aardvark291

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by aardvark291 6y ago
> RSUs are taxed like income though, so from a tax perspective it’s pretty awful. One approach is to accomplish the tax withholding by withholding some of the RSU grant at each vesting. This seems pretty reasonable, since you aren't
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by aardvark291 6y ago
> You should always ask, and they should always tell you. I'm currently on the job search. One of my offers was quite forthright and included the total number of outstanding shares and the fraction I would receive. But this seems ve
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by aardvark291 6y ago
I appreciate Maciej Cegłowski's perspective here: https://idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm
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by aardvark291 6y ago
"our understanding of critical aspects of the ancient glass industry is fragmentary" I see what you did there...
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by aardvark291 6y ago
Seems a bit early/late for April Fools.
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by aardvark291 6y ago
> No one really cares if it’s 1ms or 30ms or even 200ms. You would definitely care about 200ms latency.
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by aardvark291 6y ago
This isn't "How Zoom works". It's a 72 slide deck of complaints about the Zoom UI.
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by aardvark291 6y ago
The Google Flights data is not "scraped." They interface directly to the airline reservations systems.
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by aardvark291 6y ago
Unethical? Yes. Illegal? How?
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by aardvark291 6y ago
> The Brock Turner case, while horrendous, is not representative of how rapes are prosecuted or sentenced. Indeed, my understanding is that rape is typically not prosecuted at all. :-/
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by aardvark291 6y ago
Yes. Brock Turner got six months for rape. Here's a selection of decade+ prison sentences for marijuana: https://www.boulderdefenseattorney.com/top-10-non-violent-ma...
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by aardvark291 6y ago
Shocking - just a week ago he was posting like nothing was up. I know it's traditional to not talk about the cause of death, but -- was it Coronavirus?
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by aardvark291 6y ago
» Unrelated to the brouhaha on the West Coast, tobacco farmers in Kentucky were seeking a new cash crop. In 2011, James Comer won the race for Kentucky state agriculture commissioner by promising to legalize industrial hemp. “That raised a
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by aardvark291 6y ago
TIL that CBD was kind of "invented" around 2011.
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by aardvark291 6y ago
> From my experience, Filipino's speaking English Hey there - this seems like unnecessary ethnic stereotyping. Also, no apostrophe is used in this situation.
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by aardvark291 6y ago
What program do those disassembly screenshots come from?
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by aardvark291 6y ago
Yeah, and Italy, Spain, and France are some of the sunnier countries in Europe (compared to Germany, UK, Belgium, Scandinavia, etc). If anything I would expect vitamin D deficiency to be less common there.
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by aardvark291 6y ago
or continues propagating into the endless depths of space
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by aardvark291 6y ago
Do intubated patients have to be sedated/anesthetized?
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by aardvark291 7y ago
> When did we stop using lead and iron piping? Who says we stopped? Water mains often have service life > 100 years. Old buildings have old plumbing.
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Wind Energy has a waste problem(npr.org)
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by aardvark291 7y ago
What is a GADT?
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by aardvark291 7y ago
How does F# compare to OCaml or Haskell?
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by aardvark291 7y ago
I remember feeling this in regards to some early "rapid application development" software in the 90's (Visual Basic or Borland Delphi or something). "Look how easy it is to make a text editor!" - Drag the "text
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by aardvark291 7y ago
If it's that vital, you should have a spare, or perhaps rent or borrow one.
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by aardvark291 7y ago
The trick towards succcessful C++ development is to be very judicious in picking the features that you use. So not jumping to immediately using all the new features is a good sign.
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by aardvark291 8y ago
I hope you mean x (multiplication) rather than ^ (exponentiation). If we're talking about fanout (each of 10 items of has 10 subitems, each of which has 10 subitems), multiplication is the relevant operation. And 10^(10^10) or (10^10)^
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by aardvark291 8y ago
If you enjoy demos like this and live in or visit San Francisco, check out the Exploratorium, which is full of amazing physical demos like this. https://www.exploratorium.edu/
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by aardvark291 8y ago
This is a reference to the fact, stated in the article, that Australia, Germany, Spain, and the Netherlands have ships of a similar design built by the same shipbuilder, which may also suffer from design flaws that allowed this one to sink
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by aardvark291 8y ago
I thought this worry was completely ridiculous until I read that link. Huh.

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