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Yes! And you don't need to see Hayden Christensen's ghost at the Ewok party in episode 6, etc. They are a true gift.

This is getting to be the norm rather than a unique feature. I can dispute a credit card transaction through the app for my Citi, X1, or Fidelity cards.

Nice! I've been looking for a reliable book ranking site. The main rankings skew to the "classics" that don't always hold up (looking at you Moby Dick) but the books in the genre filters look more interesting.

A couple questions:

* Is this primarily intended for discovering new reads, or for people who've already read the books to debate which is greatest? I found the book descriptions sometimes give away too much, to the point where I stopped reading them for any book I might be interested in reading for pleasure. Examples include The Great Gatsby and Madame Bovary. Perhaps you could have a concise description that stays far away from plot points, and a more expanded description behind a "more" link.

* What dictates whether a series has one place on the list or separate places? Narnia has one for the whole series but Harry Potter has individual listings per book.

* Are ratings and reviews from your own site taken into account in the rankings?

If you're looking for some good quality "expert reviews their field as represented in movies" videos without too much clickbait, Vanity Fair has a long playlist of them that I enjoyed: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZ2lDrDpOLrusAYQFq2yVHf...

The parent is assuming that you can always sell your option to someone else for its fair value. If that's the case, there would never be a time where it's optimal to exercise a call option, because the optionality will always make the option value higher that the value of owning the stock.

This is shown in the article: the curved lines representing the option value are always above the straight lines of the final option payoff (the value if exercised).

This is not necessarily true for put options or for call options if the stock pays dividends. In those cases the option value can be below the payoff line and early exercise would be better than selling the option.

This is covered at the very end of the article, in the "Comparison with Doom and Quake" section. And yes, that's exactly the comparison and distinction the author draws, and they explain why Serious Sam would have opted for Doom-style networking (the notoriously high scene complexity).

For what it's worth, Wealthfront's HYSA offers free same-day transfers, at least to major banks (they just need to support RTP transfers, which many do). But I agree with your point that an emergency fund is fine as long as you can access it within a few days.

Not sure about "most," but I have this exact restriction at work. I don't think it's extremely rare.

I've used Input Sans for years. I was expecting to have to deal with alignment issues but in my Java codebase there were almost none. (YMMV depending on language and coding style.) The only alignment we use is with leading spaces only, so everything still aligns as expected. The readability is great and I can fit substantially more characters horizontally than I could with a fixed-width font.

It definitely felt weird at first, like I was reading code that somebody had pasted into Microsoft Word. But that passed and now it's all upside.

I screen-share my IDE from time to time and I've never had anyone comment on it.

I'm surprised that this made the front page. This is the investing equivalent of someone new to programming writing a single benchmark of some if statements versus a switch and blogging about which one was faster. The results are far more likely to be random noise than anything meaningful.

I think this type of calculation is valuable exploration for anyone to try out if they are interested in investing, and is a great way to get some hands-on learning with real data. I'm glad for the author and for anyone who reads this and decides to replicate it or extend it for their own practice and leaning. It's just that the results are not notable in the slightest.

Though it's a rare counterexample to Betteridge's Law of Headlines!

It's linked right below the image: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/christian-rudder-datacl...

When I left for the second drive, the car's navigation app estimated I'd have 13% left when I arrived, and the estimates have been impressively good so I just went for it.

But I also was in a good sized metro area with a couple Tesla superchargers not far off my route, so my backup plan was to stop at one for 15 minutes if it ever looked like I might not make it.

Just yesterday I drove 75km in -22C, parked outside all day, then back home the same distance in -19C. Took my Model Y from 80% to 12%. No problem with heat either (that's part of why it used so much charge). I was a lot more worried about sliding off the road than running out of battery...

I believe you that it's no problem for a diesel. But it's no problem for electric either.

"A random password stored in a password manager is literally what a passkey is."

This is not quite true; a passkey is still somewhat more secure than a password in this scenario.

With passwords, the password itself is sent to the website and a hashed version is stored in their database. If someone can intercept your connection to the site (MitM) or can access their database (hacker), they might be able to get your password and log in as you, especially if the website doesn't implement their hashing very well.

These attack vectors don't apply to passkeys, even generated and synced by a software password manager: the private key never leaves your computer, only the corresponding pubic key. The website generates a unique challenge on each login that can only be solved by your private key, so intercepting a particular challenge or stealing the public key from the website database doesn't let anyone log in as you later.

"Natural materials such as wood or stone feel so much nicer than concrete or glass."

To you. But not to me, which is why I choose to live in a house with glass and metal as the primary aesthetic. But stating opinions as fact is a nice way to generate engagement, especially if they are unpopular, hence the article we're all discussing.

I think it's hideous and I wouldn't want to live there. There's nothing "wrong" (nor "right") about the idea that lots of bold colors will tend to clash and be unpleasant. It's just subjective and different people hold different opinions about it.

That was my first thought too. But even at that speed, we have quite a bit of time. Since the particles are 0.01% slower than the light that just reached us, the particles would arrive in: 8,500,000,000 light years away * 0.01% speed of light = 850,000 years. Humanity will be unrecognizable by that point.

Can you help me understand how this would help? The way I see it: if the government were on board with recording property boundaries in a public ledger, it could do it without a blockchain. And if it's not on board, then I don't see how a random third-party ledger would help, since the government wouldn't defer to it.

As soon as I started reading I knew this was going to involve stealing electricity.

"took it to my friend’s student dormitory where the electricity was “free”."

I was not disappointed! Life hack: stealing can make you money!

I'm not the person you replied to, but this stood out to me:

"And so (sorry, Orwell, but my guilt is too great to avoid the passive voice) certain strategies have evolved."

This sentence isn't in the passive voice. ("Have been evolved" would be.) I would expect a good editor to be a grammar expert and catch that error.

Wealthfront | Backend Engineer (Java) | Full Time | REMOTE (USA only), or Palo Alto or Boston offices

Wealthfront's vision is to make it delightfully easy to build long-term wealth on your own terms. https://www.wealthfront.com/

Backend role details: https://jobs.lever.co/wealthfront/b76bd2b6-fffc-4ab5-a191-d3... (We also have other positions including ios or aws data platform: https://jobs.lever.co/wealthfront?lever-via=c25DbAChY-)

I'm a backend engineer, been at Wealthfront for 7 years. Feel free to reach out to me directly if you prefer that to going through our recruiters, or if you want to find out more before applying. andyf@wealthfront.com.

We mainly use Java/Hibernate/MariaDB on the backend but you don't need experience with those specific technologies as long as you've worked with something similar. I came in with only C#/LINQ/MSSQL experience. You also don't need prior financial/fintech experience.

We have ~250 employees, over half of which are software engineers. We take an engineering-first approach to all aspects of the business.

But it also seems like missing the point for people to criticize that headline for a grammatical error (falsely!) when they really just want Bob to be named... which is exactly the point of that article, right?

It doesn't depend on modules. And in fact, you don't even have to wait until runtime and throw an exception: plugins like https://github.com/basepom/duplicate-finder-maven-plugin/wik... can enforce this at build time, with neat features like allowing two classes with the same name as long as their contents are 100% identical, or allowing specific exceptions where you can confirm they aren't going to cause problems.

We run this plugin where I work. We have no plans to modularize our build since the duplicate class protection would just be worse that this plugin.

Elisabeth Bik is a real hero. the amount of unpaid hours she has put into detecting fraud in published scientific papers is unbelievable and a true service to the scientific community.

Her work is pure positive externality: nobody has incentive to pay for it. Journals barely care about fraud (as long as it's not caught by someone else), reviewers don't have much incentive to check carefully for it (and might even be in on the fraud), and the authors engaging in fraud obviously prefer that journals not look too closely.

That's why I am a patron: https://www.patreon.com/elisabethbik

She maintains a blog if you want to read more about what she does, e.g.: https://scienceintegritydigest.com/2020/12/31/2020-a-year-in...

If only there were some sort of... article you could read to find out about Moderna's vaccine plans :-P

"The development programs announced today are mRNA vaccine candidates against seasonal flu, HIV and the Nipah virus."

It punishes the decision makers at the company, all of whom hold concentrated positions in their company's stock.

Holy crap. It reads like a parody written by someone who read this thread and article. I was thinking it couldn't be as bad as people we're saying, but it's worse!

I agree that you need to shop around; some places value this far more than others. But I don't think the company needs to be huge. We have small but dedicated teams for this on each platform (backend, iOS, Android, web) and we only have ~100 total engineers.

This is very much how I feel, which is why I've started a dedicated team for this at Wealthfront, with the support of our CTO, our VP of engineering, and our president (who used to be the CTO). My team is specific to the backend but we have equivalent "infrastructure" teams for the frontend platforms too.

If anyone feels like it's hard to get your company to care about this stuff or even let you work on it, maybe it's time to consider a move? :-) You can reach me at andyf@wealthfront.com if you prefer not to reply here.

Indeed! This is a great example of why it's important to actually measure the things you care about, and not use a proxy or your gut feeling. If you just go by perception, the slower-moving traffic might fool you into thinking the roundabout has less throughput.