caseydurfee

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by caseydurfee 8y ago
"it is still much lower than what it would be in an unregulated environment." Counterfactual. The article you link to is laughable on the face of it. "A new study for the Mercatus Center at George Mason University" carri
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by caseydurfee 9y ago
Any list of "free" countries that has [the UAE]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_the_United_Ara... ), Chile and Singapore in their top 10 is using "free" in the Orwellian sense. "La
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by caseydurfee 9y ago
Point of clarification: Pai was appointed to the 5 person FCC commission by Obama. He was named chairman by Trump. FWIW, the previous chairman, Tom Wheeler (ostensibly a Democrat), probably would've dismantled net neutrality if Obama h
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by caseydurfee 9y ago
What's the point of content-free, incoherent, misspelled comments like this one? There's nothing even remotely like what you're describing in the actual article.
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by caseydurfee 9y ago
"The government hardly ever creates wealth. They can create the conditions for wealth creation by getting the heck out of the way." Yes, we're aware that's how it works in shitty novels about trains from the 1950's.
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by caseydurfee 9y ago
All the truthering in this thread is a bit much. Some of the nastiest bullying I've observed (and experienced) in my life has been from smart people towards even smarter people that they resented. I'm getting more than a whiff of
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by caseydurfee 9y ago
"your poor lifestyle decisions." Why frame the issue in this way, except to make yourself feel better about being complicit in denying your fellow citizens access to basic healthcare? The alternative explanation is that you genuin
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by caseydurfee 9y ago
For some perspective here, the maternal mortality rate in the USA is 28 per 100,000 births. So skydiving is about 50x safer than giving birth.
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by caseydurfee 9y ago
Inflation also took off like a rocket in Switzerland in the early 1970's: https://tradingeconomics.com/switzerland/inflation-cpi Switzerland was on the gold standard until 1999. Since abandoning the gold standard,
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by caseydurfee 9y ago
"If you show probability work like Hillary having lower election odds, then this is new definition of hate speech." I get that the guy is angry. I would be too if I got locked out of my accounts, but this is a ludicrous accusation
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by caseydurfee 9y ago
Comcast is the most hated corporation in America. There's already a big competitive opportunity for non-terrible ISPs.
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by caseydurfee 9y ago
A lot of products start with half the population, though, and it's not considered weird. The old euphemism is "shrink it and pink it" - originally design for men, then put out a women's version. If Spectacles take off, t
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by caseydurfee 9y ago
Apparently, a company with a 644 Billion dollar market cap, co-founded by a man whose parents fled the USSR for political reasons, is secretly trying to promote Communism.
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by caseydurfee 9y ago
Isn't the control group the part of the graph from 1993-2000ish, where perception and reality are fairly closely correlated? I guess that raises more questions than it answers. What about the rise of cable news? That tracks the change
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by caseydurfee 9y ago
Century: Spice Road would be an obvious match for Splendor.
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by caseydurfee 9y ago
Having regulations doesn't turn this country into a "state-run economy". Is America currently a state-run economy because of the existence of the FDA, the USDA, etc? What are these countries you believe have no regulations, a
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by caseydurfee 9y ago
For anyone who didn't read the entire article, this is the part that these comments are complaining about: > Since all new creativity is held hostage in the hands of insensitive investors who promote the development of White busines
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by caseydurfee 9y ago
Yeah, the article would be much more effective and useful if the advice was "if you hear these phrases, don't assume the developers are lying/bad at their jobs/etc. but do take it as a cue to ask about the business/
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by caseydurfee 9y ago
As a product manager, do you have developers formally reporting to you? That seems like a bad idea. If a PM doesn't have formal authority over developers but thinks of themselves that way, that's also bad.
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by caseydurfee 9y ago
Hearing "Alinksy playbook" in 2017 is like hearing "Who Let the Dogs Out" in 2017. https://www.villagevoice.com/2012/01/29/ally-ally-alinsky-ri... If you wish to be taken seriously by inte
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by caseydurfee 9y ago
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."
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by caseydurfee 9y ago
Are you sure the jobs that rely on soft skills and experience are more routine than other jobs? What experience do you have to support that? I've found that once you throw humans into the mix, nothing is routine. I think CS schools do
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by caseydurfee 9y ago
I've had similar experiences, but I also think your answer could be paraphrased as "conferences are good because extroverts like them." Some people who are otherwise really good developers aren't going to get much value
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by caseydurfee 9y ago
I use a little shell script to send iTerm2 proprietary escape codes to change the color of the terminal window based on the value of $*. https://iterm2.com/documentation-escape-codes.html
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by caseydurfee 9y ago
My frustration is that the right wing has been doing this to people on the left for 70 years. It's not OK that the left has started doing it to the right, but the people I see going on about "liberal witch hunts" and "Li
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by caseydurfee 10y ago
"800 ms time to first load to 80 ms" It's a mistake to equivocate TTFB with being 10x faster for the user. It's clickbait. The vast majority of that speedup is not from using static files, but from putting the data on
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by caseydurfee 10y ago
Sadly, I feel like a great number of comments in this thread could be summarized as: If a woman prefers a man with wealth or status, she's a gold-digger, and feminism is wrong about women -- they want traditional gender roles. Women a
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by caseydurfee 10y ago
The webpagetest of the blog post is pretty telling: https://www.webpagetest.org/result/170215_26_MSDP/1/details/... 6.5 seconds to fully load the page in a desktop browser over cable modem. Over 18 seco
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by caseydurfee 10y ago
You're going to get a hernia if you keep straining that hard.
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by caseydurfee 10y ago
What other diseases related to "inflammation and immune activity" do you think that people can just think their way into and out of? Do you believe I can think my way into and out of a sprained calf, for instance? How about rheum

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