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by bkanber 9y ago
They're not running the air conditioners directly from the solar. They're using solar power to offset the energy cost of the AC.
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by bkanber 9y ago
I forget which report it was in but the average tech-focused startup spends 10-15% of revenue on infrastructure. Mature businesses spend ~5%.
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by bkanber 9y ago
I used to be lazy. For me there was no tactic that solved the problem, but instead a realization that hit me one day. Why was I not more successful? Nobody's going to hand me success on a silver platter. Nobody's going to make me
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by bkanber 9y ago
The article goes into depth on this. It has nothing to do with hearing, but rather the balance system of the inner ear. Cheetas' inner ears are different from other cats, and they have more brainpower for processing the balance signals
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by bkanber 9y ago
Not disagreeing with you, just adding: Debt is not inherently bad. If the concept of debt didn't exist our society would hardly have advanced in the last 2000 years. We owe a ton of our society's development to the fact that banke
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by bkanber 9y ago
> “While some things, like dominance, are highly related to morphological features, there are things like trustworthiness and even attractiveness which are highly dependent on facial expressions,” says Todorov > Of course, while you m
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by bkanber 9y ago
Is that in the article? I don't see it -- maybe it was removed as inaccurate?
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by bkanber 9y ago
What about my other points?
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by bkanber 9y ago
They do get golden parachutes. If you're a pro football player and you get benched in game 1 with a season-ending injury, you still get paid. If you get cut for poor performance before your contract's guaranteed payout is paid, yo
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by bkanber 9y ago
Willing, but not able. There are lots of people willing to be astronauts and NFL players too. The small pool represents the top performers, and that's where the competition is.
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by bkanber 9y ago
Aetna's CEO is not an employee of Aetna, he is an Officer of the corporation.
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by bkanber 9y ago
> By contrast, CEOs in other countries don't make such obscene numbers By contrast, companies in other countries don't make such obscene numbers. Don't forget that our economy eclipses everyone else's. Our economy i
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by bkanber 9y ago
All free and competitive markets are taken to be efficient. In a market where a million wannabe-CEOs are vying for one of the top 500 spots, you get tough competition and the compensation is commensurate with the level of competition.
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by bkanber 9y ago
If you want a golden parachute like that, then you also need to be one of the top 500 or 1000 sought-after CEOs in the country. Just like if you want a pro footballer's (NFL) salary, you need to be one of the top 1500 players. Software
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by bkanber 9y ago
Yes, that's true. When a pro NFL player gets injured in game 1 and has to sit out the rest of the season, they still get paid. If I get injured and can't code, I'm screwed. If we're talking about Fortune 500 CEOs, we&#x2
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by bkanber 9y ago
> Athletes and celebrities are different, their pay is a natural consequence of gathering lots of attention. And a Fortune 500 CEO's pay is a natural consequence of being a Fortune 500 CEO. There are only 500 of them. This is the to
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by bkanber 9y ago
> But what actual risk is the CEO taking? Not much financial risk, no. But they are accountable in many other ways. Personally, I'd never want to be the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, even with a $10M salary. > usually comes with
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by bkanber 9y ago
> Huge upside with limited downside From your perspective, sure, especially if you're only considering financial downside. There are huge non-financial downside risks, like staking your personal reputation on the performance of the
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by bkanber 9y ago
You're right, partially. The thing about free markets is that the average value across all data points will converge to the free market value, and there are outliers on both sides. There are lots of CEOs that are under-paid for their a
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by bkanber 9y ago
I'm all for taxing the rich and compensating workers fairly. But: - Had the company declined, the CEO would have gotten all the blame and been crucified. Can't give blame if you can't also give credit. - The CEO negotiated th
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by bkanber 9y ago
You have to apply the context before you call the (correct) headline misleading. This is a physical sciences context so this is the correct use of "ordered" -- as in "order and disorder", i.e. symmetry and correlation. Y
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by bkanber 9y ago
I disagree. There are still lots of tasks out there that fit MTurk. Take something like "look at a picture and determine the person's race". Costs five cents for a Turk to do that. You can certainly train an RNN plus a Bayesi
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by bkanber 9y ago
Situation is obviously completely different. Google was not reprinting, packaging and selling the books like Netflix was in the OP.
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by bkanber 9y ago
Yes it is reasonable. Graphic designers typically use stock materials so that they know the licenses are taken care of. Many companies have a "nothing but stock" policy to ensure this exact issue never occurs, and they pay Getty e
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by bkanber 9y ago
> Democrats use drones to kill innocent or presumed-guilty people in other countries. That's not a Democrat thing, that's an American thing. We don't have enough data to say democrats use drones more than republicans. GW B
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by bkanber 9y ago
Similar to GTD, I use a technique called "Bullet Journaling" [1] and it's been transformative. It's less opinionated than GTD and I find it flows a bit more readily. I find it ironic that as a tech CTO I'm connected
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by bkanber 9y ago
You're using the right words. (Except for "co-hort" which should just be "cohort" ;)
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by bkanber 9y ago
If you are denied a prescription refill because of an insurance lapse, you can get reimbursed for your out-of-pocket expense once you have insurance again. It's true that some people may not be able to pony up $100 for a refill, but if
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by bkanber 9y ago
A typical truck has a Cd of 0.7-0.9
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by bkanber 9y ago
Yes rack and pinion is for steering. Parent may have meant "ring and pinion" which would refer to the differential gear ratio.

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