th0raway

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by th0raway 15d ago
Being thorough and accurate might make you a lot of money in the stock market, but it's not a good way to get any media presence, because that demands being in front of people quite often, and basically nobody can be insightful and wel
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by th0raway 1mo ago
The wonders of American healthcare really mean that it's all more expensive, and at the same time, more is consumed, because so much of what is paid is done past deductible. If you look at so many standard of care situations vs, say, S
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by th0raway 1mo ago
No system that saves money can pass in congress: that's the real problem that we cannot actually avoid. Forget pressure from large companies: So many of US costs come from very high salaries, and a lot of bureaucratic positions that do
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by th0raway 1mo ago
Most of the problems of the US system aren't really a matter of who pays, but the fact that so much is paid for services, at every level. Any really significant savings, cutting bureaucracy and pressuring providers to make costs resemb
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by th0raway 3mo ago
It's not about the minor offenses of uninteresting people, but what happens because a change in political orientation makes you suddenly interesting. Even more so when AI automates this: Dear computer, we just got some ruling to remove
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by th0raway 3mo ago
If by European you mean mostly British, sure! And you can see how Anglosphere metro areas resemble each other a lot. But Europe is not one thing.
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by th0raway 3mo ago
I mean, I also get obsessed with their horror when, after coming from abroad, I am back at my American suburb. All this mandatory front yard and setbacks that must be lawn, even though nobody in the entire subdivision seems to use said fron
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by th0raway 3mo ago
On one end we have Coase's theory of the firm, but then we have the realities of the modern tech megacap company, which is 20+ companies in a trench coat, and where it's clear the alignment between the best interest of a middle ma
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by th0raway 3mo ago
What they are often talking about there is countries where the official exchange rate is very different from a real world exchange rate: This happened in Argentina quite often. That led to special black market stores where people would give
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by th0raway 3mo ago
Far fewer than you'd think: The vast majority of Europe is in the same boat as the US. Whenever there's value in agglomeration (ie, all the time), the value of well placed properties just skyrockets, because growth is only going t
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by th0raway 3mo ago
America already has plenty of cities that aren't doing very well, and aren't getting migration, so new cities aren't going to help. There's plenty of cheap housing inventory in the US, just not in the places where the jo
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by th0raway 3mo ago
There's quite the history of straight out cheating in high level MtG, and yes, insufficient randomization is one of the most typical ways around it. If all you do is cut their deck, and do zero shuffles, you will find a perfect interwe
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by th0raway 3mo ago
Disney has an especially difficult problem, as optimizing for revenue for an org might actually lower total revenue for the entire company. See how many movies do badly because people expect them to see them in D+ quickly. A company this co
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by th0raway 3mo ago
The shareholders have little to do with this, ultimately. You see the same rot happen in private companies where the main investor really has full control. It doesn't take much time seeing companies grow to see the cultural differences
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by th0raway 4mo ago
Ridiculous tracking happened before AI too. Go read the book about Bridgewater, describing, among other things, how internal security worked when it was led by James Comey (yes, the one you know from the news, and was later FBI director)
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by th0raway 4mo ago
The biggest difference there isn't production costs, but the physical costs of maintaining the giant library, in a way that is reasonable streamable at a good cost from any device, with many dubbings, and even video differences per ver
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by th0raway 4mo ago
It's the first step to building the top companies: You first need enough agglomeration of that labor so that, whenever there's a recession, you can scoop up some of that labor for a startup. And as demand of those cheap engineers
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by th0raway 5mo ago
We opened the Cloud Code floodgates all at once in my org. After a few months we looked at stats, and asked managers for impressions on performance changes. The API cost per engineer doesn't correlate with the apparent increases in per
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by th0raway 5mo ago
Yes, in a reasonable microservice land where the places you need to connect to are all documented in very concise places, you have have extremely productive $10 days. In the giant monorepo with everything custom, you can't just rely on
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by th0raway 6mo ago
It comes down to two things. One is the well documented issue of how, when you are that rich, you are treated differently, and how that will ultimately modify your behavior. The other is the prerequisites to get to the job. Chances are you
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by th0raway 8y ago
There are many answers, often related to company size and interest in teaching. Some large bay area companies think that training people into a FP style of Scala is too expensive/hard to hire for, and end up using it as a nicer Java. S
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by th0raway 9y ago
You have to look at it from both sides though: If I started a business with Stripe as a processor, it's in Stripe's best interest for my business to grow as much as possible, because the higher my volume, the more they make. They&
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by th0raway 9y ago
I've seen plenty of reporting pipelines that are that slow over the years. If this was built on the cheap, so it just uses existing pipelines, and instead of working through streaming, it regenerates the world every night, a 48 max fai
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by th0raway 9y ago
Instead of text in an email, imagine it as a slack reacji. It'd be no different than +1 or shipit in github.
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by th0raway 10y ago
If you are Facebook, Amazon or someone like that it can make sense, but their level of sophistication is insane for someone that isn't making millions a month. At a smaller scale, the best that you can do is just to have bindings for t
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by th0raway 10y ago
On both parts of your comment you are missing a huge piece of the puzzle: fraud. A payments processor (old school or digital) is constantly taking on some certain amount of risk of fraud, from both the credit card user and the merchant itse
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by th0raway 10y ago
You might disagree with the read if you actually saw what the implementation of said principles looks like. There's plenty of articles out there about what those principles do to a psyche, but let's forget about those: The culture
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by th0raway 10y ago
I've seen one of those predictors. It looked at an honest signal, captured in a way that would be fairly representative of the population at large. Since the data had some location information attached, you could attach every point of
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by th0raway 10y ago
My current company has a very similar interview style, and I later learned that I was pretty close to not being hired because I didn't do quite as well as one interviewer wanted on a coding challenge: I ran out of time. But what I also