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by ISL 6y ago
Sure there is. If the salary is above-market, the employer can afford to pay, and wants to attract interest/applicants, that number will do so.
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by ISL 6y ago
The older I get, the more I find myself reticent to impose my 'shoulds' (I have many :) ) upon others. It is a complicated world.
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by ISL 6y ago
My concern is really, "Signal has a beef with Cellebrite, and so some unsuspecting and innocent person gets hit with a wrench." It is a different game if Signal makes the sharding opt-in. If someone vacuums my phone and it turns
934.
by ISL 6y ago
If you're being oppressed by a repressive regime, having a phone that damages the oppressor's infrastructure may not have a positive outcome for you, the individual. "Hey, your phone corrupted our 'lawful' intrusion
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by ISL 6y ago
If you live at the margins, in say, Wenatchee, WA, it matters. Bitcoin mining has disrupted city infrastructure and priced out existing stakeholders. "Wheel never stops turning, Badger." "That only matters to the people on t
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by ISL 6y ago
There is a chance that this idea is actually correct. However, in the near-term, I'm going long on popcorn as the advocates attempt to make the "making energy more expensive will actually help people of limited means who want to h
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by ISL 6y ago
It isn't even bullying. It is just dumb? Fortunately, the episode also suggests that the kernel-development immune-system is fully-operational.
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by ISL 6y ago
They won't mind at all if they never intend to do X and it helps them get a discount. Poison pills like that are common in conservation easements, for example. Our family owns land with an easement which, if I recall correctly, states
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by ISL 6y ago
Agreed -- what I had in mind was the underwater loans of 2008. A house bought with leverage can occasionally look real strange in the short-term.
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by ISL 6y ago
Are there official specifications for the bit-depth of the new display?
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India’s devastating outbreak is driving the global coronavirus surge(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by ISL 6y ago|1 comments
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by ISL 6y ago
That reality is a property primarily of the present-moment. Index funds don't always rise and property values sometimes fall. Interest rates are rarely this low. Leverage multiplies both the upside and the downside.
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by ISL 6y ago
If the sale contract says, "In the event that Acquirer does X, Acquirer will pay $100B to the EFF.", one might reasonably believe it, especially if $SUBSTANTIAL is held in escrow.
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by ISL 6y ago
For the first point -- I believe that OP wants the manager to extend trust as a mechanism and path toward both a trusting relationship and short-term performance. For the second -- it is on the manager to know enough about the reasons affec
945.
by ISL 6y ago
Collections can be both free* and compelling: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/diamondsigns/diam... * at least in capital cost. I imagine he expended plenty of time and travel on the subject.
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by ISL 6y ago
The Streisand effect does not apply if Streisand controls a town square.
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by ISL 6y ago
Agreed on those particular points! :).
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by ISL 6y ago
The paper is pretty awesome and accessibly-written: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2856963 The PDF is free-to-read.
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by ISL 6y ago
And yet, as humans, we've found ways to repeat mistakes first made millenia ago.
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by ISL 6y ago
Put on headphones, linked to your phone, mute the phone mic (do not skip this step), and hold a video call with yourself between your computer and your phone.
951.
by ISL 6y ago
Boom/bust cycles preceded central banks.
952.
by ISL 6y ago
It is my impression, given the repressive approaches taken in Hong Kong and Tiananmen, that any aggrieved group in China may have great difficulty communicating views in an efficacious way.
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by ISL 6y ago
UW's Physics Education Group, as well as Mazur's group, are a great reference.
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by ISL 6y ago
That's somewhat more comforting, but alas, hope alone is not a strategy.
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by ISL 6y ago
At the start of the pandemic, the web client had gallery view.
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by ISL 6y ago
You can force it to use a web app by declining permission to run locally. The web-app has fewer capabilities (no gallery view, last I used it), but works great. Also, Meet is fully-featured and runs entirely in-browser.
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by ISL 6y ago
If the anthropic principle is at work, then there might be very little (accessible at our energies) left to learn that is truly fundamental. It might be an article of faith, but I believe that there is more to know. If you elect to believe
958.
by ISL 6y ago
I think the safest answer regarding the Big Bang is that we don't really understand the mechanism. In particular, anything regarding inflation stands on truly dubious ground (It gets the necessary outcomes right, but we have no prese
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by ISL 6y ago
It is unlikely that we will ever grasp the complete set of rules at the lowest level. I don't say this to be defeatist, but rather as a statement of pragmatism. To do so would be to have a convincing grasp of Planck-scale physics -- a
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by ISL 6y ago
Physicist here: 1. One should be rather specific about what 'the complete foundation' might comprise. The depth of questions one can ask is infinite, but some questions are more important than others. The g-2 experiment is asking

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