dehrmann

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by dehrmann 2y ago
> There was not enough focus on economy in a way that actually mattered Between price controls, tariffs, and excepting tips from taxes, I had no confidence either candidate could pass Econ 101. The proposals can play well politically, bu
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by dehrmann 2y ago
One of the more insightful things I heard in the last few days was this generation of politicians got a lesson in how toxic inflation is politically. And inflation wasn't even that bad, but it felt bad.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
Don't blame me. I voted for Kodos.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
It's more of a tax deferral than a dodge.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
Pension mechanics are always important to remember, but especially important when the company is struggling.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
Interesting, the Filogic 820 SoC might have USB 3, but I bet it's wired up to the Mini PCI-E port.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
My point is that unions should (but don't always) think about long-term business health because if the business loses market share or fails, it's bad for workers. If negotiating power is balanced, this might not matter, but if the
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by dehrmann 2y ago
> Striking during election week is kind of a crappy move to pull Siblings are doubting this, but you can think of it like price gouging. It's the right behavior for extracting maximum value, but it burns a lot of trust, and that&#x2
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by dehrmann 2y ago
> In what world should a UNION of the workers care about the COMPANY? Some unions are more powerful than companies (think UAW). They're able to negotiate terms that are bad for the long-term health of the company, and not having bac
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by dehrmann 2y ago
And MTV doesn't play music. The DJIA is curated slice of the American economy with a goofy weighting.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
I'm a bit annoyed that we could stop this cold with a vaccine that sorta already exists, but didn't because we thought it was low-risk. It might be, or it might be a repeat of the big nothing that was H1N1 in 2009, but flu shots a
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by dehrmann 2y ago
Maybe not surprised, but Squarespace, Wix, Bigcommerce, AWS, Cloudflare.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
On the other end, some of the largest customers might bring more of the tooling in-house.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
I still run uMatrix, and with paranoid settings, you become very aware of who hosts the web. Yes, Shopify is a biggie in the space.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
> Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den Sounds like Buffalo buffalo, but it's more like someone being clever than pointing out an actual problem with the language.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
> Chinese characters are not some kind of alphabet. It's like an intermediate language (IL) of mind. I realized this in Taiwan when I started being able to recognize characters, know what it means in English, and have absolutely no
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by dehrmann 2y ago
> non-investment grade public and private debt now offer prospective returns that are competitive to those historically seen on equities Be sure to hedge this against inflation.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
Sounds like we should all just be doing sqlite3 /dev/sda2 Filesystems and databases solve similar problems, so putting one on top of the other is a bit redundant.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
> the government has a very strong interest in keeping food cheap I'd go further. Governments and society want to overproduce food for resiliency. Markets aim for efficiency, so you need some amount of subsidies for production. >
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by dehrmann 2y ago
My gripe with endorsements is they imply people can't think critically for themselves.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
It isn't the point of the article, but this is true of every storage medium. It's just a question of milliseconds or years.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
Lifetime X is a great promise to make when you're trying to grow, but flickr can't provide free storage indefinitely, and at some point, inflation will catch up with T-Mobile's locked-in price. I'm fine with regulators p
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by dehrmann 2y ago
I would have argued Rust isn't the right choice for a web framework unless the team is rust-first because the memory guarantees aren't really needed, and you're better off with occasional GC pauses and faster development velo
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by dehrmann 2y ago
Since this was at LA Unified, I suspect the bar for passing is extremely low. Not commenting on that district specifically, but not graduating from High School on time takes some doing. The system is very good at moving kids through, and it
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by dehrmann 2y ago
> The only solution is to require face-to-face proctored exams and not allow students to use technology of any kind while taking the test. But any teacher doing this will end up with no students signing up for their class. When I was in
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by dehrmann 2y ago
The US has been borrowing money from the world to pay for the world policing duties. Leaving the debate over those for another day, I'm worried the world will stop borrowing dollars that subsidize that service, and the US will be left
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by dehrmann 2y ago
VC is a type of PE that focuses on younger growth companies.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
I'm surprised MS didn't eventually back down on the TPM and CPU generation requirement.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
City governments have no leverage to pressure businesses with, though.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
It's an interesting argument for monopolies possibly being a net-good, but I don't think regulators really look at it. Companies do R&D because they like their monopoly status and don't want to be caught flat-footed by so

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