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by jbooth 10y ago
There's a maximum of 40 seconds in between plays.. add in the time for players getting up from a pile, and then the time for them to run to their positions on the line, he's got maybe 25 seconds where this thing absolutely has to
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by jbooth 10y ago
I'd qualify that. Things that appear to be generating a ton of money don't get looked at that closely, because everything's going great. Things creating losses get looked at much faster. So it's not pure deceptiveness
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by jbooth 10y ago
More like 1%. Sometimes the rate is higher than inflation, since 2008 it's been lower. The point is that SS administrators would rather lose a small amount of value than put that giant-ass lump of money into the market. It creates ri
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by jbooth 10y ago
Not necessarily. They're looking to stash the money someplace safe that keeps up with inflation, not to make gains.
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by jbooth 10y ago
Not to mention, the social security surplus is entirely invested in those bonds and has been for 80 years or whatever. They'd have to figure something else out if there were none for sale.
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by jbooth 10y ago
3.5% would be defeated by 7%, that's right. What's the going-rate for US bonds again, right now? It's like 0.1%, right? And hasn't been above 3% since the early 80s, if I remember right?
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by jbooth 10y ago
Unless you're being micromanaged to an incredible degree, there's still a lot of room for an engineer's discretion on how things are implemented. That's where "getting it" can play into making better decisions
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by jbooth 10y ago
Well, I haven't run a small business, but I've been astounded by the number of very sharp engineers I've run into over the years who are completely myopic about the business impact of their activity. From not having internal
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by jbooth 10y ago
That's just tech companies being stupid, insular and cargo-culty with who they hire. Someone with business experience, who can prioritize effectively with an eye to the big picture, is way more valuable than someone who figured out t
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by jbooth 10y ago
One more: Don't parallelize when you're going to blow L1 caches for no good reason. I wrote a gradient descent solver a while back, before I realized Vowpal Wabbit existed. Vowpal Wabbit had a dedicated thread to read in records
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by jbooth 10y ago
Yes, and additionally, I don't believe any part of the zoning codes specify rent to be charged. What the market will bear and all that.
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by jbooth 10y ago
Seeing "multiple new high rises" is absolutely meaningful when there are already a ton. It means that, out of limited space not already occupied by really tall buildings, tall buildings are still being built. Most of Manhattan is
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by jbooth 10y ago
Given the state of many of those post-war projects, I think it's gonna be a pretty tough sell to build more.
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by jbooth 10y ago
What New York are you in? I see multiple new high-rises each year in Manhattan, and continued gentrification/refurbishment pushing into the boroughs. TFA is talking about so much new construction in Brooklyn that it might push prices
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by jbooth 10y ago
I think you're understating the amount of protectionism going on here. This isn't just a matter of language barrier and it's not even just a matter of the CCP wanting to maintain control. There's a deliberate effort to
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by jbooth 10y ago
"Consider the possibility that if the greeters actually prevented a significant amount of shrinkage, walmart would have kept them." It's a possibility, I guess. But I've seen enough MBAs cut costs with poorly understood
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by jbooth 10y ago
Having somebody visible near the store entrance so that you're not a complete magnet for crime that creates taxpayer expense.. not exactly Eric Garner.
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by jbooth 10y ago
The premise here is that Wal-mart spends much less on security than other shopping centers like malls and Target. I haven't seen a lot of news stories about civil rights violations by Target's security guards. Maybe they're
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by jbooth 10y ago
If we're talking about economics, I'd say that a 'scarcity' which isn't pushing wages up isn't a scarcity worth thinking about. Money talks.
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by jbooth 10y ago
Hey, it's not like they got those "uninhabited" lands for free, unless we're talking about the first migrations out of Africa. They had to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and genocide their neighbors before they
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by jbooth 10y ago
And you haven't explained why I don't have a pony. You don't get a patch of sovereign land as a birthright. That's never how it worked, anytime in history. You can play by the rules here, you can go someplace with diff
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by jbooth 10y ago
>> If someone comes along and starts extorting you, but says you can leave their area of extortion, you are not obligated to either pay them or leave. Ok, so you're just declaring yourself king of the US? You're allowed to
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by jbooth 10y ago
I think you're confusing economic differences between the US South (very not-catholic) vs Northeast (very catholic) as being caused by the religion when there are a bunch of much more important differences, economically speaking, you c
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by jbooth 10y ago
There's probably something to the fact that it's biotech first, government contractor tech second and software startups third, though. Those employer-friendly and IP-friendly laws work a lot better for biotech's long product
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by jbooth 10y ago
Parallel output by default is just how it's going to work on a distributed computing platform.
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by jbooth 10y ago
Hang on, are you really pointing to nominal spending increases while hand-waving away that real, per-capita spending is down?
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by jbooth 10y ago
You'd think any actual libertarian would be jumping at the chance to get Johnson over the 5% threshold.
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by jbooth 10y ago
The contractors are hamstrung by their own business model. I'm sure a lot of the people on the ground are trying to do a good job, but when you're got a set-in-stone spec negotiated by people 4 levels of reporting away from the a
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by jbooth 10y ago
If you're comparing to the paper bureaucracies of yore, our bureaucracy isn't even that bad. I mean, look at the size of the country and the number of functions, they ran that on PAPER until the 70s-80s? The problem with the soft
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by jbooth 10y ago
Buddy. Give the 'the left' stuff a rest. We're talking about a libertarian going way out of his way to attack a (horrible, tabloid) press organization here. Same guy bankrolled/backed one of the biggest private enable

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