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by anamax 5y ago
Developer finds what he thinks is a cool problem, builds something, then asks potential users whether they care, only to find that no one is willing to pay for said something. That's Quibi's story too.
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by anamax 5y ago
Take that up with the person who wrote "[The union] could attend board meetings and veto deals that harm the employees via strike or mass resignation." Board meetings are for board members, so I gave that person the benefit of the
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by anamax 5y ago
The claim was that an income increase was necessarily a good thing. I'm pointing out that if your expenses go up more than your income, you're worse off, even ignoring inflation's effect on savings.
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by anamax 5y ago
Unions don't necessarily get board observer status, let alone board seats, AKA a board vote. Having a board vote isn't the same has having a veto over every possible decision.
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by anamax 5y ago
For small production runs, an English Wheel would be appropriate. (The car doesn't have any sharp corners.)
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by anamax 5y ago
You probably need more than one great university nearby. SV has Stanford, Berkeley, and San Jose State. You may not have heard of SJS, but there are more (local) Apple employees who graduated from SJS than from Stanford and Berkeley. FWIW,
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by anamax 5y ago
https://www.tuned.com/all-features has "a car without BREAKS" That should be "brakes"
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by anamax 5y ago
Motel 6 used to be $6.
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by anamax 5y ago
If my income goes up by 10% and my expenses go up by 10%, am I better off or worse off? If I had savings, I'm probably worse off. (Yes, I may get more interest going forward, but that won't make up for the value lost by my princi
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by anamax 5y ago
> misprice would have to be greater than any cap gains plus trading costs Tax is a percentage of the profit or loss. At the time-scale you're talking, it would be ordinary income rates. If the difference between what you pay and wh
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by anamax 5y ago
> Part of the problem is that most 401Ks have a very limited set of investment options. Once you're retired, you can roll your 401K into a self-directed IRA which you can invest with not many restrictions. For example, you can put a
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by anamax 5y ago
Micro-ops often have more bits than the ISA they're implementing, so you'd pay a program-size penalty. Moreover, Intel (and I assume AMD), will take a sequence of micro ops corresponding to a sequence of "instructions" a
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by anamax 5y ago
Decompression time is a function of depth, time, and N2 concentration. (Yes, O2 matters for because of O2 toxicity, but that's not a decompression issue.) Scuba can let you breathe different mixtures than the standard atmosphere but
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by anamax 5y ago
It used to be that every "layer" of VCs thought that the layer below is dart-throwing monkeys and the layer above is spreadsheet-jockeys, implying that they were the only ones using judgement. So, now the ones near the top think t
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by anamax 5y ago
Pot, kettle, black. -- fpga Back at you. -hdl
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by anamax 5y ago
I've never gotten planes. Buses and boats are very rare (for me). I mostly get crosswalks and traffic lights. I occasionally get mountains, motorcycles, and bicycles.
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by anamax 5y ago
"California" isn't going to do anything about NIMBY cities. The California state govt is going to hose politically disfavored communities. Atherton and Pacific Heights will NOT see any substantive changes.
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by anamax 5y ago
Advertising includes drug samples given to doctors, which many/most of them give to patients who can't afford said drugs. How many of them are you willing to cut off?
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by anamax 5y ago
It doesn't matter whether you're offended by the word "bastardchild." What matters is that I'm offended. Heck, "bastardchild" doesn't even have to offend me because it is clearly offensive to bastards
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by anamax 5y ago
When I started using Emacs, it was still written in teco. (I did use raw teco once.) In all that time, I've NEVER customized or configured it. That was a huge advantage when I was working very closely with other people - they could u
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by anamax 5y ago
> Or spend a few dollars getting a Delaware corp. "few dollars"? More like a couple of hundred, some of that on-going and yes, it costs money to shut it down. And, if you live in CA, you also get to pay $500/year for the
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by anamax 5y ago
Moves can only be in, out, or within. 7 out of 10 out means 3 = #in + #within. Maybe it is normal for most moves to be out of NJ, but who's to say that normal is good?
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by anamax 5y ago
While 2 values per storage element is optimal for the sensor, it is the worst case for "data per storage element". The quantity optimized was "cost to store data". The three parameters are sensor characteristics, storag
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by anamax 5y ago
And, it wasn't Scholz' first rodeo.
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by anamax 5y ago
The argument for base e is based on the physics of sensors and storage; what's the right number of signal levels. The problem with IBM's floating point scheme was that the multi-digit exponent granularity threw away mantissa bits.
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by anamax 5y ago
No, software isn't bridges. When bridges fail, people die. When reddit crashes, people take a piss and pet the cat. I don't know the relevant details about reddit but the assumption that the early reddit people could have easily
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by anamax 5y ago
The second doesn't (necessarily) have to scale. It has to handle the projected load, with some safety margin. "projected until when?" you ask? Well, your projections will be wrong. And, your needs will change, which means th
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by anamax 5y ago
My point stands - the number who "qualify" is decided by two bureaucracies. One decides how much money to spend, the other spends it. In such a system, it's typical that one bureaucracy decides what "qualify" means
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by anamax 5y ago
All bridges have a capacity limit. "Doesn't scale" doesn't imply "inadequate." Overbuilding is waste.
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by anamax 5y ago
> Not to mention the negative political externalities rural populations produce (maybe a modern US-only phenomenon). So you'd be happy with them if they agreed with you politically.... I do appreciate the honesty.

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