mledu

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by mledu 4y ago
I will also add that many problems in the US and other countries stem from the perversion of incentives and benefits of the few over the many. What I mean is that keeping this broken system in place as it greatly benefits the insurance comp
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by mledu 4y ago
It took the ER 4 hours to give me pain meds for my kidney stone. They sent me to imaging where the tech asked “did they give you any pain meds?” and I said no, and she sighed. The PA knew within two minutes I had a stone but it took them ho
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by mledu 5y ago
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
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by mledu 6y ago
This is the point Nassim Nicholas Taleb makes in his book Fooled by Randomness. In a long enough timeline luck plays a big part in performance. People or firms like Melvin can perform well in a short timeline but when you stretch the timeli
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by mledu 6y ago
Is it not obvious that that H1B program has been abused for years to suppress engineering wages?
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by mledu 6y ago
Yes correlation != causation. As vkou noted, it's who gets to pick the candidates that matters, which leaves us to pick between a giant douche or a turd sandwich.
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by mledu 6y ago
It's pretty simple, politicians are paid by large corporations to gut, capture and deregulate these agencies to be able to increase profits and decrease costs.
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by mledu 6y ago
The police had edit rights to the show, they could edit out any of the parts that made them look bad.
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by mledu 7y ago
How many Dollar Stores are in your town? Here is very interesting podcast outlining how Dollar Stores kill supermarkets that carry necessary products like produce. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/04&#x
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by mledu 7y ago
I think you meant to say WALL-E, but your point still stands.
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by mledu 8y ago
Actually for many newspapers in the US the classifieds were a major revenue contributor.
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by mledu 8y ago
I agree, the removal of the 75kWh S/X is probably to somewhat offset the margin hit they are taking by offering the mid-range M3. They seem to be working down market but each step comes with lower margins so they have to go slow to mai
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by mledu 8y ago
Couldn't you use Erlang/OTP for the main parts of the system and for the performance critical parts that Erlang isn't great for (like crunching numbers) you can use something like Rustler to be build a safer NIF? https:&#x2F
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by mledu 9y ago
If anything I think this article makes a great case for TDD. If your developers aren't good at design and refactoring and that is showing up in your tests, that is an indication that your design needs to be refactored to be less couple
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by mledu 11y ago
What is stopping a company from hiring a contractor to code the illegal parts to thereby insulate them from responsibility? This happens with oil and gas disasters as discussed on John Oliver https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
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by mledu 13y ago
Couldn't you ask the LEO during cross if they obtained any information from the SOD? Put them in a position to perjure themselves (not that you'd know if they lied or not).