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by hapless 11y ago
I would be elated if I had a desk that was longer than I am tall. That would nearly double the size!
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by hapless 11y ago
Yes, this is incidentally a hit piece on Carly Fiorina, but the business analysis is quite entertaining Apple really took HP for a ride on the HP+iPod debacle. I didn't realize how badly. It's funny to look back.
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by hapless 11y ago
NYC is still very much a cash-based economy. Most people have cash, most of the time.
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by hapless 11y ago
So instead of signing up for every imaginable libel suit by posting uncontested "negative" reviews, they're going to hold back a little, and just monetize my name and likeness without my permission. They clearly have a crack
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by hapless 11y ago
Intel had already price-segmented "inexpensive" supercomputers by restricting ECC to Xeon chips. The good news was that the low-end Xeons were only about $100 more than the Core i7 in the same socket. We don't know whether I
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by hapless 11y ago
It is entirely possible for a $1B exit to leave you with literally $0. Let's say your company has accepted $500 million in funding, with a 2x LP, at a $1 billion valuation. The company exits for $1 billion. Investors take a their 2x L
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by hapless 11y ago
I don't think many employees have a 1 in 2000 chance of a $10M outcome. I'm OK with the 0.005% odds on a multi-billion exit. Let's stick with that. The problem isn't the odds, it's the returns. As another article
398.
by hapless 11y ago
It's not about what's equitable, or fair, or "reasonable." It's about what the market will bear. Individuals with a realistic worldview, a little background information, and the ability to do simple math will concl
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by hapless 11y ago
I have a hard time believing that we're moving the emissions. 1. The efficiency/emissions tradeoff is almost entirely a diesel problem. For intrinsic reasons, gasoline engines suffer much less from emissions controls. The releva
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by hapless 11y ago
Why are we back here every year, like clockwork? This is what, the 4th incarnation of this bill?
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by hapless 11y ago
EPA emissions limits are based on grams of pollutant per horsepower-hour. In order to reach compliance, your emissions control equipment needs to reduce pollution much faster than it reduces efficiency. It's not uncommon for illegally
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by hapless 11y ago
"Yes"
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by hapless 11y ago
Whether it's "logical" depends on your goals. If you value public health more than fuel efficiency, then yes, emissions controls are a logical choice.
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by hapless 11y ago
The mayor of Indianapolis implemented this program by fiat, without any legal basis. The city-county council is furious. There are no special legal carve-outs for the use of city parking spaces or municipal land by the autolib vehicles --
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by hapless 11y ago
Some of those strides would still have been made in a world with less private money in R&D research. If the entire private side of the industry dried up and blew away, we would still have great improvements in human health in our future
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by hapless 11y ago
Any time someone dares to suggest that U.S. pharmaceutical pricing is out of control, pundits (often paid pundits) work themselves into a froth about new drug development. I'm tired of subsidizing drug development for the rest of the w
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by hapless 11y ago
I don't have to find a way to come up with all that money. New drug development is entirely optional. The world will not stop turning if we never have another pill to make your dick hard, or add four weeks to a terminal cancer prognos
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by hapless 11y ago
The second avenue subway is 3.2 km long, and the projected cost is 4.45 billion. That's $428k per foot.
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by hapless 11y ago
for me, personally, it's perverse historical interest. in a larger sense, it's because Oracle's support policies make the market-clearing price for used SPARC hardware very, very reasonable. The value of 3-year-old SPARC gea
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by hapless 11y ago
I wonder how reusable this will be on the SPARC64 port. There was never enough interest in Linux/SPARC to make a Xen or KVM port feasible. But OpenBSD's community is a different animal.
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by hapless 11y ago
The mailing list post discusses the use of virtio for drivers. That gets you a lot of the way to KVM support.
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by hapless 11y ago
There have already been two other Red Hats, and Red Hat bought them both: JBoss and Cygnus. If there's ever another breakout in enterprise open source, Red Hat will buy that firm, too.
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by hapless 11y ago
I'm less excited by the distribution than the package system. VMware wrote a dnf/yum replacement in pure C, with no python dependencies: https://github.com/vmware/photon/blob/master/tyum.md Th
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by hapless 12y ago
Tramp is outstandingly useful for remote editing tasks via ssh, telnet, ftp, whatever. It's "smarter" than sshfs/fuse, because tramp understands which files are remote, and which are local.
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by hapless 12y ago
Yes, unreservedly. Immigrant workers whose residencies are not tightly coupled to their jobs would drive wages down much less than H-1Bs. This is why you don't see employers lobbying for easier immigration policy. Instead, they lobby
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by hapless 12y ago
Even if they hire in at a market wage (and they often don't), you don't have to give H-1B workers raises or promotions.
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by hapless 12y ago
Ross Ulbricht did skip out on the rent, after all.
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by hapless 12y ago
No one who has done his research doubts that Cleveland can be a really nice place to live. It's a charming midsize city with lots of good stuff happening. Unfortunately, that's often not how we choose our geographic location. Amer
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by hapless 12y ago
LinkedIn, like Twitter, is limiting API usage to specific use cases that dovetail with LinkedIn's own apps, instead of competing with them. The restrictions were imposed yesterday. The authors of this manifesto think that's a bad
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by hapless 12y ago
I'd love to see the numbers on who can choose between one cable provider, and several (useless) providers of 3 mbps dsl. I'll bet it's a lot more than 12%.

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