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by abakker 4y ago
Deserved? I think that is a bit strong. Yes, they should have anticipated the possibility, and, maybe they have! Who knows? Saying that individuals deserve the bad actions of platforms is ridiculous. If Microsoft decided to delete files in
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yeah, but, preconceived notions are not necessarily wrong. I think there's a reason why Software companies disrupt each other a lot more than they disrupt other industries. its because of their obsession with the beginner's mind w
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by abakker 4y ago
Not to mention that people who say that they don't know what they're doing, but are earning 6 figure salaries are being extremely condescending to everyone else. The idea here is that you get paid for your expertise. If you don&#x
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by abakker 4y ago
Is paid labor, (historically) above market rate, entered into voluntarily, necessarily exploitative because it includes productivity measures? look, I don't want to work for Amazon, but, I don't think it is exploitation to expect
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The question is answered in specific, not in general. Is the rate you are offered good enough to offset the potential decline in equity? Remember that if the house loses 10% of its value, your downpayment does not somehow appreciate - essen
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by abakker 4y ago
it sucks. I've done the full courses a few times for tick bites. it is just very very hard to tolerate.
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my point was that it is non-economic to retrofit these homes, rather than just building new buildings. You'd spend more time permitting a seismic and environmental retrofit and still get a worse result and still only house one family.
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by abakker 4y ago
And the single family homes are shit! They are not seismically sound, they have poor to no insulation, single pane windows, 2x4 framing, rusting rebar destroying the foundation walls, and sketchy electrical. SF is supposed to be pro environ
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by abakker 4y ago
I mean, I'm not shorting SF real estate, but no, valuation can be wrong and also not tautological. There are lots of reasons in SF that prices don't adjust - e.g. rent control and the tax advantage of unoccupied buildings vs accep
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by abakker 4y ago
Yeah…and while prices are still so high and the state of downtown is still so poor, it’s a tough sell for residential, too. SF isn’t worth what it thinks it is, and that’s the trouble. (Bias: I moved out in 2020, even though I was rent cont
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by abakker 4y ago
I don't know if this solves your issue, but google does this very effectively from search. just type, "[some number] in hex" it just does it very easily.
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by abakker 4y ago
I don't know. Maybe if you were concerned about this, the solution isn't to sell your company that depends on access to one company, to their direct and biggest competitor. Hammerhead bears responsibility for not doing things that
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Their T handle allen wrench sets are also much better than average. I recommend them wholly having used them for a year.
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by abakker 4y ago
If it were easy, everyone would be doing it. Since it is easy to do what everyone is doing, your investments will not do better that the market. Therefore, if you want to beat the market, it is difficult. Consider the most efficient easy st
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by abakker 4y ago
LOL. “Transaction tax” and “devaluing their asset to pay insurers”. Both things that are handled by Base rate inflation. The missing part of this analysis is that it is very hard to peg a deflating asset. The other problem is that from a mo
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by abakker 4y ago
It is a game! Hence “game theory” and other reductive, useful abstraction used to describe and model the real world.
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by abakker 4y ago
I was talking about the topic at hand: the possibility of consistent good rate of return. You are right - medallion has had some hard times recently. But, prior to that, it generated very good returns for a while. You are not addressing the
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by abakker 4y ago
how many companies lose money for a few years and fold? if the S&P is winners, then it is counterbalanced by all the bad investments, pre revenue startups, and other businesses which are losing money. balancing out to 3% is not impossib
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by abakker 4y ago
look - there are companies out there - Renaissance for one - who do make very good returns consistently. The difference is that not all returns are infinite. in fact, most good investments are finite - the market eventually catches on and t
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by abakker 4y ago
oof. Somewhere in here they missed the point of adding additional inclusivity, rather than becoming exclusionary themselves. These concepts and their implementations are not very sophisticated right now, and clumsy implementations do a lot
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by abakker 4y ago
Got a source for this claim? Edit: Specifically, what about printers that only print black and white?
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by abakker 4y ago
Net present value - essentially valuation that takes into account the discounted time value of money (money in the future is worth less than today, since you can’t use future money without borrowing at an interest rate, coupled with inflati
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by abakker 4y ago
Other responses have mentioned that this can print without support structures, though, that feature alone is not unique to this design. SLS or the HP Multijet printers layer whole beds of powder and then fuse selectively, so in effect, the
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by abakker 4y ago
I think there's an important distinction here. Monetizing metalwork or woodwork (which I do, and have done) doesn't seem to ruin the fun for me. The hobby is about output, and more time spent equals more practice equals more skill
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by abakker 5y ago
or the variation, "the difference between practice and theory is bigger in practice than theory" An absolute gem of a statement.
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by abakker 5y ago
Can confirm. In general, Death Valley has no signal. However, when my wife and I biked from saline valley to racetrack valley up the Lippincott road, we kept finding little spots of reasonably strong cell signal - enough that we were able t
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by abakker 5y ago
Airplane, Multi-engine, Land. IA seems to mean he is a flight instructor.
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by abakker 5y ago
Yes...but, the deer population is out of control and demand greater reintroduction of predators. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03781... The issue is that deer effect forest regen
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by abakker 5y ago
“The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.” He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’ll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. “What I pay you,” he informed it
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by abakker 5y ago
To me, it looks like a symbol you would use to denote electricity present. I'd say it was meant to say that an electrical box or some other piece of infrastructure had electricity present. It could even be a non-standard symbol for a g

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