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by base698 7y ago
"The results I found were shocking: there were two clearly sustainable open source projects, but the majority (more than 80%) of projects that we usually consider sustainable are actually receiving income below industry standards or e
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by base698 7y ago
If a terrorist acquires a nuclear weapon and detonates it in NYC, what happens to the death rate? The point about tail risk is that probabilities that seem rare, aren't as rare and defined as you'd hope. See: Black Swan/Anti
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by base698 7y ago
I posted this sentiment in another thread and got a huge amount of down votes. The counter point, at least to nuclear, is that we did have a severe nuclear incident @ Chernobyl and Fukushima and neither amounted to millions of deaths. Pagi
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by base698 7y ago
Even without kids, lots of hobbies require going to far away places with equipment. Lots of those places may not have Uber. Kids today just aren't imaginative anymore.
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by base698 7y ago
Fraud. It was apparent they were hurting those quarters and the math didn't seem to add up. The we are profitable announcement was on the heels of high profile departures in their accounting and finance department. https:/&#x2F
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by base698 7y ago
What's the risk threshold you'd be comfortable with? 1 in a 1,000? 6 in 10,000? 13 in 10,000? 1 in 100,000?
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It does need a $400 annual service though, which you can pay for up front.
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> Like everyone, I harbor fantasies about how interesting I am, and if I run into you at the pub, I'll talk your ear off about the places I've been and the things I've done, but if I'm objective about it, none of it i
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by base698 7y ago
No, the inventors would become influencers selling CBD oil.
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by base698 7y ago
I've seen Java code bases with anonymous inner classes in anonymous inner classes. So where is your God now?
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by base698 7y ago
The short of it, is that in some cases stocks have gone up 2 to 3 times their value in 5 years, yet revenues have been flat. Also, companies have been doing stock buy backs in some cases using bond debt to do it. Another kind of interestin
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by base698 7y ago
Last year this time some of the same models selling for $40k in the used market were $80k. These were for some of the oldest cars in the pre-owned segment. The biggest hit to value came with the Tesla price lowering. Id expect a 20% loss b
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by base698 7y ago
I bought a Model S last year and around the time of weedgate I decided the risk was too great and sold the car. It seems from the used market that the value has plummeted. The one I bought is easy $40k less just a year old. Repairs and pa
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by base698 7y ago
> They break at much much lower rates, because they have many fewer parts. I don't really believe this is true. This is Tesla marketing spin. At one point every vehicle produced was having the drive unit replaced. There have been
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by base698 7y ago
You run the risk of not being able to or doing expensive IVF.
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by base698 8y ago
Most of the boomer airline pilots will be retired in the next decade. The number of pilots in the US currently is about half of what it was in 1980. I'd imagine the demand for air travel has not decreased by half in that same time fr
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by base698 8y ago
The complications with flying a twin engine during a single engine failure have more to do with flight characteristics than structural. Ie, does the rudder have enough authority to stop a spin or does the engine provide enough thrust to mai
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by base698 8y ago
Was there for this flight yesterday, and with someone who worked on the project. Most runways are too narrow for both the wingspan and wheel span. It is quite limited in areas it can land and take off.
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by base698 8y ago
Ever edit a 200 line yaml file? There are worse options than JSON.
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by base698 8y ago
It's actually not that hard: The formula: number(Optional) action movement Examples: 2 dl - delete two characters right dw - delete a word yb - copy back a word y/foo - copy to the search foo 4cw - change the next four w
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by base698 8y ago
Postman defines societies as having three distinct stages: 1) Tool-using: where tools are just something humans use to further their basic needs. 2) Technocracy: Where inventing for the sake of inventing starts to happen for the sake of &qu
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by base698 8y ago
Eh, so if you get a dinner that taste like shit or a haircut that looks lumpy and terrible you can't tell? Held in high regard isn't the point, it's that you know what bad food tastes like. It's nearly impossible to tel
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by base698 8y ago
His broader point is that the medium melds the form of the message. In ancient times we'd have "Old Wive's Tales" that pass the good information around. In a Technopoly you have the same information taking the form of
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by base698 8y ago
It's definitely something tangential to McDonaldization. It's kind of Instagramization. IE. When cold brew coffee or whatever new trend gets popular then it's in every metro instantly. It's rare to go to a place that
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by base698 8y ago
“Technopoly is a state of culture. It is also a state of mind. It consists in the deification of technology, which means that the culture seeks its authorization in technology, finds its satisfactions in technology, and takes its orders fro
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by base698 8y ago
I'd pick the distracted driver's currently and for two good reasons: 1) Computer has bugs that will kill the driver 100/100 times if they encounter that case. Driving at the guard rail, the truck decapitation and whatever bu
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by base698 8y ago
Even worse when you have a set against two pair with one card to come and the only card to help the other guy is the higher of his two pair and it hits with all your money in. About a 95% favorite.
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by base698 8y ago
I used to be profitable in the golden days being a nit and just letting the huge swaths of players pay me off. So many all-ins to bluff me off while holding top set, nut straight, or nut flush. Just recently got back playing and am trying
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by base698 8y ago
It's funny how all the Occupy Wall Street protesters on the news were homeless, all Obama supporters were welfare supported, and all Trump supporters are ignorant rednecks. Socialists are all unemployed and look lazy. So weird how the

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