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by zippzom 2y ago
With the advent of the space force, pretty much every space company is targeting military contracts (at least partially) since that is a huge source of government funding
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by zippzom 5y ago
I was including some of the 34-65 crowd in "elderly"
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by zippzom 5y ago
I think the relevant table is on page 13 "COVID-19 hospitalizations in unvaccinated and fully vaccinated individuals in Washington state by age group, February - December, 2021" It shows that 79% of hospitalizations in the state a
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by zippzom 5y ago
I live in a very old studio apartment (built in 1909) and it has a separate kitchen that is the size of the kitchen in most of my friends' single family homes. It is probably ~1/3rd the square footage of the entire apartment. Obvi
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How to make sure you have bad documentation(zachsab.in)
2 points by zippzom 5y ago|0 comments
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by zippzom 5y ago
A new programming language which hides the fact that your code is running across multiple machines from you. Similar to OOP, you'll define some level of structure and the compiler will figure out how to best distribute it across the re
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by zippzom 6y ago
Anyone else skeptical of their claim that the benefits of the plug in and the hybrid are the same? It assumes that electricity production remains the same as it is right now, whereas in reality it will likely become much more green (and ele
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by zippzom 6y ago
> we could have easily doubled our income if we were both working How would the world work such that this was not the case? I suppose the government could pay one parent to stay at home with their children, but it seems like there will a
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by zippzom 7y ago
Ah yes well known unbiased news source "tri state livestock news"
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by zippzom 7y ago
I also don't understand why there's no lock that integrates with the app. Getting into Airbnbs is consistently inconsistent and confusing.
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by zippzom 7y ago
>it’s really impossible to go anywhere and enjoy it in peace This is only true for a very limited definition of "anywhere". You can go to Yosemite in the peak season and easily find places where you can't even see another
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by zippzom 7y ago
ORM?
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by zippzom 7y ago
This hasn't been my experience at all. There are almost always e-bikes at the Ford stations (per the other comment maybe this was a one off issue) and the Jump bikes work just as well in SF as Seattle in my experience (no shortage of g
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by zippzom 7y ago
Is this due to some special technology or implementation details they used, or just the current going rate of getting your bitcoin transactions confirmed?
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by zippzom 7y ago
Personal anecdote: I had a job offer from Facebook and a couple other big tech companies. The Facebook offer was substantially better fiscally than the other ones and it was clear to me that they were having trouble hiring. Their initial eq
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by zippzom 8y ago
Thanks. Your points are all great as well! #2 is particularly interesting to me, and it's very true. If you're doing well interviewers may often make the questions harder, so struggling to answer questions completely does not nece
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5 Most Common Technical Interview Mistakes(medium.com)
13 points by zippzom 8y ago|2 comments
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by zippzom 8y ago
1000s of people dying every year from drug overdoses in the US would disagree with you. In fact heroin and meth, both deadly and dangerous drugs, are used far more often than psychedelics I would bet.
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by zippzom 8y ago
I mean he was ordinary in the sense that running wasn't his full time profession and he didn't dedicate his life to it. In order to achieve "greatness" in most any popular sport today you have to be totally dedicated.
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by zippzom 8y ago
Those aren't legal in California
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by zippzom 8y ago
1. Frankly, no, but I think it might enable me to be better at and have access to work that I would like to do in the future. 2. Work life balance seems good. 3. Tough to say.
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by zippzom 8y ago
Sorry I assumed the pay would be equivalent between the regions for the same job at the same company. The 5% raise would just be a result of no state income tax.
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by zippzom 8y ago
Thanks! I definitely feel like I'm learning stuff, but I also could probably learn at a big company as well. Most of the engineers at my current company are very inexperienced, for most of them this is the only company they've eve
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by zippzom 8y ago
All the teams I'd be working on at microsoft are working on at least partially open source products now. But I do have some ethical qualms about the big corporations, although I've essentially setting those aside for the early par
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Ask HN: Questions about a Microsoft Offer
14 points by zippzom 8y ago|17 comments
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by zippzom 8y ago
My point in the first paragraph is more that Amazon is only able to pay that amount because the government steps in. If there were no government aid, then they would need to pay more or not hire people. I'm skeptical that the jobs are
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by zippzom 8y ago
The issue is not that the employee is being underpaid (although that is a problem), it's that the underpayment is only possible because the government (i.e. taxpayers) is also giving money to that employee. If that safety net weren&#x2
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by zippzom 8y ago
Some of these roads are likely extremely remote logging or dirt roads though. Some of them might not see a car for weeks at a time I would imagine.
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by zippzom 8y ago
Git is already open source. What does this do differently than Git?
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by zippzom 8y ago
Where did you generate the directions from?

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