MichaelBurge

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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
What if the unions hire lawyers for negotiation, and so do the companies? Then everyone except the lawyers loses out. Unions need to pay lobbyists so politicians don't repeal the laws they use, lawyers to review any agreements with the
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
There's no guarantee semiconductor fabs will be recycled. If TSMC shuts down due to political turmoil, Intel decides to halt all R&D and milk their new monopoly, then hardware progress could simply stall with no new competitor risi
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
The dovetail over all possible programs solves every problem with at most a constant slowdown. So if it was invented, it was invented 100 years ago along with every other algorithm since the inventor of the dovetail incorporated it by refer
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
No, the downside exposure is limited because you can quit your job. You don't have to actually eat a stock drop loss by working for 4 years and vesting a loser, you can change to another job and reset your basis.
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
Because companies go bankrupt by not having the money, while the woman bought a house approximately equal in value to the cash. If she had gambled it all at the casino, they'd have no recourse either: She might go to jail, but they wou
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
Think Google: Every time you search, some model somewhere gets invoked, and the aggregate inference cost would dwarf even very large training costs if you have billions of searches. Marketing blogspam like this is always targeting big(not G
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
Download and run Portacle: https://portacle.github.io/ It's a distribution of emacs together with a Lisp compiler, emacs add-ons like SLIME, etc.
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
Apple's market cap is $2.7 trillion. How hard could it be for them to get a few nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and tell China, "We refuse to comply with your labeling requirements. Just try to stop us"?
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
It seems like you'd want more than 2 Ethernet ports for a router? WAN + LAN and you might as well use a direct connection.
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
> When you do, the gas fees is automatically sniped by the bot and stolen. Wouldn't stealing the gas fee cost more gas to initiate a theft transaction? So they'd be net-zero? Or do they use a SUICIDE op, etc. to get a partial g
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
In general, shouldn't the importance of updates depend on what it originally shipped with? If it isn't buggy and the shipped features match the marketing, why would it ever need to be updated? So it seems like any argument like &q
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
Isn't that why they made Rosetta? https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple-silicon/abou... If your software runs on x86 Mac, it should run on Apple Silicon.
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
I think you want "utility", not "pay". Utility includes all of a person's subjective desires. The downside is that utility might not be computable, or a person might not have a well-defined utility function(if they
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
> if someone told me 25 years ago that this would be a thing I would have just laughed. Wikipedia says In the modern era, the pseudoscientific belief in a flat Earth originated with the English writer Samuel Rowbotham with the 1849
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
If it's legal, it seems like every business would do this. Your bank, the local McDonalds when you install their app, Uber & Lyft, every e-commerce site would bury in the terms & conditions, etc.
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
> If you know that by holding a dollar today, you can get 2 dollars worth of goods tomorrow, why are you going to spend a dollar? Does that mean if you can find a non-defaulting bond that pays higher interest than inflation, the US dolla
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
People straight out of college will spend a month doing 100+ Leetcode problems targeted at the companies they're aiming for. Leetcode tracks problems used at interviews, so there's a very good chance they'll see a problem ide
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
The human brain is also finite, so even a true infinite random sequence would give the listener finitely many states. So it doesn't matter whether a sequence is finite or not.
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
It could be an example of clickbait, not the definition.
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
Real estate people tend to borrow a lot of money. Minimum 70% LTV = 3x leverage = a 33% decline wipes out all their equity. And especially in big cities the "high-quality" real estate is usually break-even and all profit is made o
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
I use "yes > file" to benchmark IO, knowing that this is pretty much the "speed of light" for writes. I could use "cp /dev/urandom file" but then it's hard to tell if the filesystem or kernel
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
If you receive a wire transfer to a burner checking account that only accepts deposits and not withdrawals, that would be fine. I think the only risk there would be identity theft leading to payment with stolen money, but they're almos
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
If the cashier's bank is from Wells Fargo and you meet them at Wells Fargo, surely WF is able to check the authenticity of their own checks immediately?
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
Is the cashier's check fake? What happens if you meet them at the listed bank and ask them to convert it to cash right there?
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
REITs are required by tax law to pay out 90%+ of their income, and everyone invests in them specifically for the dividend. If the stock price gets too high, they always dilute it by issuing new shares to raise money for new projects. So you
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
No, because the investors can individually choose to decline the deal and get their money back with interest. Any investors remaining after the deal closes implicitly agreed to the closing price. I don't think there were any cases of a
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
> I would argue lenders like better.com are winning so much business is because they simplify the process. I feel like if somebody picks a lender and gets sent a stack of paperwork, they're committed. They're not going to back
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
> “The markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent” I'm pretty sure if they had damning evidence, a single hedge fund could single-handedly force the market to collapse in a couple weeks. Keep in mind hedge funds c
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
Also if you want specifically a NAS, get a prebuilt model from e.g. QNAP and it will come with a management interface already. I got this one for $600: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08FB5LBJP If you outgrow a
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by MichaelBurge 4y ago
My last one was a ROMED8-2T from Asrock Rack. They have a catalog with standard and also weird motherboards(mine came with 7 PCIev4 slots because it's a GPU server, and 6 of them had dedicated lanes to the CPU. Most motherboards try to

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