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by awinder 6y ago
This money ends in July (or has to be renegotiated), so the moral hazard maybe could apply to a few weeks during re-opening (a rounding error). Or maybe it saves a ton of money for these businesses if re-opening goes south and we have to re
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by awinder 6y ago
I became convinced of cheap point-scoring when LeCun invited Gebru out for a chat because he felt like twitter wasn’t the right medium and got a link with how to properly apologize back, but this rundown would have saved me a lot of time wh
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by awinder 6y ago
I don’t think people are asking for “free”, they’re asking for “at cost”, or some sort of bulk deal. There is actually a lot of precedent for that in SV deals, for one people get some return on investment (the bulk order discount / pro
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by awinder 6y ago
There’s a simple 2 step plan to restoring sanity at Facebook and luckily it’s like one of those coding tasks where you’re just deleting lines and lines of code: 1. Fire the politically-motivated class of executives that sent the company on
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by awinder 6y ago
I haven’t had “the talk” at work and I don’t feel like I’m the one that should bring it up, but was there a decree from up high for renaming or did your team discuss it? I would just caution too that no one speaks on behalf of their whole r
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by awinder 6y ago
No, some people actually understand how the numbers interplay with a real scenario, which is why I gave you the raw numbers to see what you did. And you immediately jumped in and drew an illogical conclusion to support your point. You’re sp
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by awinder 6y ago
“Also, I thought climate change was pretty much a problem of social coordination.” Yeah that argument was extremely dishonest. We don’t build a 1 billion dollar climate change center because that 1 billion is going to beget trillions of dol
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by awinder 6y ago
Deaths trail cases, Texas and Florida currently have 10x the new cases as New York not adjusted for population. You’re making very basic mistakes with numbers, presumably to coach them towards the point you want to make.
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by awinder 6y ago
I’ve been wondering about these sites, there’s several of them. I really need a new guard but I’ve seen some reporting that dentists might be a very high risk place to be. Did you have any problems with fitting / making the mold?
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by awinder 6y ago
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/mapping-s... you’re gonna have to nav down and play with some toggles but I’ve enjoyed using their data. Also you’re gonna need to tune your radar towards Te
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by awinder 6y ago
Also happened in the aftermath of 9/11 and the anthrax mailings which was a big thing in the dc-region, and involved targeting a school which again ups fear factor. Local economies at large were unaffected, everything is/was fine,
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by awinder 6y ago
There’s a cottage industry of these terms apparently, I have “slickdeals.com” autocompleting when typing “sl” and it forwards to a google “snow leopard” search. Maddening.
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by awinder 6y ago
It’s a stupid statement because he’s using imprecision of the English language to try to make some sly commentary on his institutions relative power while also exposing the _exact_ point tech/science makes. While he has the power to ma
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by awinder 6y ago
Honestly not really, because I’m so disconnected from the first generation that I could project that out to 3-4 generations after me and realize — who am I building this for, who even _is_ that person? Maybe they’re awesome and they use it
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by awinder 6y ago
My family trees actions included such egregious sins as being immigrants (fight a generation to survive), and then the next generation fighting to send their kids to college, that generation fighting to learn what tf this world even is, and
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by awinder 6y ago
“At WWDC, Apple shared Safari stats for macOS Big Sur. It reminded me how much Chrome makes my machine go WHURRRRRR. Yesterday, I made Safari my default browser again.” I talk to developer friends in my circles and I’m pretty sure I’m on a
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by awinder 6y ago
Charitably a lot of people (or at least me) are trying to understand how to square that reality with Apple hand leaving that they’re going to “take care of that audience”. I’m starting to worry this is take care of in The Godfather sense of
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by awinder 6y ago
It’s child abuse, but it’s so much worse, which is corrupt child abuse. There’s a multi-office institution which has structured itself to say — hit a kid, make the justification happen. Consider that they’ve got underage kids in the police
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by awinder 6y ago
People in the thread are really gravitating towards using this as a damning piece of evidence for the entire system, and regardless of that might be a fair thing to do, I think this demonstrates opportunity. So the NYT does not have a blank
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by awinder 6y ago
Author dives into this in the post a bit, it's more about how would the NYT write the article about a blog that's no longer there without having to explain their part of poisoning the story. They also talk about prior run-ins with
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by awinder 6y ago
I may just be under-knowledgable of App Store practices but -- how much of this could charitably have to do with how can Apple confirm / accept apps that they can't test? With onboard payments they could fake charges and get into
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by awinder 6y ago
I don’t get this guy. Shocked to hear details? Wasn’t there a company investigation (which he later recounts), was he not even questioned by justice in filing charges against 6 people at the company? This is one of those red flag statement
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by awinder 6y ago
It’s probably a little weirder than that, because what (seems to / likely may have) happened wasn’t even a loss, just a state in the clearing of 2 options. So what if you thought your life savings vanished but they really hadn’t? I’m
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by awinder 6y ago
It's not every app as far as I know because I believe you can opt out of BitCode, but this would be widely the case with exceptions: https://thenextweb.com/apple/2015/06/17/apples-biggest-devel...
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by awinder 6y ago
Hertz lawyer, for one. And I will lose some nominal amount, or maybe I made money, depends on when the index rebalances. But NYSE racing to delist in the face of this move and Hertz own lawyers comments are enough that no, in objective rea
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I’m an investor on the other side who is just minding my own business buying market indices and then all of the sudden, less-than-ethical actors show up and bid up the price. Now I am being effectively taxed by buying portions of a soon-to-
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by awinder 6y ago
Icahn got in in 2014 when the stock price was in the $50-100/share range, he could have been less-dead on the deal if he hit dumb luck timing. Shares are still going to 0, this is a new offering on a company in bankruptcy court and dee
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by awinder 6y ago
America has oscillated between optimizing for individual vs. collective for its entire history. You can see heights of last collective-oriented generation around WW2 but similar eras followed the civil war and revolution.
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by awinder 6y ago
I went down the edgerouter path (edgerouter x sfp) and have regrets, in case others get ideas (or if someone has fixes, I'm all ears). Don't get me wrong, the device works great, I was entertained by it running vyatta which I had
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by awinder 6y ago
Have you considered going in the other direction and working for a public company? I had similar feelings to components of this, and you might find it interesting / refreshing to see how companies work when leadership is primarily gea

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