clairity

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by clairity 4y ago
no, it's a terrible time to bring up what is, charitably, a non-sequitur. "oh, it's ok, it just women, so let's not care if they get protection and justice under the law. and it's not even guaranteed, harhar!"
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by clairity 4y ago
color spaces are roughly continguous, so i suspect the algorithm doesn't matter much because the solution space doesn't have a lot of "kinks" in it where you'd easily get trapped away from a global maximum. what mat
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by clairity 4y ago
you've hit on why apple is spending all its time developing the ipad into a laptop replacement (despite relatively flat sales) rather than really improving macs/macOS. they keep saying they're not trying to do this, but it&#x
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by clairity 4y ago
yah, i actually used it with coldfusion first too, then php later. fun times.
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by clairity 4y ago
wow, this takes me back. before cakephp, there was fusebox. i had started to write my own framework back then, but found fusebox to do most of what i'd wanted to do, so used it for a few projects. then cakephp came out as an iteration
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by clairity 4y ago
tersest summary: jargon.
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by clairity 4y ago
no worries, and i understood the intent, but wanted to explicitly counteract the nodding-along effect of platitudes like that. we all have the propensity to abuse situations and privileges, so police aren't special in that regard. th
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by clairity 4y ago
been there, can commiserate. i had to shut down my startup in a similar space a few years ago after we failed to round out our post-seed raise. literally had to let everyone go one day, then my co-founder left, and then, packing boxes and w
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by clairity 4y ago
well, fines are (indirectly) meant to prevent collisions and conflict, not just injuries and fatalities, premised on the notion that traffic laws represent the best way to do so (not always true). that's mostly unrelated to multi-modal
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by clairity 4y ago
awesome, thanks! i also suspect it's by the EU coalition behind bergamot, so probably beyond mozilla's jurisdiction, but it doesn't hurt to ask.
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by clairity 4y ago
> "...and the wealthy can continue paying their way around trouble." this is why tickets should be income-contingent, if not wealth-contingent (much trickier and more invasive, so unlikely).
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by clairity 4y ago
no, police are not above the law. they're only "special" in that they enforce the law, which requires exceptional privileges and responsibilities ordinary citizens don't have. but they're otherwise fully under the s
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by clairity 4y ago
neat, but it looks like it was just released, so how were you using it before? as an aside, pretty sad to see the project page, https://browser.mt/ , requiring not just javascript but specifically google connections to work
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by clairity 4y ago
you keep making the same mistake. it's really easy to look up the balance sheet of apple online, and then look up the line item terms on investopedia (hint: "non-current assets"). luckily it's a random internet board and
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by clairity 4y ago
sorry, all i get here is an emotional appeal, not coherent reasoning, so i'll bow out now. happy to reengage if you can reformulate these thoughts into a rational position.
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by clairity 4y ago
so reference the book, which is more useful, rather than some rando name.
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by clairity 4y ago
> "Assets are returned as dividends or reinvested." see, you did it again. assets are almost never "returned" anywhere. that's typically profits. you don't need an mba, but to have any credibility, you need
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by clairity 4y ago
comparing endowment to market cap is misunderstanding basic finance and accounting. endowments are more directly (but not perfectly) comparable to (long-term) assets on the balance sheet. those are typically a small fraction of the market c
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by clairity 4y ago
no one, especially not some random contemporary, owns the idea of using a lottery once a threshold is met. that concept has been thrown around for millenia to pick lots of all sorts. i've even suggested it as a reasonable approach to h
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by clairity 4y ago
no. if you want the patents to "expire" faster, you'd just change the base to something higher. no company will pay multiple billions to keep a patent into its 20th year. you'd use all that extra money for more plentiful
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by clairity 4y ago
just make patent renewal fees rise geometrically on an annual basis. choose any base you want, such as e. the initial filing might be $100. the second year, it's $272. third year, $739. by the 11th year, it's $2.2M, so real money.
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by clairity 4y ago
> "CEOs certainly don't care about prestige and esteem." oh quite the opposite, even for psycho/sociopaths. it's really the core thing that humans care about, with everything else, even money (beyond subsistence)
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by clairity 4y ago
you'd be wont to find anyone who'd support exective prison time more than me, but i'm against prison time as a de facto punishment for exactly the reason that it results in too many people being locked up frivolously. i agr
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by clairity 4y ago
ah yes, i should look into doing that.
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by clairity 4y ago
for something like this, jail time plus asset seizures is surely too extreme (purdue pharma, on the other hand...). however a severe financial penalty for both company and executives (VPs and up, plus legal counsel) makes a ton of sense. fo
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by clairity 4y ago
yes, you're right. i misread the title and didn't originally read the article because it was behind a paywall, but just saw the archive link and read through it now. i think a similar dynamic happens in PE though, which is a priva
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by clairity 4y ago
PE can definitely be 'problematic' to put it lightly, but i did witness one example of a PE deal done well: a company was bought out by PE with the help of an involved CEO, who set aside a pool of money for employees if they hit k
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by clairity 4y ago
well yes (and also for backing up i believe), but at least for me, there aren't tons of files that i care about which change often, so i don't need it constantly going off and cataloging the latest homebrew updates or whatever.
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by clairity 4y ago
i guess there's one situational intersection, alluded to by @randbox, between the tragedy of the commons and economic rents, which is when someone (illegally) takes control of the commons and literally charging rents for assets they do
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by clairity 4y ago
mine doesn't relaunch, but i honestly don't remember how i changed that behavior, sorry! dunno why, but my finder uses 2-5% constantly when running, and spawns a bunch of other processes (like mdworker) as well, which also suck aw

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