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by codex 14y ago
"Insolvent" can be defined either relative to cash flow or to the balance sheet; from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insolvency : "Cash flow insolvency involves a lack of liquidity to pay debts as they fall due. Balance sheet insolvency invo
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by codex 14y ago
As of last quarter, Tesla had $777M in assets and a whopping $715M in liabilities--leaving a net balance of only $64M. Given that their balance sheet is decreasing by an extraordinary $30M a month, that would have left only two months until
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by codex 14y ago
Well, cash flow positive until they decide to develop, test, and manufacture another model, which will again put them in the red. Building cars is a very expensive proposition.
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by codex 14y ago
I find the content and focus different between Slashdot and HN--probably driven by the underlying demographics. Slashdot tends to focus on stories that low-level IT workers and geeks care about: you see alot of sysadmin stuff, political act
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by codex 14y ago
I completely agree. I make this point, though, because the parent article begins, “You only got that internship because you’re a woman.” Note that this statement does not imply she is unqualified. She could be absolutely qualified (and
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by codex 14y ago
Both of the students are CS majors. They presumably will both eventually work for similar companies. Why would the woman who is equally interested in computer science pass over the job posting, requiring an actual recruiter to be present,
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by codex 14y ago
Even if the population is divided into discrete tiers, the process is still rife with unfairness no matter how you dice it. If you have 1,000 slots, 10,000 candidates in your tier, and 1,000 of them are women, you can hire any ratio of wome
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by codex 14y ago
Actually, this is unfair to particular people. Two students (a man and a woman) walk by the job board for company X. Both of them are ideal for company X, and they would love to work there, but they don't notice the board, so they both ta
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by codex 14y ago
The strategy you describe drops the bar for all employees in order to achieve a gender target. This is not how companies operate, for the most part. If a company wants to hire 1,000 people and 10,000 applicants are in the top 1%, they will
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by codex 14y ago
You have a budget of one hundred identical recruiters and need to get 1000 female applicants and 500 male applicants to apply for up to 100 internship slots to meet your goal of hiring twice the percentage of women in CS programs. In your
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by codex 14y ago
A long time ago, I was once a Microsoft intern attending a party at Bill Gates' house. At that party, a high-ranking Microsoft HR employee told me that it was Microsoft's goal to have twice the percentage of female interns in their program
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by codex 14y ago
In my experience, kids do make you 2x-3x more efficient, at least. You can only do so much real work in a day and you're forced to move that work into a smaller time interval. However, your mileage may vary. I think the positive outlook gi
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by codex 14y ago
From personal experience, it gets good at around six months, and even better just before a year. Judging by the number of siblings I see spaced 18 months apart, I think others agree. However, there is another difficult period around 2-3 wh
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by codex 14y ago
I hate to say this, but the first month or so is a honeymoon period when the baby is unusually quiet, sleepy, and peaceful. Maximum sleep deprivation probably kicks in at around three months. Also, any smiles you see at this age are invo
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by codex 14y ago
Is this 30Mhz value per chip, or per memory channel? Would it be possible to increase total random access throughput by adding more chips to a channel and pipelining more requests?
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by codex 14y ago
Are the power draws from the A6, Krait and Cortex A15 presumed to be equal? Would it be possible to reduce performance in return for lower power at a constant clock speed? If so, it seems that one cannot talk about IPC without also knowi
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by codex 14y ago
In an alternate universe, I spent five minutes pre-ordering my iPhone and had it by 9:30 a.m. I feel like such a chump. I should have hired a TaskRabbit to do that for me.
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by codex 14y ago
The problem with this private beta, as I see it, is that you've gotten a sizeable portion of your potential early adopters interested in the product; but now you just repeatedly frustrate them by keeping them out of the beta without even so
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by codex 14y ago
Absolutely. I really admire the human spirit and how it's gotten us so far, so fast. People will absolutely be willing to sacrifice their lives for Mars, and some people will go to Mars not expecting to die, but will anyway. However, I th
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by codex 14y ago
When I was young and was reading a lot of pulp science fiction books, I was in love with Mars. But those books are fiction. The reality of Mars is not a great cosmic adventure. Mars is a shithole. Don't get me wrong--Mars should be explo
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by codex 14y ago
Given Mars' weak gravitational field, extremely low atmospheric pressure, lack of breathable oxygen, deathly cold temperatures, and weak magnetic field (leading to high levels of radiation), he may well get his wish. Many others will likel
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by codex 14y ago
Every time I see a super-cranky tech. article from Slate, it is written by Farhad Manjoo. I'm all for the contrarian viewpoint, but after a while, it just seems like trolling--or an advertisement for antidepressants.
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by codex 14y ago
My aim is actually not to spend very much time on investing. Investing is not my area of specialization and I want to enjoy a high quality of life. I take advantage of division of labor to monetize what I do best--software development.
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by codex 14y ago
I generate about $1K-$2K a month in passive income. I spend approximately zero hours on maintenance every week, and I bootstrapped it while holding down a full-time job. It took an extra 5-10 hours per week for about a year. Here's what
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by codex 14y ago
Sadly, with the release of Lion, I had to retire my Hackintosh. DarkWake meant that my PC would no longer sleep and wake reliably, with random kernel panics to boot. I found the Hackintosh community to be full of wankers who would counsel
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by codex 14y ago
Isn't this how all VC deals work?
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by codex 14y ago
This speaks more to the colossal clusterfuck that was the overengineered, unreliable Space Shuttle program. Doing it 10x cheaper than the Russians would be a real accomplishment.
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by codex 14y ago
I think one reason that this legal brouhaha generates so much invective is because of a few fallacies about patents. At least, I think they're fallacies: 1) If a patent is easy to copy, it must have been easy to create. Samsung's 3G techno
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by codex 14y ago
I think Apple's perspective is that they view these innovations as central to their success. If these innovations are truly trivial, perhaps Samsung would not have copied them nor be so intransigent about removing them from their products.
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by codex 14y ago
On the other hand, Samsung willingly contributed patented technologies to various standard setting organizations, encouraged their use in a host of consumer electronics, and years later now charges the very producers they encouraged to use

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