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by belval 4y ago
You have to love the cold calculating thought process of fund managers. That statement basically translates to "Your engineers are better than everyone else and can keep their salary, but your other employees are grossly overpaid"
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by belval 4y ago
No, but it's safe to say that has time goes by, more and more people are building houses that way. Which would show up in time to build metrics. I don't know the build code in the US, but in Canada (Quebec) most new constructions
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by belval 4y ago
Pretty sure this is the right answer and calling this "worker productivity" seems a bit harsh. A "Pretty Good House" (book that was on the front page last week) includes insulation above and below the foundation slab, va
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by belval 4y ago
I mean she pretty much explains the whole process of getting it. If you're willing to get prosecuted just go get it yourself.
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by belval 4y ago
Not really, it's financing 101. If the cost of borrowing money is low then it's worth taking on debt to finance your growth. Once the rates rise you can service that debt (likely at ~1.5%) and reap the rewards on extend yourself w
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by belval 4y ago
Nice PR/buzzword soup they got there, the article is almost entirely devoid of substance. The part on "Responsible AI" reminds me of the "Tethics" episode of Silicon Valley, brought to you by the people who own ~30%
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by belval 4y ago
I think this blog falls into a common issue of conflating natural talent/skills with what the person does to cultivate that talent. In other words, Simon is an anomaly and it's not clear that what he does makes him exceptional so
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by belval 4y ago
The seconds are not a denominator, OP was doing TWh / W as if W = 1 / 3600 * Wh which is not the case.
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by belval 4y ago
An explanation could be that people driving Hertz cars are not optimizing for car longevity which breaks more stuff earlier? Also 10,000-20,000 miles in pure city environment can still take a toll on the brakes which the EV would be more re
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by belval 4y ago
A watt is not a per-second measure, Wh are the energy measurement to W being the power. TWh = 10^12Wh which means a trillion-watt for 1 hour. 10^12 / 20 (power of brain) / 24 (hours in a day) / 365 (days in a year) = 5 707 76
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by belval 4y ago
Honestly I don't see how that could be true. If you hire me and fire me on my first day for no reason I am pretty sure you could prove that there are significant damages, the implication being that you would not have left your job in t
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by belval 4y ago
In the absolute no this is not legal, but in practice for a company that has been dead for a while after scamming a lot of people I wouldn't be overly concerned of legal repercussions.
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by belval 4y ago
Replace the F from Facebook with the M from Meta and now we can have "MANGO" which is an acronym that would absolutely catch.
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by belval 4y ago
I mean that example is frustrating because obviously `make deploy` and `python deploy.py` are both pretty simple so they are easy to remember. One common pattern that I'll see though is deploy.py not being top level so `python deploy.p
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by belval 4y ago
I don't know if that pattern has a name, but I really love that on my team if there is a script it should be runnable through the Makefile. I know some people are very good a remembering commands, but I'm not and being able to do
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by belval 4y ago
> age verification for any website that contains 33.3 percent or more pornographic material (a digression: we're seeing a strong opportunity here for sites featuring only 33.2 percent pornographic material). So what they can just ad
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by belval 4y ago
In my experience (studying for my masters) most interesting professors have one class that they care about (the precise field that they are working on) and the rest could be taught by anyone else. Being a good researcher is not correlated t
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by belval 4y ago
I forgot that one, it's even more story breaking than the rest of my list.
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by belval 4y ago
The Last Jedi was completely disjointed from the previous movie, introduced "fuel" as a plot device that hadn't been even mentioned in the 7 previous movies, gave us the Mary Poppins Princess Leia, had a weird and heavy hande
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by belval 4y ago
This is a very emotional topic so I want to avoid being too critical of that opinion, but at the same time, it's much much deeper than "doesn't want to". Dementia patients depending on their state are a danger to others
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by belval 4y ago
I know the HN reaction on this will likely be negative, but Rainbow Six Siege has a very real toxicity problem and I don't mean "people told me I suck". I was playing with my girlfriend and the mere action of talking got her
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by belval 4y ago
That's not really true, native Linux games are a much harder sell for publishers because the proportion of users is just too low.
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by belval 4y ago
This was explained by another commenter yesterday, but this is not an issue. The 3.15:2.05 ratio is the news as it is the part that was difficult to achieve. The 300MJ accounts for significant laser inefficiencies in much the same way that
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by belval 4y ago
That argument is intellectually dishonest at best. Alcohol causes physical and psychological addiction as well, but its effects are well known and it isn't marketed as a dietary supplement. You also need serious abuse with alcohol to g
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by belval 4y ago
I think you are using the most uncharitable reading here. I had never heard of tianeptine before this article and yes if my doctor was to prescribe it I'd have concern now, but the article is not about it being worst than heroin. It&#x
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by belval 4y ago
> He said he plans to move back to Alabama, where tianeptine is banned. Despite the difficulty of his withdrawal, he said he celebrated his 10-day detox by taking 12 pills. But he doesn’t believe it will override the detox. Man these add
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by belval 4y ago
Indeed, I wonder if they will be able to address this fast enough because it does seem serious. Same goes for the mirrors that are out of reach of the driver for easy cleaning. It could be a pain point. I guess the author wanted the pile-on
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by belval 4y ago
> Investing in typical stocks doesn't directly fund anything, you buy the stock from some other private party. No funds go to the company itself. Of course it does, buying a company's stock raises it's value, making it eas
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by belval 4y ago
That's probably the actual sad point with this entire saga so far. Medically assisted death is not easy to obtain in Canada only a handful of doctors in a hospital can prescribe the drug and you need to fit pretty stiff criteria (which
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by belval 4y ago
Baby boomers life savings are still mostly in retirement funds being used to finance various ventures to get a reasonably good ROI. As the generation ages, the more money will be taken out of those accounts with fewer people to put their ne

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