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by HillRat 4y ago
I generally stayed away from the crypto folks at my old firm, but I did get tangentially involved in one project that remains the only reasonable blockchain use-case I’ve seen — a Corda dapp for untrusting and untrusted financial parties to
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by HillRat 4y ago
Interesting; looks a bit like a modernized CODASYL on top of a Codd model.
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Also, in cinematography, haze and fog is frequently used to manipulate light for shots, not intended as a practical effect as such. If they were shooting a scene taking place after a rainstorm, using fog to flatten contrast would make sense
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This is what's called "open market operations," and it's basically the first echelon of attack on inflation. If the Fed sells government (and government agency) securities, then banks buy them, returning money to the Tre
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It's particularly popular in Yendor, I believe.
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I’m a bit skeptical about the chances of this overall, but Ben’s a showman, so it’s a good fit for his enthusiasm. Wishing him luck.
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The agency shouldn't have taken the work to begin with -- the part where the lead admitted that he killed project governance entirely was a bit of a painful moment. Agencies are optimized to work at a specific scale, and it's risk
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Also, the claims made are so sweepingly apocalyptic -- we're all going to be dead in a few decades! -- that they're going to trigger not only the usual climate-skeptic suspects, but also those who are genuinely concerned about cli
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The problem is that the ocean is not amenable to random sampling in the same way that, say, Twitter accounts are; phytoplankton are going to be differentially-distributed depending on where in the euphotic zone you're sampling, which l
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The problem for Musk is that he filed an offer letter, which is normally what you do after due-dil, and there’s nothing in that offer that gives him a way out without pulling the MAE card, which is a pretty weak reed to rely on (though hi
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By that logic, we should all be taking our paychecks in tulip bulbs.
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There’s no Radio Shack left to execute on any strategy, unfortunately; REV bought the brand, and just the brand (along with many others), and is busy burning residual goodwill in order to shill whatever crypto nonsense they’re pushing.
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I'd also recommend ( inter alia -- there's a lot of great works out there!) Friedman et al.'s Schemer books, Petzold's "Code" and "The Annotated Turing," McConnell's "Code Complete," P
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It’s a good example of the difference between product and service design —- the product designer wants to prune ports to make the hardware smaller, lighter, and sleeker, while the service designer wants the user to not have to spend an hour
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Also worth noting that in “the old days,” the sphere of “treating others professionally” didn’t encompass women, gays, blacks, Jews, and other ethnic, religious, or social minorities — and protesting that was considered “bringing your priva
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"General," specifically enterprise, software has to deal with changing requirements, external integrations, and multiple stakeholders, whereas games are relatively static, have a single stakeholder type, and have limited and defin
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Even so, they're not protected against being fired -- circulating an internal letter criticizing leadership is, in a right to work state without existing workplace union agreements and outside of a whistleblower or other protected situ
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The fact that Andreessen is becoming a humanities autodidact through Burnham (the later arch-conservative Burnham, rather than the Marxist Burnham, I assume) is ... well, it's an interesting choice, I suppose. About the only thing that
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by HillRat 4y ago
With the proviso that she's coming at this from the opposite political slant (the link above being a hard-right, pro-Trump account), journalist Marcie Wheeler ( https://www.emptywheel.net/ ) has been extensively reportin
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The SEC filing clause (4.6(a)) is probably more germane than the proxy materials when it comes to bot calculations, and page 5 of the last Twitter 10-K covers their methodology. One can argue with their calculation method, but they're
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Farming Metals from Plants(theguardian.com)
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“The Mission”: New ASC short film for testing digital displays(theasc.com)
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When all is said and done, this is likely to be a Thoma Bravo deal, not a Musk deal — too much OPM (and too much of Musk’s Tesla equity) is at stake to let Musk go all rabid ferret on the company. I’d expect him to get some high-profile and
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by HillRat 5y ago
Approximately, yep! For a variety of reasons this approach doesn't hold the pride of place it used to in the indie space; instead you see filmmakers taking on alternate funding, including equity, and then selling distribution at market
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Film financing is ... complex, to say the least, but the classic debt financing model is backed by presale agreements, where you shop a package (script, director, actors, etc.) to distributors, who agree to buy territorial rights (which may
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Sidorenko’s work is a good place to start, as it demonstrates the significant amount of effort (relative to NATO forces) that went into creating a Soviet doctrine of nuclearized ground warfare. But Russia has actually leaned more aggressi
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IMO once you’re into countervalue strikes you’ve unleashed something you can’t really control, so I’m skeptical of the game theorists who think you could kill everyone in Boston or St. Petersburg and still have a diplomatic conversation tha
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Nuclear Wargaming in the Cold War: Proud Prophet ‘83(en.wikipedia.org)
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The US has only one model of nonstrategic nuclear weapon (about 100 gravity bombs); most US, Russian and Chinese nukes are large strategic “city busters,” due to the dynamics of the Cold War. If one country genuinely believes that a strateg
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“Cold” IPs have lower trust scores, are more likely to end up on a blacklist, and are harder to get off blacklists, plus good luck finding a colo that will let you send bulk email in the first place. You can get away with sending low-volume

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