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by ericb 8y ago
Under current rules, I'm pretty sure it is legal to try and destroy a company by destroying its reputation and maligning its financials and profit by shorting it while you kill it. That this is allowed seems anti-competitive and takes
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by ericb 8y ago
Developers often quit managers rather than companies. I find how long I stay is related to how progressive the culture is. Examples of progressive management: Good work from home policy, lack of 70's butts in seats mentality, no death
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by ericb 8y ago
And still get pedantically corrected on a minor point! What a place this is!
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by ericb 8y ago
The assumption that the popularity of react would be anywhere in the same order of magnitude if it was not open source is grossly misguided. Many companies, mine included, avoided it just for the patent lawsuit clause alone.
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by ericb 8y ago
> There are no secrets to weight loss. Eat fewer calories than you burn. It doesn't matter if that involves keto, or vegan, or one meal a day. Thyroid problems also don't change physics. You seem focused on the physics and mate
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by ericb 8y ago
Thanks!
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by ericb 8y ago
I agree, great comment. I'd favourite it too, but how does one favorite an individual comment on HN?
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by ericb 8y ago
How does the sales organization at your dealer sell the model of the future without trash-talking all the other gas-guzzling vehicles in the lot? How do you convince a dealer dependent on the revenue from servicing those engines to go again
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by ericb 8y ago
Intriguing hypothesis! To chase it down a little more, is it true that legacy car companies don't use the "skateboard battery" approach, since this hypothesis predicts they would not?
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by ericb 8y ago
The answer to what Munro doesn't see is that the Tesla battery makes up $6,500 of the cost. With continually falling battery costs, the answer is that the "how" will be obvious in a year or so. https://cleantechnic
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by ericb 8y ago
What is the name of the tech used to do this. Also, what is the name of the tech (or open source implementations) that makes data like this explorable with drill-down? I'm looking into projects like this.
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by ericb 8y ago
For CAD modeling for 3d printing with Fusion 360 (free for startups and hobbyists) I was impressed by "Learn Fusion 360 or Die Trying" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5tp4QXciK4
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by ericb 8y ago
I appreciate you sharing the story. There's a difference between characterizing a specific reaction as weak and calling a person weak. There's also a natural human tendency to overlook horrors when they are abstract and "data
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by ericb 8y ago
I'd like to raise the possibility that this is a milquetoast to reaction to something that sounds potentially criminal and cruel. I have a friend with a daughter coming out of 9 months of chemo. The thought that any of the many drugs
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by ericb 8y ago
I don't think this chart bears our your thesis very well: https://cleantechnica.com/2018/05/07/huge-gap-tesla-model-3-...
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by ericb 8y ago
I've seen many posts on HN questioning whether there is any value in a permissionless uncensorable internet of the type some cryptocurrency platforms are building toward. Will the concept get less mockery now?
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by ericb 8y ago
> Any CxO position at a publicly traded company is long hours I don't think that's true at all. The CFO/CEO at companies I've worked at are not working 120 hour weeks, and they were publicly traded. If anything, they
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by ericb 8y ago
I'm curious, can anyone update me on the related problem of whether it is still the case that failing studies are rarely published so there's a potential for duplication and misreading of significance--because if 101 studies are
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by ericb 8y ago
How does that explain the study showing weight gain in labratory animals with controlled diets?
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by ericb 8y ago
Here's a graph with the prevalence of AC by region. It could also be related to the affordability of heat (my grandparents kept the house very cool). I have no idea if there's something to this, but interesting to poke at. https:
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by ericb 8y ago
I think the most fascinating thing about this is the study that said it was happening to lab animals with controlled diets, also. Pet hypothesis: It takes a large amount of energy to maintain our body temperature. What if one cause is the s
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by ericb 8y ago
> You'd think that based around the context of my statements that I'm not an unaware bystander and that I might already know something about Augur When something is currently operating, just saying it can't work because of
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by ericb 8y ago
Have you actually looked at Augur? It is up and running and working well.
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by ericb 8y ago
I would argue that the advent of PAC's and Citizens United has more or less obsoleted the positive case--which you're right, I don't object too. What I mean is, if I'm a politician and two lobbyist show up "explaini
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by ericb 8y ago
Would "should be considered" be more appropriate wording and less hyperbolic? I'm being serious. I think cash contributions for legislation fundamentally subvert our democracy, and my comment was intended to raise that point
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by ericb 8y ago
edited: Lobbying should be considered treasonous.
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by ericb 8y ago
> this estimate for example says $1.3B was invested in 2018 alone! That's like 1/50th of an Enron (which had a 70 Billion dollar value and went to 0). Enron in itself wasn't a bubble.
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by ericb 8y ago
I'm sure that's intended as some sort of damning critique, but that's true of most assets in a portfolio. Real estate, commodities, stocks, currency, options, index funds, precious metals--all held in hopes of selling for a h
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by ericb 8y ago
> Your average citizen gains nothing from adopting a currency that is highly volatile, concentrated in the hands of a few, and awful at completing everyday transactions. Maybe, but those problems are not necessarily permanent, and it can
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> it is absolutely detrimental to society at large This may or may not be the case, but regardless, individual decisions are usually made based on an individual's self-interest rather than the warm fuzzy feelings about helping socie

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