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by chris_va 11y ago
(1) is technically incorrect. Humans have evolved to process fructose into triglycerides in the liver. This is different than getting a glucose spike in the bloodstream. (2) unfortunately reality is complicated. Most of what you care about
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by chris_va 11y ago
Now multiply by the number of serving data centers, and disk replication.
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by chris_va 11y ago
With the caveat that I have only had this explained to me ... The one location in the HIV genome that consistently doesn't mutate is the hexamer boundary of the viral capsid. Seems like that would make a better taerget sequence as a re
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by chris_va 11y ago
Ah, the good old days... The history of airport security is somewhat interesting. There wasn't a TSA for long time, and the hijackings/flying to Cuba got annoying, so metal detectors were added. Everything else since then hasn&#x2
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by chris_va 11y ago
Read/write locks... No, it's slightly more lazy in that that. It does timestamp coordination, but retrospectively.
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by chris_va 11y ago
(1) Spanner does exist, though not really available outside of Google
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by chris_va 11y ago
Ironically, that is exactly what happens in the oil industry.
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by chris_va 11y ago
"The research paints a picture of unsafe practices including the dumping of drilling and production fluids containing diesel fuel, high chemical concentrations in unlined pits and a lack of adequate cement barriers to protect groundwat
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by chris_va 11y ago
How are disputes settled?
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by chris_va 11y ago
Examples? You'd be suprised how adhoc site security can be, even for popular websites. Since changing the email effectively does allow you to change the password, it is not a bad observation.
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by chris_va 11y ago
The pithy version... How far out you can spot your mistakes, and the multiplier affect you have on the people working around you.
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by chris_va 11y ago
You could just pepper the b64 with jmp statements and randomly intersperse your decoder code.
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by chris_va 11y ago
Privacy snafu derailed it. Some warnings were ignored, and it ended badly. It was used extensively internally to Google prior to launch, and worked great. I am slightly disappointed it did not get rolled out as an enterprise product.
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by chris_va 11y ago
We just moved to Seattle from SF. Highly recommended, but as you say more expensive than Portland (still 1/2 the price of the bay area). Cost follows opportunity, and it is harder to find a tech scene in Portland. NYC is a great place
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by chris_va 11y ago
Most just require that you convert from LLC to C-Corp, which isn't impossible.
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by chris_va 11y ago
http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/stories/2007-07-16/how-much-to-p...
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by chris_va 11y ago
This is a silly forum in which to have a long debate :). I will admit, I mostly agree that the vast majority of software patents should probably be invalid, and that the existing system leaves a lot to be desired. A couple of important poin
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by chris_va 11y ago
You have a few conflated arguments here. Open source is relatively orthogonal to the patent system. There is some overlap in that they both require disclosure, but the fundamental incentives are different, so you should expect different sof
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by chris_va 11y ago
> As you said, the sauce is secret. I think the question of whether Qualcomm should be permitted to keep the sauce secret and how much the law should help or hinder this secrecy is worthy of at lease some debate. This is going in circles
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by chris_va 11y ago
> Bet my team of PhDs would come to the same solution. Maybe they would, but they didn't. The point of the patent system is to incentivize people to publish their inventions. The secondary purpose is to encourage invention. Giving a
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by chris_va 11y ago
> Can the law not be modified to collect from corporations and trusts? I would hope so too, but functionally the only way to do this efficiently would be to tax them all at the same rate (meaning no marginal brackets). Any time you intro
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by chris_va 11y ago
Yes, to some extent. Since we are looking at Saez: http://eml.berkeley.edu/~saez/course/Labortaxes/taxableincom... You can see the massive shift in _reported individual income_ around the tax cuts.
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by chris_va 11y ago
That complicates it more, and high net worth individuals will just leave their money in captive corporations/trusts instead. This is not a route to saner tax policy, just something that sounds great to the average voter.
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by chris_va 11y ago
""" Mr. Sanders has proposed a headline top tax rate of 52 percent, applying only to incomes over $10 million ... “We do not assume taxpayers change their behavior,” said Warren Gunnels, the policy director for the senator’s
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by chris_va 11y ago
Not entirely. Modern jet turbines have ~12:1 bypass ratios, meaning the exhaust is mostly just turning a fan, pushing 11 times the amount of air as goes into combustion.
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by chris_va 11y ago
I chose to do Facebook and email/password. SMS costs a very tiny amount of money, and didn't offer any advantages (you can't get at the user's phone # on ios, so you cannot prefill, thus email had a similar level of fric
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by chris_va 11y ago
People are usually the most limiting factor. What is the machine utilization? Just one shift? How long do the workers take to setup each piece (zero each block, etc)? You may find this semi interesting: http://mmstopshopsexecsumm
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by chris_va 11y ago
HN is strictly an aggregator, which is about 3-4 orders of magnitude cheaper to operate.
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by chris_va 11y ago
After the preferred money is paid out, the preferred stock converts to common stock at some multiplier. The multiplier is usually 1x, though it varies. At that point, whatever money is left is generally split between all common shareholders

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