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by badsock 11y ago
Really important distinction: if you fire a customer you've lost some of your income; if you fire your boss (i.e. you quit) you've lost all your income.
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by badsock 11y ago
It's a godsend for me, and I don't use anything else on AWS. The value is that I can run arbitrary programs written in any language, and have it automatically scale up without having to think about VM instances. In my case there
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by badsock 11y ago
I would say the opposite: too many people are stuck in the wage-slave mentality. To focus the best parts of your life on competing tooth and claw in a zero-sum game of finding employment, with the consequence of failing being homelessness
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by badsock 11y ago
This is one of the big reasons why there shouldn't be a death penalty.
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by badsock 11y ago
I think what people are missing most in this debate is that the guy was just hired as CEO. One of the CEO's most important roles is to manage shitstorms. Whatever your position is on gay marriage, right out of the gate Eich got overwh
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by badsock 11y ago
That's kind of like Nigel from Spinal Tap's argument that his amp goes to 11. I doubt that internally Lyft stores your score on a scale of 1 to 5. It's almost certainly derived from a bunch of other data, or at the very leas
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by badsock 11y ago
The founder got a marketing job, and was good enough at it that when he decided to move cities the company wanted to keep him on as a remote consultant. From there he added a couple more clients, and as the work increased and diversified h
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by badsock 11y ago
Anecdotal data point: I work at one. We've capped both the number of clients and the number of employees at around 12. I work 18 hours a week, so does the founder. The most anyone works is 35, but they're the exception, and the
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by badsock 11y ago
Close - radio waves not sound waves.
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by badsock 11y ago
My experience agrees with yours. I've worked at two companies whose clients have all been non-profits - this has put me in a position to witness the state of dozens of them. I've also spent just as much time in the private sector
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by badsock 11y ago
You are correct about the Gresham's law situation - TIL :) And to clarify, I wasn't strictly referring to government when I said "public organizations". I think any public institution is more or less constantly under th
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by badsock 11y ago
My view is that because the private organizations that undermine the public good are centralized, the public ones need to be as well, if only for self defence. My read of history is that decentralized structures are more productive and bet
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by badsock 11y ago
To echo one of Shivetya's points: the dominate renewables of solar and wind both need some sort of compliment that can fill in the temporary gaps when either demand is high or supply is low. Hydroelectric is great, but there's no
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by badsock 11y ago
People on the left want to emulate places like Norway, not places like Venezuela.
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by badsock 11y ago
The cost to the US to service its debt in 2015 was $220 billion, its GDP in the same year was 16 trillion. I have a hard time believing that what accounts for only 1.3% of the productive output of the US is the number one determanent of it
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by badsock 11y ago
That's my point, though. That sentence was convoluted in such a way as to be persuasive. They said "you can do X, but not Y", instead of saying "You can't do Y". Given that X is emotionally positive, but has
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by badsock 11y ago
The rhetoric in that snippet grosses me out. The first half of the sentence is essentially "granting" the country the ability to make its own laws. It can't grant that, those powers pre-exist the agreement, and therefore it&
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by badsock 11y ago
In my current job I've been working six hours a day, between one and three days a week. My favourite has been two days - enough to feel like I'm contributing to a collectively-held goal and have some workplace socializing, but sh
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by badsock 11y ago
I'm very much on the other side of the political spectrum, but I would have a lot more appreciation for libertarianism if someone could come up with a credible, practical solution for making monopolies (or monopolistic behaviour) rare
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by badsock 11y ago
The "Vector m a" means that it's a vector (like a Python list) that can only be m elements long, and those elements can only be of type a. E.g. "Vector 3 Int" will always be a Vector with three integers in it. If
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by badsock 11y ago
Oh yeah, for sure. This is a terrible place. You should go somewhere else.
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by badsock 11y ago
I think revelation was specifically referring to the word "arbitrary" in your post. That makes it sound like FPGAs can speed up any given algorithm, which is obviously not the case.
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by badsock 11y ago
It may happen rarely, but the positive impacts of things like, say, the printing press are too profound to be dismissed that easily
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by badsock 11y ago
And yet there's a 50% tax break for capital gains in my country. What possible reason is there for such a massive subsidy for something that we don't need, other than corrupt influence on the political system by the wealthy to gi
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by badsock 11y ago
I'm definitely not saying anything against OpenBSD. It's an awesome project and definitely has an edge in a bunch of areas. I think it's really down to whether the people driving the project are your kind of people. That&#x
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by badsock 11y ago
Switching between the BSDs is very easy, and FreeBSD has the most resources for beginners. In any case, I don't think Hubbard's going to get much traction with his plans. And the Gentoo devs are big fans of systemd, so while tech
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by badsock 11y ago
I did about a year ago. It's been wonderful.
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by badsock 11y ago
What about ocean acidification, which is also a very-dangerous effect of increasing atmospheric CO2 levels?
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by badsock 11y ago
You can run arbitrary executables, so it's quite possible to run Go and Ruby now - you're just wasting a few tens of milliseconds starting up a python process that's not going to do anything other than kick off your Ruby (or
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by badsock 11y ago
"No, they don't. The FPGA's have LUTS that represent other logic gates in weird ways for flexibility." LUTs are composed of gates. By gates I mean literal transistors etched in the silicon. They're the simplest fo

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