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by arbuge 12y ago
Way too negative. Austin is a great city in many ways, and a better place to build some kinds of businesses than the big cities you mention. I don't know about your claim on how tech billionaires think - from your first post, it's
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by arbuge 12y ago
>> huge foreign demand with very little new housing supply has made anything remotely close absurdly expensive I think this accurately describes NYC too at this point...
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by arbuge 12y ago
>> The IRS comes after you because you're behind on sales taxes. Nitpicking here, but that would be the state revenue department, not the IRS. The IRS doesn't collect any sales taxes afaik.
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by arbuge 12y ago
You might get 6x on some multicore benchmarks but for most applications in real life it's safe to say you're unlikely to see that.
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by arbuge 12y ago
Under the "Same" column, it looks like you need to add "Same price - $35". I stocked up on B+s over Christmas - oh well... The "at least 6x" performance claim should be "at least 3x" by the way, and e
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by arbuge 12y ago
The only part I disagree with a bit is the one where he exempts books. I think it is possible to buy too many. I've probably engaged in this behavior myself. I find it hard to resist buying a good book, but I have a bunch of them now p
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by arbuge 12y ago
It sounds like a long time ago but there are some surprisingly good pictures of Queen Victoria out there as photography came into its own in the late 1880s. Here's one of her smiling in a carriage: http://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by arbuge 12y ago
One wrinkle to this is that it is quite possible to become passionate about something which is initially a grind, at which point the state described in the article of it not feeling like work would kick in. In fact there are several success
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by arbuge 12y ago
The wafer is a slab of polysilicon, and has been that way for a long time. Most of those trillions you mention were invested to make the lithography smaller, which is how you get more transistors into the same die. Edit: silicon, not poly s
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by arbuge 12y ago
Really interesting how chips haven't changed much for almost 50 years - except for getting (much) smaller. This could have been a modern die photo except for the scale of things...
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by arbuge 12y ago
Looks really interesting. Where are you guys based? Cambridge, UK I'm guessing?
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by arbuge 12y ago
MOSIS offers multi-project wafer (MPW) runs at 28nm from GlobalFoundries. https://www.mosis.com/products
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by arbuge 12y ago
Reading the article, I see no reason why there should be any major performance issues inherent to RISC-V. Lack of an ecosystem looks like the issue, at least initially. But a $1m licensing fee for a CPU with an established ecosystem is an i
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by arbuge 12y ago
I look forward to a tunnel under the Bering Strait, and trains running from Miami to Madrid via Alaska and Yiwu.
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by arbuge 12y ago
That was my point...
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by arbuge 12y ago
>> The second you raise a $3M seed round, you're on the roller coaster. You will need to show "hockey stick" growth in 12 months, and raise your A in 18. If not, you're dead. Depends how much control you have, and
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by arbuge 12y ago
Automated returns would work in simple cases, but not for expats. Expats have to navigate a complicated maze of tax exemptions, tax credits, and foreign currencies, systems and deadlines which are hard to reconcile with their US counterpart
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by arbuge 12y ago
>> I expect that the American taxation of expats is unlikely to change because there's simply very little economic pressure to do so. On the other hand, it is possible to change it with very little loss of revenue to the US becau
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by arbuge 12y ago
Might work better in the UK than the USA. Average fishing town in the UK is closer to a big city than the average fishing town in the USA.
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by arbuge 12y ago
For this to work well, you'd probably also need some plan to ensure the world's slums don't become dumping grounds for old batteries. Perhaps some kind of program along the lines of "Here's a battery... you can keep
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by arbuge 12y ago
Those 200 years dominated by Britain and the USA as described in the last paragraph are not yet over, if you add their economic output together again...
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by arbuge 12y ago
What exactly is the benefit of this vs. PayPal's Donate Now button? It may be more than 2 lines of code but I don't really care anyway since I'm just cutting & pasting it from PayPal's site...
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by arbuge 12y ago
Not my experience at all. Haven't tried recently but previously they've always been willing to help and even pretty complex technical queries have been answered fast. I didn't need phone support though.
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by arbuge 12y ago
Well, we do have some top-notch coders and engineers in the Dallas area, just as in any major metropolitan area... they're not all in the Valley you know.
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by arbuge 12y ago
That view is still too limited in my opinion. There are massive companies coast to coast in the USA, and they seem to have no problem finding talent (to the extent that of course they do - who doesn't? - but it's survivable). Dall
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by arbuge 12y ago
Be careful he doesn't have the laptop you emailed him from seized. More seriously, although your anger is laudable, complaining to criminals is rarely productive. In this case complaining to whoever can put a stop to this practice is w
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by arbuge 12y ago
I've been in the online advertising world for 10 years and it still befuddles me to see that most ad dollars still haven't switched to cost-per-action (CPA), i.e. only paying for actual conversions. One big benefit of advertising
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by arbuge 12y ago
...and since then it's only grown bigger. Plus ca change...
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by arbuge 12y ago
True but the real point is that he's sufficiently annoyed at that situation to try other retailers instead...
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by arbuge 12y ago
Which is particularly ironic when you consider that the cost of the house typically exceeds the cost of the furniture several times over.

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