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by chrismaeda 7y ago
Breathless headlines like this are usually a sign that everything is fine. If the journos start saying you should mortgage your house and buy {tulips, dotcom stocks, bitcoin}, then that would be a sign that the market is peaking.
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China's Huawei, 70 affiliates placed on U.S. trade blacklist(reuters.com)
1 points by chrismaeda 7y ago|0 comments
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by chrismaeda 8y ago
MT- Here we are 25 years later and now UNIX is the "good" OS. The horror. -Chris
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by chrismaeda 8y ago
I've had a Dell Precision M7520 for about a year. It can have up to 64GB ram and runs Ubuntu 16 LTS. I think it came with a Windows 10 license but I threw it away. The only downside is that the standard power brick draws too much cu
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by chrismaeda 8y ago
Search for 'payment for order flow' if you want to know how robinhood gets paid and why you might want to pay trading fees instead of getting it for 'free'.
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by chrismaeda 10y ago
You're confusing domicile with state of incorporation. E.g. A Delaware corp resident in Nevada pays no state income either. As others have said, if you plan to raise outside capital and have an exit, then you should be a Delaware C C
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by chrismaeda 10y ago
As an angel investor, I don't want to deal with that kind of hassle. If the company is losing money, it may want to carry forward the tax losses to offset future profits. If the company is making money, are you also going to distribu
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by chrismaeda 10y ago
It's a good workout for their immune systems. I let my kid eat all the dirt he wants.
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by chrismaeda 10y ago
This is what you have to do to become an ancestor.
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by chrismaeda 10y ago
I read a few PG Wodehouse books every year. Uncle Fred, Lord Emsworth, and Bertie Wooster are my spirit animals.
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by chrismaeda 10y ago
How often do really good writers come along? It's interesting to hear what contemporaries thought of Gatsby because, 90 years later, we know that it is an Important Book. On the other hand, how many people will read Stephen King or Tw
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by chrismaeda 10y ago
Another version of the cliff's notes is to buy ETFs instead of index funds. ETFs are more liquid since they trade the same as stocks. As you learn more and accumulate more money, you can also start buying individual stocks. The top I
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by chrismaeda 10y ago
When I put on my pointy corporate IT hat, and I go to the Oracle web site to download Java, I see that Java runs on Linux, MacOS, Solaris, and Windows. Then when I go to download WebSphere, I see that it runs on a similar set plus AIX. Ja
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by chrismaeda 10y ago
Java runs on Linux. There are tons of bespoke and third party Java apps running in companies. Running Java on any other x86 UNIX is a hassle.
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by chrismaeda 10y ago
The backstory here is probably that Walmart was able to negotiate fee discounts with MasterCard and American Express, but Visa refused to budge. So now Walmart is punishing them for our benefit.
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by chrismaeda 10y ago
In Canada, debit transactions are run through the Interac network, which is a non-profit set up by the Canadian banks. Interac also has an email money transfer service which is widely used. Canadian banking is different from everywhere bec
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by chrismaeda 10y ago
My guess is >99% of this data refers to corporations that are legitimate businesses that are fully compliant with the law. US persons have been required for years to disclose offshore bank accounts (through FBAR reports) and other offsh
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by chrismaeda 11y ago
Fun article, and one which shows the dark side of gamification. If you provide points, levels, and leaderboards, people will sacrifice their lives to leveling up for stupid little perks like jumping the line, slightly larger seats, and liqu
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The Case for the [Galactic] Empire(weeklystandard.com)
2 points by chrismaeda 11y ago|0 comments
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by chrismaeda 11y ago
My evidence is 5000 years of human history. What is yours?
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by chrismaeda 11y ago
This is a lot more fun than debating which browser-based MVC framework is better. ;-)
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by chrismaeda 11y ago
Europe would become part of Greater Russia and Australia would become part of Greater China.
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by chrismaeda 11y ago
List of mutual defense treaties. This may be a good working definition of "part of the empire." They don't enjoy the same rights as US citizens but their security is guaranteed by the US military. http://www.stat
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by chrismaeda 11y ago
An alternate view, which is well supported by history, is that while empires are created by war, they are very good at bringing peace and prosperity for long periods of time. The Roman Empire delivered peace and prosperity to most of the Me
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by chrismaeda 11y ago
You are disturbed by peace and prosperity?
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by chrismaeda 11y ago
I took 6.170 (software engineering aka small group projects) and 6.035 (build a compiler), both in CLU, at MIT in the 80s. I was a Lisp guy so I didn't want to like CLU, but I remember thinking the exception handling was a win - you d
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by chrismaeda 11y ago
I've read a similar claim in The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan. According to Pollan, most fertilizer is manufactured with petroleum-based energy, so our agriculture is driven by fossil fuel consumption; ie natural gas -&gt
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by chrismaeda 11y ago
We're in the midst of adopting Liquibase to support our schema on 3 different db's (Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL). Interested in hearing about any experiences or gotchas with this tool.
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by chrismaeda 11y ago
I'm not drunk on wine at an OS research conference but I have to ask anyway: Aren't microkernels obsoleted by hypervisors?
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by chrismaeda 11y ago
In DonaldKnuth's paper "StructuredProgrammingWithGoToStatements", he wrote: "Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attem

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