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by aserafini 10y ago
This is how Amazon benefits from free cash flow in their retail business. With payment days of >90 days to their suppliers but almost immediate payment from their customers they get 90 days to reinvest that money at a profit before payin
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Bitcoin's total value hits record high(reut.rs)
3 points by aserafini 10y ago|0 comments
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by aserafini 10y ago
Biggest effect from reducing my dose of fluoxetine was dreaming again. It's great.
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by aserafini 10y ago
They're not a good example because Amazon is full of MBAs at the middle management and even individual contributor level. But I agree with the general point that 'conventional' business wisdom might not lead you to Amazon&#x2
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by aserafini 10y ago
Data warehouse queries at Amazon worked like this (5 levels of priority). Everyone set the priority for all of their queries to the highest possible level, every time.
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by aserafini 10y ago
pass lets you add any field you want: https://www.passwordstore.org/
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by aserafini 10y ago
Germany has excruciatingly expensive health care compared to the UK and the NHS. Definitely not free or anywhere nearly free.
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by aserafini 10y ago
Seems like the opposite surely? We should be developing languages that more succinctly address the problems we humans are trying to solve not book keeping for the computer's hardware (that should be the computers job!).
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by aserafini 10y ago
Great idea for keeping little company scripts, style guide snippets etc.
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Bpkg: package manager for bash(bpkg.io)
68 points by aserafini 10y ago|32 comments
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by aserafini 10y ago
Reaper DAW. Tiny executable, rock-solid reliability, low RAM and CPU usage, effortlessly configurable. It's closed source so it's just a gut feel but it gives the impression of being 'well made' under the hood. I call it
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by aserafini 10y ago
Agreed, this should never have been a patent.
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by aserafini 10y ago
Yep, this should not be a patent..It's a trivial solution to the problem that could be devised by any sound engineer!
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by aserafini 10y ago
No. Why would it defeat the purpose of having a finite quantity?
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by aserafini 10y ago
The remaining currency just becomes worth more. This is the key point that addresses why hoarding makes no difference to Bitcoin's utility as a currency.
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by aserafini 11y ago
Surely it still causes the same amount of deflation whether currency is printed or not? It's just in your case there is also inflation which offsets the deflation: meaning there is slightly less inflation than there would have been wit
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by aserafini 11y ago
Mining reward and exchange rate gives us a strict upper bound on the cost of energy it's economical to spend on mining but I'm not sure it provides a good estimate of the actual energy being used. If energy_used = mining_reward *
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by aserafini 11y ago
Good point, a better way to compare would be the Watts consumed by each network: that gives you the minimum energy costs required for a 51% attack. Unfortunately I can't seem to find any typical "hashes per joule" numbers for
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by aserafini 11y ago
Although superficially 'almost' as large as Bitcoin in terms of market cap and transaction volume, the amount of hash power securing the Ethereum network is several orders of magnitude lower: Bitcoin: 1.2 Exahash / second Eth
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by aserafini 11y ago
If you make music and use a DAW, then Reaper is a killer app. To run on Linux it's recommended to use WINE. It's speculation, but I'm pretty sure they'd release a native-Linux version if it didn't work so perfectly