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by anamax 5y ago
During a technical interview many years ago, I commented that the system architecture didn't scale. The interviewer responded "When that matters, I won't even be managing the person whose problem that is."
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by anamax 5y ago
> which is free to any citizen who qualifies to enter. Ah yes, "qualifies". How many citizens "qualify"? The number of people who qualify is decided by two people - the person allocating money and the person running t
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by anamax 5y ago
How about "more people want to buy a 'Trump is bad' book than a 'Biden is bad' book?" People buy, or don't buy, books for all sorts of reasons. (For example, some people show off their books.)
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by anamax 5y ago
You have to both find AND recognize that you've found.
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by anamax 5y ago
The evaluation is {solution, founder}. Problem is, in some sense, irrelevant. You don't make money from the problem. A good founder makes money from a solution.
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by anamax 5y ago
There are 25 Finns, they're all related, and they think that "diversity" is a Swede. Private tutors...
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by anamax 5y ago
You've never bought batteries? Or, did you think that light weight and small yet powerful batteries were somehow inexpensive? Whenever there's a discussion of using batteries for anything, the three issues that come up are cost,
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by anamax 5y ago
You didn't know that batteries were more expensive than tanks?
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by anamax 5y ago
> And to me, a society in which the life expectancy at birth is 75 yrs (with a modest deviation from the mean) is clearly better to live in than one where the life expectancy is 25 yrs at birth. In that sense I still think "ancestor
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by anamax 5y ago
> No. Google has a large market share of search because it got in early "got in early" compared to what? There were dozens of search engines before Google.
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by anamax 5y ago
20 is barely enough. You really want 30-40. The problem is variance. If 70% fail and only 10% produce meaningful returns, you want >>10 so you have a reasonable chance of getting average returns. It's possible to get lucky with
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by anamax 5y ago
WRT "political speech on private property" (Yes, US-specific.) From https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/583/pruneyard-s... "In PruneYard Shopping Center v. Robins, 447 U.S. 74 (1980),
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by anamax 5y ago
Many houses in San Jose don't have air conditioning.
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by anamax 5y ago
> The likelihood that you get hit by a car is probably higher than you get busted for weed in Santa Cruz. Even if that's true on average, it isn't necessarily true for everyone. Different people have different risk profiles fo
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by anamax 5y ago
If you have to choose between unicorns and jobs, which do you chose? I ask because many unicorns don't involve many jobs. If you want more jobs, the problem is that your country doesn't let people benefit from making jobs and&#x2F
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by anamax 5y ago
My point is that you can't rely on "decriminalize". "in practice" means that it's still available, no matter how "official" the policy may be, when "felony disrespect" is the real issue.
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by anamax 5y ago
"The city’s police will make it among their lowest priorities to arrest or prosecute anyone engaging in activities" [1] "[Lowest] priority to arrest" doesn't imply "legal". The state laws are still on the
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by anamax 5y ago
Plumbers are essential for civilization. Pretty much everyone else isn't.
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by anamax 5y ago
Jet didn't offer stock to early adopters. It offered stock to folks who referred customers, who produced signups. The difference between that and telling a consultant "we'll pay you with stock in return for {performance}&quo
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by anamax 5y ago
IBM did something similar decades ago. They had a computer system that was leased three ways: [1] n kHz clock [2] n+m kHz clock [3] n kHz clock most of the time, but you could pay for n+m kHz clock for limited periods of time. [2] cost more
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by anamax 5y ago
You have risk. FBI agents - not so much.
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by anamax 5y ago
http://www.avanthar.com/healyzh/decemulation/pdp10emu.html
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by anamax 5y ago
I know people who have been happy with "One of your jobs as my manager is to make sure that my salary is competitive." The unstated follow-on is "if I find out that it isn't, I'm gone." BTW - The correct respo
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by anamax 5y ago
> Anonymity? People are unsurprisingly very in favor of KYC so we can apply anti–money laundering and terrorism laws. That's true until KYC starts being use for "social credit" purposes. Yes, money-laundering and terrorism
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by anamax 5y ago
Visa does do something equivalent to settlements. Even if that is just at monthly granularity (statements to card holders), the volume is immense.
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by anamax 5y ago
[1] What is the CEO's cliff and vesting? [2] Longer vesting means more stock, around 50% in this case, for companies who want employees long-term. (The relevant measure is stock/year, not total stock.) [3] Ask the CEO to name thr
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by anamax 5y ago
The University of California schools think of themselves as independent entities, independent entities that just happened to all pick the same school colors. berkeley.edu (where "University of CA" is a subtitle), ucla.edu, ucdavis
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by anamax 5y ago
In the US at least, laptops with LI-ion batteries are not supposed to be in the cargo hold. I don't know whether the checked-luggage scanners catch this or what happens if they find a laptop in luggage. The passenger isn't present
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by anamax 5y ago
"The first building block of this new architecture is something called the Decentralized Social Networking Protocol (DSNP), which developers can use to build social apps and services. Instead of creating value by hoarding personal data
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by anamax 5y ago
"He’s also assembled and funded a “governance” organization along with partners Georgetown University and Sciences Po in Paris called the McCourt Institute, which will develop an ethical framework for moderating content." Oh joy.

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