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Amazon Freezes Corporate Hiring for Retail Business(nytimes.com)
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Mexico City becomes 'work from home' haven for US expats(cnn.com)
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Apple’s Depressing Denouement(quillette.com)
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by bretpiatt 4y ago
Both solar and wind are popular and growing. Texas generates more wind energy than any other state (in gigawatthours). I'm unsure if any other state has a higher percentage of their total production in wind. Texas is around 20% of tota
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by bretpiatt 4y ago
Median income of the total population or "the labor force" or of the "potential working age population"? With barely over 50% of the population working in most countries [1] median based on population will be skewed too.
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by bretpiatt 4y ago
What's the Hoboken downside? I travel to work in NYC fairly often and I've found myself staying in Hoboken lately, easy to get into city via the tunnels or train depending on where you're going, certainly as convenient as Bro
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by bretpiatt 4y ago
A good number of places in Texas serve goat neat, it just gets called cabrito. https://www.texasmonthly.com/food/on-the-menu-cabrito/
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by bretpiatt 4y ago
For VW to build 10 million electric vehicles to keep numbers up [1], at 60kWh per vehicle which approximately the midsized ID.3 [2], they need to build roughly 12x this capacity, so ~$240B investment which is about what the whole company is
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by bretpiatt 4y ago
Depending on fitness level (cardio, muscle strength, physical weight) walking can very much be strenuous exercise. Direct caloric burn, long term metabolism changes, etc. for a given activity vary based on the input fitness level of the per
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The Uncensored Library(blockworks.uk)
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by bretpiatt 4y ago
Our experience is different folks want to get involved with different things and they're much more likely to do so with another coworker or two than they would be to do so alone. We understand this isn't what all folks want and do
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by bretpiatt 4y ago
High level... ...one of the 2 days teams are all in together, they focus on internal team activities. ...the other of the 2 days team members spread out across the week, they focus on collaboration with other teams. It does limit our prospe
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by bretpiatt 4y ago
As a CEO I'll echo this, we're at 2+ days across locations where we have offices, and we try to hire in markets where we have an office or can build to an office of 10+. WFH 100% roles don't do innovation and collaboration th
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by bretpiatt 4y ago
Yeah, plug and play drivers are much better today than years ago, they're also still challenging in many situations. For someone with your technical skill level it's very manageable, most folks don't know what a mainboard is.
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by bretpiatt 4y ago
A full system snapshot is not 100% always the correct solution, data protection is complicated. An example hypothetical, you have deeply embedded malware and you're unsure when it infected the system, it could have been sitting latent
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by bretpiatt 4y ago
A system snapshot for a personal computer is potentially a really difficult thing to restore (ex. you break the device and need a new one, unless it matches exactly restoring snapshot likely puts you in OS recovery mode). A volume snapshot
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by bretpiatt 4y ago
Thanks, missed the link, reading study. So many variables here including way the math portion was measured moving to multiple choice in the 1990s when the scores start dropping, hopping on a flight, still skeptical. Other quick one, all 95%
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by bretpiatt 4y ago
Okay, I see what you're saying, so we take two sample groups, use one as a baseline, then lay the second group over that curve. So now we need to be really careful about bias in the sample groups. To say IQ scores are dropping and we d
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by bretpiatt 4y ago
The analytical side of me doesn't understand how scores on a test that baselines the average to X (in the case of IQ, it is baseline of 100), then distributes them around that baseline on a normal distribution curve can go down over ti
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by bretpiatt 4y ago
The constraints are in the shipping and refining. When demand goes up exploration and production (firms who find and get it out of the ground) get to charge more as end users fight over the limited supply. Due to environmental regulations i
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by bretpiatt 4y ago
The PIOUS LEARN all the vowels in 2 words with other common letters, it isn't specifically about eliminating entropy. If an E exists but not in the second spot then it is THMYE to learn more.
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by bretpiatt 5y ago
Plenty of interoperable encryption systems, they'd just have to use and support one or more such as GPG, PGP, IPSec, etc.[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography
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by bretpiatt 5y ago
That's not 30% unless you repay real quick, if you paid it at the end of 5 years in a single payment that's 8.5%, 1.085^5 = 1.50. In straight amortization using $30k tuition, $45k repayment, over 60 months is $750/mo which wo
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by bretpiatt 5y ago
Dupe on topic, comments here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30762520
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Can TV take down the cult of the tech founder?(vox.com)
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by bretpiatt 5y ago
Law firms and accounting firms solved this long ago, they all send out new rate cards effective January 1, [YEAR] during Q4 every year. I would not be ashamed to do the same.
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by bretpiatt 5y ago
Based on your statement of "...not interested in learning about SAFEs...and not owing anyone anything" you are not interested in running a venture investor backed business. You want to bootstrap[1]. [1] https://en.wikip
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by bretpiatt 5y ago
This is already happening for a bunch of verticals: Travel - Expedia, Hotels.com, Kayak, etc. Consumer Goods - Amazon, WalMart, EBay, Etsy, etc. Automobile Purchase - Cars.com, Autotrader, etc. Career/Job - Indeed, LinkedIn, etc. As Go
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by bretpiatt 5y ago
For TLS much larger keys are typically used, "The recommended minimum key length is 1024 bits, with 2048 bits preferred, but this is up to a thousand times more computationally intensive than symmetric keys of equivalent strength (e.g.
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by bretpiatt 5y ago
Pontoon boat would not use the Ford crate motor from the article, they use 55-110lb thrust electric trolling motors. Example: Minn Kota Pontoon Freshwater Electric-Steer Bow-Mount Trolling Motor with Digital Maximizer & PowerDrive Foot

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