calvinlh

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by calvinlh 5y ago
$4000 to exercise, but a lot more in taxes. Given that his shares were worth about 1/6 of what they are now, and assuming the FMV for tax purposes was about 1/3 that, he would have to pay income tax on $60k worth of paper gains. T
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by calvinlh 5y ago
If the "You may not use the material for commercial purposes" clause applies to the wire protocol itself, does MongoDB itself get an exception to that for Atlas/MongoDB Enterprise?
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by calvinlh 5y ago
You're off by a factor of 3600-- 1 watt is a Joule/second, not a Joule/hour. 1 GJ / 1800s ~= 555kW, not 2GW.
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by calvinlh 5y ago
Yes, but that only stops you from claiming capital loss, you still pay taxes on gains
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by calvinlh 7y ago
If you only want a subset of the repo's files, you can use Github's Subversion interface: https://stackoverflow.com/a/18194523
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by calvinlh 8y ago
According to this article on Wikipedia, it's a linear relationship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU_power_dissipation Edit: maybe this takes into account that when you increase frequency you might also have to i
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by calvinlh 9y ago
https://www.google.com/search?q=2^256 You're off by about 68 orders of magnitude; it's 2^32 that's approximately 4 billion.
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by calvinlh 9y ago
There have been reports of drivers changing ratings retroactively after seeing their own rating drop, or if a customer doesn't tip.
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by calvinlh 10y ago
You can find engineering samples of the chips on Digikey: http://www.digikey.com/products/en?FV=ffecdb78&pkeyword=fpga Looks like the cheapest one is $17k (so 15 Titan Xs? 24 1080Tis?), and I'd expect the pric
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by calvinlh 10y ago
Keep in mind it's highly unlikely that all of those employees are engineers, probably lots of sales/marketing/customer service people. Still, with benefits and stuff I'd estimate maybe 100k per on the low end.
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by calvinlh 10y ago
You can't, they're a private company. Can't short Uber either.
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by calvinlh 10y ago
Zed Shaw, author of Learn Python the Hard Way , thinks Python 3 strings are broken. He also needs to read this article. https://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/nopython3.html
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by calvinlh 10y ago
Who says that high profit implies high tech? Your Wikipedia link only says high tech often offers the potential for high profit. Is the Large Hadron Collider not high tech if it doesn't turn a profit?
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by calvinlh 10y ago
Currently, there is absolutely no realistic way to set up the infrastructure required to operate such labs in third world countries. The costs would be astronomical. While, yes, ideally all humans would receive the same high standard of hea
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by calvinlh 10y ago
For him, the kicker was the battery life. How do you test battery life in the Apple store? You're not allowed to unplug the thing. (And even if you could, who's going to spend several hours there to assess the battery life?) You a