TomVDB

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by TomVDB 8y ago
There is a huge difference between “here is GPS data, let’s see if somebody remembers seeing that guy” and “somebody reported seeing that guy, let’s see if his GPS data confirms that.” In this case, it was the latter. An unusual sighting wa
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by TomVDB 8y ago
If you qualify as a day trader according to the IRS rules, then different tax trader rules apply. https://www.tradersaccounting.com/2017/11/28/trader-tax-stat...
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Article written in 2014: > To date, 450+ million SSNs have been issued, but with just under 1 billion possible number combinations, there has never been a need to recycle numbers, and the SSA notes that it does "not reassign a Socia
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Even if the keys were perfect, the lack of ESC key is disqualifying. I use Caps Lock all the times, so no remapping possible...
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Just 2 days ago, I spent 2 hours researching alternatives for my mid-2012 MBPr 15 and had settled on an X1 Carbon as well. How's the trackpad? How's sleep mode if you use it with Linux? I'm still on the fence, but I ordered a
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Do these far reaching use-cases matter in practice? > ... written contracts can have "bugs" just as smart contracts can. The onus on smart contracts is to come up with use cases where they are superior to written contract, not
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by TomVDB 8y ago
I’ve switched from a meaningless 9-5 job to a meaningful one at a different company. And when that became a soul crushing death march affair, I switched to yet another 9-5 job within the same company (but a totally different department.) I’
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by TomVDB 8y ago
AFAIK the part of identical programming models isn’t the case anymore since Volta, because Volta and Turing have now progression guarantees when you have intra-warp divergence due to the presence of unique program counters for each thread.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Every once in a while I pick up "The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing" (freely downloadable: http://www.dspguide.com/ ) and it's always so satisfying to see the different relati
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by TomVDB 8y ago
That’s only true for the guaranteed discount on the lock-in price (0-20% depending on the company.) For a stock with lots of appreciation, the real bonus is in the stock price appreciation in the 2 year during which the price is locked in.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
I agree that it could be considered insider trading, but the SEC clearly does not, which is all that matters. It’s simply undeniable that employees know more than others. And it’s unrealistic to think that none of knowledge would ever be he
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Hedge funds (and my wife and I, but really my wife...) made that bet in 2010-2012. And it was a fantastic opportunity. It’s not a bet that I would make at today’s prices, so I’m surprised that a hedge fund would still do it.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
It doesn’t matter whether or not an employee can look into the future of a different company: he still has the advantage over others by knowing the roadmap of his own company.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
About seeing the future: one advantage that employees have over investors is the ability to see the future in terms which products are in the pipeline. One other reason to hold on to stock instead of selling are taxes: in the case of ESPP,
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by TomVDB 8y ago
The only thing reckless would be to buy a house while counting on unvested or unsold RSUs. This might be the case that OP is thinking about.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
It’s not reckless to count on RSUs when you want to make the purchase. But if then the stock goes down, you simply decide to not buy a house at that price. I definitely don’t sell my ESPP shares when I get them, mostly for tax reasons.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Is that in the Bay Area? I’m surprised that current prices make it attractive for a hedge fund to invest in rentals, because the price to rent ratio just isn’t there.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
In the past 3 years, all houses in my small neighborhood (6 out of ~40 houses) were bought by employees of Google, Facebook, and Apple. Last week, one nicer 4BR house sold for 20% less than a smaller 3BR house that sold in April for a ridic
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by TomVDB 8y ago
> Comparing 12.5% revenues to a pay cut is not misleading at all. It's misleading in the sense that a 12.5% pay cut is not something I can recover in other ways. Meanwhile, there is a possibility that this 12.5% cut on individual ac
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by TomVDB 8y ago
> That's not what I'm seeing in the benchmarks. Change “outperforms” with “equal performance” and my argument doesn’t change due to the lower price. In the recent years, we have seen a number of cases where Nvidia set the perf&
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by TomVDB 8y ago
See my reply somewhere else. I simply do not understand why people are so hung up on the name and positioning of a product. If these products were evaluated on performance, price, features, and power consumption, with the name blacked out,
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by TomVDB 8y ago
> If you've got no use for RTX and tensor cores, those cards are very similar. But, again, they are not. The 2060 handily outperforms the 1070 Ti for $50 to $100 less. And that's all for existing games that don't use RTX o
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Would you have been ok with them calling this a 2080 while keeping a $350 price tag? Today, I see that a new 1070 Ti goes for $400+. This new RTX 2060 has the same performance for $350. In other words: if you ignore the name of the product,
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by TomVDB 8y ago
For $350 you can get an RTX 2060 or a slightly slower Vega 56. So AMD is fleecing customers too?
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by TomVDB 8y ago
> The author comes from Pennsylvania, and so this article should be seen as nothing but self-serving. Of course it's self serving. But it's undeniable that the current situation isn't fair. One where the vote of a rancher
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Close enough! There really is an XKCD for everything...
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Unfortunately, that was the pinnacle of intrigue of my career. It was a very niche application too.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Have some random thoughts about the most crucial element of a challenge/response system.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
I was once on a team that had a product with some crypto features that was under attack. There was a hackers forum where daily discoveries were discussed. It was indeed exhilarating, and exactly that way you describe it: on one hand, we did
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Imagine this: Fantastic weather. Ski on Saturday, bike on Sunday, go to the beach on Monday, if you feel like it. Regional parks, state park, national park all within 15min to a few hours distance. Lots of cultural events due to closene

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