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by baby-yoda 4y ago
a couple other comments have touched on something ive thought about alot recently; as ev adoption continues we are going to observe more asymmetry between older cars which are lightweight and relatively lower to the ground, and massive EVs
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by baby-yoda 4y ago
agree - apple says they're doing this for "privacy" but there is no way to verify they are not tracking/storing this data themselves. in todays world its simply too valuable and apples tentacles are far too reaching for
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by baby-yoda 4y ago
is it possible to DIY something like this, and is it worth the hassle? my thought was 2 VPS and use Wireguard multihop. VPS 0 connected from my home router, VPS 1 connected to VPS 0 via private networking (ideally in a different geo locatio
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by baby-yoda 4y ago
I agree re: European examples but my argument there is many of these cities developed over long time periods with stable growth in population, stable industry etc, whereas now it seems like the idea is to simply explode urban housing capaci
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by baby-yoda 4y ago
with the explosion in popularity of the pi in both home and commercial use I wonder if it makes sense for the pi foundation to shift more towards the compute module style and let the market handle the io/specialization aspect? id assum
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by baby-yoda 4y ago
> The hardest part, still fully unsolved, is operating with current legislation and outdated city planning rules. Those normatives revolve around high density and cheap development. Nature takes space and efficient buildings are expensiv
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by baby-yoda 5y ago
at least historically they had a DI/DS scheme (like many mega corps) so theres probably 10s of millions that are "expensed" to a foreign subsidiary to avoid tax.
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by baby-yoda 5y ago
I was wondering about this - what's to stop him from creating 3 permanently sealed South Dakota trusts, acquiring 14% in each, and combined with his personal share calling a vote and immediately rejecting the poison pill and firing the
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by baby-yoda 5y ago
my initial reaction is this is gov't overreach however considering the current state of healthcare-attached-to-employment, this policy will probably be zero sum in the long run. this allows more employees to hit "full time" s
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by baby-yoda 5y ago
sounds like this would only apply to hourly employees, considering the mention of 1.5x pay in excess of 32h.
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by baby-yoda 5y ago
- understanding your tools : what are you using day in, day out. are there "tricks" or efficiencies you can gain by learning them better? can spending time improving or perfecting your abilities here offer marginal improvement th
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by baby-yoda 5y ago
this is all on my homelab to-tinker list - any further comments you can share? assuming with a CA, DNS and NTP everything stays up without missing a beat if you lose WAN for some time?
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by baby-yoda 5y ago
interesting proposal from the competitive aspect of the game and as a fan this would likely be more exciting. However, a proposal like this is quite incomplete without factoring in the draft, salary cap and most importantly, IMO, the revenu
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by baby-yoda 5y ago
avocado might not be so trustworthy, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30105062 ghee is a great alternative IMO.
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by baby-yoda 5y ago
poolside.fm however upon visiting just now it appears there has been an upgrade to poolsuite.net
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by baby-yoda 5y ago
tidying up the finances for an eventual acquisition. as far as shareholders are concerned, looking as good as possible on paper is priority #1.
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by baby-yoda 5y ago
id attribute it to the maximizer mindset - take Meta for example. reports are metaverse development cost $10 billion so far. development came from zuckerberg himself so no one is getting fired, but say an apple VP sponsors a project that cr
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by baby-yoda 5y ago
i'm no expert in the inner workings of apple but i would have considered Ive head of product. just curious as to why you put Schiller ahead? of course Marketing is an integral part of any large business and of course apple has been wel
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by baby-yoda 5y ago
just my humble opinion - i believe aapl has crossed the threshold into the territory which steve jobs famously described as the hallmark of the Scully era[0] - their endless pursuit for revenue has pushed sales and marketing people to the f
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by baby-yoda 5y ago
Soft drinks mostly, but even that appeared to be in the early stages of tapering as of 2005. What is next? https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/charts/58920/finding_buzbyf...
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by baby-yoda 5y ago
having a fair bit of experience in SketchUp myself, the author is building as most people do when they first pick up the tool. As in, thinking about building like its a literal sketch on a piece of paper, rather than in 3D. The finished bui
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by baby-yoda 5y ago
somewhat related to this, i came across the following blog the other day (possibly an HNer?) https://blog.networkprofile.org which details steps taken by the author to mitigate any future outages like what they experienced in th
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by baby-yoda 5y ago
at an internship in college (large consumer electronics company) one of my daily tasks was to take an export from the ERP system, format it in a specific way, save it to a shared drive and email to a few different people. it was really repe
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by baby-yoda 5y ago
skin in the game exposes what outcome a particular party is truly interested in. schools will avoid this like the plague, IMO.
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by baby-yoda 5y ago
> On the other hand, taking a median software job in the Bay Area is definitely not worth the cost of living increase, IMO, unless you’re using it as a pivot into a FAANG level job later. not too familiar with the Bay Area - are median c
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by baby-yoda 5y ago
makes sense, i hadn't thought about the grade inflation aspect. somewhat akin to the prevalence of fraud in asset bubbles. i also wonder if something like the power law is in play - larger schools fairing better with a larger student b
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by baby-yoda 5y ago
thank you for linking stats. going back to 1998 there is clearly huge growth. total enrollment might already be taking a hit but i am referring more to the expenditure side of things - dorm buildings, campus luxuries, etc. the figures from
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by baby-yoda 5y ago
colleges have been expanding with zero constraints for 20+ years - demand for degrees increased significantly, enrollment went up and up, student loans being federally backed were given out to anyone for any amount so tuition naturally incr
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by baby-yoda 5y ago
how long til ATT/Verizon do the same? is there any refuge, like Twilio? alternatively, what would it take to roll your own/DIY private relay? 2 DO droplets, droplet0 runs OpenVPN or something, then private networked to droplet1 wh
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by baby-yoda 5y ago
search ads responsible for the rise of google search[1], content ads (seo spam) responsible for google search's fall? my guess is the rate of spam content production far outpaces the rate of original content creation. so the power law

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