abirch

16 ms·

361.
by abirch 2y ago
I'm fine with it as long as they don't change bats in between pitches.
362.
by abirch 2y ago
I would say that it's not on the side of individual freedom but the will of the state. It's easier to build a local coalition than a state wide one. Democracy has costs but they're usually lessened when you're going down
363.
by abirch 2y ago
The state is taking the rights away from the municipalities. Why not leave it up to the local people? No one was forcing local towns to fluoridate their water.
364.
by abirch 2y ago
And if you can encapsulate the 3 different domains well, if you switch brokers you should have any external dependencies. Make your functions/domains deep.
365.
by abirch 2y ago
Are there any recent SPACs (after say 2020) that have actually had a positive cashflow?
366.
by abirch 2y ago
I agree that the value to society and the economic value are two completely different things. I shining example of this principle is the 1980s corporate raiders that would buy a company, gut its pension program, and ride off with the profit
367.
by abirch 2y ago
Software is very scalable and can provide a lot of value. If you look at the revenue per SWE for Microsoft, Alphabet, Netflix, etc, then it's hard to compare them to the person whose job isn't scalable, to say a truck driver, nurs
368.
by abirch 2y ago
What about news? Like everyone wants news but no one wants to pay for it.
369.
by abirch 2y ago
It’s even citizens leaving and returning internationally (though technically it can be domestically.) Most don’t understand that the 5th amendment doesn’t apply to the customs and border patrol; they can go through your phone and computer.
370.
by abirch 2y ago
It’s amazing how history kind of repeats. It’s crazy how the dark ages happened and how they can happen again.
371.
by abirch 2y ago
Until the NSA or Google uses a sufficiently powerful quantum computer: https://www.coinbase.com/learn/crypto-basics/is-quantum-comp... Then you can take anyone's crypto that you'd like.
372.
by abirch 2y ago
This works well until it doesn’t. As long as there is someone who is responsible for the data correctness. E.g. the cardinality of two joining tables maintained cardinality instead of: there’s currently no one in the system in with two loca
373.
by abirch 2y ago
The present value of future cashflows is vague at best. The market was overpriced and is correcting now. Look at the Shiller PE.
374.
by abirch 2y ago
Here’s a relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/882/ For the small sample
375.
by abirch 2y ago
There court hasn't set a remedy to its verdict yet. From the article The proposal, filed Friday afternoon, says that Google must “promptly and fully divest Chrome, along with any assets or services necessary to successfully complete th
376.
by abirch 2y ago
It'd be ironic if Google had to sell Chrome to Microsoft due to monopoly reasons.
377.
by abirch 2y ago
I agree with you. Of all the remedies to address Google's "monopoly" this seems to the most bizarre. My question is if Google has to divest from Chrome, would they be able to build a new web browser? In the article it said th
378.
by abirch 2y ago
I'm late to the party and this is not my forte so I'd differ to many people, but if you patent the natural compound for a disease you can do that. In addition to that patenting it for certain formulations. A case in point is http
379.
by abirch 2y ago
You're right that this won't change the incentives for the dishonest researchers. Unfortunately there's not an equivalent of "short sellers" in research, people who are incentivized for finding fraud. AI is definite
380.
by abirch 2y ago
Remember this is an executive order. The next president can sell them all to pay for a pet project.
381.
by abirch 2y ago
I'm unsure of how many internet services Taiwan relies on outside of Taiwan? If the servers are on the island, my understanding is that they'll be fine. Unfortunately they won't be able to access Hacker News, but they should
382.
by abirch 2y ago
I’m not about the root cause. I’m on a GLP-1 and while doing a premortem on my medication I saw that this, vomiting, and burps were common.
383.
by abirch 2y ago
gastroparesis is a real side effect two, it’s where the food in your digestive tract stops moving. As in 30% of food is present after 4 hours The rate is over 1% which isn’t a lot nor is it nothing https://jamanetwork.com/j
384.
by abirch 2y ago
As Ben Franklin wrote "the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines."
385.
by abirch 2y ago
Remember when most people give presentations about a technology, they’re in the honeymoon stage
386.
by abirch 2y ago
In addition to these scientists, I heard from my friends in academia that they will be taking fewer PhD students because they're unsure of the funding. We may be looking at a lost decade.
387.
by abirch 2y ago
In addition to the money that's spent, these people had great health insurance. This helped to subsidize rural hospitals. Between this and cuts to medicaid, more rural hospitals will close.
388.
by abirch 2y ago
Some government jobs were basically UBI. They provided incomes in rural America.
389.
by abirch 2y ago
I guess it’s time to update our user agent strings like I did with konquerer 20 years ago. Looks like there’s a plugin for that https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/user-agent-switcher...
390.
by abirch 2y ago
What I would love to see is a public payer heath plan paid with a VAT. Then every startup gets subsidized as do large corporations. It sucks when you have to think about health care costs when doing a startup or rolling the dice.

More ›