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by cbanek 7y ago
> The best way to spur economic growth is to give money to people who will spend it quickly whether rich or poor. In general, it turns out most very wealthy people have little incentive to spend money quickly. Instead, they save to hedge
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by cbanek 7y ago
> At this point, it was very obvious to me that he googled the solution. I was amazed that he had the guts to do so in an interview. Just WOW. Frankly, I'm amazed at the guts to say you shouldn't just search for the answer. It
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by cbanek 7y ago
This is really interesting. I love the idea. > The researchers found they were able to measure three types of blood pressure with 95 to 96 per cent accuracy. First question, what is the third type of blood pressure? I just know the two
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by cbanek 7y ago
This is a real problem. While I was working at XBox, we made giant pictures over the windows using colored post-it notes. I remember a really good pixel art megaman that was my favorite. Internal offices sometimes used newspapers to cove
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by cbanek 7y ago
Matt Levine and Kevin Muir (of https://www.themacrotourist.com/ fame) are two of my favorites. Also, shout to to https://heisenbergreport.com who isn't nearly as well known, but still has the gonzo financi
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by cbanek 7y ago
Valid is hard to tell in economics, because economics isn't really a science. More of a social science. A lot of people have debated this point before, but even at a theory level, it imagines people as rational actors, and we know th
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by cbanek 7y ago
The SR-71 is also high altitude, so if there is less air (pressure), that can change things like: how much lift you need or can generate, the outside temperature, how much air can be used by the engine, heating due to air friction, etc.
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by cbanek 7y ago
"Verified by Visa" is still in use - it just hit me up booking a hotel in Europe from the US. It really does look horrible, like an obvious scam site, but it's not. I really wish they would get rid of it. It actually makes
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by cbanek 7y ago
> “I very much regret joining Google,” he says. “I figured it would be a good place to see intelligent arguments through." Um, here I thought it was a place to get some work done, not have political arguments? I don't see why
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Yes, but RTGs are not particularly efficient, so much of the energy is heat. From wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge... ): efficiencies above 10% have never been achieved and most RT
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Totally agree. Also many teams aren't all "good" or "bad" people, but more a mix of people with different skillsets and viewpoints, and it's not as if all good people think you should do it one way, and bad pe
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by cbanek 7y ago
> the entire code base got forked, and the entire org is now held hostage by the dumbass. > Of course in a Good team, needless dependencies would be weeded out in code reviews, and a Culture would evolve over time avoiding needless de
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by cbanek 7y ago
Many deep space probes in vacuum have RTG's as well (like Voyager), and they can radiate the heat just fine. Also, over time of course the amount of power and heat they generate lessens.
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> I will note that although I have never met an asshole who was a top performer, I have met many who were convinced that they were. Totally agree, although the trickiest times in my career haven't been when some IC is convinced they
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by cbanek 7y ago
> I thought immediately of Robin Seplut Ditto. His videos are great, I've been watching them for a long time. He never says anything other than the now infamous "ksksksksks." But he does at least label his videos so if
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by cbanek 7y ago
I don't believe I'm mistaken. From the first few sentences of the page I linked to, it says exactly what you said: Wikipedia: > Stated simply, decreased unemployment, (i.e., increased levels of employment) in an economy will c
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by cbanek 7y ago
> greater portions of the workforce are replaceable with capital nowadays I totally agree. I think this is even something they intended. And the workforce parts that aren't capital are more serving the capital (running expensive m
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by cbanek 7y ago
> Lower rates means lower unemployment, which should eventually lead to higher wages > And, it is important to notice, in today's world, even an unemployment rate of 3.6% has not been low enough to cause the kinds of wage gains t
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by cbanek 7y ago
Some consider the App Store to be monopolistic, as it is the only way to run on iOS devices, and they will charge you a 30% fee and make you go through their acceptance criteria. https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/13&#
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> Second, women engineers prioritize growth to an even greater extent than men, and they place particular secondary emphasis on inclusivity and comfort with their work and environment. Woman in tech here. I agree completely, and I'
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by cbanek 7y ago
I'm having trouble remembering the quote, but it was something like: "Don't ask a woman if she's pregnant unless you see a baby is coming out of her right then."
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No, sadly there's money in building nuclear bombs. But we might be at risk of losing track of where the nuclear waste is, and how to keep track of it. So here's the standard for that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by cbanek 7y ago
Sometimes they do take the profits and put them into investments, or how they hold cash reserves for future purchases, payroll, etc. for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braeburn_Capital
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This is why even though the US already built a few Saturn V rockets, building the next one would be really hard.
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Yes, I thought I saw this too many years ago when I was making youtube videos, and uploading would be slow or broken. Although I never tried changing the video after getting the URL.
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Lindsay Ellis. While she does mostly film movies, she's also done some great documentaries about YouTube, fair use, etc. It's very long form, with not a lot of clickbait or CTAs. I think she's heading more that way these d
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by cbanek 7y ago
It's interesting about the 3D space part. I totally agree. Having visited Taliesin West in person, there's one unique part you would notice right away if you were there but can't with the 3D model: the height of the ceiling
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by cbanek 7y ago
I've done this, and gotten the nice people at Home Depot to cut the large board into 2 or 3 smaller sections. Since the board is very thin, this makes it fairly light. I don't bother with screwing them into a wall, but instead u
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by cbanek 7y ago
It makes sense that they're making the same arguments, but sadly I think the difference is that unlike Amazon, this book store can't just pick up and go somewhere else. They inherently have no bargaining power, other than saying
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by cbanek 7y ago
I know it's just anecdata but Google also lowballed me very hard. They even offered me less than I was currently making at Microsoft, and when I told them that, they basically said, "well, that's how it is." I walked a

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