JackFr

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by JackFr 4y ago
Superhero movies are like Westerns in the fifties. It’s a just a weird genre that’s having a moment.
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by JackFr 4y ago
Wait - do I not know what the word 'vaccine' means?
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by JackFr 4y ago
I could watch The Godfather, Goodfellas, Patton, The Shining, Barton Fink and Millers Crossing a million times without getting tired of them and if I’m just flipping channels will always stop to watch if one of them is on. But I don’t think
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by JackFr 4y ago
Also if you’re not into superheroes and Star Wars, despite it being Disney there’s not a ton there.
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by JackFr 4y ago
I'm not sure you've shown anything. f(x) = x + 1 is a mapping from the reals to the reals. A choice function, with respect to the axiom of choice, is a mapping from the set to an element.
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by JackFr 4y ago
I knew the head of a trading desk at a Wall St. bank. The bank wanted to fire him but didn’t want to pay his deferred compensation. He was not interested in “negotiating” - the money was his and they had no cause for termination. (The ulti
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by JackFr 4y ago
It would be remarkable and surprising if they weren’t doing that.
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by JackFr 4y ago
Absolutely - but absent corporate communications saying "Everything is great" or "OMG we're doomed.", it's a very relevant data point.
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by JackFr 4y ago
Obligatory reference: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...
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by JackFr 4y ago
When money is cheap it makes sense to invest in low ROI ideas. When monety stops being cheap it makes sense to stop.
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by JackFr 4y ago
Not sure here, but in my experience no backfill hires for voluntary leavers is a pretty good warning.
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by JackFr 4y ago
I worked at National Center for Biotechnology Information at the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. It was a nice entry level job, pay was OK, environment was fantastic (low stress, extremely collegial), but
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by JackFr 4y ago
"Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it!" No anthropomorphism there.
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by JackFr 4y ago
Honestly I love the message, but this is just bad writing. The grammar and style are fine, but the narrator and his fare are just cardboard cutouts. The most interesting line in the story is that she was an elevator operator. A snippet of
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by JackFr 4y ago
It’s really not. The message is true and important, but the writing itself is saccharine and overly sentimental. I came away knowing very little about the driver and his passenger. The details that were provided were flat played into tire
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by JackFr 4y ago
I am an old guy. I am nostalgic. I want vinyl. The old guy music I used to listen to isn’t available. Therefore the record labels are lazy and greedy. Here are some cherry-picked market statistics from other self-interested parties presente
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by JackFr 4y ago
Please. I take the subway everyday twice a day. You must admit at 3:30 AM after a night at a bar, a cab would be preferable to the subway.
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by JackFr 4y ago
Nope. With respect to NYC I believe you’re mistaken. 97% of NYC water is gravity fed from three reservoirs. https://www.nyc.gov/html/nycwater/html/drinking/reservoir.sh... “The NYC Aqueduct is a pressure
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by JackFr 4y ago
I believe city water pressure will take it to the 5th floor and that is gravity driven. I live on the 2nd floor and never lost water pressure during the two major blackouts NYC suffered in the past 20 years while the higher floors in my bui
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by JackFr 4y ago
I never saw the movie, but I saw the actual money train in action two three times in my 20’s. Probably about 3:30 AM - having spent all my money at a bar forced me to take the subway instead of a cab. Disappointment at first because you sa
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by JackFr 4y ago
Obviously it was ejected mass used to reduce the velocity of the invasion vessel due in about 75 years.
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by JackFr 4y ago
I had a Tektronix dumb X terminal die with literal black smoke pouring out the back of it at work circa 1992. It turned out great cause I got a Sun as a replacement.
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by JackFr 4y ago
You can have the worst of both worlds. I've worked at three(!) seperate companies which have had projects called 'Hydra' (and the number of people who were ignorant of what the Hydra was, and why it might not have been a gr
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by JackFr 4y ago
A person I know whose initials are actually ASDF complains that it’s always taken as a user name. (Although she does enjoy initialing things with just her first and last initial - AF)
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by JackFr 4y ago
In the old World Financial Center in downtown NYC, you could cancel all calls by pressing 3 floors simultaneously. Not super useful if there were other people in the car. But useful if you were by yourself.
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by JackFr 4y ago
That makes no sense. The immediate result of the Industrial Revolution was a significant improvement in the material well being of vast classes of people.
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by JackFr 4y ago
So it turns out there’s a reason people include footnotes with sources. Honestly, I imagine that’s an on going line of research for the nextgen AI bots. Or maybe I need to get back to graduate school and get to work.
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by JackFr 4y ago
The maturity and stability of the US stock market (by which I mean institutional and structural stability rather than price stability) make it the most frictionless, transparent and predictable place to raise equity capital. Add that dollar
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by JackFr 4y ago
Once you solve the n-butt, classical butt is just a special case.
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by JackFr 4y ago
The goal is to maximize shareholder value, which is not the same as maximizing short term profits. Amazon famously did not turn a profit for years as its stock price rose. It was able to do so because the market largely trusted the manageme

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