bruce511

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by bruce511 5d ago
Thanks
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by bruce511 5d ago
I'm going to side-track a bit, but since I'm being courted by PE I thought I'd ask. >> The employees of the PE also co-invest Is this voluntary, or mandatory? I ask because I've seen clauses along the lines of &quo
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by bruce511 5d ago
It's worse than that. When the owner retires, all staff lose their jobs. That's a fairly big bummer. I'm currently part of a "small" business/factory (around 50 employees). The owner is nearing retirement. Are
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by bruce511 10d ago
Fiction is not real, but I would add a "yet" into the sentence. But that's not the point. Science Fiction (speaking generally) takes a specific hypothesis, and then imagines a society that derives from that. For example &quot
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by bruce511 10d ago
Stamp collecting in particular is a very good hobby. Where "good" is defined as "time consuming, pleasurable and cheap". Well cheap to most of us. You can spend a lot if you want to, but you don't need to. But findi
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by bruce511 17d ago
"Copyright" covers a lot of areas, from films to books to software etc. So blanket statements about it are not helpful. From the mention of LLMs I guess he means software copyright. But then refers to takedowns, which I don't
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by bruce511 21d ago
>> Copyright is serving exactly nobody today. Are you sure about that? So just to be clear; You're advocating for the end of software licensing? Ie the removal of GPL or Open Source licenses? A landscape where any source code (or
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by bruce511 24d ago
I understand where you are coming from here. And there are multiple levers in play here. The cost of a mortgage underpins the rental value. If there are multiple units for rent then there will be a "going rate" and that's cer
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by bruce511 24d ago
>> That costs the government nothing The costs are actually substantial, but measured in things other than money. Countries have nationalised things in the past, including energy, (think Cuba, Venezuela, Iran etc). The real cost tends
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by bruce511 24d ago
>> So the solution is really that simple. Do not build power plants that burn fuels. The economics will push the next cheapest solution to the top. That's not strictly accurate. It'll push the next most profitable solution t
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by bruce511 24d ago
Look, I prefer nuclear over fossil fuel every day of the week. It's the great hope of the non-carbon electricity sources. In practice it is expensive to build, expensive to run, and really expensive to clean up. And that's before
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by bruce511 24d ago
Unfortunately that doesn't really help. It has the effect of eroding the asset value such that it quickly means the owner can't sell. In other words, if selling removes much of your capital, you then don't gave capital to sp
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by bruce511 26d ago
Solar power on the roof of an EV car seems like an obvious play. And yes some energy can be derived this way. But it's important to understand the limitations of physics. When the sun is directly overhead we get about 1kw per square
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by bruce511 27d ago
This. Plus I'll add that coding is the lowest point on the IT development ladder. Just like crawling wasn't the end goal, neither is programming. I know learning how to do it felt great (so did crawling) but there's still a l
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by bruce511 28d ago
The market in the US may be growing less strongly than elsewhere, but there are somewhat unique circumstances involved in that. One is political - Energy in the US is highly political, and the oil and coal lobbies are both influential and r
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by bruce511 29d ago
Would you say that non-profit insurance companies and non-profit hospitals are the norm in the US? Or is your area an outlier?
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by bruce511 29d ago
Hence the concept of trade partnerships. No country makes everything, and yes, there's lots of competition. Tarifs have existed since forever. Countries use them to protect local industries. But they've always been stable, and ind
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by bruce511 29d ago
They don't need to be part of the administration. More than 50% of voters voted for Trump. Even today >30% (of everyone) think he's doing a good job. (Ie about equal to the voters in absolute number terms). Lots of people belie
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by bruce511 29d ago
And trade. The last 18 months the US has shown itself to be a unreliable trade partner. Lots of companies are looking at diversifying both markets and supply chains. The recent trip of the Canadian PM to China is but the most visible part o
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by bruce511 29d ago
Web development is the lowest form of programming, it is the easiest to learn, is very transient, and has a lot of competition for low wages. Doctor though is hard to learn, is highly skilled, the peak of their professional space, and so on
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by bruce511 29d ago
While your experience is valuable, it may not be universal. The US operates a for-profit health system. That has an impact on all the players. The OP is European (although doesn't say which country) ; most of Europe has a for-health he
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by bruce511 29d ago
He's not saying the US doesn't have a culture. He's saying the US is large and diverse and has multiple cultures. Thus trying to define "American culture" is difficult. The point is valid, but perhaps not relevant.
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by bruce511 1mo ago
Around 85 members of the current congress are over 70. 13 are over 80. You've got some weird looking hands :)
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by bruce511 1mo ago
I don't think you need to worry. The cynic in me thinks there's no worry because I am struggling to imagine who would use this. I mean, who is your target market? Who cares enough about a book to read other people's notes, wh
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by bruce511 1mo ago
Thank you for posting. I'm being sincere. I think it is helpful to remind folk that these policies are not universally hated. Indeed a majority of voters voted specifically for them, and they were explicitly laid out. This is democracy
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by bruce511 1mo ago
My thesis is that no-one understands. So there's no political orientation. Your suggestion suggests that a little bit of technical education would change political allegiance. Alas that is incorrect. Politics is about worldview (me and
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by bruce511 1mo ago
If you changed "most" to "all" you'd be well inside the margin or error. There's a reason actuaries get paid the big bucks.
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by bruce511 1mo ago
>> found that 62% of respondents reported no or limited statistical knowledge The other 38% didn't understand the question...(my extrapolation) I did a couple semesters of statistics at uni. And I can confidently say that the num
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by bruce511 1mo ago
Paul does seem to be somewhat aware that his thesis is "optimize for founders at everyone else's expense". I mean, if you want the university to churn out plumbers then by all means do plumber things. I'm somewhat less s
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by bruce511 1mo ago
"Can it be done?" is one question. "Is it done dilligently by all the programmers on the team?" is quite another.

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