notjesse

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by notjesse 5y ago
This makes me think; what if you shorted USDT? There seems to be almost no scenario where USDT becomes more valuable than the USD, and the worst case is it continues to be worth the same. But there is a fair probability it becomes worthless
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by notjesse 5y ago
The other thing is earthquake safety. Wood frame is often far more resilient to sheer stress than concrete/brick. Concrete can be reinforced to mitigate that, but I wonder how viable that is for buildings on the scale of SFH, not major
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by notjesse 5y ago
You could. At the same time, a new construction townhouse (and maybe even SFH) there is extremely limited maintenance work needed. Plus, you don't need to be concerned with a HOA saying you can't rent your place out on whatever pl
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by notjesse 5y ago
They started ZO back in 2018. I think the bigger concern was the amount of growth and threat Opendoor presented them. There was a vision that they will fundamentally change the sector and make Zillow an equivalent of what the White Pages is
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by notjesse 5y ago
6% has been the norm in the US for a long time. It is absurdly high and is why opportunities like iBuying exist. In the UK, there is no wiggle room for such ventures, but as the transactional costs in the US is steep, the market was ripe fo
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by notjesse 5y ago
I would also argue a responsibility to their shareholders. How much revenue would they have missed out on during this time? And how much will it affect their longer term growth? If I were a Roblox shareholder, I would be pretty annoyed by t
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by notjesse 5y ago
I believe that in a society that has free speech, there is a duty of the member's of society to exercise their free speech and disassociate from those acting unethically. Particularly for unethical actions that cannot be prosecuted du
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by notjesse 5y ago
I think if you were smart enough, you may be able to mask some needed changes under some legitimate tickets. You make certain changes that you know will break stuff, but you assign a reviewer who doesn't know enough about the particula
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by notjesse 5y ago
Many will misinterpret it. We have seen how much the public can fundamentally misunderstand technical information over the past year. People will just see that: 1. You can never disconnect your iPhone from the grid and stop it from being tr
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by notjesse 5y ago
Yes, essentially.
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by notjesse 5y ago
This is called speech mitigation, btw (Coined by pop-psychologist Malcolm Gladwell). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitigated_speech
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by notjesse 5y ago
I was admitted to Brazil 5 times under an allegedly expired visa. I had no way of knowing it was expired, it’s not specified anywhere on the visa or in any Brazilian embassy/travel advisory site. But on the 6th time after it had expire
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by notjesse 6y ago
Shouldn’t Netflix be in favor of remote work for business purposes? I would think there is a correlation between the amount of wfh across the world and Netflix viewership.
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by notjesse 7y ago
I remember my math teacher used to come around and take everyone’s batteries out at the start of an exam to clear the RAM. Little did she know you can just save the notes in ROM that persists power cutoff.
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by notjesse 7y ago
And that is why I donate to ACLU every month.
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by notjesse 7y ago
If the kids made serious contributions, that is one thing. However, that really doesn’t seem to be the case here. Nepotism is majorly harmful. If their kids go into academia, they already have a huge leg up from having academic parents. Let
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by notjesse 7y ago
Stripe is an example of it. They do have a dashboard, but at the end of the day, without implementing their AI or stripe.js, there is not much you can do with them. It seems like a great business model for engineers to try out ideas.
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by notjesse 7y ago
Agreed. It only sounds maybe 1 step removed from where aws lambda’s are now. You fiddle with the code in the lambda IDE, and submit for deployment. Is this really that much different?
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by notjesse 7y ago
I like that in Australia, retailers and others have to show the final amount. It seems that because sales taxes can't be known definitely for a given consumer at time of advertisement, certain businesses abuse this to include other unm
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by notjesse 7y ago
That's a great way of looking at it! I've never thought of it like that.
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by notjesse 7y ago
I'm not sure it needs to be like that. Most developed nations have a public health system. Akin to how the US has public schools and emergency services. The revolution could be the government bitting the bullet, and spending a fortune
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by notjesse 7y ago
That's the problem. As a healthcare consumer, there is no way to discern between costs of providers. Just that some are "in-network" (meaning your insurance works with them and they agree to your insurance's rates) and &
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by notjesse 7y ago
I kind of want these issues to continue and get worse. Because then we will have a healthcare revolution, rather than more bandaid policy fixes. It seems like the US healthcare system is too far gone, and we need to hard reset it. Anyone wh
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by notjesse 8y ago
I’m curious what people think this would mean for hiring? If all of a sudden there a 8 or 9 smaller, but still quite large, giants competing for talent, I could imagine competing for talent would hit fever pitch.
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by notjesse 8y ago
Almost all states are at-will. So severance isn’t required. But it’s usually for the employer’s peace of mind, it can prevent class-action lawsuits as well as former employees speaking negatively about them. Given they are a media company,
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by notjesse 8y ago
Gotcha, yes that makes more sense. I find a lot of unicorns are already doing this sort of interview, anyway. While I have never observed studies, it seems to provide better signals than white-boarding.
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by notjesse 8y ago
I agree with that. Sounds like a good process. Although, I am too cynical to believe any company that tells me this will be the only technical part. Too often do recruiters lie/misrepresent the recruitment process. Some seem to operate
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by notjesse 8y ago
But it’s not generally tolerated. You end up optimizing for sub-prime candidates because those are the only ones desperate enough to take 4-6 hours out of their free time for a company that hasn’t even bothered interviewing you, yet. If the
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by notjesse 8y ago
Do you have a source for that? Sounds pretty egregious.
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by notjesse 8y ago
There are other reasons to not pay off you mortgage, especially in the US. The two most prominent being: 1. Usually a certain amount of equity in the house is protected by state law (varies from state to state). So if someone sues you and&#

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