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by cjsplat 5y ago
The MMT point is that it isn't clear that the interest rate is what killed inflation. A major cause of inflation in the 70s was the 6x increase in the price of oil. From 1980 to 1986 there was nearly a div by 5 drop.
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by cjsplat 5y ago
I can't repro the 45% number. BEA says 2021 US GDP is nearly $23T, CBO says total 2021 budget is $6.8T.
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by cjsplat 5y ago
Completely unclear what they mean by "high end". If you are doing a new design and estimates of area, pads, packaging and volumes are in the right place, TSMC 28nm or Intel 22nm are both very nice design points. Proven tech, singl
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by cjsplat 5y ago
In other news, PG&E in California is asking for $3.75 million per mile to underground 10k miles of power lines to avoid fires and that whole manslaughter problem. There is more to power delivery than V=IR
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by cjsplat 5y ago
+1 on the get out asap statements. If the contracting is actually keeping your skills sharp, you'll probably do better 100% time. I contracted for 5 years and what I found was that I was hired for my skills, but not paid to grow those
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by cjsplat 5y ago
I don't think nuance was the issue for Romney and the "flipping" issue. Romney was a pretty successful Governor of a liberal state. He needed to appeal to nationwide Republicans in the primary so he slid a lot further to the
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by cjsplat 5y ago
The stuff tested by a coding interview won't get to staff level or beyond. Cross functional understanding, product or technology insights, strategic thinking, etc. are necessary. Lots of people who come up through the ranks only know h
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by cjsplat 5y ago
I think there were a few things that helped me long ago, and based on hiring and helping junior engineers with their career paths I think they still more or less work. 1) Silicon Valley volume of opportunities - lots of companies, lots of p
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by cjsplat 5y ago
I believe that is saying understanding ECC function details makes it easier to exploit EEC devices, not that it will be easier than exploiting non-ECC devices. The ECC code word is bigger so it is a larger target, but you have to flip mul
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by cjsplat 5y ago
For California, don't forget to add an extra ~$12k for the employer's match on social security and medicare, so you have an extra 6% on the CA tax balance sheet. I don't know if there is an equivalent employer tax is directly
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by cjsplat 5y ago
Table 5 says that they assume an average of 5 miles to the charging station (so 10 miles round trip) per fueling trip, and then they are effectively billing the costs of that driving time and the recharge time against the EV. In contrast, t
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by cjsplat 5y ago
https://www.andersoneconomicgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/202... The actual study.
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by cjsplat 5y ago
The Klobuchar PR comment you link dated Feb 4, 2021 references S.225, introduced in February. This article seems to be about a new bill that Klobuchar and Grassley will introduce "next week". In yesterday's WaPo article, Klob
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by cjsplat 5y ago
The article "hn_throwaway" cited was March 17th, 2020, and indicates the emerging understanding well. San Francisco issued a mask mandate on April 17, 2020. So that delay was mid February to mid April. So help me out here since yo
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by cjsplat 5y ago
> there was never data that said "masks don't work for the public" Actually there was plenty of data saying that masks don't work for the public. For example, https://journals.plos.org/plosone/art
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by cjsplat 5y ago
You jumped from a story about one emerging business line concept to "all of your products", which is a pretty big leap. It is actually very common for new business ideas to live or die based on the support from one senior executiv
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by cjsplat 5y ago
Or also vice-versa, and what we have is a sample of the quantity peak, rather than quality. Perhaps Gilgamesh is the equivalent of I Dream of Jeannie. :-)
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by cjsplat 5y ago
I guess I'm not sure what incognito means to a layman - I'm stuck with knowing the actual definition. If I do something "incognito" it doesn't make your camera not work if you take my picture. At the most it may i
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by cjsplat 5y ago
:-) Close - I was the other cocky young kid from Berkeley. Since there was only one Kiwi on the project, the other clue I'll give you is that I inherited your cubicle when you left.
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by cjsplat 5y ago
After doing A/UX work I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, I interviewed at Apple. They offered me a 5% pay cut for the chance to commute from Berkeley to Cupertino, which wasn't great but at least the stock was likely to be wort
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by cjsplat 5y ago
+1 on pcc. Greenhills was available as a third party compiler. Not sure why there would be markers in crt0 and libc, but perhaps someone at Apple rebuilt. Greenhills was better for most code that mattered. Can't see crt0 mattering for
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by cjsplat 5y ago
Surprisingly tricky to prove. It looks like Berkeley overhauled its student body statistics about 15 years ago, and data from before seems to have vanished. Is it argument from authority if I cite Karp? https://www2.eecs.berkeley
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by cjsplat 5y ago
Yes, Berkeley had undergrad CS degrees in the 80's (and late 70's). One in the College of Engineering and one in the College of Letters and Science. Also, an undergrad EECS in Engineering. The Bay Area school that didn't have
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by cjsplat 5y ago
I did some of the initial mmu support for A/UX while at UniSoft, so lived a fair amount of the history, at least for version 0 of A/UX. For those not familiar with the times, this was still at the outset of the Unix wars - Berkele
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by cjsplat 5y ago
See also "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury. All you need is a solar powered self driving car, and perhaps a programmed routine. (If occupied, to work in the morning and home at night).
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by cjsplat 5y ago
I'm not a recruiter, but in Si Valley I have reviewed thousands of resumes for my teams and as part of hiring committees, and have interviewed about 1k people, with perhaps 25% of that as fresh-grads. First thing I would say is that yo
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by cjsplat 5y ago
First, the ACA passed in March 2010, so not really 2 years on health care. The tweaks folded into reconciliation were not a major distraction. Second, if by super-majority you mean filibuster-proof, then in reality this was nowhere near 2 y
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by cjsplat 5y ago
I assume that January 19, 2038 is within the rounding error on that? (End of 32-bit UNIX time for the people who don't have this on their calendar already).
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by cjsplat 5y ago
US census data says about 650k people left California between 2018 and 2019, out of a population of 39M, or 1.6% In dramatic contrast, in Texas, 450k left out of 28M, or 1.6% Nationwide, 7 million people changed states out of 324 M, or 2.1%
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by cjsplat 5y ago
For SW type people ... GCC's impact was possible because it was (with GAS - the assembler) 100% feasible to have an open source toolchain. Yes more software was necessary for a complete system (linker, libc, etc), but GCC made it possi

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