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by Qworg 7y ago
People rob 18 wheelers all the time - there are particularly valuable loads from particularly interesting places. Source: my father had to prevent this for film/cassette/DVD distribution, especially prerelease goods.
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by Qworg 7y ago
Transparent Systems | Principal Engineers (Rust), Security Engineers, PM (Financial), Applied Cryptographers | Seattle, WA | ONSITE or REMOTE| https://transparentsystems.com Transparent Systems is evolving financial infrastructu
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by Qworg 7y ago
Having just gone through this process, having a clear doc to point to is invaluable. Thank you YC!
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Banks, fintech startups clash over 'the new oil' – your data(politico.com)
2 points by Qworg 7y ago|0 comments
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by Qworg 7y ago
Transparent Systems | Principal Engineers (Rust), Security Engineers, PM (Financial), Applied Cryptographers | Seattle, WA | ONSITE or REMOTE| https://transparentsystems.com Transparent Systems is evolving financial infrastructu
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by Qworg 7y ago
Sadly, the Orkneys could provide even more renewables if Scotland would build a larger export cable. Instead, the islands are forced to build hydrogen plants and turn off wind generators. Last I checked, they were at 108% renewable.
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by Qworg 7y ago
Look at what Satya did - he directed a broad effort at the entire organization (a book, etc), and simultaneously pushed the ELT to get in line, firing them one by one when they or their directs didn't comply. They're all in line
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by Qworg 7y ago
I used to design and build these - if you have a simple yard, you can use the inexpensive mowers, as long as you don't care about having striping in your lawn. I had one for two seasons, and it was awesome - your lawn looks like it fr
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by Qworg 7y ago
AFAIK, if you CAN rent a property for $X and it remains empty, you can take it as a loss. $X tracks inflation/value, which was a huge problem when I lived in Pittsburgh. Places that were empty for 40 years had ludicrously high rents
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by Qworg 7y ago
Almost certainly money laundering.
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by Qworg 7y ago
Transparent Systems | Principal Engineers (Rust), Security Engineers, PM (Financial), IT | Seattle, WA | ONSITE | https://transparentsystems.com Transparent Systems is evolving financial infrastructure - building real-time settl
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by Qworg 7y ago
One legal (AFAIK) method: The company had low/no valuation, and it was private. Those shares were sold to the employees (likely of the vehicle containing the company) at the stated valuation. Once they went public, there was a valuati
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by Qworg 7y ago
Much of this sounds like being in an organization where engineering is seen (or is) a cost center, not a profit engine. There's definitely a tendency to stasis in organizations - if the benefit of new software doesn't outweigh the
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by Qworg 7y ago
Transparent Systems | Principal Engineers (Rust), Security Engineers, PM (Financial) | Seattle, WA | ONSITE | https://transparentsystems.com Transparent Systems is evolving financial infrastructure - building real-time settlemen
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by Qworg 7y ago
Almost certainly regulations. There's a cafe/dispensary combination in Redmond, but all of the various parts are separated.
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by Qworg 7y ago
Sadly, many combo decks that are perfectly viable run up against the clock in Arena. If only there was loop detection to allow for "do this X times", it'd be far better.
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by Qworg 7y ago
Transparent Systems | Principal Engineers (Rust), Security Engineers, PM (Financial) | Seattle, WA | ONSITE | https://transparentsystems.com Transparent Systems is evolving financial infrastructure - building real-time settlemen
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by Qworg 7y ago
Five years, $6M a year, 60,000 sq feet (roughly 150-300 employees, depending on how it is organized). You lock a lease and you're on the hook.
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by Qworg 7y ago
Well, some automakers are trying at least: https://www.gov.ca.gov/2019/07/25/california-and-major-autom...
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by Qworg 7y ago
The moralizing about people's inability to keep plants alive seems strange to me - do they not deserve plants?
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by Qworg 7y ago
Nothing prevents them from building PayPal, except the regulatory regime they don't want to ascribe to. Also, the currency conversion to their own units and back relates to the taxability of said currency and the inability to use WoW g
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by Qworg 7y ago
Tether Limited does not, per the NYAG investigation and Tether's executives' own admissions. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tether-loaned-usdt-investors-...
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by Qworg 7y ago
Transparent Systems | Principal Engineers (Rust), PM (Financial) | Seattle, WA | ONSITE | https://transparentsystems.com If you're upset about how money works, we should talk! Transparent Systems is evolving financial infra
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American Becomes First Person to Swim English Channel 4 Times Without Stopping(npr.org)
2 points by Qworg 7y ago|0 comments
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by Qworg 7y ago
Here's some of Google's positioning on it - think of it as an arms race: https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/marketing-resources/micro-mo...
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by Qworg 7y ago
Minors cannot consent because they, in general, have a mental deficiency called "being young". They also, in general, are in the lowest power position of any potential relationship. It isn't that minors are non-beings - it is
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by Qworg 7y ago
CWU's "whegs" are much in this vein: http://biorobots.case.edu/projects/whegs/
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by Qworg 7y ago
"not guaranteed that the situation is better elsewhere" - almost certainly it couldn't be worse. Labs change focus all the time, even without describing it to the world. Why else would they have bumped your research?
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by Qworg 7y ago
As someone who had a less than ideal PhD experience, while exiting ABD feels like a failure in the near term, the long term impact is very low, unless you're desperate to remain in academia. In short, you don't have to take the ab
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by Qworg 7y ago
Why do you hate it? I've found that we all fall along a continuum of "work is life" and "work is what I do to live" - if you're at an edge of that, it isn't inherently bad.

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