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Comment #22537870
Do a speed test comparison as well. Serialization to msgpack is likely much quicker than json + gzip. This is for latency sensitive applications.
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Comment #22436954
Thanks for the comparison against 23 and me but I’d be interested in how you plan to differ from Invitae/Fulgent/Myraid aside from the D2C aspects.
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Comment #22310927
What are some good ways to avoid distractions? I often find myself watching YouTube/Netflix or on steam for endless hours before realizing it
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Comment #22246474
I really like the military friendly policies, haven’t seen anywhere I worked.
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Comment #22246441
Gotta have the stocked kitchen. Uber eats might be interesting. Perhaps if you have to stay late you can use Uber eats or Uber home from the company, however I don’t want to incent…
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Comment #22246431
Don’t mind flexible expenses when it comes to traveling. But this is a great way to open your firm up to bribery or other regulatory risk.
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Ask HN: What are some interesting employment benefits to offer?
What are some interesting employment benefits a employer can offer aside from the usual 401k with matching and insurance related things?
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Comment #21224057
I agree consider Singapore, massive pollution problems but one of the safest countries in the world.
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Comment #21115762
I got downvoted to oblivion for reporting a bug to them, with several SO devs trying to explain it’s not a bug, this doesn’t surprise me.
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Comment #20941210
No, it’s about where money flows to avoid taxes. The comment suggested money will flow into the UK from Europe after Brexit to avoid tax, however Europe already has Luxembourg.
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Comment #20940936
Europe (and HK) already have Luxembourg for that.
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Comment #20865732
No it won’t, most companies no longer offer pensions for new employees and instead offer a 401K plan. The pension problem will go away over time.
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Comment #20694532
What’s 0.05% minus 1.5% inflation ? Negative
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Comment #20690179
It’s positive for now, in Europe the deposit accounts are negative as well for the most part.
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Comment #20624393
The main point behind the two currency system is to prevent money laundering. You can only convert offshore to onshore via state run banks. This also has the side effect of making …
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Comment #20458889
Wait you even have to physically remove it ???
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Comment #20402599
Yeah I’ll need to do some research, if I can only poll the db for just the time I need this will be a huge cost saving for me. I think the db only gets queried if a dag actually ru…
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Comment #20402132
How well would this work with something like airflow ? If I have jobs that run only end of day for an hour on airflow, I pay just for an hour of the database ?
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Comment #19932309
Did they control for food taste and preferences ? It could simply be the processed food happened to taste better as well. Not sure if pleasantness and familiarity cover that.
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Comment #19728103
There are a few vendors built on top of multiple cloud vendors however they themselves become the lock in, zeit or Joyent are good examples of this.
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Comment #19728022
It could be worse, imagine the inverse: You can’t do anything to make money; Every hobby is an attempt to have fun.
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Comment #19728016
Agreed I got fed up with the notifications and turned them off after a week.
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Comment #19727740
How is Azure functions still not a lock in? You can’t do anything with what they’ve open sourced.