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by anamax 5y ago
> Regular users are generally safe: the laws dont punish downloaders, only uploaders. Are you sure about that. The downloader is the one making the copy. The uploader is merely inducing the creation of said copy. Yes, it's easier&
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by anamax 5y ago
> He cut a hell of a lot of losses when he returned to Apple. When Jobs returned to Apple, how much of it was from when he left?
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by anamax 5y ago
disk block # = f(index) can be implemented with a b-tree but it can also be implemented (in some cases) with a deep-learning based approach.
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by anamax 5y ago
Any multiplier > 1 is enough to keep a "grow by constant each iteration" loop from becoming quadratic.
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by anamax 5y ago
The claim was that rail works if there is enough traffic between two points. That claim is false. It's false even if it's the same traffic at both points. Hub and spoke is a specific kind of a set of pairs of points. (One point
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by anamax 5y ago
The Mayo Clinic started in the middle of no-where.
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by anamax 5y ago
> if a road has over two lanes in each direction, the route is busy enough to sustain trains/light rail. That's necessary, but not sufficient. Rail requires enough commonality or at least linearity of both source and destinati
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by anamax 5y ago
Is there some reason why you can't save the DOM or other datastructures that you help you query/manipulate the XML? A database isn't a set of flat-file CSVs even though that's all that is actually needed to do everything
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by anamax 5y ago
What does 100% mean? I ask because I think that there are useful points short of "never makes a mistake." The alternative to self-driving cars isn't perfection. It is humans, humans who not only vary in their peak performanc
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by anamax 5y ago
Creating a database is >= O(n). While creating and editing a database, it is SOP to create/maintain and save data structures that provide fast access later. Is there some reason why you couldn't do the same for XML?
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by anamax 5y ago
The VP's contract is irrelevant when we're talking about staff. The VP's contract reasonably protects the VP from the consequences of a non-compete. The VP's staff has no such protection.
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by anamax 5y ago
You write "compensated to 'opt-out'" like it's a bad thing. Unions are a tool, not a goal.
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by anamax 5y ago
Put low prices on the pricing page together with a note along the lines of "prices/terms are negotiable". That page should probably also mention that customers now will always pay less than later customers. Be as friction-fr
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by anamax 5y ago
The German scientists that came to the US after WWII were trying to avoid "going" to Russia or staying in post-war Germany. If these scientists are mostly happy in Russia, neither applies.
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by anamax 5y ago
You don't understand where you are in the business lifecycle. You're very early. Paying customers are the most important thing for you to get. However, it doesn't matter how much the first 1% (of your target market) pay, now
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by anamax 5y ago
> Most of the greatest inventions come from immigrants. Whether or not that's true, it doesn't answer "Are immigrants interchangable?" That leads to "Does it matter which immigrants?" I ask because Pareto&#
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by anamax 5y ago
> Last caveat I'll say is immigrants have produced extreme value and innovation in tech. They are intelligent and dilligent. They just arent good for the american middle class. Are you saying that immigrants are interchangeable?
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by anamax 5y ago
Is Urs Hölzle coming back from New Zealand?
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by anamax 5y ago
Google Drive is bad because: [1] Google may deprecate it or go away. [2] Google may decide that it doesn't want you as a user.
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by anamax 5y ago
An exec's guarantee of support staff, even the support staff of her choosing, doesn't guarantee the support staff anything.
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by anamax 5y ago
> it when the company later has excess funds The company didn't have "excess funds". When you do a raise, you tell investors how you're going to spend the money. There may be a lot of money in the bank, but it's
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by anamax 5y ago
> At the risk of deflating this highly-charged discussion, I think the reason for the "executive staff" carve-out might be a little more ho-hum: they are often employed via the same contract as the executive they support. Huh?
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by anamax 5y ago
> Ideally, yes. But if the group of people who meet your standards does not exactly match the demographics of the general population, you will be held accountable. Like the NFL or NBA?
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by anamax 5y ago
Wolfram might disagree about the "lack of progress" in the fundamentals of physics. It's said that every cosmologist who dies gets to add a "law of nature" consistent with known observations. I wonder what Conway a
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by anamax 5y ago
The assumption that the boss doesn't know about open source is "interesting."
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> Management always wants to think that they are right in every decision and the employees are the ones who are unproductive, but after decades of working for "the man" in about 10 different industries in different positions&#x
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The US had a strong incentive, but the Euros preferred "not US" suppliers. Then the US decided that it didn't want to be in the energy exporting business.
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by anamax 5y ago
> The answer is obvious: get rid of sales taxes. You do know that neither merchants nor folks writing tax or sales software can "get rid of sales taxes", right? "Our software doesn't handle that case" isn't
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> Someone refused to acquire a company for (presumably) tens of millions of dollars because a founder took a below market salary and then made up for it after a funding round with a 100k payment? Yes. It goes to the CEO's honesty a
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by anamax 5y ago
The point is that SALES tax in the US doesn't correspond with "income" or even revenue. Sales tax isn't determined by the seller's characteristics - it depends on the buyer.

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