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811.
by creer 2y ago
Oooh a Matt Levine column. Always a treat.
812.
by creer 2y ago
A service business is about selling employee time. Anything you can use to speed up the non-core tasks goes straight to the bottom line percentage. After that anything you can use to have management "run" more people also goes str
813.
by creer 2y ago
Heh. Yes I had noticed this. The problem with "Misc income (bribes)" would be mentioning "bribes" outright. Which then might have a propensity to reach the wrong persons. Confidentially of course. I expect it's more
814.
by creer 2y ago
Fair. Are there examples documented out there where the smart criminals did pay their taxes and we got details on how exactly they described and categorized these payments? "Misc income (bribes) $123,456" might not be the best sol
815.
by creer 2y ago
Good catch. And not a new issue then with that article from 2020.
816.
by creer 2y ago
These often tag along in the US as add-on, enhancing or easier to prove items on investigations that have little to do with them. Money was involved but not reported to the IRS: IRS. Anything at all went through the mail: USPS. It says noth
817.
by creer 2y ago
They are nominally all "free and open source". Is there any expectation to build a business? Just doing work on a library or basic hardware concept seems a good thing off hand. The page mentions (1) "small and medium grants [
818.
by creer 2y ago
"nation state" doesn't mean what you think it means. More constructively, I don't know that very much will stop even a hacker from getting time on the local corporate or university AI and get it to do some "work&quo
819.
by creer 2y ago
I have found people receptive to that observation though. That is, it's not yet a widely noticed thing and I feel it helps to spread it around and people generally seem to welcome and understand the concept. It probably does not immedi
820.
by creer 2y ago
To clarify the first part for people who haven't visited yet. About half the neighborhood is some kind of UCSF special district and street parking is reserved. Even at night where I looked. The rest is parking meters and wide streets w
821.
by creer 2y ago
There is plenty of density there. It's probably the area of San Francisco that has the highest combination of housing and large grocery stores. This is by San Francisco standards because yes, there are lots of large and small company o
822.
by creer 2y ago
That's fair - for a newly densifying area. In San Francisco SOMA, this is not a "newly densifying area". It is still densifying (converted from automotive workshops, entertainment and light manufacturing prevalence 30 years a
823.
by creer 2y ago
Pricing people out is the obvious way when there is too little housing on offer. No point in keeping or building smaller / lower cost when there is so much more demand than supply.
824.
by creer 2y ago
> Bam, done. So simple. Effective. No side effects at all. Everyone does that. /s
825.
by creer 2y ago
> And how do you get lower business rents? There's a thing called supply-and-demand that might be helpful here. In theory there is. But the reality is that ground level lingers empty, or is occupied by some cool office space - and s
826.
by creer 2y ago
> Check the Mission Bay in San Francisco. Everything is walkable and very relevant to my life. And no affordable parking for people to come and visit you. It's fine. They won't.
827.
by creer 2y ago
The retail in "5+1 (retail)" is mostly a planning checkbox. In many locations it may no sense at all and is quickly taken over by (1) the leasing office), (2) the construction office, (3) a startup, (4) empty hopeful vacant space.
828.
by creer 2y ago
This often results in "silly" rather than "nice". The architect knows what it takes to get the project accepted and so they do THAT and not one penny more. The city staff and council are (somewhat) bound to accept what m
829.
by creer 2y ago
Anyone knows why this transition didn't or won't happen slowly (-ish)? The fund managers are aware of the problem, and normally use funds influx, dividends and redemptions to keep things more or less balanced (and have some leaway
830.
by creer 2y ago
Not quite how it works, even in your analogy. The miners are using capital to buy tools, not profits. They or may not make a profit but there is no way they will ever make a profit without first buying shovels. Buying shovels is not optiona
831.
by creer 2y ago
> But at what point do we run out of training data? Isn't the training itself very dependent on each algorithm. Even if you somehow gathered all the plausible training data, you'd have to run it through again for most improveme
832.
by creer 2y ago
Currently I don't even know that "most innovative" really matters, compared to "being able to deliver". Between being by far the biggest market, AND demanding technology transfer here and there, AND using local (chi
833.
by creer 2y ago
There is no fundamental privacy issue with "influencing your future" without disclosure to the advertiser. The question is what is it that this ad tech company claims to offer? And then does run in practice? There is certainly spa
834.
by creer 2y ago
If there really such a wealth of honest, talented, dedicated people that you are ready to waste proven ones?
835.
by creer 2y ago
Right. For that matter it would be nice if we had decent tools for gauging all of activity, competence, attendance record, record of inserting garbage into bills, sponsoring useful bills, defending bills against garbage, etc. As far as I kn
836.
by creer 2y ago
Saved the PDF? Either way, it's great that it works for you - and that's not quite yet everyone. So the author might care.
837.
by creer 2y ago
Fair and useful. But then how well do tooltips print? Is the printed version complete? If the tooltip is just the citation or footnote, then the printout is complete.
838.
by creer 2y ago
An extremely detailed look at various ways to do bibliographic references in a text. And yes, digital changes everything again.
839.
by creer 2y ago
The concept of inflation dates back more than 7 years. Even a corporation was aware of it 7 years ago.
840.
by creer 2y ago
There is a problem of perception. Apple, telsa, Nvidia, Google are in the news a lot - currently. Apple has been amazing for the past 20 years. Even during that period, its PE has varied a lot - the amount of money people were willing to pa

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