thomasmeeks

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by thomasmeeks 5y ago
https://www.businessinsider.com/missoula-montana-residents-f...
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by thomasmeeks 5y ago
What’s your point? That we should continue to favor gas cars over EVs? That cars should be taken off the road entirely? Something else?
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by thomasmeeks 5y ago
I’ve seen that engineering manager / pm split work like magic before. Usually there’s also an amazing tech lead in there making it work. It’s rocket fuel for the product (assuming market fit, big assumption) and the career growth for t
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by thomasmeeks 6y ago
If you'd like to not be downvoted into oblivion you'd do well to provide an alternate theory. What's your prediction for the upcoming election? Why? What's your methodology? Or is your point that forecasting is futile? I
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by thomasmeeks 6y ago
Say more about "but I don't consider it useful toward predicting the outcome" How else would one predict the outcome of a die roll, specifically?
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by thomasmeeks 6y ago
The automatic ballistic defense systems a tank uses would obliterate an aircraft. They are basically shaped charges that explode outwards to deflect a munition. It only works because tanks have thick armor in a dense, heavy, package.
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by thomasmeeks 6y ago
What you’re suggesting is possible technically but nobody does it because the idea of having to turn your entire plane towards a missile threat to neutralize it virtually guarantees your destruction if two missiles are fired at you in rapid
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by thomasmeeks 6y ago
So I agree with Tim, and in a way he’d probably find too radical. But for the hacker news crowd, I’d point to this: https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/11/the-real-class-wa... TL;DR the income growth of the 0.
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by thomasmeeks 6y ago
Basically Amazon is a symptom of global wealth inequality. He’s making the point that no company the size of Amazon, and no person as rich as Bezos, should exist. The bulk of the article laments the reality that the media, writ large, wants
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by thomasmeeks 6y ago
I bet it is similar to Phoenix Live View: https://dockyard.com/blog/2018/12/12/phoenix-liveview-intera... Which would be a big deal, indeed.
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by thomasmeeks 6y ago
Yes, you do, but here's a short primer. https://www.dummies.com/education/history/american-history/h... Ultimately if you can't be bothered to read a short book on the subject, you can just live wit
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by thomasmeeks 6y ago
Source? Top percent cutoff is about ~700k/yr, top 5% cutoff is ~300k/yr, and top 10% is ~100k/yr. This is for the entire US. ( https://www.epi.org/blog/top-1-0-percent-reaches-highest-wag... ) TBH I can se
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by thomasmeeks 6y ago
Alex hammered his Sandy Hook conspiracy theory to the point of being sued for defamation, and losing ( https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=alex+jones+sandy+hook+lawsu... ). Families were forced to move multiple times, unable
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by thomasmeeks 6y ago
My intuition is that you’d get more out of therapy than a career change right now. This sounds more like burnout or a lack of interest to me. But framing it as a lack of intelligence says a lot about how you view yourself, which could make
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by thomasmeeks 6y ago
It is an anti-parasitic and immune-regulation drug. Not really an antiviral. I guess the theory is that it’d regulate an immune over-response. But I don’t think the science is m showing that to be true in this case.
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by thomasmeeks 7y ago
I actually feel this way about attacks on employment in general, so I'll try to give some quick context about the belief. I grew up in a lower-middle-class household. We declared bankruptcy once when I was young, and I was told to prep
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by thomasmeeks 7y ago
I agree though I think blaming journalists is a red herring. Ultimately most journalists are just trying to make ends meet and are in no better position to change the rules of the game than any other average person (the ad-revenue game). Or
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by thomasmeeks 7y ago
Overprescribing antibiotics to animals helps keep meat cheap. Politicians have a hard time with the headwinds caused by ads like “Evil big-government libs are raising the price of your steak!!” So it doesn’t happen. You’d probably be surpri
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by thomasmeeks 7y ago
That paragraph tracks with what I've heard from female peers that work at Microsoft too. Microsoft talks a good game but fails to do the right thing when the going gets tough (e.g. senior leaders can, and do, retaliate against individu
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by thomasmeeks 7y ago
Unions aren't perfect, so take care to not scrap your car because it has a dent. https://www.google.com/search?q=do+unions+benefit+employees+... First two links have loads of commentary with citations. There's ple
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by thomasmeeks 7y ago
Non violent drug offenses is the example you’re looking for.
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by thomasmeeks 7y ago
Yep, for all it’s business know-how HN just doesn’t understand this one. He’s making games for people that value story and world building above all else. He’s making a relative pittance doing so — seemingly much less than a full time gig at
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by thomasmeeks 7y ago
I've lived in Seattle for 1.5 years. I became numb to the hyperbole around the homeless problem here in 6 months. One side is talking facts, experimentation, and trying new things. The other side is talking feelings, fears, and taking
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by thomasmeeks 7y ago
It is down: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/data/is-seattle-dy...
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by thomasmeeks 7y ago
I do regularly, it's fine. There are a couple specific areas I do avoid in the dead of night, but that's been true of every city I've lived in.
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by thomasmeeks 7y ago
I dunno, the common refrain I hear from native Seattleites is that many places -- like Fremont, Ballard, and West Seattle, were truly awful in the 80s & 90s. Usually just at the mention of where I live, which is one of those neighborhoo
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by thomasmeeks 7y ago
To be honest, I didn't really get the allure until I read "Programming Phoenix." Which isn't really a Functional Programming book. But, it does make clear some of the advantages of functional programming when working in
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by thomasmeeks 7y ago
Seattle spreads the housing projects around the city. In fact they just opened one in the South Lake Union area last year (just behind the Neptune apartments). They replaced a parking lot with something like 10-15 sheds for housing. They ar
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by thomasmeeks 7y ago
There's a reply to that comment that casts doubt on its accuracy. I'm not sure which is correct but felt worth pointing out.
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by thomasmeeks 7y ago
Merely stating something does not make it so. Would you like to give some reasoning for your stance?

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