dharmon

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by dharmon 7y ago
Exactly this. There is a crossover point where their pain of listening to your horrible French exceeds their enjoyment of watching you suffer, and that's when they let you off the hook. In Paris in the summer this crossover point is hi
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by dharmon 7y ago
It's even worse. He'll use his billion dollars to buy himself cachet in SF, NYC, and LA (and the universities, museums, etc., will all be too glad to take his money and give him board seats), so he'll never personally feel an
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by dharmon 7y ago
I am curious why you think this? Or how you think it's possible? Jeopardy! has judges who are sitting in front of the audience. If Trebek is unsure of an answer he consults them (you can tell when he does this cause he'll look off
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by dharmon 7y ago
In Palo Alto we would receive notices in our mailbox whenever a local business was applying for a liquor license. I think this is fairly common.
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by dharmon 7y ago
Ok. I see what you're saying. Thanks for clarifying. I mean, sure, feel free to wring your hands about AGI, but why worry about something that's not anywhere close to happening? I see people talking like this is keeping them up at
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by dharmon 7y ago
Uh, what? That is entirely what my question is . Whether extrapolating the current state of the art is enough to get us to "the future". If I start walking out the direction of my office door, you could predict I would reach Cali
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by dharmon 7y ago
I wasn't talking about Russell.
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by dharmon 7y ago
I too tend to ignore the doomsday crowd, not least of all because it is often "celebrities" without the technical knowledge to say anything interesting (Musk, Thiel, etc.) I figured there was no way we would reach the singularity
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by dharmon 7y ago
The most incredible night sky I've seen is on the top of Mt John (there's a small observatory) on the southern island of New Zealand. Mauna Kea wasn't close. You could see the band of the milky away across the sky. It was lik
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by dharmon 7y ago
Even studios in LA, like Paramount, have fake NYC streets.
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by dharmon 7y ago
I think you're misreading the aversion to making money. Tech entrepreneurs in SV have been trained for years to avoid revenue, profit, etc at all costs. The reason? Because as soon as you have profit, the conversation and metrics at fu
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by dharmon 7y ago
I read this being open and very curious to criticisms of the Gates Foundation. But to be honest, I thought the criticism seemed a little weak. Then halfway through, it became clearer. The author doesn't care about toilets in India or g
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by dharmon 7y ago
For some perspective, think of all the notable people you can name. Not just the huge names, but people from your particular field / sub-field, etc. How many made this list and similarly useless ones? Like the Academy Awards, sometimes
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by dharmon 7y ago
It definitely sucks that you can not miss a single question yet still end up with something like a 98th percentile because of the question set you happened to get.
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by dharmon 7y ago
As I'm sure you know (but maybe others don't), the main difference is that the GRE adapts to how you're doing, asking harder / easier questions when you get them right / wrong. This means the early questions have ou
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by dharmon 7y ago
I only did alright on the SAT, but I smoked the GRE by doing something similar. The Kaplan book had a CD with a few practice tests. I think I did 2. If for no other reason, they are super useful for figuring out how to pace yourself. The ma
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by dharmon 7y ago
I don't have high hopes for his business prospects if this is how he handles one of the richest companies in the world clearly having a high need for something his company offers. Maybe spend less time on Twitter and more on your busin
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by dharmon 7y ago
I don't understand the situation you are concerned about where you don't end up paying the minimum of 90% of your current year's tax or 110% of the previous year's tax (these are the numbers to avoid a penalty). Can you
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by dharmon 7y ago
Fair enough. I'm only familiar with the big tech companies and a few of the smaller ones. Although I'm surprised your husband's brokerage did not have this option for you.
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by dharmon 7y ago
Lest anyone leave confused, this only applies for privately-held companies. If you are entertaining an offer from Google, Apple, Netflix, Amazon, etc., when your shares vest, the default option is usually "sell to cover", which me
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by dharmon 7y ago
If the second paragraph of "A Short Biography" is at all interesting, then you should definitely read The Destiny of the Republic . It covers Garfield's unexpected rise to president, his assassination, Bell's attempt to
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by dharmon 7y ago
You're treating ownership as if it's some natural right. It's not. The idea of property and ownership is a social construct, so it makes sense that society gets to determine the rules of this construct. And society has genera
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by dharmon 7y ago
Its not always fakes. Some sellers sell factory seconds and refurbished items as new. Just save yourself the headaches and skip Amazon, where you have no recourse, for Home Depot, Best Buy, Target, and even Wal-Mart. Everybody does price ma
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by dharmon 7y ago
> - (almost) Never talks down to the audience or his guest. I occasionally listen if he has a guest I am interested in. When talking to James Hetfield (Metallica), they got to talking about bees (Hetfield keeps bees). After about 10 or 1
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by dharmon 7y ago
Do it anyway, but worth mentioning that the maximum penalty is _not_ $700M, but $31M. If more than 250k(ish) people sign up, the payout per-person goes down. [1] [1] https://twitter.com/rufo/status/1154872589241802
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by dharmon 7y ago
I, even (especially?) as a long-time Apple fanboy, am looking forward to some fresh design blood in the Apple ecosystem. AAPL is down about 1%. So I guess the market values Ive at around $9B? :P
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by dharmon 7y ago
If all of this seems too complicated and you want an easy way to take cookies from fine / good to great, stick with your standard Tollhouse recipe, but let the dough sit in the fridge for a day or two (the linked article talks about th
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by dharmon 7y ago
This is a little dirty, but couldn't they comply with the letter of the GPL and release the code, but none of the build/install scripts? Then only the most motivated users could get it for "free"?
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by dharmon 7y ago
Along these lines, a good shave soap + brush, and shaving after I shower means each blade lasts me forever. I still use Mach3's cause I change them maybe 3-4 times a year. I also do a quick rough shave, then re-lather up my face to get
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by dharmon 8y ago
I shudder thinking about the moisture issues you'd have to constantly battle. Basements are bad enough by themselves, but with a pool down there too?!

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