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by firebones 8y ago
Also, keep in mind two things. First, that cost of living compounds just as investments do, albeit at a different rate. Second, that at some point, gains on investments will ultimately be taxed. If your projection spreadsheet doesn't
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by firebones 8y ago
Out of curiosity, what was their primary technology background before being expected to use/learn React?
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by firebones 8y ago
Also known as "Chesterton's Fence". Before you tear down a fence, understand why it was put there in the first place.
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by firebones 8y ago
On OSX, I wrote an installable startup daemon that logs the current window, and for browsers, captures the URL from the address bar, and logs it to a file. The sampling can be whatever period you decide, but you have to write your own analy
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Ask HN: What are some great retro computing projects to contribute to?
24 points by firebones 8y ago|6 comments
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by firebones 8y ago
Impressive. But am I wrong to have my hackles raised by a) the roll-your-own security nature of this, b) the reliance on a single developer's single stack implementation as what guarantees the integrity of the system? It seems like the
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by firebones 8y ago
What's an example of a good news website that uses Jekyll or WordPress?
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by firebones 8y ago
Not necessarily disputing your second paragraph's financial/economic points, but if you're owning apartments (and managing them) or have a medical practice, you're not retired. That does say to me that a lot of this earl
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by firebones 8y ago
Assuming 0% inflation or a real return on the $1M well above 4%, no health issues, no change in expenses, no massive drawdown in the market in year one, etc. Build a spreadsheet that has "expected return" (e.g., 1.06) and inflatio
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by firebones 8y ago
If you're talking KC's Boulevard, which beers, and what recipes? I haven't noticed a decline, although I'm not a beer snob. Occasionally more variance, but not anything out of the ordinary compared to the past. The only
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by firebones 8y ago
And some would argue the same for hospitals.
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by firebones 8y ago
I'm not who you are asking, but this book https://www.amazon.com/Mathematical-Experience-Phillip-J-Dav... hits some of the philosophy of math. It's been a long time since I've dipped into it, but IIRC, it put
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by firebones 8y ago
The intersection of tourist attractions and entrepreneurs winging it when it comes to engineering and safety reminds me to the recent Verruckt incident in Kansas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verr%C3%BCckt_(water_slide
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by firebones 8y ago
0.9% exists to get people into cars (aka, volume) who otherwise might not come through the door + add origination fees + attract the type of people who are likely to incur late payment fees. I would guess at a macro-level, the effective rat
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by firebones 8y ago
I wonder if it is like some of the automobile airbag failures and recalls--latitude matters since problems turn out aggravated by heat/humidity.
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Twitter to Replace Monsanto in S&P 500(cnbc.com)
1 points by firebones 8y ago|0 comments
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by firebones 8y ago
This is a good example of a case where engineering from first principles, especially around user experience for driving, can lead to making the same mistakes again (e.g., autopilot naming, and potentially issues related to consistent brakin
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by firebones 8y ago
But, but, but...why does Twitter have so many engineers? I could write Twitter in a weekend! --95% of anti-TWTR posters circa 2010-2016.
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by firebones 8y ago
The luck isn't in the timing--as others point out, even bad timing leads to impressive gains over long time periods if there's a steady stream of periodic investments. The "luck" comes from winning a genetic lottery that
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by firebones 8y ago
Dare I say that after hammering away for 6 years with no profitability, it's not the $2.19/day in LLC tax that's bleeding him dry, it's the fact that the market is sending him a message about his offering.
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by firebones 9y ago
In a family with radically diverse genetics, and radically diverse oral health outcomes seemingly independent of oral care: congratulations on hitting the genetic lottery!
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by firebones 9y ago
(x) hey, but let's put this BS on the road anyway (xi) something, something "Fight Club" math anyway
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by firebones 9y ago
Or "better" (for some value of better), join the data to something identifiable (e.g., the public records you listed) before developing models for everything you want to retain, then discard the original data once your deep enou
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by firebones 9y ago
Great point. What's the over-under on a road-worker death when autopilot plows through a confusingly-marked construction zone at 70MPH?
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by firebones 9y ago
This is true, to the extent that the selection of input parameters to simulate provides coverage over the domain of all possible input parameters. At some point you're back to testing the failure of imagination of the simulation/t
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by firebones 9y ago
You're onto an important theme: so much of driving is really about group communication--everything from signaling to anticipating behavior based on your own past actions, to waving people through intersections or slowing down to let so
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Detailed Technical Proposal for the Failed FIU Pedestrian Bridge [2015] [pdf](facilities.fiu.edu)
3 points by firebones 9y ago|0 comments
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by firebones 9y ago
1. Pedantic much? I didn't know we were talking strict city limits rather than metro area. 2,3: Your references make it sound like you last sampled the market in tech in KC in 2001, if Sprint is your benchmark for KC tech employers. KC
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by firebones 9y ago
Did you time travel from 2000 to make this comment? Garmin, Cerner and DST are nearly twice Sprint's market cap. KC is nowhere near its potential, and it's no Austin (nor Omaha), but come on, Sprint's heyday was long ago.
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by firebones 9y ago
Out of curiosity, which part? CO is very appealing as a worker.

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