Agathos

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by Agathos 8y ago
Technically he was lying to his investors, not the SEC. Of course then in that 60 Minutes interview he all but declared he wouldn't honor his side of the settlement, but we'll see if he follows through on that.
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Emily Lakdawalla wrote a great timeline here. http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2018/what-to... The best shots won't be for a while, but hopefully the team received some informative images
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by Agathos 8y ago
> The teachers union in Massachusetts made all the teachers sign liability waivers and arbitration waivers if a lawsuit happens. Wait what? I thought the union was supposed to at least pretend to look out for the teachers' interests
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by Agathos 8y ago
Seems like more of the same. He'll be a hands-off board member. The board will continue letting Elon do whatever he wants, including the occasional Twitter meltdown.
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I also appreciated one of the first replies: "Didn't hear many complaints about robots on way up"
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
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I gather this was Falcon 9's first EELV-certified mission, but to call it its first national security mission is quite the overstatement. Falcon 9s have already launched an NRO spy satellite, the Air Force X-37B, and the mysterious Zum
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by Agathos 8y ago
With a trillion dollar deficit, what could go wrong?
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As far as I can tell, nobody creates new code for PostgreSQL 9, but we drag it along because nobody's ported the needed code to PostgreSQL 11. At the official PostgreSQL web site, their documentation is actively maintained and availabl
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by Agathos 8y ago
> When I buy a new house I wouldn’t sign a contract for an unknown amount of finished rooms within the agreed upon timeframe and budget either. You hope you don't. But halfway into construction, everyone might realize the blueprin
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by Agathos 8y ago
I wonder: if I sell something on Amazon and make it an Amazon-exclusive brand, will I find it easier to keep counterfeit knockoffs out of their inventory?
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Windows 7? I thought Windows Vista was the highly successful recruiting tool for the Windows XP Fan Club.
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by Agathos 8y ago
So what? I'm sure Microsoft is happy they could win over a critic like that.
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I'm twice their age and I don't either. What consequences do you refer to?
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by Agathos 8y ago
Is it "wokeness" or just ambition? When I was 19 I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I'm pretty sure being yet another cog in a 30,000-employee machine was not high on the list.
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by Agathos 8y ago
I'm in Chicago, so $22 is almost the cost of a medium deep dish pizza, and I can stretch that to almost a week of dinners if it's just me. A couple of footnotes: 1. Pizza is absurdly cheap, even for takeout food. I don't rea
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by Agathos 8y ago
It's a little less expensive, but I wouldn't call it "far" less expensive unless you're prepared to stick to the lowest-cost ingredients like rice and beans.
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by Agathos 8y ago
Even in context, I think saying 'technology' as a shorthand for 'the particular technology Google is selling' is sloppy and lazy. But then I've long thought that about the whole 'technology sector' shortha
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by Agathos 8y ago
TL;DR: try not to suck. Seriously, if you're committing mistakes 1, 3, and 4, then your multi-page website is going to be awful, too. "SPA or not SPA" is far down the list of questions you need to be asking yourself.
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by Agathos 8y ago
"'It secures HTTP requests and responses' wasn't deemed a sufficient answer when asked what an SSL certificate was in a technical interview for a front-end role." I think I have to take the inteviewer's side th
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Also in the legislative branch.
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Yeah, the US spends more on socialized medicine than anyone. Most of it goes through Medicare.
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by Agathos 8y ago
We are far too well paid to be called scientists.
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by Agathos 8y ago
Sounds more like Luigi Zingales, who is about as far from Marx as you can get.
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Raise your hand if you've ever created an insert/update database trigger that explodes when that it sees that one bad value you've been investigating, just so you'll have a traceback that points to the offending code. (H
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by Agathos 8y ago
From the detailed writeup ( https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2018/10/advanced-medicine... ): "Inactivation of the Ctla4 gene in mice, performed in the laboratories of Arlene Sharpe and Tak Mak, confirmed
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by Agathos 8y ago
That's from back in February but more recently others have been saying similar things: https://www.polygon.com/2018/9/28/17911372/there-are-too-man...
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You may be confusing the original rejected settlement (no CEO ban) with the complaint that the SEC filed on Thursday (yes CEO ban). The latter is more painful than the settlement offer. It has to be, or there's no incentive to settle.
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Insider trading is a lot harder to prove.
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Second-to-last paragraph really makes the article: > And their departure, despite its suddenness, does require some perspective. Both Instagram founders stayed on for six years after being acquired — much longer than entrepreneurs usuall

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