Agathos

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by Agathos 7y ago
It's worth pointing out that generating a lot of value (productivity) is not a guarantee that your wages will grow in proportion to that value. In fact, for the last 50 years, in most careers, wages have not tracked productivity. This
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by Agathos 7y ago
The article, which I'm sure you've read, links to a survey in which Gallup attempted to answer your question. They asked people exactly what features they look for in a quality job, then asked people if their jobs meet those stand
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by Agathos 7y ago
So the same except everyone at SpaceX has an extra meeting in the morning?
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by Agathos 7y ago
Got to tip your cap to him for selecting "Cow Tools" for the first day's front page.
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by Agathos 7y ago
Thanks for writing it! I'm a Python programmer in my day job. I have sometimes remarked that the reason I play around with Haskell in my free time is because I don't want to see another run time type error unless I'm being pa
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Statically-typed error handling in Python using Mypy(beepb00p.xyz)
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by Agathos 7y ago
I thought this was a good introduction to that problem of unwinnable configurations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGIDzGvsrV8 Sounds like a good opportunity to dust off those graph algorithms many of us learned in underg
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by Agathos 7y ago
The reason the rocket is so expensive is that it has to lift a lot of weight, mostly fuel. I charge that to the fuel's account.
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by Agathos 7y ago
Fuel on the ground is cheap. Halfway to orbit, nothing is cheap.
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by Agathos 7y ago
I don't see any sign here that anything is improving for smaller brands like No Starch Press ( https://twitter.com/billpollock/status/1091840257073471488 ). They're only policing Nintendo products, and onl
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by Agathos 7y ago
Between the Bayh-Dole Act, DARPA, NASA, the NSF Seed fund, and Department of Energy loans (I seem to recall the A123 loan was a political football for a while) doesn't the US already put a lot of money into technology startups? The onl
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by Agathos 7y ago
Yeah, but I can't use the [img] tag to inline a .gifv on a random phpBB-like forum. So I still have to save the unconverted .gif somewhere.
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by Agathos 7y ago
Northern Europe or Mediterranean Europe? Greece and Italy are a mess, but the North's budgets look a lot better than the U.S.'s does.
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by Agathos 7y ago
Ah, my favorite Crusader Kings II minigame: stitching my kingdom back together after a gavelkind succession.
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by Agathos 7y ago
In 2011 I was just finishing my PhD, so I couldn't afford a new car. At least my brain has that V8 now...
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by Agathos 7y ago
The Parker Solar Probe is using seven Venus flybys to fly pretty close to the Sun (but not into it).
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by Agathos 7y ago
Well, there's "I want to match Mars' orbit around the Sun, so I can orbit the planet," and then there's "I want to intersect Mars' orbit just as the planet is passing through so I smack into its surface an
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by Agathos 7y ago
Maybe one day we'll have software-controlled corrective lenses, and then they can take over-the-air updates to subtly enlarge and sharpen certain logos...
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by Agathos 7y ago
"It doesn’t contain vodka or any other distilled spirits. Instead it is made through fermentation, like beer, but starting from a base of sugar instead of cereal grains like barley." This is a roundabout way of saying it's un
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by Agathos 7y ago
Politicians ignore economists unless and until they happen to propose something politically convenient.
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by Agathos 7y ago
So We is a real estate company, that doesn't own its own real estate, that wants to be seen as a technology company, that doesn't develop its own technology.
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by Agathos 7y ago
Are banks, airlines, hospitals, or big retailers not named Amazon tech companies? If you took their tech away now, could they stay in business?
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by Agathos 7y ago
The only reason anyone can get a 30-year fixed-rate is that the government makes it so, by guaranteeing and eventually taking over Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac.
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by Agathos 7y ago
So, album then.
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by Agathos 7y ago
A few possible reasons come to mind. The government may not have standing to sue on the worker's behalf. The agency that prosecutes tax fraud may be larger and better funded than the agency that protects workers. One tax evasion charge
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by Agathos 7y ago
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2011/02/07/131363098/the-...
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by Agathos 7y ago
You may be confusing the GPL with the Creative Commons "non-commercial" restriction. (I do find the latter a bit confusing myself.)
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by Agathos 7y ago
If a material disaster strikes, my local highways will be locked up harder than a diamond.
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by Agathos 7y ago
Economists have been scratching their heads over that contradiction for generations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm I think a fair summary is to say that there must be some value in having thousands o
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by Agathos 7y ago
I don't understand the lowercase letters and scare quotes around python foundation. Is that not its name? (Okay, it's Python Software Foundation.) The end of life date is already set: January 1, 2020. It's open source so I do

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