chad_oliver

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by chad_oliver 7mo ago
That's an entirely separate issue, isn't it? In my country (New Zealand) there are no requirements to have auto insurance. If you don't have insurance and you hit a million-dollar car you're gonna be in an awkward situat
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by chad_oliver 7mo ago
Credit scores are universally hated but they make it possible to offer lower interest rates to more people. Without credit scores, fewer people would have access to credit. Similarly, people often don't like it when insurers track and
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by chad_oliver 11mo ago
Mostly it's a consequence of population density. There's just not enough large cities close together. I think it's probably also correct to say that New Zealand could sustain a larger passenger rail network if made the right
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by chad_oliver 1y ago
Just to be clear, Paul literally made tents. The meaning of "tentmaking" that you quote came later by analogy with Paul.
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by chad_oliver 2y ago
Another stakeholder meeting.
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by chad_oliver 2y ago
If each human body needs 0.2 acre of land to grow the food necessary for subsistence, what happens when the price of intelligence keeps dropping and one person's intelligence (even when directed towards the highest-value use!) is not e
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by chad_oliver 2y ago
From the article: "it is not about preventing the ink drying on the nib."
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by chad_oliver 2y ago
I grew up in rural New Zealand, on a dairy farm. I agree that the needs of suburban and rural communities are very different from the needs of urban communities, but what confuses me is why Americans (and increasingly, Kiwis) need a vehicle
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by chad_oliver 2y ago
No, it says face due east and travel in a straight line. Sure, the wording could have been clearer, but you're seeing misdirection that isn't there.
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by chad_oliver 3y ago
San Francisco owes its growth as a city to the fact that the Bay provides a connection between the Sierras (and their goldfields) and the Pacific Ocean. Regarding Boston, the interesting thing is that it used to be connected to the Merrimac
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by chad_oliver 3y ago
I've watched this being built and it's been really cool seeing how well SolidJS works. I was initially dubious ("No one gets fired for picking React", right?) but it seems like it made for really easy development. How ha
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by chad_oliver 3y ago
I believe this implements an exact object type in Typescript: type Exactly<Candidate, Shape> = Shape & { [key in keyof Candidate]: key extends keyof Shape ? Shape[key] : never; }; Credit goes to Manan Tank: h
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by chad_oliver 3y ago
This was written by Alon Levy, who is deep in the weeds of transport infrastructure and was writing for a technical audience. The habitual readers of their blog will easily interpret this as "Why commuters prefer transfers at the origi
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by chad_oliver 4y ago
I recently changed jobs in Melbourne (senior frontend developer). I was told by multiple different people that the average market salary has dropped by about 5-10k since this time last year, but I didn't struggle to get interviews and
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by chad_oliver 4y ago
You're missing the fact that most courses (i.e. the ones that aren't wildly successful) have a large upfront cost. The marginal cost might be a tiny fraction of the price, but that doesn't necessarily translate to a profitabl
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by chad_oliver 4y ago
Why isn't it fair for the author to be the one who receives the marginal value that they created? They were the ones who created the course, and that course would not have existed for anyone if they put the effort in to build it. Any
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by chad_oliver 5y ago
I disagree. I'm not trying to be inflammatory but it seems like your statement is similar to saying "rape is so harmful specifically because of our society's attitudes to sex". Yeah, social stigma can make the consequenc
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by chad_oliver 5y ago
My rule of thumb is that for decision-making roles, you want financial compensation to at least match the 'status compensation' (respect, status, etc). When the vast majority of the role's compensation comes via the _prestige
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by chad_oliver 5y ago
Here is one angle: https://pedestrianobservations.com/2019/08/31/stuttgart-21s-... In short, it's very expensive and it will quickly reach peak capacity and need expansion.
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by chad_oliver 5y ago
While you're absolutely correct that Australia hasn't had a recession in that time, this hides the fact that there have been periods when GDP _per-capita_ has declined. Or to put it another way: Australia's recessions have be
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An Iraqi who saved Norway from oil (2009)(ft.com)
115 points by chad_oliver 5y ago|80 comments
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by chad_oliver 5y ago
> We still couldn't figure out how to push code to a protected branch without triggering the same/other workflows. If you include `[skip ci]` anywhere in the commit message, that commit won't trigger any github actions. Th
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by chad_oliver 5y ago
The biggest limitation I'm hitting with Github Actions right now is that there's no real support for queueing jobs up. Github actions do support a 'concurrency group' primitive that will prevent two actions in the same c
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by chad_oliver 5y ago
> You can’t have actions that call other actions As of August 25, you can! https://github.blog/changelog/2021-08-25-github-actions-redu...
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by chad_oliver 6y ago
This depends how you pronounce 'h'. If you pronounce it "aitch", then "an HTTPS" is correct. If you pronounce it "haitch", then "a HTTPS" is correct. There's no universal pronunciation,
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by chad_oliver 7y ago
Farming in New Zealand is not subsidized, and I believe the same is true of Australia. It's possible to compete on the open market and succeed.
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The Great Realignment: Understanding Politics Today(cato-unbound.org)
2 points by chad_oliver 8y ago|0 comments
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Who owns Oklahoma?(theatlantic.com)
2 points by chad_oliver 8y ago|0 comments
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by chad_oliver 8y ago
Yes, but with massive ongoing operational costs. That's not sustainable.
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by chad_oliver 8y ago
Sure, but that just means they're creating a product for a specific market -- one whose area of expertise isn't accounting or finance. This is something we should encourage, rather than nitpicking the wording.

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