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tchanglington commented on Why isn't there a universal data format for résumés?   toot.cat/@woozle/10763423... · Posted by u/ColinWright
polote · 4 years ago
There is one, it is just proprietary https://linkedin.com
tchanglington · 4 years ago
This is super obvious and software developers who use open source tend to always think that open source software is the solution.

Sometimes it’s an economics problem. Problems need incentives before they can be solved.

tchanglington commented on U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient   apnews.com/article/pig-he... · Posted by u/danso
Sporktacular · 4 years ago
Weird how this is said without a shred of sympathy or concern for an intelligent, helpless creature. Weirder how it can be said without a sympathetic or concerned response. I hope we can someday move beyond seeing animals as a mere resource.
tchanglington · 4 years ago
Because it helps save humans
tchanglington commented on ‘Give away your Legos’ and other commandments for scaling startups   review.firstround.com/giv... · Posted by u/alihm
toast76 · 4 years ago
LEGO is an adjective. Never call it Legos.
tchanglington · 4 years ago
It’s aaactually a verb as in - Lego my stuff, asshole!
tchanglington commented on U.S. Tech Salaries Grow, but Not for Everyone   spectrum.ieee.org/enginee... · Posted by u/infodocket
droopyEyelids · 4 years ago
Should people who sacrifice their careers for noble goals be paid less?

Not that I am demanding an answer from you specifically. It's just a weird question in the context of a country where wage labor is the only real source of income for individuals.

tchanglington · 4 years ago
That’s just simple economics - if they’re willing to settle for a noble job even if they get paid less then they’ll get paid less on average
tchanglington commented on Greyhound Canada shutting down all bus service permanently   cbc.ca/news/business/grey... · Posted by u/AndrewBissell
dankwizard · 5 years ago
Sorry do you have a link for what this is referencing
tchanglington · 5 years ago
tchanglington commented on We mailed one hundred letters to test the postal service   wgbh.org/news/local-news/... · Posted by u/ystad
prepend · 5 years ago
I find that the problem is last mile. I’ve lived in 4 areas in the Us where I received a lot of mail. 3/4 were amazing and everything came quickly. I assumed all USPS was great.

For the last 10 years my post office has had many problems. Packages where tracking shows it “out for delivery” but it never arrives. The electronic delivery email sends scans of letters “arriving today” that don’t come until the next day. Drivers who put “redelivery notices” in the mailbox rather than door saying I wasn’t available, backdated to previous days.

It’s very strange because contacting the postmaster just results in odd excuses, for example, I was told that the delivery driver was really busy that day and couldn’t make it to my house. I live in suburbia in a neighborhood with hundreds of houses.

So this post office sucks. It seems drivers suck, management sucks and that results in slow and missing mail.

I travel a bit and like to send post cards to family, including my own. A post card to my house consistently arrives 2-4 days after the card to a family member in a zip code 50 miles way, an even more remote suburb. This seems consistent from very remote locations as well as domestic. Curious.

My soft conclusion is that the “systematic” portions of the USPS are reliable and good. But the “local” portions are hit or miss.

tchanglington · 5 years ago
The problem with the last mile is that there’s a lot of them. Even more if you’re in suburbia, where the number of people living in the last mile is comparable to people living in the last block or so in the city.
tchanglington commented on Apple Introduces AirTag   apple.com/newsroom/2021/0... · Posted by u/davidbarker
crazygringo · 5 years ago
I thought one of the big use cases for this was to track stolen items, like a backpack or maybe even a bicycle.

But the "anti-stalking" feature will notify someone if an AirTag they don't own appears to be traveling with them.

Does this render it useless for anti-theft, then? Since it will just notify a thief that the bike they just stole is being tracked, and they can look for the AirTag and throw it in the nearest trash can?

Not criticizing Apple here -- anti-stalking is super-important -- but just looking for clarification if this will help you find lost items, but not stolen ones.

tchanglington · 5 years ago
It’s going to be real funny if non Apple users are basically fair game for AirTags tracking and you have to get an iPhone to protect yourself from AirStalking
tchanglington commented on A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors (2018-20)   github.com/minimaxir/hack... · Posted by u/rdpintqogeogsaa
sammorrowdrums · 5 years ago
> If a user has 251 Karma, they can set the color of the top bar in their profile settings. The default is #ff6600. Here's the complete set of colors users have set.

It's so close, why isn't the required karma 256?

tchanglington · 5 years ago
Error correcting karma
tchanglington commented on Elon Musk’s anti-union tweet from 2018 must be deleted: U.S. labor board   reuters.com/article/idUSL... · Posted by u/samizdis
mempko · 5 years ago
Great way to talk about your fellow colleagues as dead wood. I would love working with you.
tchanglington · 5 years ago
Working together isn’t fun when we’re all out of a job because the factory moved to another country
tchanglington commented on Melvin Capital Lost 53% in January, Hurt by GameStop and Other Bets   wsj.com/articles/melvin-c... · Posted by u/thefounder
jbp · 5 years ago
How could they lose $7B?

Melvin Capital Recent 13F : https://sec.report/Document/0000905718-20-001111/

It shows they had about $757mm worth puts. Assuming all of that puts are worth zero, their max loss will be $757mm. GME loss would be $55mm.

Hedgefunds don't have to disclose everything? Just trying to understand how did they lose that much.

tchanglington · 5 years ago
Payoffs for a short position is stock price right now minus stock price at maturity. You can make a synthetic short by longing a put and writing a call at the same strike price and the problem you see here with the short squeeze is really writing the call.

u/tchanglington

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