zrail

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721.
by zrail 6y ago
No, Progress intentionally burns up on reentry.
722.
by zrail 6y ago
The Vanguard ownership and revenue structure is very weird and the subject of multiple IRS and SEC private rulings. It’s not a mutualized organization like a mutual insurance company. Each mutual fund is a separate corporation and contracts
723.
by zrail 6y ago
The sorbet project has an FAQ about that (I was curious too): https://sorbet.org/docs/faq search for “RBS” (on mobile, no deep links)
724.
by zrail 6y ago
MaxMind sells their databases as files as well as APIs. GeoLite is free to use but not as accurate as their paid products.
725.
by zrail 6y ago
There are a few different contingents that frequent HN and bother to look at the comments on posts like this, which results in equal numbers of downvotes on wildly opposing top level comments.
726.
by zrail 6y ago
About which part?
727.
by zrail 6y ago
We just bought a mid-century modern house originally built in 1955 and completely redone in 2009. Some of the choices are extremely questionable and some of them are obviously dated, but in general I like living here much more than our 2004
728.
by zrail 6y ago
The problem is that employees of these large private companies are working for somewhat below market wages in exchange for illiquid equity. If these companies stay private for a long time they either have to cash out equity or offer more ca
729.
by zrail 6y ago
Sure. Stories are important. It's really not all that common, though, if we're being honest. According to this random memorial page[1] 48 police officers were killed in the line of duty last year in the US, an annual fatality rate
730.
by zrail 6y ago
Every time I see the thin blue line flag or a "support our police" sign (or both combined, as in several yards just outside of town) I get angry. It's willfully ignoring everything you just wrote about, at best.
731.
by zrail 6y ago
Yes, that's a really good point. Thanks for expanding.
732.
by zrail 6y ago
Black Lives Matter is, among many other things, a hook to draw attention to systemic institutionalized racism from white voters who haven't ever questioned their privilege (the teachable kind, not the kind PG is talking about). The leg
733.
by zrail 6y ago
That's an unfortunate reaction to what should have been a teachable moment. You're not wrong, in so far as all lives truly do matter. The statement "Black lives matter" seems to have an implicit "more than yours&quo
734.
by zrail 6y ago
"good/bad" is a different dimension than "true/untrue".
735.
by zrail 6y ago
I believe Gitea has two way syncing built in.
736.
by zrail 6y ago
> I'm not sure why it's supposed to be a good thing that people can force other people to subsidize their life insurance after the risk of early payout is already known. It's like letting someone's family buy life ins
737.
by zrail 6y ago
I mostly agree but there are a lot of caveats here. Health insurance is the biggest one, of course. ACA is better than nothing but it's not great. The other that comes to mind is life insurance. Some people can't buy individual li
738.
by zrail 6y ago
I haven’t tried the open source release lately but it looks like master has the lsp option.
739.
by zrail 6y ago
Sorbet is the only way I can function in anything larger than a 10 line script these days. I’ve started adding it to personal projects because it makes revisiting them later so much easier.
740.
by zrail 6y ago
The restaurant owners who really want to make it work will hustle into delivery out of more affordable commercial kitchen space. If WFH sticks I won’t be surprised to see more commercial kitchens opening closer to residential areas.
741.
by zrail 6y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope
742.
by zrail 6y ago
Standalone kettles are usually induction plates. They’re more efficient and less dangerous than a typical stove.
743.
by zrail 6y ago
Standard disclaimer that this is a preprint that has not been peer reviewed.
744.
by zrail 6y ago
Also kids can be very different in how much emotional and physical energy they require from their caregivers.
745.
by zrail 6y ago
Oh contract terms! I completely forgot, you’re right. I’m actually pretty happy with my final retainer contract. It limited damages to the last three months of retainer spend.
746.
by zrail 6y ago
I guess never really analyzed it in depth and just had both. What does E&O miss that a single member LLC protects against (and vice versa)?
747.
by zrail 6y ago
Literally just buying an insurance policy is significantly less complicated and roughly the same cost, IME. Professional liability, errors and omissions, etc. cost me ~$1k a year when I was doing consulting for $1mm in coverage. My LLC taxe
748.
by zrail 6y ago
OS X was running on internal x86 machines basically from the beginning, if I remember my folklore correctly. NeXTSTEP could run on x86 as well.
749.
by zrail 6y ago
Mine is 35. Still terrible.
750.
by zrail 6y ago
I tried to start with an edgerouter and a Unifi AP and quickly switched to an all-Unifi setup. I recently switched from a cloud key to running the controller on a $5/mo Digitalocean VM when the UCK died for whatever reason. I’m not sur

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