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by ethbro 6y ago
That's why Intel realized that fab technology was the true differentiator. The only way to outcompete in a sea of clones is to secure exclusive access to a valuable resource they can't. Intel with fabs. Dell with lean supply chain
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In my experience, Jensen Huang's keynotes are unprofessional in the best possible way. I remember thinking during an entire GTC presentation "Wait, this guy is the CEO?" He seemed like an excited engineer who happened to st
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> only builders that can exist at all are the ones trying to extract maximum dollars, and those who try to experiment with more affordable building types are locked out of the process Your market may vary, but I can say there are diffe
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Let's say the amount of money I make from landlording isn't material income, partly by ethical choice. It's a hobby that interests me to learn about, but not one I'd say I currently enjoy, past the learning. I strictly r
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by ethbro 6y ago
Increase the housing supply in certain ways . One of the things that drives me nuts about my town is (1) 90% of new, non-SFH development is rental, (2) new, non-SFH development is only in the upper price ranges, & (3) renovations are a
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It's factual that a policy exists or does not, however one feels about it.
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The problem is formal scholarly training and employment demands are 4-8 years dislocated from each other. Universities do their best to keep a bead on the market (at least, the good ones do), but without medical school-style coordination it
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Any links?
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I'd recommend reading US political history. Specifically in the 1850 - 1920 period. The amount of batshit antics that passed for democracy gives a healthy perspective on current events. The Union endures.
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Happy to be corrected, but I believe it would be more accurate to say that ETFs are less volatile than stocks. They accomplish this by bundling together like stocks, such that each's individual volatility balances out others. This esse
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Just wait until we get closer to the election. Then it's going to get absolutely bonkers.
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My $0.02, we're going to see bifurcation that the market hasn't fully priced in. Not a good time to be in broad ETFs. Highly likely: Coronavirus is going to be circulating until the end of 2021 (based on transmissibility & vac
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Absolutely. I think we're all guilty of looking at famous people and believing they were born that way. When in reality, as with everyone, the majority worked their asses off and honed their craft. That it seemed effortless is a testim
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It's been recommended many times on HN, and I've got it sitting in my physical book queue: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Design_of_Everyday_Thing...
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That's essentially just a team way of varying your effective total bets at any given table.
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> viewers - who pay for quality, informative and unbiased journalism I feel like this was never a majority of the viewer or readership. Instead, in an era of scarcity, BDFLs were able to choose this for them.
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There are an infinite number of confounding variables in biological systems. Ergo, there are an infinite number of reasons to dismiss any particular study. OP's suggestions are tightly scoped and proceed from a basis, but there is a po
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Said as respectfully as I can, it seems like there's a lot of post-hoc justification from the supplement crowd. I.e. 'Well, no effect was observed because Y wasn't done simultaneously.' Which isn't to say vitamins a
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The news media isn't funded to do that sort of journalism anymore. It was always a loss-making enterprise, even with centralized distribution. 24 hour news cycles and internet competition isn't a good recipe for in-depth, long-p
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Not to be trite, but who's paying the debt collectors to call? Morality aside, it seems like a proposition with a poor chance of success to be hounding people for money right now.
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There's a few factors at play here. 1) Hospitals generally get paid (by someone) for treating patients. So they want to run at 100% capacity, even with covid patients. 2) You can't really just "build an ICU." You can sta
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by ethbro 6y ago
I think the biggest difference has been increased discoverability . The point of NM et al. was that they currated what you could not obtain yourself (outside of a private buyer's agent and/or flight to NYC). With the internet...
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It's not nativism or racism to have security concerns about a country with a non-existent commitment to an independent judiciary. If China wants people to think of it as a country where laws matter, then they can start acting like laws
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This. I chalked it up to aggressive Firefox settings.
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https://samba.tv/ "We use anonymized data to provide a positive advertising experience, enable ad-supported TV networks to keep their shows free, and partner with TV manufacturers which reduces the price of TVs for yo
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As with all things Facebook, the truth is that they're opaque as mud about what they do with data. I'd give more credence to "the market is making an informed choice" hypothesis if consumers were, in fact, informed.
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> But the success is chased by increasing bureaucracy and involvement of stakeholders, and it quickly becomes all politics. And then quickly becomes colonial revolution.
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> Why can't the default layout be just the Fn keys ? Because then no software would have used it. (Said ironically)
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> [On YouTube] You can still go subscribe to the channels you like and be completely unaware of the content you don't want to see Generalized, therein lies the crux of the tension. It's not about the existence or accessibi
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The cloud hardware metaphor is a good one. Preserving knowledge is easy and cheap. Preserving capability (that is to say, people and companies with knowledge and ability to use it) is not. To use the metaphor, a huge part of the militar

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