GlennS

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by GlennS 6y ago
> Investors aren't stupid I think it's pretty clear by now that they are. We just hope that the stupidity on the buy and sell sides more or less balances out, and what's left to determine the price is people with some real
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by GlennS 6y ago
Surely it will be a Romance/Germanic split? So Spanish is easier for speakers of French, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian, and English for speakers of Dutch, German, Swedish, Norwegian and Danish?
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My story - for a hobby project - is that I wanted to use ElasticSearch. Heroku's ElasticSearch pricing was per document. I wanted to index billions of very small documents. Billions was in the "phone us" pricing category. Swi
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by GlennS 6y ago
Why would you ever pay a dividend when a stock buyback is more tax efficient for US investors?
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There's also the issue that it's much easier to do quality control when you're receiving your supplies Just In Time. The longer the lag between producing a faulty part and trying to use it, the harder to diagnose the problem.
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I think you misunderstood the parent. They're discussing the case where a corporation has no high NPV projects available to it, and the best thing to do would be for it to return money to investors. They can then spend it on other co
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by GlennS 6y ago
Presumably difficult to make a material that can focus them?
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I believe they mean that you need to install the pytest package, whereas unittest comes with Python.
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I've heard that usually the price of the land goes up faster than the price of the building goes down. But I guess if the building is unique or listed or has high enough build quality that it won't be knocked down in the foreseeab
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This is just a part of the picture (although it's a good number to see). You also need to know whether children spread the disease.
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On the other hand, Emacs keybindings are the default at every terminal.
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by GlennS 6y ago
For an industry or science experiment which needs a large burst of power - big enough that the electricity grid can't normally supply it - you'd usually have a large bank of capacitors. You charge those capacitors slowly over time
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by GlennS 6y ago
I feel like this is a prime example of someone failing to update their beliefs with new information. For decades it would have been a reasonable position that governments should override political objections, embark upon mass nuclear power
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by GlennS 6y ago
My most upvoted answer on SO is explaining how to rectangle select in Notepad++ (hold alt while dragging, works similarly in lots of editors and IDEs). It's trivial, but I like to think I made some people a tiny bit more productive for
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by GlennS 6y ago
The point is that there is a system designed to produce science, and it has significant flaws and lots of room for improvement.
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So I'm no in the US so not familiar with your GPA system, but couldn't you just take one more class which you knew you'd do well at to push that over the line?
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by GlennS 6y ago
I still do it. I've no use for Dell's live support app and whatever else they ship. The difference now is that you also have to: 1. Uninstall Candy Crush and similar. 2. Disable Cortana. 3. Disable ads and internet search for your
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by GlennS 6y ago
I'm surprised there hasn't been a bigger fuss about this in the press. I would like to see a calculation of how many extra people will die of skin cancer in each country as a result of this treaty violation.
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I wonder how annoying it is to compile, and how long it takes.
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by GlennS 6y ago
I guess ideally either Chrome or Firefox would be organized as a charitable trust with an endowment, its stated mission to service users of the web, and the EFF given a permanent seat on its board of directors. How to get from here to there
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by GlennS 6y ago
Having the latest graphics is probably a fairly niche interest I would think? Fairly exhausting to keep up with, and tends to be a bit cyclic: consoles are ahead for a few years, then behind, then jump ahead again. I think for most people t
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by GlennS 6y ago
You don't need to buy a high-end graphics card. Those are for hobbyists who enjoy buying the latest kit and fitting water coolers etc. for its own sake. 17" Dell with a GeForce mobile whatever-it-comes-with will let you play every
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by GlennS 6y ago
It's not that long ago people were playing with 300+ ms delays on 56k modems. If you design lag-prediction into the game it isn't so bad. People even used enjoy working the "lag shield" (be erratic, change direction fr
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by GlennS 6y ago
Extending your line of reasoning, that would imply not just that we shouldn't fall in love with Apple, but additionally that we shouldn't avoid companies with bad reputations. Which seems bonkers to me? Taking my Oracle example, I
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by GlennS 6y ago
> I agree. Sorting huge, multinational, publicly traded companies in friends and enemies list is so obviously bogus and immature that it baffles me that this is so prevalent. If that's true, then why do brands exist? For most compan
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by GlennS 6y ago
Can we get Elon to tweet?
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I take your meaning, but pedantically I think the idea of black swan is that you couldn't ever see it coming, so the only way to prepare for it is some sort of general robustness (which to be fair Matrix does have).
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I think it's more that we know human nature, and we can see that people who believe we've been visited by aliens are engaging in story telling, not science. They're working back from the conclusion they want to be true, when
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> leader of the free world Always a rather arrogant phrase, but especially absurd now.
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I wonder if the right answer to all this is some sort of parallel justice system with the responsibility to moderate things on the internet? If you are a website which allows users to publicly post some kind of media, and have a user base &

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