ZachPruckowski

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by ZachPruckowski 13y ago
If you're going to quit because you lost a ship, you're not the sort of player to make it into a Super-Cap fleet for a big coalition. We're talking about people who do things like month-long marathon spawn camps or week-long
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by ZachPruckowski 13y ago
That's not what that article says. It says that those 85 people own as much wealth as the poorest 3.5 billion people. The article and accompanying paper say that the world's richest one percent own 46% of the world's wealth
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by ZachPruckowski 13y ago
"Obvious in retrospect" =/= "obvious".
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by ZachPruckowski 13y ago
It's not about people not having senses of humor. It's just that "successful impersonation of a dumb/annoying post" is still a dumb/annoying post.
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by ZachPruckowski 13y ago
Cotton gins are obvious in retrospect - you basically strain the cotton through a mesh that's smaller than the cotton seeds and have an automatic brush that cleans the mesh to prevent jams. Put the straining process on a wheel instead
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by ZachPruckowski 13y ago
Time-to-reimplement is not and should not be a measure of patent validity, because a patent isn't about difficulty of writing the implementation, it's about the cleverness of the solution. What needs to be measured is "given
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by ZachPruckowski 13y ago
Tesla's P/E ratio is literally 1000-1[A]. Most of that market cap of $20B is based on expectations that Tesla is going to have hockey-stick growth rates over the next 5-10 years. So in order to keep that stock price, they need t
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by ZachPruckowski 13y ago
No, they built a shiny video and got it aired on a news program so they could get free media in December when people are buying Christmas presents. They also put the idea out there early so that (a) competitors will be seen as imitators an
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by ZachPruckowski 13y ago
Most of those FOSS developers are paid by (a) consulting/support fees on the FOSS they develop or (b) working for companies which use that FOSS in their products. That works fine for B2B products, but doesn't translate well to Mi
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by ZachPruckowski 13y ago
Gold's mining cost is directly correlated with its sale price - different precious metal or gem mines have different extraction costs. So the "mining cost" of an ounce of gold varies with which mines are open, which varies w
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by ZachPruckowski 13y ago
Actually, gerrymandering does the opposite. The goal of gerrymandering for your party is as many seats as possible where you have a large but not super-massive advantage. You'd rather have three 55-45 seats than a 65-35 and two 50-50
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by ZachPruckowski 13y ago
While it's safe to say that Toyota or Ford could weather a safety scandal without massive long-term damage, the same isn't necessarily true with an upstart like Tesla.
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by ZachPruckowski 13y ago
I think the point is that it's not unreasonable for any sort of red-flagging system (whether data-mining or someone's gut) to have a false positive in this instance, because odds are pretty good that's what this is. If you&#
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by ZachPruckowski 13y ago
Or walk down the street from the precinct and use the payphone to anonymously phone in a tip. Or launder the info through an existing CI. Or gin up an unrelated minor excuse for a home visit and leverage that to find probable cause and th
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by ZachPruckowski 14y ago
I think the issue (or at least my issue as a card-carrying member of The Left) was that (a) at the time, we had a very different economic situation, and (b) objections to what the money was spent on. A lot of that debt came about because o
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by ZachPruckowski 14y ago
The problem is that political parties are fueled by donations, and it's hard to get people to donate for something like that. Not to mention you'd be competing with local/state/House/Senate elections with actual candidates for that fundrai
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by ZachPruckowski 14y ago
>I don't think it's difficult to draw a line between a dude keeping a list of movies he watched and a "This domain may be for sale, meanwhile search for shoes and mortgages" clone page. For a human, it's not that difficult. But if you
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by ZachPruckowski 14y ago
Forget Wireshark, the article implies that some of the critics tried the good old fashioned "yank the Internet cord and see how long it takes to break" method and got 20 minutes of playability.
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by ZachPruckowski 14y ago
I think there's also possibility (3) - the cost or effort of a "drug mine" is higher than existing methods, which work relatively well. I mean, drugs are clearly getting into the US, and proper organizational structure in your criminal ente
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by ZachPruckowski 14y ago
>Obviously, the "NRA’s dire warnings of an Democratic gun grab should Obama win the presidency" were accurate, if the timing was a bit off I don't see how this is true, unless we massively redefine "gun grab" from "confiscating private
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by ZachPruckowski 14y ago
In the US, contractors are going to need to buy their own health/dental/disability insurance (which then isn't tax-exempt) and pay higher payroll taxes. Once you take those into account, that's a solid 40% extra salary you'd need in order
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by ZachPruckowski 14y ago
The friends thing he's talking about is taking your reference contacts and then using them as future leads. And there is a fixed cost to sending a resume and cover letter. Sure, the first one isn't such a pain, but if you're unemployed and
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by ZachPruckowski 14y ago
On 3, I think it depends on your time-travel rules. Because the first thing that would happen is that people would flock to retool to produce the higher value commodities (if corn price > wheat price, people would stop making wheat and
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by ZachPruckowski 14y ago
For any place that's not New York, LA, or Silicon Valley, $120,000 is pretty solid money for a working professional.
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by ZachPruckowski 14y ago
Makes sense - people who would actually pay for Adobe software probably wouldn't settle for a free 6-7 year-old version, and people who wouldn't pay for Photoshop anyhow will use the free versions, meaning (a) it's now really hard to be "th
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by ZachPruckowski 14y ago
Yeah, that's how Slashdot did it (and so far as I know, still does it) - they'd solicit questions and take a top 10 to the interviewee. The downside of that is that you largely sacrifice the feeling that you're talking directly to the inter
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by ZachPruckowski 14y ago
The credit card number is the same set of 4 digits repeated 4 times - it's probably shopped.
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by ZachPruckowski 14y ago
But if you're competing with a $500 PS4, you're going to have problems. Even when you throw in price savings with scaling and a colossal subsidy, that's the retail equivalent of building a PC which competes with the next-gen consoles for $
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by ZachPruckowski 14y ago
>False dilemma. The choices are not "either get a good degree from a strong school, or make $10/hour forever". You're right that it's not yet that stark. Nonetheless, while we need a system which encourages, motivates, and rewards the
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by ZachPruckowski 14y ago
Two reasons: First, while it's not entirely a zero-sum game, there's a considerable competitiveness aspect - there aren't enough college slots or scholarships to accommodate everyone getting a good degree from a strong school, and if there

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