baronswindle

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by baronswindle 6mo ago
Citing Rebekah Jones in your argument is the opposite of convincing. She forged documents related to her firing to make her appear more sympathetic. She has been adjudicated guilty of cyberstalking and misuse of the state’s emergency notifi
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by baronswindle 1y ago
In my experience, simplicity can be a bit of a slippery concept. Often, people use the word “simple” to mean “intuitive to me ”.
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by baronswindle 2y ago
Sounds like your kid deserves a shoutout on dailystfu.com In case it needs to be said, I'm kidding.
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by baronswindle 2y ago
In my experience, grocers always do include unit prices…at least in the USA. I’ve lived in Florida, Indiana, California, and New York, and in 35 years of life, I can’t remember ever not seeing the price per oz, per pound, per fl oz, etc.
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by baronswindle 2y ago
It is...kind of. But we're talking about severely limiting the ability of insurers to distinguish high risk parties from low risk parties and price accordingly. When the insured parties have limited agency over the risk they present —
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by baronswindle 2y ago
The way I read it, it’s actually the opposite of what you wrote. You suggested that the Fed relied on inflation numbers that it knew to be too low — i.e. that inflation was understated due to failure to account for substitution effects and
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by baronswindle 3y ago
I have nothing to contribute but this video from comedian Rob Paravonian It's probably 20+ years old, but it frequently pops into my mind when I think about the apartments I lived in during my 20s. The materials were shoddy, but the p
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by baronswindle 3y ago
To be clear, I wasn’t complaining. I was asking a question.
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by baronswindle 3y ago
It wasn’t clear to me from the article itself, but for those familiar with research in this area: has anybody attempted to disentangle differences caused by genetics vs. by environment per se?
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by baronswindle 3y ago
Went from Vercingetorix to Olivia Rodrigo in four hops.
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by baronswindle 3y ago
As I recall, it shows commits from both parents in order of the committed date.
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by baronswindle 3y ago
The proposal in the article is to tax wealth at an annual rate of 2%. Not realized gains. Not unrealized gains. Wealth. Under such a system — unless I've badly misunderstood something — if a billionaire's assets decreased in value
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by baronswindle 4y ago
Sure, but I think this is an example of markets working well. Customers don’t want to have to adapt to a new platform every year and are willing to pay for that service. Microsoft recognizes that desire and provides backward compatibility.
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by baronswindle 4y ago
I’m sorry, but your description of a relationship with an employer doesn’t match mine at all. I don’t feel anxious. I feel comfortable. I don’t accept as little as possible. I negotiate with the knowledge that I have options. I don’t toil i
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by baronswindle 4y ago
I understand that my boss is not my friend, but to describe oneself as a “subject” is not something I relate to. In fact, I think it’s absurdly dramatic.
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by baronswindle 4y ago
Is being on call really a sign of low status? I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure most doctors have an on-call schedule. And if you think doctors aren't in a high-status profession, I reckon your standards are wildly different fro
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by baronswindle 4y ago
> The researchers can't say whether the absence is a cause or an effect of the illness My immediate thought was that people suffering from depression might eat more “junk food” due to the depression and that their poor diets might l
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by baronswindle 4y ago
In this particular case, do you think non-US governments could protect the interests of consumers in their jurisdictions in a way that is less unfriendly to the businesses that want to sell to them?
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by baronswindle 5y ago
We do have the Associated Press (AP), which seems similar to what you describe. That said, even such sources can be guilty of ideological bias if they choose to report certain facts and not others. In practice, I think AP is pretty even-han
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by baronswindle 5y ago
I think that's what the GP means by centralized control becoming worse. That is, information is less centralized now, and the sources that used to be at the center are now complaining about the issue.
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by baronswindle 7y ago
I might be an idiot to ask this, but how is this different from the AWS CLI storing IAM keys in ~/.aws/credentials ?
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by baronswindle 7y ago
Can you point to empirical studies that demonstrate "the negative consequences on the local economy that these agreements produce"? This is an honest question. I think theoretical analyses point in a bunch of different directions,
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by baronswindle 7y ago
Contracts of all sorts increase switching costs, but they also potentially create value. Sure, in some cases, one or more parties could become better off by taking some action that is prohibited by the contract, but that doesn't mean t
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by baronswindle 7y ago
I didn’t learn this information in a vacuum nor on my own time. I worked on systems where I saw abstractions that worked well and others that could be improved. I spoke and tested ideas with users. I attended meetings where people presented
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by baronswindle 7y ago
This is a great point. Non-compete agreements reduce risk of losing otherwise unprotected information to a competitor and probably increase retention of valuable employees. So preventing employers from using these agreements would increase
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by baronswindle 7y ago
Yes, my signing bonus was contingent on signing a non-compete, non-disclosure, and other agreements. It wasn’t much money, and in retrospect, I don’t think it was worth it. Still, I agreed to the terms, so I should be bound to them.
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by baronswindle 7y ago
I am bound by a non-compete agreement, but until a few months ago, I didn’t remember that I had signed it. At that time, I received an offer for much more money and more responsibility from a competitor. However, a close friend and co-worke
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by baronswindle 8y ago
U6 unemployment numbers include workers who are employed part time but would prefer to be full time, and U6 is near all time lows.
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by baronswindle 8y ago
This may be extremely naive, but why wouldn't a service like AWS CloudFront or any other CDN that supports TLS solve this problem?

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