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by findthewords 6y ago
Therein lies the rub - The United States seems happy that Bezos, spending capital on whatever he likes, is a better resource allocator than the government itself.
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by findthewords 6y ago
"But the fact that the vast majority of adults in the US can afford the disposable income to acquire such a luxury, a device that we could scarcely envision 15 years ago, is a sign of how healthy capitalism is." I take it as a sig
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by findthewords 6y ago
The bog-standard spectrogram you see in most programs is very lossy and ”smeary”. Clearer, sharper algorithms exist.
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by findthewords 6y ago
In other words, Citadel is a customer of RH while the app's user data is the product.
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by findthewords 6y ago
I would imagine that this lawsuit is about the motive behind it.
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by findthewords 6y ago
Lovely. I like that it has a cookie to remember the post-it locations. My only complaint is that it looks _too_ nice and polished!
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by findthewords 6y ago
A self-hosted personal wiki sounds like a fantastic idea! Is it just a html 'pedia? How do you host the media? I would love to see the "How this wiki was built" page of your wiki.
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by findthewords 6y ago
Yes, but velocity of money is plummeting.
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by findthewords 6y ago
I have a cheap Thinkpad E-series from 2012 with Intel i7-3612QM 4c/8t CPU. At the time it cost a third less than a Macbook. As far as price was concerned it was mainstream.
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by findthewords 6y ago
Ethical behaviour cannot be measured. Companies are still maximising shareholder value. They are doing it by gaming ESG metrics. Nothing has changed.
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by findthewords 6y ago
The fact that Shiller had to come up with a new metric to rationalize exuberance should be worrying. "The time had come, as in all periods of speculation, when men sought not to be persuaded of the reality of things but to find excuses
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by findthewords 6y ago
This is just a regurgitation of "Making Sense of Sky-High Stock Prices" (Nov 30, 2020) by Robert J. Shiller, Laurence Black, Farouk Jivraj. https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/making-sense-of...
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by findthewords 6y ago
Direct taxes will be always easy to bypass, unlike indirect taxes.
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by findthewords 6y ago
If you subscribe to the debt cycle theory by Ray Dalio [1], late cycles see a rise of inequality, populism and finally authoritarianism. (I am skeptical.) [1 ] https://www.valuewalk.com/2019/05/ray-dalio-late-long-
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by findthewords 6y ago
Oh so that's where the market cap comes from. It's valued forward at 2030-2040 valuation where it owns +18% of the vehicle market.
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by findthewords 6y ago
They are using the colloquial expression of not finding it appealing.
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by findthewords 6y ago
Yes, patio heaters are very cheap. Such an infrared emitter would have been a very easy addition to this project, at the cost of doubling the power draw.
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by findthewords 6y ago
Roy Wedding's "Careers for the new millenium..." is gold: "A talent for making up cute names to replace 'layoff' such as; reduction in force, right-sizing, down-sizing, early retirement, etc., is a plus. "
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by findthewords 6y ago
Also, no limits on tethering (hotspot wifi).
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by findthewords 6y ago
Old studies suggest the same. Here's a random one from 2009: https://doi.org/10.1177/154193120905302218
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by findthewords 6y ago
How is it possible that non-profitness does not inherit to a child company? Seems like a conflict of interest.
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by findthewords 6y ago
I have the same struggle. It's just neuroticism. Physics becomes fun when you ignore precision.
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by findthewords 6y ago
In theory, yes, they could protect their workers' job security with a stock offering. They are incentivised to protect the interests of their shareholders. Unions are set up to (N/A in USA) protect the workers.
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by findthewords 6y ago
Disable internet. It takes 2 clicks. You can always get it back, it doesn't go anywhere. Do this for your workstation. Use a laptop to browse stackexchange. Set email to sync every hour, unless your job is to answer emails as they come
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by findthewords 7y ago
The features on offer here for the price sre surprisingly good from Apple. The big phone/small phone argument will be silly in a couple of years when we all have folding phones.
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by findthewords 7y ago
That is an ugly hack. We can do much more.
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by findthewords 7y ago
What your thumb can and cannot do is down to the human-computer interface. Shift the active area within thumb reach. Innovate.
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by findthewords 7y ago
I compromised comfort and upgraded to SE after 4’s usability was consumed by unoptimized software updates. 4\S was perfection as far as ergonomics go. Timeless design. The natural 2:1 ratio was ruined in 5 by stretching in the vertical dime
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by findthewords 7y ago
You may have inherited a diet and adopted habits that cultivate brown fat.
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by findthewords 7y ago
The 64-bit installer passes.

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