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by ethbro 6y ago
Change at startups means convincing 0-1 people. Change at a BigCo means convincing 5-10 people. Those require very different tactics and skillsets.
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by ethbro 6y ago
Also, "How not to optimize a webpage for HN." (Said with loving snark, as a former architecture student and knowing exactly why all the bells and formatting whistles were thrown in)
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by ethbro 6y ago
Pentagon has plan for X, for values of X that are possible, is literally the job. Do we want a military with extremely powerful weapons executing a carefully considered and studied plan, or just winging it? And truth be told, joint / c
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by ethbro 6y ago
I'd be fascinated to hear how well marked the exact location was. If it was truly natural, undisturbed cover & dig in a specific spot... wow!
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by ethbro 6y ago
I'd rather live in a world with hidden treasure, but where the idea of hidden treasure causes some people to torpedo their lives and kill themselves, than one without hidden treasure. If it weren't the treasure hunt, anyone that u
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by ethbro 6y ago
The only way in which hiking is "inherently dangerous" is if you equate that term to include "situations in which I may have to depend solely upon myself." In an objective appraisal of risk, actual danger is negligible w
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by ethbro 6y ago
For reference, ... may reasonably be believed and where such information indicates that an activity has taken, is taking, or will take place that would constitute a violation of chapter 2 [aircraft & motor vehicles], 10 [biological wea
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by ethbro 6y ago
Available informative resources played a huge part in mine. (One of the reasons I despair about the modern internet filling kids' time with cotton candy trivia) With a pathologist father, 3rd grade biology questions digressed into two
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by ethbro 6y ago
^ When your 11 year old son finds "that website dad is always on" and this is the first comment thread he reads...
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by ethbro 6y ago
YouTube for tech articles, circa late-1990s, was ZDTV / TechTV. A format that seems to work well with non-article is {topical content} + {multiple knowledgeable hosts} + {free form talk format with some segments}. Early-MTV, the Screen
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by ethbro 6y ago
People seem to like them just fine != People are patching CVEs
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by ethbro 6y ago
Is it illegal to claim a $1M treasure, actually put an IOU in the box, sell $40 maps for a few years, fill the treasure once you break even, then keep subsequent profit? I supposed you'd have to figure out a way to make the maps single
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by ethbro 6y ago
NPR carried a segment talking about making free market liability insurance mandatory for police, with departments only paying the average rate. There needs to be a neutral third party to assess risk, because all of the current stakeholders
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by ethbro 6y ago
> poor leadership, and entrenched policies This is underappreciated. It's hard to seriously change organizations in less than a decade when employees have long tenures. Opinions and behaviors are only truly malleable at the begi
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by ethbro 6y ago
My general impression was that non-US credit card rewards kind of sucked. In the US, 2-5% is the base level of cashback from credit cards. So, a little bit of "we mine and monetize your transactions, but pay you for doing so."
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by ethbro 6y ago
> requiring holders to report their addresses they have the private keys of, sadly. This might become the law, but how would it be enforced? I thought the world leaning on Swiss banks for data was effectively an admission that anonymous
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by ethbro 6y ago
I think "worldview media" is a more appropriate term for the phenomenon. What form it takes isn't as important as the fact that it supplies enough content / entertainment / methods of consumption that one can subscr
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by ethbro 6y ago
LiveJournal / Blogger (1999): Words are more important than styling. I'm going to be a writer someday. LinkedIn (2002): You know who has money? People with jobs. Or people looking to give people jobs. MySpace (2003): Webpages for
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by ethbro 6y ago
And you mine. We're all in this together, but we each get to make our own choices. Always!
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by ethbro 6y ago
My personal decisions require neither your cooperation nor consent. I do what I do to mitigate the spread, not because I expect you to do the same, but because it's what I feel is right. Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.
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by ethbro 6y ago
"GDPNow is not an official forecast of the Atlanta Fed. Rather, it is best viewed as a running estimate of real GDP growth based on available data for the current measured quarter. There are no subjective adjustments made to GDPNow—th
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by ethbro 6y ago
Realistically appraising risks, there are 3 reasons for limiting activity: 1) You're in a high-risk demographic: 70+, have health problems, lack access to high-level health care facilities. 2) You interact with people who are in high-r
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by ethbro 6y ago
I guess the question here is long-lasting vs short-term impacts. Most of the economic forecasting models have to be using historically-fit models. Which is to say, they're giving predictions of what would happen if all of their data so
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by ethbro 6y ago
Musical chairs only call when the music stops. And the central bank is the band.
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Underlaid by etf rebalancing purchases and sales.
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by ethbro 6y ago
Military spending and tax breaks don't contribute to the deficit. Those are investments in the future. /s
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by ethbro 6y ago
Efficiency has to be integrated over a timespan. Despite all the disruption, I'd be surprised if it were on the whole more efficient for companies to optimize for resiliency... for an event that happens once in 100 years. Rather than f
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by ethbro 6y ago
Yes. Aka, one of effectively three leading-edge fabs: TSMC / Samsung / Intel.
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Geopolitically, it'd make more sense to unify TSMC-alternative efforts and share R&D. But countries with... expansive views on autonomy... tend to be poor bedfellows in a partnership. Say what you want about free market capitalism,
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by ethbro 6y ago
The key to doing this is to look at the economics: is it possible for my customer to pay me what I want to be paid? This even applies internally, if your customers are other parts of your company. MaxCompensation = UnitValue * NumberOfUnits

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