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by bduerst 6y ago
Yeah, Amazon's operating income margin is about 15-20% before R&D expenses. To GP's point though, there is only so much market capacity for Amazon's growth so there will be a point that investors think that Amazon would b
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by bduerst 6y ago
Looks great. Are users able to query commits/historical values to a cell inside their SQL query? i.e. "Select population.master, population.branch2, population.commit123.diff from state_populations"
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by bduerst 6y ago
>When I was a grad student at MIT, it was easy to read papers; if your IP was from MIT, every paper was 1 click away. Isn't this predatory pricing?
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by bduerst 6y ago
Reminds me of this parable (paraphrased): A man is standing on a beach after a storm with the tide out, where there are thousands of starfish baking in the sun, slowly dying. The man is picking up the starfish one at a time, and throwing t
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by bduerst 6y ago
So it's natural to sometimes see visual artifacts in neurotypical adults. We don't actually see with our eyes, but with our brains. As a neural network, the brain builds the visual image in one part, and then filters out parts of
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by bduerst 6y ago
The short description is it's a hallucination, the long description is that it's not a hallucination, but seeing more of what's there, all the time. Like seeing the white blood cells in capillaries on the surface of your eye
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by bduerst 6y ago
Psychedelics can cause HPPD (temporary) and Visual Snow Syndrome (permanent) in people, where they hallucinate while completely sober, sometimes indefinitely for the rest of their lives. As someone with Visual Snow Syndrome (not contracted
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by bduerst 6y ago
Real question: How would you identify and ban shell corps at scale?
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by bduerst 6y ago
You created two new accounts back to back just to comment this - why?
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by bduerst 6y ago
Why even use trucks? Make a blimp mothership and keep it under 400 ft (FAA class G). You save energy by dropping drone packages down the gravity well rather than flying it up from ground-based transport.
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by bduerst 6y ago
Unlike Amazon, Google has more domain-related services than just Cloud - i.e. Analytics, Sites, Places, etc - which is probably why it's still independent.
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by bduerst 6y ago
FDR packed the court with his own judges when others had retired during his term. That's how he got the New Deal through, not on threats or cowing.
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by bduerst 6y ago
My wife is Czech and just said nobody cares.
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by bduerst 6y ago
You're wrong, there are still mods for the subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/about/moderators Only the ones trying to fight reddit admins were removed: https://www.reddit.com&#x2F
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by bduerst 6y ago
L.L. Bean isn't quite as bad as Patagonia wrgt price point. Have you tried them?
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by bduerst 6y ago
I honestly thought Giphy was vyying for an acquisition from Slack that never materialized.
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by bduerst 6y ago
The mods changed it so only an approved user list can post. You can stop trying to find a reason to say reddit removed the sub now.
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by bduerst 6y ago
We're talking about Wisconsin legislature here and they have not.
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by bduerst 6y ago
>Unfortunately, reddit seems to have disabled searching in The_Donald, so I can't poke around for what you describe. Do you really use reddit search? Because it is a steaming pile of uselessness. You can still visit or subscribe
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by bduerst 6y ago
the_donald was quarantined, not removed, because mods failed to remove active calls for violence against individuals, who happened to be police. - Are there subreddits where people call for violence against police in general? Yes, and mods
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by bduerst 6y ago
>They can. Which doesn't answer the question if they have . This isn't some partisan bill but a force of nature, and if they are flexing their powers for the sake of posturing then more Wisconsin citizens will die if there i
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by bduerst 6y ago
Are they issuing orders for internment camps to battle covid 19? Then how is it not a red herring to the question about there being zero precedence for stay-at-home during a pandemic?
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by bduerst 6y ago
Exactly. This isn't some false dichotomy between poverty and pandemic, there are a number of options.
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by bduerst 6y ago
The solution then is that the legislature flex their powers and prerogatives to solve the covid-19 problem. Have they signalled that they plan on doing that? Or is this a matter of hubris?
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by bduerst 6y ago
As someone who grew up in WI, I can say it's disgusting to watch the state get ransacked, from the gerrymandering to the pillaging of the UW system, to the rejection of universal collective bargaining rights and evicting of citizens of
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by bduerst 6y ago
At bigger companies it's almost needed. Harder to desk stalk someone who has been dodging you when they're remote.
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by bduerst 6y ago
I interned in St. Louis one summer and my neighbor worked at Boeing. The only reason I remember him to this day is because he introduced himself as a programmer working on smart bombs. He immediately said it was okay because he didn'
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by bduerst 7y ago
Yeah, it's like inverse survivor bias.
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by bduerst 7y ago
I'm not so sure it's 'fawning' so much as he's in the spotlight so much because his state is currently the worst.
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by bduerst 7y ago
Global companies employ regional sales and marketing people, since those are typically the most effective workers in those roles. Once you start layering on countries, there are also administrative roles that get added.

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