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by adamlett 8y ago
Unless your 5-year old has independently expressed interest in learning to program, I'd say the best way is to not do it. I could be way off here, but to me this smells like a parent who wants to be able to brag to other adults that th
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by adamlett 8y ago
In my limited experience, being a driven employee is quite literally that, in the sense that it’s someone else, the manager, who is doing the driving. Let me explain with an example. At a previous job, I was at one time working on a large p
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by adamlett 8y ago
What evidence? The article presents none.
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by adamlett 8y ago
The author assumes … Speaking of making assumptions: As someone who is known to optimize company time, [Bezos] would probably write a draft and then have correspondence with an English-phd type for help. Being so busy running a company t
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by adamlett 9y ago
I had hoped that this would be a catalog of concrete code examples of common or easy to make mistakes, along with concrete prescriptions for what to instead. Instead it turns out that it is mostly a long winded collection of opinions passed
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Announcing Hanami v1.2.0(hanamirb.org)
1 points by adamlett 9y ago|0 comments
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by adamlett 9y ago
Yes, imagine how much more competition there would be on the pharmaceutical market, say, if governments didn’t discourage innovation by demanding that products be tested and safe. Think of barriers to entry it creates in the chemical indust
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by adamlett 9y ago
The government is a small part of the state. The police and armed forces are part of the state, and can be corrupted, even if the government is impotent. All the individual rights and guarantees in the world are of no help to you, if the ge
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by adamlett 9y ago
That’s not how it works in my limited understanding. Radars don’t just detect the positions of object, but also their relative speed. For this, they take advantage of the Doppler effect. When a pulse gets reflected, its frequency rises if t
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by adamlett 9y ago
People will exhibit tribal behavior over anything . Of course they base their identity around the brand of smartphone they use. It would be surprising if they didn’t. It’s not sad. It’s just human nature.
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by adamlett 9y ago
You have a larger piece of a smaller pie, but you have the same amount of pie. Yes, this was my point. Stock buybacks are value neutral if the market value of the company is correct. Ie. the share price stays the same.
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by adamlett 9y ago
Yes, I was referring to market cap.
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by adamlett 9y ago
It’s “surprising” because—assuming the company is correctly valued by the market—the company should become less valuable when the cash is spent. The company doesn’t “get” anything for the money, because the shares it buys, get retired. Edit
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by adamlett 9y ago
It’s not so simple. In a perfect market, the market value of the company will go down when company buys back stock. Why? Because the value of the cash is now gone. So in your example, each stockholder just owns a slightly larger piece of a
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by adamlett 9y ago
Don't confuse cost with value.
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by adamlett 9y ago
As for not understanding what they're being asked to buy, what I'll say about that argument is it proves too much. Why do the markets for computer repair, automobile repair, etc. not have the problems that you claim would be inhe
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Academic urban legends(journals.sagepub.com)
2 points by adamlett 9y ago|0 comments
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by adamlett 9y ago
The fact that you knew only one person with a Mac when the iPod came out really makes you rather unsuited to speak about what went on with the iPod in the greater Mac community at a time when the iPod was exclusive to Macs. You are falling
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by adamlett 9y ago
[I] invite you to come to Spain, where we have a flamboyant highspeed railroad service in which there's not a single line that covers costs (not even Madrid-Barcelona). And guess what, we keep throwing money to that thing. What if yo
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by adamlett 9y ago
Governments in Europe are especially renowned for the any work is better than none approach Are they now? It used to be true in the east bloc countries when they were all communist, but it's not remotely true in today's Germany
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by adamlett 9y ago
The real issue i have with tax isn't how much i pay but how it is used. Pardon my french, but that's such bullshit. Everyone who doesn't like to pay taxes has a noble excuse like yours. Sometimes they oppose to taxes being
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by adamlett 9y ago
To my knowledge, I haven't heard of Netflix having overtly anti-competitive behavior but I'm all ears for examples. I’ not aware of any either, but one does not have to engage in anti-competitive behavior to become or be a monop
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by adamlett 9y ago
Netflix is on the trajectory to becoming a monopoly, yes. HBO is hamstrung by its lucrative cable tv deals in the US, which prevents it from competing effectively with Netflix in the streaming market. They will keep making money hand over f
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by adamlett 9y ago
Because almost nobody who buys an Oracle license do so with the intention to run and publish these benchmarks. In other words, the EULA doesn’t affect how the vast majority of Oracle’s customers intend to use the software, and so they don’t
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by adamlett 9y ago
Because they already have enough on their plate and are worse off for the distraction?
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by adamlett 9y ago
But why does Tesla need a halo car? They already have the consumers’ attention. Lots of people would buy Teslas today but can’t because Tesla is unable to mass produce the Model 3.
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by adamlett 9y ago
wasn't AT&T a regulated monopoly -- at least since 1913? FCC effectively barred competition and AT&T's pricing and policies required approval from gov' I’m pretty sure you’ve got it wrong. Firstly, AT&T was alre
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by adamlett 9y ago
I'm sure there is legitimate criticism to be levelled at the article, and I would love to read it, so that I can get smarter. But you are merely poisoning the well, effectively preventing a discussion of the article on its merits.
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by adamlett 9y ago
This article does not strike me as low quality. It is long, thorough and well argued. I'm sure there are reasons to be skeptical about its conclusions, and I would love to hear them.
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by adamlett 9y ago
Biometrics give the wider public a FALSE sense of security Oh, please! There is an abundance of evidence to show that the wider public is completely uninterested in security to the degree that a majority will disable security features alt

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