aetherson

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by aetherson 9mo ago
Yes, the owners were paid by the sale . The argument by other people was that the sale shouldn't happen, or vice versa that the sale should happen only to people who were committed to continuing to spend the company's money on s
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by aetherson 9mo ago
And honestly this is probably fine. If the main business can't grow and there have been a few years of attempts to produce complementary businesses with no success, that's a good sign that the business should be moved into a &quo
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by aetherson 9mo ago
California is big! That's also why there have technically been small parts of California which have been in drought for the last few years while most of the state is in good shape. This year, Southern California is having a wet year w
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by aetherson 9mo ago
People who build data centers. Strong data protection laws (in a relatively stable democratic country) so that customers will feel okay putting their workloads in a data center, and then low regulatory burden and cost to the inputs to maki
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by aetherson 9mo ago
I was chatting about this with a friend. It feels like there's a real opportunity for a relatively-poor-but-democratic country to say, "Look, for real, we will pass the strongest data protection laws in the world, and we will let
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by aetherson 9mo ago
I got to 77 on my first try and my loss was dumb, I could definitely do better, but I'm like, "It took so long to get to 77."
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by aetherson 9mo ago
It's certainly not crazy to imagine that you could cut the costs of a helicopter-like aircraft that was purpose-made for relatively short, relatively low-speed, relatively light load duties.
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by aetherson 9mo ago
I don't think it's completely irrelevant. Can we admit some nuance where the UK's fast ramp up of arrests for previously legal speech is genuinely concerning, but also that raw number of arrests (not even convictions!) is no
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by aetherson 10mo ago
I understood the situation here to be that the same private owner owned all of the private squares in this particular area. I would assume that most private owners won't be interested in buying squares deep in the checkerboard for acc
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by aetherson 10mo ago
But they don't have the same access problem because the public squares don't have access restrictions.
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by aetherson 10mo ago
I mean. The artifact you link shows a map of the Americas in which California is an island and either Tierra Del Fuego is huge or the bottom of Argentina is an island and the northwest of the continent trails off into nothing, and Florida i
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by aetherson 10mo ago
No, and the article shows a not-even-attempting-accuracy period version of the coat of arms a little below: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SouthSeaCompany_TradeLabe...
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by aetherson 10mo ago
Do you know what else stops working if you stop taking the therapy? Diet and exercise.
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by aetherson 11mo ago
I enjoy my trips to Japan as much as the next guy, but the idea that Japan is a model of great governance is at the very best arguable.
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by aetherson 11mo ago
I was at a company that spent over $90M a year with AWS and we got defensive, limited comms.
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by aetherson 11mo ago
My experience with AWS is that they are extremely, extremely parsimonious about any information they give out. It is near-impossible to get them to give you any details about what is happening beyond the level of their API. So my gut hunc
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by aetherson 1y ago
Yes, there are clear ergonomic reasons why we don't do this "assign a username" thing. But it would stop password stuffing. You'd presumably do username recovery the same way you do password recovery, so it would only b
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by aetherson 1y ago
Because credential stuffing relies on the user reusing a username + password from another site. If you provide the user with a username they don't select, it won't be reused.
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by aetherson 1y ago
Lobbyists work for money, not the love of the game or ideological conviction. There's really no inherent reason why a former lobbyist will retain a loyalty to a former employer now that they've moved on.
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by aetherson 1y ago
It's a one-dimensional orbit, right?
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by aetherson 1y ago
Well, let's go with a learning exercise. Do you think that you should dismiss the fact that someone said something dumb because you perceive them as being on the right side? Then I guess it's good for you.
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by aetherson 1y ago
It's a deeply non-capitalist perspective to demand that everyone respond to dumb posts with sentiment instead of analysis.
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by aetherson 1y ago
Money spent on startups isn't charity, you do it in the expectation of (in aggregate) profit -- so it's not rivalrous with charities. People who might support museums earn money on investments that they can then use for charities
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by aetherson 1y ago
The author's children were going to an elite private school immediately before going to Alpha School.
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by aetherson 1y ago
But you can draw comparisons with other expensive private schools, which is what the ACX article does.
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by aetherson 1y ago
These aren't predictions. They're vague sentiment. It would be interesting if the author were to try to express these with a timeline in a way that is falsifiable, optionally with some kind of measure of certainty.
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by aetherson 1y ago
In katakana you lengthen the "e" sound with a dash-like character, but in hiragana you lengthen it with an "i" character, and most romanization schemes follow the hiragana and write the long e sound as ei.
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by aetherson 1y ago
Mice, flies, vermin of various kinds that seemed able to show up anywhere from no obvious parents.
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by aetherson 1y ago
You might, but most people wouldn't, and more to the point, overwhelming more people will choose to drive their own car (or take transit) vs either Uber or Waymo. If Waymo can drop its price by 50%, it could steal a lot of demand from
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by aetherson 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sogen_Kato#Aftermath I mean, clearly not all centarians in Japan are actually dead. But I think it's fairly straightforward that the numbers of super-elderly are inflated.

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