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Sure as long as the society spends it on things that it deems important. Why is money made from money not taxed the same money made from labor? On the other hand, if money is considered free speech in the US, how can we even allow taxation at all? Isn’t taxation a form of censorship?
BUSD is a US New York DFS, the banking regulator, regulated stablecoin. USDC on the other hand is not regulated. Paxos (my employer) issues BUSD, not Binance
Agree. Just drive down main once and look at all the 2 story buildings… not even talking about the neighborhoods that are primarily detached. Vancouver is so expensive yet nobody is allowed to create denser housing. Nimbyism at its finest
As the spouse of L1 you get an L2 which lets you work for any employer including yourself as long as the L1 is active. With the L2 you get an EAD on arrival and do not have to wait for months to get it.
I get some of the sentiment that people should write clean code and I have been very adamant with my teams to ideally use best practices and make their code (re)usable and production ready. But the truth is: nobody likes to clean up. Including me. To use a real life example: I don’t use a broom at home unless my roomba is unable to get to the spot. This is not going to solve all problems and I will probably have to fix some edge cases, but I love the solution you have come up with and will definitely give it a shot next time I come across an ugly notebook!
Similarly, I would rather have no wifi than bad/spotty wifi for this reason
The way I understand the science is that we can say with some certainty that…
- we know vaccines work and they’re safe
- we know natural immunity works
- we have a good estimate on how well/long the vaccines work over time (probably 9-12 months with potential boosters) given a plethora of studies
- we don’t know how long natural immunity lasts, but we can (safely) assume it’s going to be 6+ months? Maybe 12, maybe 18, who knows. Does it matter?
- everyone wants to be safe, but the goal cannot be 100% safety/certainty, but severely reducing the spread and impact of covid without giving up our freedom, liberties as well as our economy
Rather than calling it a vaccine passport, call it something else that is less controversial, such as a covid protection status
- if you have been vaccinated/ bolstered using authorized vaccines in the last x months, you’re protected
- if you have an authorized lab based positive results in the last y months, you’re protected
- if you have neither, but can show antibodies from an authorized lab, you’re protected for z months
Let’s set best guesstimates on x, y and z and then call it a day? E.g. Make it 12 months for x and y, 3 or 6 months for z.
I feel like 90% of people could work within this framework. The other 10% is probably too far gone…
Global entry / TSA-Precheck only required my face when I entered the the US last month (LGA airport). While I have gotten used to having my picture taken at US airports, it was a weird yet incredibly fast experience
Ok it’s a bit of a stretch as it’s a speech, but “This Is Water” by David Foster Wallace is simply amazing.
I don’t think anyone is advocating for masks as your only line of defense, just one of a few (vaccines currently being the best)
Napkin math would be:
90% of infected person virus stays in
90% of virus does not get in for a healthy person
So 1% (10% through * 10% through) of final particles will be inside the mask. Hence roughly 0.9% of particles (90% stays inside of the mask of the healthy person) would stick around by this logic
Vs 100% of particles that could enter will enter without any sort of mask
Op is probably talking about the additional guest (daughter) a night early and the dog on the property. IMO calling this breaking the rules is a bit of a stretch?
Sounds like the pig-farming industry is trying to get some of that sweet subsidy money by waiting until the last minute to do anything. Don’t blame them from business side but totally avoidable of course
Did you move the compute layer to AWS as well? Did you see similar savings there as well for non-burst payloads?
No law I am aware of requires public companies to maximize profits for shareholders. I think it only applies when a company is for sale
NYC - could very well be a New York thing. Lived in Vancouver before where it was 15% so I assumed it was roughly the same everywhere
A few items:
- The US system of credit cards is really weird. If you do not happen to have an American Express (which does cross-border), you should try to open up a credit card as soon as possible. Most likely with the bank that you use for checking accounts. Do not pay off the balance before it is due. Wait until the bill is finalized, then pay it within a day or two. Look up “credit score” and “how to build credit”
- Rental agreements are on a 12 months basis (at least in NYC). You might need a guarantor to get an apartment or proof you have enough money to pay the bill for the 6 months or so since you don’t have a credit score
- health insurance is really funky. They are employment based (employers decide your plan provider). Nobody understands their health plans. There is health, vision and dental insurance as the main ones. Expect to pay a lot of money out of pocket and to never know what you will pay in advance
- as you said tipping is mandatory. 18% is the lower limit.
- drinking in public places is usually prohibited
- if you get caught drinking under 21, it is a misdemeanour and you can get arrested
- I hate to say this but: cops are not your friend. Know your rights
I have used python and scala for work and I find myself wishing to be able to use scala a lot when I use python (especially when using pandas or trying to multi process/thread). Not so much the other way around even though I also love python and think it’s amazing. Main reason: The type system is great and there are so many things that I can express/enforce using it that are missing for me in python even using typing libraries.
Yes, there is a large crew of FP fans around scala that can be obnoxious at times, but they have also brought a lot of good stuff around. The way I see it: You need groups that “overshoot” and then settle on the middle ground. Compromise...
I use FP when it’s not too complicated, but stay away from the larger monad systems that are hard to explain to newcomers (effects/IO/Kleisli etc) because I honestly feel like it’s too much. Let me just run my debug logger when I want to... (yes I know that’s not what it’s about)
I probably fall in the category of using scala as the (way) better Java with sprinkles of FP and non-mutable data objects everywhere. I really like the authors style (his work is awesome in general and I point to your posts a lot for our juniors, thank you for your contributions if you read this)
It has its flaws, just like any other language, but it’s also incredibly expressive and fast (enough) for the backend and data engineering that we do
Undercut by the fact that they need to be „actively“ working. Waiting for the next ride is excluded. Not really minimum wage IMO
I saw a lot of myself in your article. Came to scala in 2014 via spark, wrote a lot of OOP code and then slowly moved into the FP space. These days I find myself writing python a lot (for machine learning) but just miss the type safety net I get with scala
Interestingly (maybe not), a lot of people seem to be upset about the new address bar. To me, this is the biggest improvement. I don’t have a lot of custom config in Firefox, mainly use it and DuckDuckGo to no be using Google, and find it refreshingly easy to see my search engines and have more information available in a spot that I use all the time rather than having to know where to look or have it hidden in the first place
Our team has a similar experience using xgboost and catboost. Models perform great and beat (our) neural nets
We use Azure DevOps extensively at my work and, after having used GitHub, Gitlab, self hosted solutions, Jenkins, TeamCity... DevOps ranks dead last.
It's the entire experience. The UI is terribly clunky everywhere. The worst for me are pull requests. Incredibly tough to work with people on a pull request. I can't even point you to "a" particular problem - for us it's broken everywhere. From the weird file comparison with overlays to the missing support for (us) important file formats like ipython notebooks. The way notifications bubble up in a facebook like format on a pull request. The emails that have 20000 lines and never the exact information I need. The amount of clicks to go from comparing two files to open the current version. Other people mentioned the lacking caching support for builds, so I am not going to go into more detail here. Another missing piece for me: Where are my statistics. I'd love to see commit, PR, response, comment etc statistics per team member / teams / groups.
Using Azure DevOps board is a nightmare of its own...
btw: most of these issues are part of the whole "azure" experience. The Azure portal suffers from the exact same interface issues of horizontally stacking fields. One wrong click and your last edits have disappeared into the ether
For me, it is my "adult" McDonalds. I have 5 artisan coffee shops in a two block radius yet I mostly go to starbucks 3 blocks away for a few reasons:
- I can order online and have the order ready for pickup when I get there
- I actually prefer their latte
- They never mess it up
It was similar on my last Asia trip. While I try to avoid any sort of non-local food/restaurant while traveling, I enjoy the familiarity and quality I get at Starbucks and frequent it wherever I go.
I am trying to switch from Chrome to FF, but FF is making it really hard. Some sites freeze regularly. Facebook the other day was trying to open a YouTube link. 30 seconds of complete unresponsiveness. Google products work unreliable as well (inbox freezes, black tab on google maps). Just very frustrating overall and I keep finding myself back on Chrome until I realize what I am doing and conscientiously switch back
I use protobuf at work all the time (not google) and prefer them over almost all other serialization formats. To be fair, I mainly work in Scala, C# and JavaScript where great implementations exist. In the case of Scala, IntelliJ just needs to know that the generated source files are just that and then it „just works“ for me
I work in the flight industry and still dream of that standardized data structure...
Interesting thought regarding the r&d spending in the US versus the rest of the world and hence subsidizing global health care. I did look at some numbers in a more recent publication [1](page 21) where the latest r&d numbers for both healthcare and biotech are listed. Germany‘s spending seems to be on average a little less than 1/3 of the US which would make them equal on a per capita level. The UK seems to be a little below those levels. Do you have any data to support your claim?
[1] https://www.iriweb.org/sites/default/files/2016GlobalR%26DFu...
This is really incredible. Thank you for this insightful post
I actually built a company in a similar situation. I live in Vancouver while my cofounders live in Berlin. It meant a lot of early mornings for all founders, same as late nights to maximize communication. I am German and only moved here a few years ago, so I was comfortable with incorporating in Germany. Canada offers a lot of amazing opportunities for startups (IRAP / SRED) that we missed out of because of it. Ownership in Canada for foreigners is easily possible though. One other thing to look into is the lifetime exemption on capital gains. If you don't incorporate in Canada you should consider talking to a specialist to set it up so that you can still take advantage of it in case you end up selling the company