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by dahdum 8y ago
The most impactful Ted talk I ever saw was on tying shoes, so I’d say I appreciated the range of presentations. I can’t really remember any other talks but that one changed my life.
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by dahdum 8y ago
Could he sue Sony in small claims court for the value of all the games he had in his account? Seems like they are unlikely to show up.
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by dahdum 8y ago
They don't reveal the real per capita expenditure for members, they took their total costs and divided by the estimated population (73), of which only a portion receive any benefit.
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by dahdum 8y ago
I'd guess that much of their supply chain is in USD and that the manufacturer would prefer not to be ones hedging the majority of the currency risk (at their expense).
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by dahdum 8y ago
Over 2/3rds of Saudi nationals are employed by the government in relative cushy jobs. Manual labor is done by foreigners. Same reason as the US and farm workers, natives don’t want to do it.
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by dahdum 8y ago
Thank you, don’t know how I spaced that.
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by dahdum 8y ago
If it was his plan to tank the stock 14% on Friday, thinking it would pop back up and beyond Monday to hurt the shorts he’s been smoking far too much. After hours trading is only up .5% from close, Friday morning it was already down like 12
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by dahdum 8y ago
They offer a deal better than they will seek if you force them to go trial. If he fought it I have no doubt they'd have gone for the throat.
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by dahdum 8y ago
Rosanne blamed Ambien, and I wouldn’t be surprised if more public figures do. It’s a convenient scapegoat that doesn’t injure their reputation like admitting hard drug use or alcohol abuse would. Musk couldn’t have been thinking straight wh
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by dahdum 8y ago
Many of the US Michelin restaurants are tasting menus only, though they'll always adjust for real allergies. Few will accomodate vegetarian or vegans though.
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by dahdum 8y ago
I don't see how you can claim there were no problems with trade before the tariffs, China outright bans far more American companies and classes of imports than the reverse.
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by dahdum 8y ago
Author has a great grasp of the market, and this simulation is pretty cool. Another way to look at it is the house-price-to-income ratio, San Jose metro is the highest in the nation for individuals, #2 for households. [1] Even better IMHO i
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by dahdum 8y ago
Porsche was a luxury brand moving downmarket, expanding their reach at the expense of their brand. We're seeing the same thing with Aston Martin, Maserati, and many fashion brands. It certainly works short term, but I wonder if they&#x
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by dahdum 8y ago
Capital gains tax in the US is among the top in the world, and if you live in California I believe it's #2 considering the state's 13.3% addition. You're right that net worth taxes are non-starter virtually everywhere, that&#
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by dahdum 8y ago
Yes, but only promoted recently, and has more of an advisory role than a leadership one. Certainly a talented guy, but not comparable to Sandberg or Dorsey.
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by dahdum 8y ago
Sandberg is COO, on the board, and with Facebook for over 10 years. She's most definitely top level. Google offered Walker, who was just promoted to the position back in July, and has no operational control over the company.
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by dahdum 8y ago
In the series the characters are also simulations. They can modify themselves by tweaking the "file", and spells are just little programs they write against it. There isn't any other reality they have access to.
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by dahdum 8y ago
There is a current series by Scott Meyer that is similar, where engineers occasionally discover the world they live in is a simulation, and they can manipulate it like magic through programming. Light but enjoyable. https://en.wi
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by dahdum 8y ago
I used them for years as a paying customer, and though the apps were also a bit slow and buggy I thought they were worthwhile. I only cancelled when they changed their terms to allow engineers to read your notes to improve their ad targetin
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by dahdum 8y ago
I’ve had the same experience, and as soon as the interaction became very complex (multi table, multi row updates) we just moved it all into stored procedures.
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by dahdum 8y ago
I'm more cynical about California than most, but these policies are a positive force for environmental change and history has shown they aren't empty promises. Like all policy change, it will create winners and losers. While it&#x
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by dahdum 8y ago
The zeitgeist of local politics has been moving against them. With attacks on commuter buses, rallies, and blame for the housing crises assigned to them.
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by dahdum 8y ago
I don't think this sounds like a win-win, the founder moved the goalposts and bought the Series A out for the minimum possible (9%) so he could start paying himself. I read the fluff around core values, but my first thought is that Joe
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by dahdum 8y ago
Unions generate a lot of individual anecdotes, whereas any benefits are far more diffuse. The stories of unions protecting terrible cops, teachers, and running up costs in construction / maintenance are widespread and constant. If you&
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by dahdum 8y ago
The YC experiment will be rather interesting, giving people guaranteed monthly payments of ~$1k for 3-5 years makes them a very attractive population for loan providers. Once they are accepted into the program, you could offer to immediatel
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by dahdum 8y ago
$30k sounds significantly higher than my experience, do you have any background on that? Even for a small company, we paid $5-10k to process applications and sponsor a green card IIRC. Cisco would also have the scale to significantly cut at
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by dahdum 8y ago
One reason from a corporate standpoint is dependency. You can assume AWS will continue to host the core Redis indefinitely, but if you use Redis Labs and your developers begin to use any of the the new proprietary modules, you are locked in
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by dahdum 8y ago
I'll second that the reputations are entwined at this point. My fear is that the "killer" new features will be implemented as RL source-available addons, to differentiate RL from AWS/Cloud providers. I totally get why, a
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by dahdum 8y ago
I wonder if they will let you advertise to people based on trustworthiness, seems like a metric that would be rather useful for a lot of different scenarios. Also fantastic as a hiring screen.
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by dahdum 8y ago
It’s going to be a bit more difficult to pull it off with the recent crack down on privacy and 3rd party cookies. I wonder if they’ll be using data brokers or focusing only one first party data.

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