jakelarkin

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by jakelarkin 8y ago
"its not about the problem" but if you cant correctly code one of these 200 algorithms on a whiteboard in sub 15 minutes while under extreme stress youre not getting an offer either.
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
we've rebuilt like 15 countries (after bombing them) in the past ... somehow its totally impossible to temporarily house a fractional percentage of people in our country and make sure they get a job or their meds instead of addicted t
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
this is the Nash Equilibrium type problem that exists with US federalism and extreme poverty. Cities just ship people around hoping to reduce their share of cost, while the homeless just become more physically sick or addicted, and mentally
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
anybody ever been to Milbrae? It's a tiny town with no courts and no police of its own. The cameras at intersections around the BART station make $millions for the city, mostly for vaguely marked and unnecessary no right turn on red.
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
probably the processor-memory bus. GPUs have wider ones
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
Apple CPU Architecture excellence is nothing short of amazing. iPhone XS A12 processors are 2x or 3x the speed of a Snapdragon 845 (Pixel 3) and have lower power consumption. For these benchmarks they're approaching consumer desktop
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
the question the article raises is not whether theyre paid their worth but rather whether theyre dying paupers I looked up my friends PI at Berkeley. (no Nobel) $300k pension 50-75% of salary + retiree healthcare benefits hard to say someon
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
sensational headline ... tenured professors are the top 1% of academia and they have a pension no? maybe he sold it to live out his final days with premium care. maybe they decided his surviving wife would've rather had a liquid estate
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
what do they all do? I imagine regional/vertical sales or procurement roles from the before-internet scale era?
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
Anecdotally I've seen many people stop biking because its not safe and the risks become apparent to them over time. 5 people I know have been seriously injured biking in San Francisco. When you consider the risk of getting door-ed at
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
its little-stated due to the massive fiscal and political implications but there's a belief among some of the better investment professionals out there that the past decade of 1) low baseline interest rates 2) large run up in stock mul
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
won't batching transactions increasing the failure rate by a multiple of (batch size)? how should users reason about that tradeoff?
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
security by obsolescence is a thing too
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
this is my concern as well. on the hardware side, a Chinese startup can iterate faster & be the lowest cost producer. if design, UX, software, marketing is on par with SV/US competitors. SV is toast (in that industry)
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
so it seems like Drones is one of the first big nascent industries, SV utterly lost to China b/c of their dominance of manufacturing?
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
it is relevant because people keep making an awful argument there's not enough water for people to live in cities (LA, SF) , when the taxpayers of the state are literally subsidizing half-dozen monster dams & aqueducts so a commerc
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
the (old) Bay Bridge serviced trains until the 1960s. perhaps the design had higher loads & structural requirements due to that use.
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
lol. do you really think "Comcast Business" magically upgrades the lines or gateway hardware that serves your home? its just $200/month for slightly better reps, who still can't do jack about how the network drops your
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
F35 isn't so much a fighter jet as it is a political graft and jobs program, and in that light it's a smashing success.
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
an autonomous helicopter startup doesn't have unions with collective bargaining agreements (contractually obligating them to have at least 1 human operator).
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
I understand why they became popular, but as a software engineer considering how they work, I am just full of disappointment. we're going to spend the next ten years re-inventing every single software engineering best practice for j
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
most taxable investors strongly prefer buybacks. capital gains from the equity appreciation are taxed at no more than 20% vs whatever your income tax rate is which can be 25%-50%.
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
If the app is a singular product that only exists on mobile, then fine you bake the Apple/Google tax into your price. for content subscription businesses that are multi-platform its a bit of an absurd situation. You can't really
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
2,651 hours/week * $30/hour = ~$80k/week. on a volume of cars that brings in $200m/week. so what? its a minor inefficiency.
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
I wonder if this precocious racket will pay out over Rothenberg's lifetime vs. just banking his pedigree and network on some boring low risk career track. He's currently ahead a few million but his reputation is toast.
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
wearing a stiff jacket or carrying a backpack full of groceries on public transit? ... prepare to add 30 minutes each way as you're flagged for "secondary screening" driving your 300hp, 3 ton SUV with 70 cubic feet cargo spa
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
people are greedy. they vote for tax cuts when the economy is doing well.
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
Mark is 34. Sure must feel good to be all pedantic about his maturity, but that's not actually the problem. The problem is that the CEO of Facebook or Twitter, whoever it is, is in a Catch-22, they can't solve the disinformatio
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
if youre paying 20% of your income to student loans, buying a house isnt exactly the best play. Student loan interest is a scam. Dig deep and pay that jam off as quickly as a you can.
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
last years appreciation, the lost deductions, rising rates have really stretched the limits of demand. how many households are really out there who can afford a 10k/month mortgage or 300k down payment that you need for a house in uppe

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