as employees making investment decisions, but they are paying those people for research. So “more knowledgeable than the average trader” doesn’t mean that you know more tha

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