Agathos

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by Agathos 7y ago
Oh wow, that does give me mid-90s PC Magazine flashbacks.
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by Agathos 7y ago
Then you end up like the tech company where only one guy does deployments, because he's the only guy management trusts, because he's the only guy who's ever done a deployment.
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by Agathos 7y ago
When inflation is "merely" bad, a dollar loses half its value in a few years. In hyperinflation, a dollar loses half its value in a few minutes. The former is certainly possible we decide we want to maintain low taxes and big spen
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by Agathos 7y ago
> Because that's who you want reviewing the books, someone who can barely keep their head up... Depending on how carefully I've been keeping those books, quite possibly :)
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by Agathos 7y ago
Matt Levine's trademark... objectivity? cynicism? is perfect for this. "It is not about fairness; it is about theft. Selective colleges have admissions spots that they want to award in particular ways. They want to award some base
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by Agathos 7y ago
What if I didn't check my email but only because I was trading memes on Slack all day?
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by Agathos 7y ago
I wonder if Thailand's military junta sees this "violation of sovereignty" as some sort of personal insult against the king. Since the 2014 coup, the military has claimed its rule is necessary to preserve the honor of the Tha
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by Agathos 7y ago
For that reason I'd want a really simple rule, such as "allows unprivileged shareholders real voting control." Except the S&P 500 has actually been enforcing that rule since 2017. Google and Facebook are grandfathered in,
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by Agathos 8y ago
> It's far more scalable than ticketing. Issues can be resolved in three lines of text, rather than ticket creation, queue, assignment, closing, etc. My experience has been that it goes on for thirty or three hundred lines of proble
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by Agathos 8y ago
Crying is nominal.
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by Agathos 8y ago
Yeah, it's always a fun read for grumbling grognards like me. Pretty standard stuff, except I don't think I've seen a company call out its own culture as a risk factor before.
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by Agathos 8y ago
USS Wasp (LHD-1) displaces slightly more than the USS Wasp (CV-18), a World War II Essex-class aircraft carrier. So when we say amphibious assault ships aren't real carriers, it's only because carriers have been growing bigger for
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by Agathos 8y ago
Keeping your name on the lease and then subleasing it under the table is one of the classic scams when rent control is involved. I can understand where the landlord would want to know who is actually using it.
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by Agathos 8y ago
Hopefully far, far below 1%. If I was hitting someone once every hundred miles, the front of my car would be pretty messed up.
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by Agathos 8y ago
I mean sure, I would take a small pay cut for a private office, but I'm not sure that's what they thought they were asking.
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by Agathos 8y ago
I can trust the compiler... I hope?
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by Agathos 8y ago
Fracked natural gas killed coal years before solar and wind could get there. Solar and wind may yet kill gas, which would be nice.
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by Agathos 8y ago
A setback for fracking would be the best thing that could possibly happen to coal.
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by Agathos 8y ago
"Should I work at a startup?" Eh, maybe, but be skeptical of their promises. "Should I work at a startup that puts developers in private offices?" Hell yes!
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by Agathos 8y ago
It's noisy and distracting when it's taking place ten feet away from your open plan workspace.
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by Agathos 8y ago
During my orientation, I was able to visit the call center and put on a headset to listen in on a few client calls. It was quite interesting. That was years ago and I haven't had direct contact with any customer since, even though my w
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by Agathos 8y ago
So even U.S. gas-generator engines like the RS-68 have this extra gearing?
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by Agathos 8y ago
I'm very excited to be making the last payment on my 500 MHz Athlon this year!
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by Agathos 8y ago
As I recall, nobody could stop talking about it in the weeks before the Falcon Heavy demo.
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by Agathos 8y ago
> By "many" you perhaps mean "many American". And by "many American," do you perhaps mean "pretty much just the Space Shuttle Main Engine?" Since that one, has America launched any new staged combu
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by Agathos 8y ago
Ironically, now that the shuttle is gone, the X-37B is closer to this vision. It hangs up there for over a year at a time doing who knows what. And it has a ridiculous amount of delta-v to change its orbit.
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by Agathos 8y ago
> isn't their entire business model manufacturing other people's R&D? I tend to assume that everyone with that business model dreams of getting out of that business model. You want to develop your own tech and move upmarke
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by Agathos 8y ago
> Apply the “pick one to sound smart” rule. :) Confirmation bias! :p
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by Agathos 8y ago
Halo was good, but the released product doesn't compare to the multiplayer open world that Bungie was teasing before the acquisition.
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by Agathos 8y ago
From the article: "Tesla said more than three-quarters of orders for the sedan in the year’s final three months were from new customers, rather than reservation holders. That suggests many consumers are still waiting to buy versions of

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