hardolaf

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by hardolaf 5y ago
Poverty has been increasing rapidly here in the states and people just keep ignoring it. My employer isn't, we're gearing up to make tons of money on the next crash.
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by hardolaf 5y ago
You could have been in NY near NYC too. But yes, at the time, you were either in the valley or by NYC if you were starting a personal computer related business.
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by hardolaf 5y ago
None. But they have tons of startups that provide services to the military-industrial complex which is why they're so successful. They copied the USA's SBIR system but provide much bigger grants.
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by hardolaf 5y ago
> The reason the US has freely flowing funding is because the VC has an immense amount of cash from the previous generations of successful Unicorns. So why was it (and still is) easier to raise unicorns in the USA ? You're ignoring
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by hardolaf 5y ago
Most of the super successful companies in Israel are either doing things for the state or working for American corporations (or the American government).
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by hardolaf 5y ago
I honestly think Shotcut drove Black Magic Design to release a mostly complete free version of Davinci Resolve. It is just so good, that the leader in editing software had to make the tool free to most users.
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by hardolaf 5y ago
Outside of the last two decades, real estate historically stayed the same price in constant dollars.
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by hardolaf 5y ago
There are entire cities in Texas where every single residential property is covered by a HOA. Some times there literally isn't anywhere with sewer lines without an HOA.
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by hardolaf 5y ago
$1K/mo in Chicago is high but not abnormally high. It's basically a sign that they condo didn't have enough cash for repairs in the past.
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by hardolaf 5y ago
The building that I'm renting in in Chicago basically just has quiet hours, regulations on certain types of home renovations (the pipes are partially owned by the building not the individual units, any structural or wall changes, etc),
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by hardolaf 5y ago
In the USA, they exploded in popularity when people realized you could ban black people from living in your community with them.
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by hardolaf 6y ago
You had respect for Canonical after they put ads in the OS?
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by hardolaf 6y ago
So basically just screw the poor by letting them suffer through Republican pushed indoctrination and lies?
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by hardolaf 6y ago
And? Xilinx+Intel is 90% of the market. They're the only ones who actually matter. And I can tell you from experience that defense is considering almost no on else.
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by hardolaf 6y ago
What benefits? Every fab becomes an ecological disaster over time. They should be assessed penalty rates not given discount rates to cover the future cost of cleanup.
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by hardolaf 6y ago
This is a company asking a city, that will see no income taxes from the at most 2,000 employees, permission to pay zero taxes at all to the city in exchange for the honor of housing a future EPA Super Fund site. Sure, the city will get some
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by hardolaf 8y ago
Except in this case, it's a VPN library built with Lua ontop of a Lua network library with nearly 6 times as many lines of code to hide bugs in: $ cloc WireGuard/ 214 text files. 199 unique files.
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by hardolaf 8y ago
The reality is that most cheap talent (i.e. early career engineers) want to live or work in major cities because there's things to do and the quality of life is simply unbeatable compared to living in even an average suburb of a major
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by hardolaf 8y ago
I moved to Chicago, and from the north window of my building, I can look into the offices of three companies that employ people like me (digital design engineers) that I know of. That view is called the next building. Within a half mile of
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by hardolaf 10y ago
Or it's not political and Gorsuch is telling the truth that he was bound by circuit precedent which he was.
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by hardolaf 12y ago
I never see Mbit in the embedded world when talking about RAM or Flash. I always see KB or MB, never Mbit.