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by boulos 6y ago
Actually, AFAICT, Home Depot has a large business doing financing for precisely this reason. Most Americans can’t afford a $2000-5000 small remodel, but they are willing to pay $200/month on a “no interest for two years” credit card to
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by boulos 6y ago
Fwiw, those are marginal rates and you deduct the “employer half” of self-employment taxes. So a (filing single) contractor making 160,000 in California would pay more like $60k in total taxes (which is still 37.5% effective). But given t
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by boulos 6y ago
Ahh, that makes sense! I’m not used to the term “subsidy” used in this manner (is this a common British English usage for “fee”? In the video you use the term “fee”), but if you’re basically charging ~10% of the invoice then that’s a very d
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by boulos 6y ago
Nice idea! It's kinda like Greensill et al. for smaller businesses. I'm a little confused about your economics though. Your pricing [1] is simple, but I'm a bit surprised that there isn't something that scales with volum
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The Greek Alphabet Will No Longer Be Used to Name Hurricanes(nytimes.com)
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I feel like you’d want something a bit safer than “we don’t store the keys and just rely on the hash to be really good” [1], putting “please do not use this for serious tasks” in a comment embedded in the header file isn’t a clear enough wa
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by boulos 6y ago
Adjacent topic: My Octopus Teacher [1] was a fascinating view into a single kelp forest and occupant that folks here might enjoy. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Octopus_Teacher
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by boulos 6y ago
It’s too bad that neither this paper, nor the previous detailed survey one have a breakdown of “reasons for reduced productivity by industry”. They report 80% productivity for IT, much less for retail, but it would be nice to see the “top r
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Wurst luck: half-eaten sausage helps German police solve cold case(theguardian.com)
2 points by boulos 6y ago|0 comments
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by boulos 6y ago
That's a good clarification. What matters is if tasks "running on" one executor end up spawning / blocking on a task "on another executor". You can definitely have "side by side, who cares". The dange
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by boulos 6y ago
Yeah, I started with reqwest because it was easy, then wanted more control (reqwest has a hardcoded 8? KiB buffer!) and went to hyper directly, and then realized I should replace all reqwest usage with just async usage of hyper. Doing so th
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by boulos 6y ago
Only if no other crate in your executable uses tokio or another executor, right? Mixing executors is approximately fatal, AFAICT.
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by boulos 6y ago
Maybe it’s just the hyper and related crates universe, but my perception (see my sibling comment) is that more and more of the ecosystem will be “async only”. Like you, I think that’s sort of fine, because you can always roll your own. But
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by boulos 6y ago
The author admits that they needed Arc/clone in a footnote. So I think the more interesting title would be to rehash/interpret this as “Why asynchronous Rust is too hard”. Having played with this a bit recently, I think folks are
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by boulos 6y ago
You should probably check out Teradici. They even finally published Linux clients.
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A little further south, the Mogollon people [1] are also getting more attention. Lots of the groups in that area moved north and south based on periods of cold or droughts, came into conflicts, and so on (at least this is the current theory
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Wisdom the Albatross, Now 70, Hatches yet Another Chick(npr.org)
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by boulos 6y ago
Can I suggest making it easy to include conversion to another currency? I recently was arguing about salaries at large tech companies with employees in Bangalore and Hyderabad. It would have been convenient (for my task) to not only have th
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by boulos 6y ago
Chuck Schumer is the Senate Majority Leader.
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by boulos 6y ago
Is that true? I imagine it's going to be immediately reused for folks who just want cheap CUDA parts.
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by boulos 6y ago
If you enjoy Soviet space exploration and Venus in particular, follow Don Mitchell’s “archaeology” in the area. His old website [1] still has great things on it, but he’s since moved to Twitter unfortunately [2]. But at least posting this h
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by boulos 6y ago
Did they take it down? (I used to see it when taking Caltrain, and I swear it said this as recently as ... 2013?)
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by boulos 6y ago
Hmm? Which part implies “all bets are off”? There’s the condition (evaluated first), the true case and the false case. Only one of the cases is evaluated. I’m assuming you were alluding to some sort of “ x++ = x++ * *x++” style situation,
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by boulos 6y ago
I’d say the behavior is mostly historical. Early GPU “compilers” [1] and their corresponding architectures really meant that “an if statement means go slow”. Also, IIRC, the original mask depth on Fermi was ... 32 branches, and afterwards y
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by boulos 6y ago
I’m surprised you missed “weather” and “sunlight”. California’s weather is famously pretty good depending on location and preferences. More interesting to me is actually “how many sunny days are there”. Wikipedia has a list of cities by sun
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by boulos 6y ago
> Amazon had a competition for bin-picking robots, but never got anything that could replace a few hundred thousand pickers in their fulfillment centers. There's a demand for this, but still few usable products. I was going to say “
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by boulos 6y ago
The results in Figure 3 are certainly promising. Has anyone been able to find the mentioned supplementary material though? > A post-hoc exploratory analysis of immunogenicity in subgroups of participants aged ≥55-<65, ≥65-74 and ≥75 y
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by boulos 6y ago
Huh, your LA note prompted me to say “That’s why I use US/Pacific”. But someone on the internet tells me I’ve been doing it wrong and US/Pacific has been deprecated for years / I’m not supposed to: https://stackove
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by boulos 6y ago
A bit of both. I’ll often read a bit before going to bed, so super long chapters (e.g., greater than an hour?) mean I’m just choosing somewhere “less intentional” to stop. I would also say that I recall (it’s been a while!) a lot of extrane
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by boulos 6y ago
But that 35% sales tax is a huge increase for everyone at the bottom, that’s the point. The bottom 50% pay “no income tax”, spend roughly 100% of their income, and would have their taxes go up by XX * 35% in taxes under this scheme (where X

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