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Amazon leading on price-performance, but competition from Google is very stiff. Does anyone know the data source for this curve?

Title slightly edited for length. I'm keen to hear what the community thinks of this. Is it credible? Is this The End Times?

I already have a diversified stock portfolio, so I'm happy keeping my RSUs as a leveraged bet on my employer. I got one piece of advice recently, which was to sell enough of the ve…

Great site, but is it finished? If not, perhaps it would benefit from a yellow and black flashing "Under Construction" banner.

Better write your own compiler, then... And your own language, just to be sure. #tinfoil

I've seen the Economist describe itself as "fiscally conservative, socially liberal"

The only question you should be asking is: Are these shares listed on a public market? If yes, you can value them at market price. If no, their current value is zero.

So you hire people who skip over the depth of the locking model and just copy and paste the addition code, but you fail the people who spend time to deeply understand the locking m…

April 2023: Google announces end of free ACME server

Or just use QuantLib ( https://www.quantlib.org/ )

What you've described is pretty much what Reddit was back in 2006-7 before the first big re-design and introduction of subreddits.

For the longest time I was someone who relied on external validation of whether my work was meaningful or not. Outside of saving lives or delivering children, most of the jobs that…

Wow, HN started the day before my kids were born. This morning we celebrated their 15th birthdays.

Approximately 150,000 ex-pat workers (maybe ~10% of the total ex-pat population) left in the 12 months from June 2020-June 2021. https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/politics/spo…

Give it time. I wouldn't be long Singaporean property over the next three years even if my life depended on it.

"To be eligible for a Letter of Consent, you need to be one of the following: An LTVP/LTVP+ holder who is married to a Singaporean or PR. An unmarried child (under 21 years old) of…

"Nearly every jurisdiction on earth" - citation please. Or did you not learn to provide references at NUS?

It's the Ministry of *Manpower*.

For the last two years Singapore has had a hard closure of all eating establishments at 1030 - they will literally come and take your drink off of the table. For the last several m…

>It seems that 66 is the maximum value for the vibration level. Missed a huge opportunity to make it 69.

If you have real user data in non-production systems (e.g., development JIRA/tracking system) you're already doing it wrong. At the firm I work at we scan all non-prod systems for …

Can you define what data has to remain on Canadian servers? If it's just user data, and not your actual code, then you could use a synthetic data provider like https://synthesized.…

Not sure about lesswrong.com, that definitely needed to be lesslong.com