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by barnacled 6y ago
Yes it is astonishing - I think the fact the context ends criticism of measures that would be considered laughable at ordinary times goes a long way to explaining similarly extreme measures we find difficult to understand from the past. His
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by barnacled 6y ago
Swine flu didn't kill 1.5M. Swine flu wasn't covered up at source with doctors arrested and sanctioned. Swine flu didn't come after a very similar outbreak in 2003 where worldwide experts told america 'this particular ki
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by barnacled 6y ago
I think it's precisely an attitude like this which is the problem. The US/UK and China are incomparable. For example, you can say what you just said without consequence. Try that in China. There is no rule of law there, prosecutor
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by barnacled 6y ago
There'd certainly be rigorous demands on precisely how either country would demonstrate that the risk had been mitigated and widespread damning coverage and condemnation. The CCP (who have all but destroyed and coopted the great histor
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by barnacled 6y ago
It continues to astonish me the degree to which a literal concentration camp operating totalitarian state can get away with barely a mention after unleashing a pandemic which has killed 1.5M people. Historians will look back on this with ho
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by barnacled 6y ago
This is nice and all and I am being 'that guy' nit picking but I hate the use of 'OS' when this is actually a Linux distribution. It is really confusing as in some cases an 'xxxOS' really is a new OS but more s
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by barnacled 6y ago
An SIP scheme would likely have reduced tax. There were also likely alternative arrangements that could have legally been made to be more efficient even in the absence of the scheme. Ultimately I would have preferred to know in advance even
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by barnacled 6y ago
I was lucky enough to cash out of a startup after 7 years and 3 or 4 rounds of funding (I had left by the time I got the payout) as a share buyback for one of the VC investors. I was diluted from 3.2% to about 1.3% but the value of the comp
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by barnacled 6y ago
yeah there surely must be a fairly large floor before an IPO makes any sense. I'm pretty convinced the one I cashed out of is going to get diluted a bit more than acqui-hired by one of the big investors (who is in the same field as the
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by barnacled 6y ago
what was the company valued at and what % did you own after dilution? Roughly speaking of course. I cashed out $500k pre-tax as employee #1 at ~1.3% post-dilution but pre-IPO with the startup valued at $35M so had the company been valued at
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by barnacled 6y ago
just to a add a raw account of my experience for what it's worth: I joined a startup as employee #1 and though I opted to have slightly more salary than shares I ended up with 3.2% of the shares. I was with the startup long enough to f
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by barnacled 6y ago
I am seeing a trend recently of comparing the plague to covid 19 and it is rather frustrating. The case fatality rate of the black death was 30-60% pretty much across the board for the bubonic variant. Covid 19 is 0.4% and really that is he
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by barnacled 6y ago
While I think Russ is brilliant and deeply qualified for that role, his BDFL position differs considerably from that of e.g. Guido (well pre resignation) or Linus in that he is considerably more 'D' than either of them. And probab
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by barnacled 6y ago
The real question is, moving forward, if somebody submits a proposal, properly tested, described and discussed with the community that makes a fundamental or deeper change whether that is likely to be accepted or not. The bazaar certainly e
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by barnacled 6y ago
I am a Linux kernel contributor and former golang and chromium contributor and to be honest the latter experiences makes me leary about contributing to another Google project. There generally tends to be an insular 'cathedral' rat
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by barnacled 6y ago
No IMG would have happily taken them to court it just wasn't financially viable and apple have effectively infinite resources. IMG were fools to rely on apple so much but this isn't a new development. Apple have repeatedly done th
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by barnacled 6y ago
Their GPU _is_ imagination's GPU in my opinion. Heavily customised (they had a full ARM-like license to do so) but the fundamentals are all the same. Apple claimed that they'd completely reinvented a GPU that didn't rely on a
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by barnacled 6y ago
This is obviously about control. Apple's MO with every _smaller_ supplier has been: 1. Set up office down the road 2. Poach top engineers 3. Come up with some excuse to cancel use of supplier and integrate in house. The media and fanbo
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by barnacled 6y ago
I'm not a fan of the 10x programmer concept. I have worked with some brilliant people, some incredibly efficient people, as well as both medicore and poor coders. There are things brilliant programmer can do and concepts they can reali
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by barnacled 6y ago
I think there's something to this but Derek is falling into a couple traps here - first the trap of good, pithy writing, and secondly assuming everybody else has he has. I absolutely accept that learning to live frugally and no longer
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by barnacled 6y ago
https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/china/ That concerns me as to the validity of the Paris accord then. They also have 1/2 of the world's coal capacity and absolutely no plans to reduce that. The
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by barnacled 6y ago
Thanks. And no I'm probably not changing minds, unfortunately these issues seem to be quite naturally polarised. It reminds me of gun control somewhat - both sides having a highly emotive connection to their positions and feeling as if
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by barnacled 6y ago
It's funny because I actually remember the unleaded/leaded transition and petrol stations were stocking it very early on. The equivalent simile here would be if unleaded was going to be made mandatory in a year and basically 3 pet
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by barnacled 6y ago
Apples and oranges really - the difference in time at pump vs time charging is orders of magnitude. In order for this to work you'd need vast numbers of charging points and the entire electrical grid to be upgraded. This is not somethi
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by barnacled 6y ago
I agree that once it becomes feasible many would prefer autonomous (hell yeah, a cheap ride home when I'm drunk? Or a sleep on the way to work? Ideal) but given the timelines we should look elsewhere for the time being. I think "f
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by barnacled 6y ago
RE: Chinese GDP Chinese GDP is probably not a great measure as a large % of the population are still very poor and have therefore very low consumption. In order for a larger amount of people to transition into the middle class would start m
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by barnacled 6y ago
RE: climate hysteria I was actually responding to the parent who was saying this was nowhere near enough. RE: Viability, I mean perhaps I worded that poorly - I think it's _possible_ to do it, I just think it will be exceptionally diff
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by barnacled 6y ago
Do you really think I advocate for no action to be taken? Taking your first sentence at face value it appears you believe in an all or nothing approach. Also, and again I know this is a sensitive area so I understand why you are coming acro
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by barnacled 6y ago
You are correlating 'a practical middle ground' with 'not addressing it'. I am also really not sure why you are bringing politics into this. I get the analogy but that's such an easy way to turn this into a divisive
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by barnacled 6y ago
>Are these not mostly proxy emissions for western countries? E.g. is it the case that people in these countries are emitting pollution due to their lifestyles, or is the pollution mostly from energy, transport and manufacturing in the pu

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