yesiamyourdad

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by yesiamyourdad 9y ago
One interesting thing I learned: as a homeowner, your home doesn't depreciate. As a landlord, the home you own is an asset and you take depreciation on it. That's a massive tax benefit.
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by yesiamyourdad 9y ago
I'm not all that familiar with them, but isn't Gorillaz an entirely fake band? I mean, they don't have real human members, it's all virtual musicians. In a sense, all the boy bands are basically the same thing. One runs
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by yesiamyourdad 9y ago
Another point - back in the 80's, when New Age was getting popular, there was a New Age radio station that featured a format without radio personalities - it was really to my knowledge the first totally programmed station. One music in
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by yesiamyourdad 9y ago
But in the early 90's I sat in on a seminar by a music prof at my university, he was working on AI generated music. His vision was that it would be an assistive device; basically labor saving for composers. At the time his students wer
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by yesiamyourdad 9y ago
I think this is like the "your data isn't big enough for HDFS" argument earlier this week. The point I take away is that at some stage of your growth, this will be a logical decision. I don't think it implies that the sa
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by yesiamyourdad 10y ago
Uber & Lyft need a large pool of drivers readily available. The quick pickup is a key part of the experience that makes them superior to taxis. Especially drivers who are rated well. I'd be kind of surprised if a driver's rati
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by yesiamyourdad 10y ago
I drove for both Lyft and Uber last year, and I could swear that Uber was tracking Lyft. I'd get a call for an Uber and while fumbling around with the phone getting to the Lyft app to drop driver mode, I'd get a Lyft call in. Tota
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by yesiamyourdad 10y ago
Mountain towns in Colorado, for example. Uber and Lyft operate in the major mountain towns where there is no taxi service at all.
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by yesiamyourdad 10y ago
The chief data scientist at my last job said a Data Scientist knows more programming than your average statistician and more statistics than your average programmer. There's this venn diagram he used to show with the intersection of s
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by yesiamyourdad 10y ago
I was hoping someone would say this! I've been saying this for years, and I mean since 2007 or 2008, though I had figured just price levels. If you have 100K followers, that's probably worth some money to you. If you have 1M follo
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by yesiamyourdad 10y ago
"People who can code in the world of technology companies are a dime a dozen and get no respect. People who can code in biology, medicine, government, sociology, physics, history, and mathematics are respected and can do amazing things
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by yesiamyourdad 10y ago
Not exactly. AirBnb's core business is urban partial rentals (where they started as a direct competitor to Couchsurfing). They've been expanding into the VRBO space in the last few years, but that's a closely related segment.
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by yesiamyourdad 10y ago
I know a couple people involved in the MJ business in CO. My understanding is that the risk is that the feds could seize assets in a federal bank so nobody is willing to take the risk of depositing assets that could be seized. Allowing MJ b
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by yesiamyourdad 10y ago
Also, those are easy to downgrade or eliminate. People might gripe if the snacks are from Costco instead of Whole Foods, and they might gripe if they're done away with altogether, but ask someone to take a $200/month pay cut, and
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by yesiamyourdad 10y ago
I think you missed my point. The point is that CO is extremely libertarian, but I was seeing resistance from areas that surprised me. Liberal urban enclaves I would expect to see embracing 106 were actually fighting it.
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by yesiamyourdad 10y ago
Hey, you can take the words out of my mouth. I like IntelliJ as well.
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by yesiamyourdad 10y ago
> I think somehow the world was agreeable enough to drink the Pair-Programming KoolAid. Not sure what you mean. In 25 years, my latest job is the only one that pair, and even then it's only a few teams in a very large organization.
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by yesiamyourdad 10y ago
Some of that really depends on the problem and the language. I program Java full time, yet I'd be useless with vi. I lean heavily on the IDE. I've done this a long time and I firmly believe that I should use the best tools availab
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by yesiamyourdad 10y ago
I understand that the dying process is unfamiliar territory and none of us know how we're going to go or what the path will be like. My father died a couple years ago after a long decline. He would have passed the verbal request criter
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by yesiamyourdad 10y ago
I'm a CO resident, and I was honestly astounded that the measure passed with such a wide margin. I don't think people read or understood the measure. CO generally has a big libertarian streak (we're one of the states Gary Joh
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by yesiamyourdad 10y ago
I've spent way too much time in assisted living homes the last 5 years. There aren't that many of the rich elderly people. More likely their families want to avoid paying thousands of dollars a month in care costs.
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by yesiamyourdad 10y ago
Because the primary/caucus process disenfranchises the majority of the electorate. I believe this is why the GOP produces such poor candidates in the last 20 years or so; they must pander to the hard core of the party to become a candi
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by yesiamyourdad 10y ago
Especially functional languages. I remember this whole talk now. I actually have an acknowledgement credit... holy crap. That was a long time ago. Here's how I see GoF: it was a brand new idea to programmers. GoF was trying to open som
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by yesiamyourdad 10y ago
I think that explains my taste in "focus" music. Most of the "focus" playlists are ambient or classical. The ambient stuff is just there; it doesn't really engage my brain. It's like traffic noise. Classical is
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by yesiamyourdad 10y ago
This is basically an article reporting on an advice column, so it's pretty light on details. Given that the incident was framed as a protest, I'd say that there was likely more to it than simply writing a letter. It could be that
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by yesiamyourdad 10y ago
My first couple jobs required dress pants, a long sleeve button down shirt, and a tie. Back then "casual friday" was a real thing, you could wear a polo and khakis. These days unless you're an attorney or in finance, nobody w
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by yesiamyourdad 10y ago
I was thinking exactly the same thing. Yet there's a whole subthread debating the wisdom of gun ownership because that's a popular axe to grind. Getting at the root of the issue is trickier. Clearly depression and suicide are popu
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by yesiamyourdad 10y ago
The headline that they had in an earlier version was better - instead of "blues", "loneliness". I'll cosign all these findings because they correlate exactly to my own experience. It's the tragedy of the 21st c
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by yesiamyourdad 11y ago
With Uber I had to get a vehicle inspection and medical certificate which required a visit to the driver center. I believe the medical certificate is legal requirement in my state. Lyft's mentorship process wasn't much of a proce
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by yesiamyourdad 11y ago
I have driven for both in the past. Lyft has major advantages in my mind: 1. Tipping is allowed so you make more money that way. I don't think the fares are significantly different (maybe they are, I haven't compared). 2. You can

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