abirch

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by abirch 11mo ago
Seems like they would have had the statistics. It's a shame that they rolled it back. I'm not necessarily an Elon fan but I respected this feature immensely.
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by abirch 11mo ago
To be fair, Microsoft killed Nokia.
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by abirch 11mo ago
VS Code is based on Chromium: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/docs/v... We've come full circle.
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by abirch 11mo ago
It was fixed for me on Chrome.
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by abirch 11mo ago
I think another aspect here is Return on Equity (part of the Dupont equations) where you can have lower operating margins but be heavily levered. That's what private equity loves.
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by abirch 11mo ago
I'm ignorant of the world outside of the USA. TERF was started in 2008: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERF_(acronym) The GOP started to make it a major issue prior in 2016. See Bathroom Bill: https://t
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by abirch 1y ago
Personally I would love to see my foody friends’ recommendations for a restaurant over some random person on the internet.
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by abirch 1y ago
In order to say no you have to have a burning yes. The people in power don't have a burning yes.
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by abirch 1y ago
It defeats the purpose of a veto if the executive branch can ignore the law.
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by abirch 1y ago
One benefit of this, is once you'd done something once, the other times kind of melt together.
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by abirch 1y ago
I wish laws had expiry dates. For 100 years. Inertia seems to be the most powerful force
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by abirch 1y ago
1. In the USA people use compounding companies to get around patents. 2. https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...
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by abirch 1y ago
The sad thing is they probably were billed 500 dollars for the lawyers to “read” it.
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by abirch 1y ago
Naive question but where have electricity rates not jumped a lot?
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by abirch 1y ago
Selling support can be rough. I talked with the developer of PyMol. Many corporations wouldn't buy licenses and those that would pay for support wanted support for hardware that was 2 or 3 generations old. Gentle reminder: please encou
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by abirch 1y ago
Delaware protects the shareholders. It's uncertain what will happen in Texas. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-02-01/texas-... https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articl
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by abirch 1y ago
The naming and shaming should be the top organic google result. People need to own their reputation.
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by abirch 1y ago
It’s crazy his framework is open source https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim
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by abirch 1y ago
Many academics that I've talked with say that their departments are cutting back to 50% of last year's PhD enrollment due to budget cuts and uncertainty. These were in biology and chemistry.
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by abirch 1y ago
You're right, it's only 2% of the S&P 500.
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by abirch 1y ago
The good/bad thing is more people are in index funds and are overexposed to the expensive companies (especially $TSLA)
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by abirch 1y ago
I believe the story in question is overly hyped. I don't think anyone was planning on destroying the phone system. It seems like the secret service found a text spam ring and is trying to make it more nefarious.
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by abirch 1y ago
For some reason I feel like reporting fabricated evidence is magnitudes different than fabricating evidence (making shit up.) From what I've briefly read is that Judith Miller reported on evidence that Ahmad Chalabi provided her: htt
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by abirch 1y ago
When has the NYTimes made shit up?
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by abirch 1y ago
Hopefully the fines grow exponentially for repeat offenders. Seems like now, lawyers can use AI to DDOS the other counsel.
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by abirch 1y ago
Property taxes usually pay for schools and there can be lines for CA schools.
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by abirch 1y ago
Usually the protection racket ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_racket ) is when the people who will cause the destruction charge to prevent it from happening. Paying a security guard isn't considered a pro
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by abirch 1y ago
This makes sense if H1-Bs are about lack of talent instead of cheap labor.
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by abirch 1y ago
Unfortunately most politicians don't understand tech nor do they understand their lack of knowledge. On a related note can TLS be considered "encrypted tunneling methods"? If so, good luck doing anything online in Michigan.
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by abirch 1y ago
I hate microsoft, but I really hate slack. Now I understand all of those old bitter IT people that I didn't understand when I was young and starting out in tech.

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