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by blululu 4y ago
Pretty much every capital asset depreciates. Even with basic maintenance everything wears out over time. Only legal entities are immune from the ravages of time.
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by blululu 4y ago
A quick google search on the subject is not so clear cut (try ML compiler and Compiler ML). In either case, this is a discussion of compilers where audience skews toward an interest in programming languages. In this context abbreviation is
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by blululu 4y ago
“You can learn more about someone through an hour of play…” Cheating for in a game suggests a poor character. Imagine how one might behave if the stakes were material.
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by blululu 4y ago
LBJ frequently brought that up in negotiations. It was his prerogative so to speak.
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by blululu 4y ago
Jefferson would mostly be blue. The emerald triangle is left/libertarian and a lot of boomers there have no access to Fox News and are still salty about the time Regan landed a helicopter on their ranch to shoot up their weed crop. Je
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by blululu 4y ago
Check the authors' names before calling them names.
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by blululu 4y ago
I am a bit disappointed that discussions of audio based social media is basically limited to Clubhouse. Personally I really enjoyed using Dialup. I joined in ~2019 and it was a great place to have real conversations with total strangers. Du
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by blululu 4y ago
I don’t think this is true in the slightest. At UC, research assistants typically make more than Grad Students or post-docs (of course the overhead and mentorship are also different and allegedly there is some possibility for greater career
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by blululu 4y ago
Only possible if you are a late career academic with a lab and a publication record. They are paying for the prestige and the pipeline to new hires more than the technical advice (ok sometimes they pay for the technical advice but I’ve neve
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by blululu 4y ago
(Public School) Teacher pay is largely structured to encourage retention. The salary is pretty lousy if you only do it for 2 years, but if you stick around for 40 years it is a well paying job in most States. The pay increases for seniority
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by blululu 4y ago
Probably not. Rents dropped (supply meets demands - even in San Francisco). Most people I know who were unhappy with their apartment moved across town and got better deals (myself included). If you left you probably left because you had no
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by blululu 4y ago
Recommending a book on Marketing Science at the end is what really annoyed me the most about this.
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by blululu 4y ago
Yes, but not as the author describes it. The author has a very narrow and circumscribed view of liberal arts. Going back to the beginnings: The “liberal” in Liberal Arts comes from liberate. The arts that free the soul. In its original form
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by blululu 4y ago
I think the VC who runs this site wrote an essay about this tactic a while ago: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by blululu 4y ago
Salaries, rent on office space, equipment... If a company raises $50M in funding, spends $30M in four years before it gets acquired for $80M, then net-net the investors have same amount of money after 4 years of work.
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by blululu 4y ago
1.) Probably not, but what is the prize here? San Francisco is a beautiful city, but people constantly complain about the fact that it is overrun by yuppie tech people who have zero connection with the place and who frequently express their
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by blululu 4y ago
This is a pretty strong statement for a simple policy on a complicated set of issues. Open borders are cosmopolitan but they also rely upon a very specific set of culturally rooted practices, laws, and civic institutions (unless we will hav
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by blululu 4y ago
It's mostly just in Latin American varieties of Spanish and Portuguese. In conversational European Spanish/Portuguese (and pretty much every other language on Earth) American is the standard demonym for people of the United States
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by blululu 4y ago
The actual research comes from 2018: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1718793115 The one thing that stands out is that the sample population comes from Norwegian Military conscripts. Since the end of the Cold
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by blululu 4y ago
“The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in ‘Metcalfe’s law' becomes apparent: most people have nothing to say to each other! By 2005, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no gre
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by blululu 4y ago
ML has reached a level of maturity and ubiquity that it is having an effect on almost every area of computing. I have personally seen applications for ML that have moved the needle of consumer electronics applications. A lot of this is old
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by blululu 4y ago
Why would you even bother searching for extraterrestrial works that are not as nice as California? Nobody is going to travel 50,000 light years to get to a colder, drier Saskatchewan. In some seriousness though, the total range of possibili
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by blululu 4y ago
>> A degree makes these things substantially more likely. There is a bit of a leap from more likely on a low probability event to probably will pay off their debt. Getting promoted at a Faang company takes a good bit of work. Becoming
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by blululu 4y ago
Unclear if anything would go extinct but most of that water drains into Humboldt Bay. There are several robust salmon and trout fisheries which would almost certainly take a beating. These steams support river otters whose numbers have neve
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by blululu 4y ago
This is less of a solution than people in Kern county would like to hope for. That environmental water use is almost entirely in Humboldt and the surrounding counties (Trinity, Del Norte, Mendocino). Those people will be just as unhappy abo
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by blululu 5y ago
Unrelated to the main thread, but I would content “Natural” scrolling is a different epistemological process. There is/was a lot of user research on this topic. Inverting the scroll direction on a trackpad relative to the display is mo
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by blululu 5y ago
Is this a serious question? Snapchat has 300 Million Daily Active Users with a user base that skews affluent and young (globally). That's ~$1.50 per user which is relatively low monetization rate compared to rivals.
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by blululu 5y ago
Except that an AirBnB now typically costs more than a hotel for basic travel (a private bedroom & bathroom with wifi and maybe some basic kitchen supplies for coffee). AirBnB also uses a bunch of dark patterns (service fees and taxes ar
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by blululu 5y ago
Any citations or rationale for this? Real Estate will have to deal with exorbitant valuations and actual interest rates for the first time in a decade. Agriculture makes sense (people need to eat just as much now as ever and there are som
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by blululu 5y ago
Not by default though and this is terrible UX. Everyone who claims that they have a good feed also makes a point of stating something like 'you need to curate your feed'. It takes active intervention to prevent the app from disint

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