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by femto113 9y ago
The economics speak in this is just wrong: A cashier is a marginal cost... for a convenience store to sell one more item requires some amount of time on the part of a cashier, and that time costs the convenience store oper
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by femto113 9y ago
How about Tycoin? Back it with little stuffed animals.
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by femto113 9y ago
I'm guessing this will be a significant issue because of travel to/from Seattle. With 5+ hour flight times and a 3 hour timezone shift it will be nearly impossible to get from Seattle to the southeast on the day of a meeting, whe
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by femto113 9y ago
Boeing contemplated it but decided on Chicago instead. I think it's a cultural thing, the cities have very different and not particularly compatible personalities. Anecdotally in I've never known anyone choose to leave Seattle f
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by femto113 9y ago
My money is on one of Nashville, Indianapolis or Columbus with Pittsburgh as a dark horse. Amazon is going to be looking to build a major campus (say 5-10 big buildings) right in the center of town (as they've done here in Seattle) and
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by femto113 9y ago
Try imagining William Shatner shouting it.
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by femto113 9y ago
I've always found a typedef of the function and doing the pointer in the variable declaration the clearest since it doesn't need funky parentheses or dereferences anywhere: typedef int func(int arg); int foo(int a) { ret
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by femto113 9y ago
Unlike Tesla, GM doesn't own its dealerships. Each dealership tries to optimize their selection for their own profit, each salesperson to optimize their sales for their own income. There's a complicated web of incentives tweakin
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by femto113 9y ago
It's worth noting that Tesla isn't starting from bare earth, they inherited a complete factory (NUMMI) that at its peak produced over 8000 cars per week. They've already adapted that factory to make two models, so adding a t
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by femto113 9y ago
You don't need any more specific definition of "profit" in this case than "which approach is likely to make the company more money than the other". By going driverless Uber takes on some new expenses (buying/m
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by femto113 9y ago
Driverless cars are unlikely to increase their profitability anytime soon (if ever). I dug into the math on this in some depth here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15744074 The TL;DR is that there is not enough spare
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by femto113 9y ago
It's certainly not all by design, e.g. Uber began winding down [their direct to driver leasing business] this summer after learning that losses were $9,000 per car on average, steeply above the previous estimates of aroun
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by femto113 9y ago
That's not relevant because it doesn't change under a driverless system. Uber already gets "their" cut. The change is that Uber gains as costs what the driver would have paid to own, maintain, and operate the vehicle,
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by femto113 9y ago
Why Uber's pursuing a driverless model just baffles me. This quote is for 24,000 cars for around $1.4 billion, or around $58,000 per vehicle. Even if we assume 0 financing cost the car would need to earn over $58,000 in its lifetime
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by femto113 9y ago
Putting aside the fact that REITs are already a thing, there's a fundamental misconception here: I'm not really interested in having capital tied up in real-estate, but a lot of people are. Nobody wants their capital &q
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by femto113 9y ago
I tried to like the Air but the aluminum bezel around the screen is a non-starter for me. If there has to be something around the screen it better fade into the background (like the MBP's black glass or a typical desktop monitor'
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by femto113 9y ago
Feels more organic to me if the original metaball gets smaller as the other one moves out (like its stealing material). Haven't worked out the correct math but a quick PoC is here: https://codepen.io/femto113/pen&
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by femto113 9y ago
Thinking about this some more I realized you could also encode sequence into the low order bits of the timestamp, and rereading the RFC showed it actually makes this recommendation[1]. There are 10000 100-nanosecond periods per millisecond
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by femto113 9y ago
I'll probably eventually hate myself for even bringing this up but I can't help but notice the similarity between this ID structure and Version 1 (aka timestamp) UUIDs. While I wouldn't go as far as recommending that you ful
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by femto113 9y ago
I have a confusion about ID structure/format: The ID is composed of two parts: a millisecond time and a sequence number. The number after the dot is the sequence number, and is used in order to distinguish entries added
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by femto113 9y ago
Obligatory Steve Martin reference: https://youtu.be/FCJx1uV38ZQ
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by femto113 9y ago
When you have $250,000,000 with no clear nor enforceable legal obligation to the people who gave it to you, who still needs a fully functioning platform?
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by femto113 9y ago
My guess is the problems here were more banal: the account running apache had too much privilege (maybe even root?), and the vulnerability was left unpatched for a long time (weeks at least). If you can execute arbitrary commands on a web
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by femto113 9y ago
I picked that phrase for its narrative effect, not its literal truth, but if you need more authoritatively documented example of mass stupidity and greed leading to a speculative bubble we don't have to look back 400 years... https:&#
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by femto113 9y ago
That "other fact" would be greed. "Many individuals grew suddenly rich. A golden bait hung temptingly out before the people, and, one after the other, they rushed to the tulip marts, like flies around a honey-pot. Every one i
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by femto113 9y ago
Our friend Occam suggests: nope, people are just stupid.
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by femto113 9y ago
At 600 hands per hour it would take that long to play them regardless of whether this is a small fraction of the total hands. The rate per hour would be wrong if these are hands where he won less than usual, but in that case he's maki
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by femto113 9y ago
600 hands per hour ... won $1,913.13 over 387,373 hands That's less than $3/hour, switching to any other career would be an improvement.
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by femto113 9y ago
What you're missing is that if two containers have the same base they will share all of those resources (both on disk and in RAM). Thus while each container is a complete system you can still fit many more containers on a given host t
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by femto113 9y ago
Ever been in an elevator in Europe?

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