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About bm1362
ben@eastside.io
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Comment #27517321
Frankly no, it doesn’t re-flow them so the text will often be too small. Quite a massive oversight and no one really talks about it.
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Comment #27276341
In modern monetary policy, income tax is used as a deflationary measure and our government is funded by the fed.
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Comment #27064973
You can just skip all this: create a landing page with a “Coming Soon” mock-up and sign up form. Buy some ads, tweet and then wait to see if it’s worth working on.
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Comment #27051957
I believe that white collar crime deserves the harshest punishment of all. It’s committed by intelligent people, premeditated and generally abuses a position of trust.
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Comment #26974084
I've prototype on a collab notebook and have been using AWS GPUs for training. Having to jump through hoops for quota and the general anxiety in trying to optimize the costs led me…
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Comment #26974053
Dope, 7 days is a pretty nice turnaround. I went with a 'custom' prebuilt so I could plan for adding additional cards once they're well supplied. You might run into trouble with th…
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Comment #26965872
I just went this route to build a ML workstation. I was able to get a prebuilt with a 3090 for ~30% of a comparable build on https://lambdalabs.com/ . Now I just need to wait until…
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Comment #26412654
I believe the IRS would investigate many small donations under the gift tax. An analogy would be restaurant servers claiming their tips as gifts and thus not disclosing it as incom…
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Comment #24636012
Also just bought the same model, hoping to replace a terrible Whirlpool.
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Comment #22389615
The stock is counted as income when it is exercised. The basis is the strike price then, once you sell later it’s considered either capital gain or loss. My understanding is that y…
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Comment #22269028
They regained the CR: https://www.consumerreports.org/car-reliability-owner-satisf...
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Comment #22269014
That’s not a great analogy. Apple sells a computer with an extra Siri service. You return it and they resell to another consumer who has the option to purchase the Siri package. Se…
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Comment #22109010
You can purchase real time data streams for relatively cheap (200/month) from many companies, even exchanges themselves. I’m actually building something similar for my own options …
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Comment #21874613
(Thanks got your reply!) Also other drawbacks: lack of http/2, couldn’t configure mtls from cloudflare to avoid someone going around the waf
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Comment #21874606
I wanted to point my root domain (hosted by Google) to the Heroku app DNS target. I was able to solve this by using Cloudflare instead, with flattening.
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Comment #21874344
Anyone have any recommendations for a managed Compute/Postgres stack that’s less than 100/month? I was trying Heroku but frustrated by the single port per container and lack of sta…
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Comment #21194467
How about the Iran Nuclear deal? Or is that a bad example?
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Comment #20845189
I went to a FAANG interview today without preparing and was asked 7 leetcoding problems across 5 interviews. Even the behavioral one included a leetcode problem. Most interviewers …
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Comment #20561222
Hedge funds bought shares because of the cooked books and unreal returns.
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Comment #20518084
I see tipping as a form of profit sharing. If a server or barista gets more volume for the restaurant, they get a cut. Often times, servers leave at the end of the night with $200+…
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Comment #19915339
They do provide insurance: https://www.uber.com/drive/insurance/
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Comment #19915334
From that link: > You made an agreement with John Peters to care for your lawn. John runs a lawn care business and offers his services to the general public. He provides his own to…
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Comment #19735591
I used clojure once during an interview and bombed, passed again 2 years later at the same company with Python. Would’ve made a big difference in my equity had I just started then!…
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Comment #19603274
I’m genuinely concerned that people seriously think this is a _solution_. Beyond sex, relationships with romantic partners are a complex, rewarding part of the human experience. Ho…
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Comment #19603227
That study had roughly 3k participants, from the Boston area. In my opinion, the are more than probably many factors that influence testosterone production and that’s not sufficien…