ethbro

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931.
by ethbro 7y ago
De facto voting rights for African Americans, desegregation, and women's rights to control their own bodies.
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by ethbro 7y ago
I will say, as someone who's live in both southern and northern US states... - Northern "American" food traditions tend to completely lack seasoning of any sort (note: not including appropriated ethnic traditions here) - Sout
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by ethbro 7y ago
Hence why mobile computing market size >> desktop computing market size
934.
by ethbro 7y ago
And what have we done about that? I'm technically Gen Y, and I'll be the first to admit that with regards to protesting my generation seems: - Uninformed - Undisciplined - Lazy - Uncoordinated People were self-organizing large civ
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by ethbro 7y ago
Depends on the scenario. People know the facts and make informed choices. That's the differences between engineers and sheep.
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by ethbro 7y ago
As the saying goes, 'everyone has a little red under their collar.' (In the abstracted, skin-tone neutral sense)
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by ethbro 7y ago
5.56 isn't SAAMI-standardized in the first place, so they legally shouldn't say anything other than their wording there. Which you also see on many .223 rifles as you noted. But that's a legal perspective. From an engineer
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by ethbro 7y ago
Citation for 5.56 vs .223? Fact: The external case and bullet dimensions are functionally identical Fact: The chamber dimensions in respective rifles are close enough, +/- machining tolerances, that "very dangerous" is inaccu
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by ethbro 7y ago
5.56x45mm? Aka .223 Remington? 7.62x51mm? Aka .308 Winchester? Only two of the most common NATO standards.
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by ethbro 7y ago
I was going to include Uber, but there's an argument that creating a realtime, massively-scaled fare-setting infrastructure is a moat. Uber's product isn't rides. Uber's product is being the market-maker between riders a
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by ethbro 7y ago
Buffett's hypothesis (as I understand it) boiled down to (1) find successful businesses that are capital-starved, (2) pair them with businesses which naturally generate float (e.g. insurance), under a corporate umbrella, (3) invest the
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by ethbro 7y ago
HN: Violent, informed agreement
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by ethbro 7y ago
The irony is that essentially all of SoftBank's playbook is ripped from Buffett. Except Buffett did it with non-tech, capital-heavy companies. Where it arguably works a lot more reliably.
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by ethbro 7y ago
Furthermore, and this to me is the most damning indictment: where's the moat? SoftBank and Masayoshi Son's hypothesis is: 1. Find a market which can be captured by a business with access to massive capital 2. Provide massive cap
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by ethbro 7y ago
That makes more sense!
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by ethbro 7y ago
Minor: Boeing is BA, if that was the reference
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by ethbro 7y ago
They were pretty happy to shoot their own citizens in 1989.
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by ethbro 7y ago
I don't think parent is talking about risk to the executive , but rather risk to the company . Or to put it another way, executive compensation must be order of magnitude comparable with potential personal gratification should the ex
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by ethbro 7y ago
At minimum, it seems the kind of thing a competent lawyer would require. Even if FB / WhatsApp doesn't currently have such a capability, there's no legal guarantee they couldn't be compelled to add it, thereby putt
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by ethbro 7y ago
Isolated co-processors and memory.
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by ethbro 7y ago
> it’s also slightly worrying that a whole class of iOS devices have a severe and unpatchable security flaw. "Severe" is a bit over-dramatic. To be accurate, from the article: Checkm8 requires physical access to the phone. I
952.
by ethbro 7y ago
Obligatory Buffett-esque: "Cash isn't always about the profit. Sometimes it's about access to it."
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by ethbro 7y ago
I wondered if this was part of the great extraterrestrial life filter: that there were so many "only in this window" chances that a civilization gets. E.g. how easy would it be for us to bootstrap back to space capabilities after
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by ethbro 7y ago
I think the zero sum nature is what trips up most people about state finance. Ultimately, what is and isn't possible for a state to do stems from the vagaries of what all other states are currently doing. It's somewhat rooted in
955.
by ethbro 7y ago
The counterargument to the point you're making would be that taxes are essentially "closing the loop" between private and public services. Either the state taxes and provides public services, or the state taxes less and priva
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by ethbro 7y ago
It's interesting how much design tolerances and overbuilding factor into this. Assuming linear failure to fault (e.g. rust or structural weakening), an overbuilt bridge makes a big difference if one is skimping on maintenance costs.
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by ethbro 7y ago
@dang The Fortune article at least contains a bit more detail from the supposed paper. https://fortune.com/2019/09/20/google-claims-quantum-suprema...
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by ethbro 7y ago
I expect the downvotes are because of the unmentioned "communist, single-party states are the essence of groupthink coolaid" elephant. But I doubt you're wrong on the engineering analysis. The physical world has the unique pr
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by ethbro 7y ago
Isn't that the point the article is making? That in late-stage capitalism, all actual work is invariably outsourced, with only management and profits retained?
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by ethbro 7y ago
Half-load + Firefox reader mode

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