JackFr

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by JackFr 3y ago
Apologies. My response was too snarky and too clever by half. My point was that it’s easy to miss our own hubris when measuring our present ideas against the past, and that a bit of circumspection is well taken.
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by JackFr 3y ago
Which is why they were able to assert that no planes were currently flying with them. But have any of the fleet ever flown with them in the past? Much harder question which likely will take some time to correlate.
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by JackFr 3y ago
I am moderately skeptical of the story that it was the fingerprint alone which led them to the kidnapper, and I am curious for more details. I have a vague suspicion the police had a pretty good idea of who they were looking for already, a
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by JackFr 3y ago
Please no more articles about RTO.
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by JackFr 3y ago
Actually read the article. That is neither the point the author makes, nor the tone he takes.
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by JackFr 3y ago
I think you miss my point. I try to earn a competitive salary, as I’m sure you do. Why shouldn’t she? You, she or I may be bad at our jobs. That makes our employers foolish - it doesn’t make you, she or me bad people for trying to make a lo
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by JackFr 3y ago
You get offers for roles at 5x your pay. You tell your boss and she says "Fine I'll match it." (Assume for the sake of argument you are not lying. Further please ignore the fact that your boss might be foolish to make that
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by JackFr 3y ago
But that doesn’t make it a universal basis for ethics.
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by JackFr 3y ago
But basing your ethics on suffering rather than say some other model of virtue is arbitrary.
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by JackFr 3y ago
“Pfft” - Ada Lovelace & Joseph Marie Jacquard
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by JackFr 3y ago
> Processors are inherently awesome at branching, adding, adding, shifting, etc. And shifting to get powers of 2 (i.e., KB vs. GB) is a superpower of its own. They're a little less awesome when it comes to math.pow(), math.log(), an
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by JackFr 3y ago
> On a sunny day, total solar energy hitting the top of the atmosphere Aren't they all sunny at the top of the atmosphere? > gives about 1360 watts per square meter I assume that's very much latitude dependent
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by JackFr 3y ago
I mean I'd like to believe I'm some sort of one-percenter, but I don't believe I am. I paid full sticker price for two children and with my third there was some nonsense with institutional aid, but the hit was still way over
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by JackFr 3y ago
They lied to no one. I don't believe anyone has questioned the financials. I find it amusing that everyone has sympathy for the the shareholders (who were given an opportunity to get out), while no one seems to feel a bit of sympathy
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by JackFr 3y ago
You can't finance a stock buy back with more stock. A firm has assets and operations and those are funded with either debt or equity. Borrowing money to buy back stock is simply changing the capital structure of the firm.
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by JackFr 3y ago
As long as corporate finance has existed, the fundamental question, indeed the only question is what is the optimal capital structure for the firm.
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by JackFr 3y ago
It’s changing the capital structure from equity based to debt based. Effectively it’s a change in ownership from stock holders to bond holders. Indeed it’s a sensible move if you are in a non-growth industry with stable and predictable cas
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by JackFr 3y ago
> But there's a cost - increasingly large numbers of people can't. That’s simply not true.
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by JackFr 3y ago
A firm can be financed with debt or equity. Issuing bonds to buy back stock is simply changing the structure of how the firm is financed. It does not have a moral component. Where is the fraud?
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by JackFr 3y ago
I’m skeptical of (3) as well, and yet I encourage students to study math through calculus, and to study Latin. My feeling is that the utility of higher math, Latin, history and literature comes every minute of every day, as you experienced
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by JackFr 3y ago
Every starting quarterback in the NFL is over 200 lbs with the large majority over 220 lbs. I guess they all could be in fat mens clubs. Wild.
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by JackFr 3y ago
Your kind of playing a little fast and loose with the term 'database'. You've implemented a naive persistent cache. (Don't get me wrong, I have too at times. they can be quite useful.)
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by JackFr 3y ago
There’s nothing new with content needed every day. The evening news isn’t an hour long everyday because there’s an hour’s worth of important happenings everyday. The networks will create news to fill the airtime or drop relatively important
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by JackFr 3y ago
I feel the same way. It’s a term mostly devoid of meaning, useful as a signal telegraphing what’s to follow.
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by JackFr 3y ago
> He flew his family over to the US, rented an SUV, but it's these "other fools" that are the problem. File under tired tropes of shallow European impressions of the US. I'm just sad he didn't bring up the metric
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by JackFr 3y ago
Not true. US uses ~2 x as much as the average European per capita (but less than Canadians.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_energy_co... https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/
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by JackFr 3y ago
But in the US at least your land is taxed at an agricultural rate rather than single family residential rate. There can be an enormous financial benefit to being a 'farmer'. Even if you ostensibly lose money at it.
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by JackFr 3y ago
A place I used to go to had a 'Meat priced for quick sale' bin. Kind of a crap shoot, but I've got a bit of an iron gut and the steaks were like 2/3 off.
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by JackFr 3y ago
Last worked in EJBs in 2002. There’s still a bad taste in my mouth.
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by JackFr 3y ago
So where are the biggest GPU crypto-miners, and have they turned their GPU's away from crypto to training models? Because when that happens, I can only assume that time-travel is about to be invented. It just makes sense that someone

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