haliax

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Comment · 1 year ago
Where do you get liquid nitrogen as a home cook? I’ve tried to get my hands on both that and dry ice without any luck
Comment · 1 year ago
Polar Bear! He was a Bichon Poodle mix and his tail hadn’t grown in yet so he looked exactly like one of the little polar bears from the Coca Cola commercials
Comment · 1 year ago
Came home from Christmas Eve shopping/sight seeing in Manhattan with my dad and baby sister to find that our mom had gone and gotten us a puppy! I’d never had a dog before. It remains one of the best and happiest memories of my life :)
Comment · 2 years ago
Really cool, awesome work!
Comment · 3 years ago
Is this FHE or oblivious transfer?
Comment · 4 years ago
For a similar use case, I’ve been considering a combination of s3 exports of db views (mapping private schema to public) + lakeformation governed tables (which allow table, row, and cell level security via iam) + redshift or athena for querying + sts/cognito for authorization to give logged in users a temporary access key id and secret access key. Admittedly an AWS heavy setup, but in my use case that’s an advantage :)
Comment · 5 years ago
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Comment · 5 years ago
Benepass (YC W20) | Software Engineers, Engineering Manager, and Customer Engineer | Earth | Full-time | REMOTE (US timezones preferred) | https://www.getbenepass.com

Benepass is using modern software and a great UX to transform the $30+ billion benefits industry. We’re displacing incumbents running on manual processes and legacy technology, like fax, checks in the mail, and artisanal CSVs.

In the past year, we’ve grown to cover thousands of lives and signed big customers who are household names. We've found product-market fit and we’re growing at breakneck speed. Our investors include Gradient Ventures, Y Combinator, and awesome angels like Aaron Levie of Box.

We’re hiring great software engineers for multiple mission-critical roles. Our backend stack is Python, Django, Django Rest Framework, AWS, IaC, & Docker. On the frontend we use Javascript, Tailwinds CSS, React, and React Native (plus a bit of Objective-C and Java when it’s called for).

We offer competitive compensation + equity, flexible PTO, 95% coverage of medical/dental/vision, and fantastic benefits (of course ).

To learn more & apply, visit https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/benepass

Comment · 6 years ago
Not joking or being sarcastic here, Electronic Circuits for Dummies is great for what you describe.
Comment · 6 years ago
Isn't elixir just syntactic sugar on top of Erlang semantics?
Comment · 7 years ago
Can you elaborate?
Comment · 7 years ago
Could you post a link? I'd love to see this.
Comment · 7 years ago
I understand that no one is criticizing reason, I just wanted to understand what alternatives were being proposed.
Comment · 7 years ago
I've been watching this comment thread unfold with a mixture of frustration (it's verging on flamewar) and curiosity.

As someone who is fairly steeped in the rationality-loving tradition and those ways of making sense of the world that are common in tech, I'd ask the following:

Can you or someone else on this thread point to a gentle introduction to the types of thought besides rationality that you're thinking of and how they're grounded? Is it possible for someone who accepts rationality to follow and credit these arguments without having to take any new beliefs as axiomatic?

Put another way, can rationality guide me at least part way to some of these other things?

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