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811.
by beambot 6y ago
They were most certainly caused by local efforts in the 1950s. The reason the Silicon revolution happened in Silicon Valley had everything to do with Cold War radar systems. I suggest watching Steve Blank's Secret History of Silicon
812.
by beambot 6y ago
When our daughter was one year old, we gave her some child-safe finger paints. Finger prints and hand prints were some of the first "drawings" she made without any parental instruction. She does not have any inherent access to gl
813.
by beambot 6y ago
Makes me nostalgic for the days of Hypercard...
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by beambot 6y ago
Relevant: "The Coming Chip Wars" by Steve Blank https://steveblank.com/2020/06/18/the-coming-chip-wars-of-th...
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by beambot 6y ago
I appreciate the Western convention, but a significant fraction of the world uses pictogram-like written languages (e.g. Chinese). Using pictograms to represent words or concepts isn't that far-fetched.
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by beambot 6y ago
I find it ironic that your examples were single-character roman & greek letters. Why not Cyrillic? Phoenician? I wouldn't use pictograms everywhere, but they could be elegant in certain contexts. E.g. having a dedicated pictogra
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by beambot 6y ago
That's like comparing a Camry to a Deere -- you'd redesign the entire vehicle for peak & nominal loads. Going from a 4,000 lb tesla to a 25,000 lb tractor, you'd accumulate significant additional battery mass & comple
818.
by beambot 6y ago
IIRC, sometimes rent thresholds are baked into financing documents. It's pretty unpalatable for a landlord to drop rent rates & then end up with a capital call from their lender -- especially while facing eviction moratoriums. So
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by beambot 6y ago
Does Autodesk select product names that have close associations with major porn sites? Google has (i.e. YouTube Red).
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by beambot 6y ago
What comes next: Hopefully lunar-based optical & radio telescopes!
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by beambot 6y ago
It's much more tax efficient for Chesky to get loans against his equity in lieu of cash compensation -- especially if he believes that the equity will grow dramatically in value due to an IPO.
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by beambot 6y ago
You also need to account for confounding variables, such as geography. Does Phoenix mirror the nation as a whole?
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by beambot 6y ago
> The foreign investors are tiny in both numbers and political power The exact topic of this article: Small quantities of investors with different economic incentives can result in big effects. > The investors are the like-minded peop
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by beambot 6y ago
At the time of origination, residential mortgages will have limits on the equity-debt ratio. If you fall below a certain threshold (e.g. sub-20% downpayment) your lender may require you to carry private mortgage insurance (PMI). If your ho
825.
by beambot 6y ago
Not sure... Just remember the lore being reported. As with all things cloak & dagger, take it with a grain of salt.
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by beambot 6y ago
CIA plot led to huge blast in Siberian gas pipeline: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/... Leaked extracts in yesterday's Washington Post describe how the operation caused
827.
by beambot 6y ago
While Fred Wilson might be a VC, he's speaking in his capacity as a board member. Boards are critical to corporate governance, and one of their biggest responsibilities on behalf of all shareholders is to hold the CEO & management
828.
by beambot 6y ago
Yay & Nay votes aren't the only job of legislators. They're often responsible for writing good legislation too -- something that's arguably difficult to do if you're new to the job, so the task (largely) falls bac
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by beambot 6y ago
For systems that are infrequently (or sometimes, never) updated, you might want to sign firmware images for as long as possible to ensure the devices can (a) support signed updates from the OEM; and (b) can work indefinitely even if the OEM
830.
by beambot 6y ago
Backstory was published in Science: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/10/electric-shocks-tong...
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by beambot 6y ago
Winter, humidity and rain may be unappealing, but you know what's even worse: months on end of choking smoke & ash. If that's the new normal due to climate change, I think you'll see a lot of permanent displacement.
832.
by beambot 6y ago
It helps to think of your abilities on multiple axes -- sort of like a spider chart. Your expertise is actually the "area under the curve." You may very well be the foremost expert (comparatively) in certain regions of the spider
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by beambot 6y ago
I don't see why reward should be proportional to effort... Rewards should be based on results and outcomes, regardless of the amount of effort involved.
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by beambot 6y ago
Darwin performed hybridization experiments that demonstrated the principles, and the topic appeared as a section in Origin of Species. However, Darwin's experiments lacked statistical rigor -- he didn't do enough variations to ma
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by beambot 6y ago
GE Transportation still exists, just in a different form. It's called Wabtec: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabtec_Corporation Just because it didn't retain the name "GE" doesn't mean the busi
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by beambot 6y ago
> But seeing as how finding local programmers is still not a solved issue They've made it pretty clear that they won't be looking for local programers. They're looking domestically . Presumably, the same processes use
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by beambot 6y ago
You still have industrial test equipment (eg oscilloscopes & network analyzers) that could probably benefit?
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by beambot 6y ago
“I am, at the Fed level, libertarian; at the state level, Republican; at the local level, Democrat; and at the family and friends level, a socialist. If that saying doesn’t convince you of the fatuousness of left vs. right labels, nothing w
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by beambot 6y ago
I understand that... But as stated, the orders themselves are not illegal. It all hinges on intent of "your strategy to dupe other traders", but I fail to see how the algorithm creator would understand a black-box strategy develop
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by beambot 6y ago
> While submitting and then canceling orders isn’t illegal, it is unlawful as part of a strategy intended to dupe other traders. So if you build an algorithm that "learns" this behavior, it's OK since human intent is remov

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