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by yellowbeard 2y ago
That was also my immediate thought. However, what was the chance that the method they did use would end up not working? If sufficiently low, from an EV perspective, perhaps they made the right choice? Also the article isn't clear to wh
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by yellowbeard 5y ago
The article mentions your first point, and also gives some statistics that deaths to drivers are also up.
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by yellowbeard 5y ago
Or by developers
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by yellowbeard 5y ago
That helps with storage, but still is larger than a bigint, and doesn't help with the random distribution of data. I believe newer versions of MySQL have a data type for this.
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by yellowbeard 5y ago
HIV/AIDS is also bigger if you count that as a pandemic.
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by yellowbeard 5y ago
Lack of demand (population decline), or increase in supply.
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by yellowbeard 6y ago
Childless parents as a result of self aborting male fetuses would not show up in the study.
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The Small Pleasures of Programming(medium.com)
8 points by yellowbeard 6y ago|0 comments
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by yellowbeard 6y ago
I think this can also be problematic. Long lived code _must_ work, which is good. However, it can also live a long time for bad reasons. I have seen long lived code that only lives a long time because it is so complicated that no one can un
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by yellowbeard 6y ago
Tools can be shared. It's also amazing how little land is needed to grow enough food to live on. One person can be fed from around 9 square meters. In dense cities people may not have that much land, but in many areas, people do have t
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by yellowbeard 6y ago
The redemption rate on giftcards is not 100%[1]. Businesses don't need to expect to deliver the total value of the giftcards. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_card#Redemption_rate
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by yellowbeard 7y ago
He was reprimanded by the SEC: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-226
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by yellowbeard 7y ago
Good point, this seems like a case of survivorship bias. However, I think it does seem to show some sort of upper bound on the level and pervasiveness of sexism? That it's at least _possible_ for women to achieve at the highest level
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by yellowbeard 8y ago
Great point, if this is the case, huge attack on Amazon.
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by yellowbeard 9y ago
I think the original quote is "The stock market has forecast nine of the last five recessions." 1966 https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paul_Samuelson But the idea probably applies to most predictions :)
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by yellowbeard 9y ago
The bank only has to have a very small percentage of the money they loan you. Most of it is created at the time of the loan.
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by yellowbeard 9y ago
Monthly actives is generally the primary metric and it's not so easy to calculate.
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by yellowbeard 9y ago
Any chance you can share the name of the company where you work now? Would love to know.
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by yellowbeard 9y ago
My guess is that's the same for cars (minor injuries go unreported). It's hard to speculate about unreported statistics. The fact remains that for reported statistics, motorists injure far more people than cyclists, thus I say fea
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by yellowbeard 9y ago
I don't think the data supports your assertion. Car drivers injure and kill a couple orders of magnitude more pedestrians in NYC than cyclists do.
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by yellowbeard 9y ago
Development environment becomes somewhere between extremely hard and impossible to set up. Resign yourself to running tests locally with staging as the only place to test your services talking to each other. This is my experience at a mediu
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by yellowbeard 9y ago
Looking at the total dollar amount of debt makes a good headline, but is simplistic. With lower interest rates, households are spending far less to service their debt than they were in 2008. The article only mentions this briefly near the e
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by yellowbeard 9y ago
Do you have a source for the size of the Google plus team?
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by yellowbeard 9y ago
From Amazon's perspective it's the same and worth optimizing
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by yellowbeard 9y ago
>Name any activity on the water Surfing. Significantly better in the bay area.
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by yellowbeard 10y ago
Not sure linkedin really cares if the endorsements are accurate or not. I heard endorsements were / are massively successful at re engaging users, which is the real aim of the product.
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by yellowbeard 10y ago
I saw Zuckerberg walking in Palo Alto with wife, child and dog and no security visible just over a year ago. If he has 24/7 security, either they're very discreet or it started recently.
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by yellowbeard 10y ago
I guess value and worth can have subtlety different meanings
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by yellowbeard 10y ago
More copies / replicas also means a larger attack surface.
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by yellowbeard 10y ago
New Zealand even changed labour laws to ensure The Hobbit would be filmed there. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2010/oct/31/warner-bros...

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