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tchanglington··on Why isn't there a universal data format for résumés?
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··on U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient
Because it helps save humans
tchanglington··on ‘Give away your Legos’ and other commandments for scaling startups
It’s aaactually a verb as in - Lego my stuff, asshole!
tchanglington··on U.S. Tech Salaries Grow, but Not for Everyone
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··on Greyhound Canada shutting down all bus service permanently
The greyhound beheading incident

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Tim_McLean

tchanglington··on We mailed one hundred letters to test the postal service
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··on Apple Introduces AirTag
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··on A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors (2018-20)
Error correcting karma
tchanglington··on Elon Musk’s anti-union tweet from 2018 must be deleted: U.S. labor board
Working together isn’t fun when we’re all out of a job because the factory moved to another country
tchanglington··on Melvin Capital Lost 53% in January, Hurt by GameStop and Other Bets
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.