pcai

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by pcai 10mo ago
A vehicle is driven on public roads and can kill people, that’s why licenses are required. Outlawing certain kinds of math is a level of totalitarianism we should never accept under any circumstances in a free society
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by pcai 1y ago
> For this argument to work you have to believe that decreasing the price of service delivery wouldn't decrease the price of health insurance. I think we are talking past each other. My argument is not that lower prices for medical
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by pcai 1y ago
I think you’re still missing the point - it’s NOT classic supply and demand because the mechanism by which that works is prices, and in many healthcare markets including the US — the buyer isn’t the payer, and shortages lead to rationing (v
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by pcai 1y ago
I 100% agree! It's almost like income stability is valuable!
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by pcai 1y ago
Hmm if this is true why is it so rare that software devs quit their jobs and make more money freelancing or starting their own companies?
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by pcai 2y ago
Sigma Squared | Senior Software Engineer | Cambridge, MA | Full time | ONSITE Sigma Squared is a mission-driven data science platform for making better people decisions. Companies use our software to make better hiring and promotion decisio
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by pcai 2y ago
Note this is hosted on gh so you can open a pr to add yours: https://github.com/ruby-conferences/ruby-conferences.github.... I’m on mobile at the moment otherwise I’d do it myself
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by pcai 2y ago
This list is hosted on github, contributions are welcome: https://github.com/ruby-conferences/ruby-conferences.github....
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by pcai 2y ago
My point is that carrier locking is about managing credit risk and fraud, not an evil plot to trap customers, and not a mechanism for discouraging street theft. It’s only complicated if people conflate issues or fail to understand the mecha
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by pcai 2y ago
It’s not speculation - this is literally why cell phone locking was invented. The imei blacklists were created much later specifically for theft, not to manage credit risk of customers getting subsidized phones. You can literally just call
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by pcai 2y ago
This is incorrect. You can pay off a phone early and simply ask that it be unlocked - the carrier will happily comply because you are no longer a credit risk. You can also just purchase phones unlocked by paying cash upfront. You don’t need
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by pcai 2y ago
It’s impractical to “repossess” phones so in practice the carriers wouldn’t be able to stop people from deliberately defaulting on the contract with no repercussions (they can bring it to a different carrier who is indifferent)
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by pcai 2y ago
It is 100% an anti theft mechanism - it prevents people from stealing phones from carriers. The scam is: - get a new iphone from tmobile that costs $30 over 2 years. - don’t pay them anything: you just got a free iphone. Tmobile is mad and
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by pcai 2y ago
I never understood the argument that “locking in your losses is actually a form of tax evasion” - or am I misunderstanding what you are trying to say?
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by pcai 2y ago
Actually caffeine is a well known and widely studied performance enhancing drug, for example in endurance sports
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by pcai 2y ago
> Even in those larger numbers, sponsors are flighty and often unappreciative. Can you elaborate on what you mean? In my experience running meetups, sponsoring is an expensive and thankless activity akin to a donation
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by pcai 2y ago
TCP solves for “when i send a message i want the other side to actually receive it” which is…fairly common
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by pcai 2y ago
I think this is conceptually wrong from a layering perspective because youre punching through the abstraction and making it leaky on purpose. This just moves the problem down one layer in the stack - there will be legitimate new use cases f
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by pcai 3y ago
Have you considered not speeding
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The "Grades of Leather" hierarchy you've probably read about is a Myth(nstarleather.wordpress.com)
4 points by pcai 3y ago|1 comments
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by pcai 3y ago
I understand where you’re coming from but the thing to understand is: most startups are incredibly marginal to begin with. If you tilt the field such that the entire distribution is now ~5-6% lower expected value for any given outcome, yo
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by pcai 3y ago
This is wrong because you are speaking on an accrual basis but you have to consider cash. The cash (salaries and taxes) is paid out in year 1 regardless of what year you try to book it in your p&l statements
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by pcai 3y ago
imagine in year 1 you grossed 100k, spent 200k on salaries, but the new irs rules say you owe taxes on 60k of profits. To slightly simplify: it forces startups to pay taxes on profits that only exist on paper, with cash that is now much mor
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by pcai 3y ago
sorry that happened to you. most likely they had a candidate deep in the pipeline with an offer out, and they were hedging their bets in case they declined. this is surprisingly common, though its shitty behavior for the recruiter to ghost
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by pcai 3y ago
one seldom-mentioned reason employers ghost candidates deep in the process SEEMS silly, but is selfishly rational: they are hedging their bets. you came in second place, and they are waiting to see if their preferred candidate accepts befor
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by pcai 3y ago
This is correct, but its uncharitable to call it a "hack" in many contexts. In oauth, for example, the access token / refresh token concept is literally spelled out in the spec. It's not a workaround, its how you impleme
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by pcai 3y ago
Actually no, me pointing out that “a literal anon in their armchair probably hasn’t thought through a challenging legal problem as thoroughly as the billion dollar company making the decision has” is not actually the same as saying that “ev
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by pcai 3y ago
Consider for just a moment that they have almost certainly thought about this much more deeply and thoughtfully than you have
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by pcai 3y ago
Just buy 2 of the 0.33L! You already did the math!
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by pcai 3y ago
Author here. I will admit to having severe…let’s call it “gastrointestinal distress” the first 24 hours or so, until my body acclimated to the new diet. I would recommend easing into it over a few days, instead of the hard cutover I did.

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