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by jcheng 5y ago
Thank you for a strikingly helpful testimonial. I’m skeptical of no- and low-code but based on your account, I’m now intrigued enough to give bubble a look.
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by jcheng 5y ago
> Cycling shouldn't be about the gear itself. It should be about, well, getting out there and cycling. But for some people, half the fun is spending money on the toys. I love getting out there and cycling (just got back from a ride
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by jcheng 5y ago
For car dealers and manufacturers, the math is more complicated than that--the lease can be a loss leader, which may be useful to the dealer or manufacturer for any number of reasons. In the early 2000s it was not unusual for leases on slow
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by jcheng 5y ago
Freedom 1: “Access to the source code is a precondition” With no copyright/copyleft, how do you enforce the rule that derived works must provide access to the source code? I’ve never heard that copyleft was a stepping stone—rather, it’
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by jcheng 5y ago
No...? Not unless that closed-source project's source code is leaked?
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by jcheng 5y ago
Only if you agree that copyleft licenses are also stupid; without copyright, there's no way to prevent companies from making closed-source forks of code you wrote and intended to stay open.
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by jcheng 5y ago
It really is a tax loophole though--for capital gains, the basis is reset upon transferring to your heirs. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/stepupinbasis.asp https://www.peoplestaxpage.org/buy-
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by jcheng 5y ago
> Are they just betting on the insurance companies mispricing their insurance products? Sort of. First, the investors are betting that the information they have now (when the insured wants to sell) is better than what the insurance compa
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by jcheng 5y ago
If you pay an exec $100MM in stock, they’re taxed on it the same as $100MM in cash, no? They’re just not taxed if their stock appreciates by $100MM and they never sell it. (And if they do sell it’s taxed as capital gains)
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by jcheng 5y ago
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLRequireSourcePo... > Does the GPL require that source code of modified versions be posted to the public? > The GPL does not require you to release your modified versio
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by jcheng 5y ago
I didn't see Nvidia weigh in on the morality of any workload, just like nerfing FP64 performance in their GeForce cards wasn't a statement on the morality of double-precision workloads. They're trying to steer cards towards a
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by jcheng 5y ago
> My effective tax rate between state and federal is something like 55% before including sales taxes. That seems extremely high, what state is this? Do you mean the top marginal rate, or is that literally the effective rate when you file
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by jcheng 5y ago
I don't know anything about this, but...? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_of_greenhouse_gases... Edit: maybe not https://www.eenews.net/stories/1063727659 > The Clean Air Act sets
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by jcheng 5y ago
Where Gates lives, the power is mostly from hydro, and you can pay a (surprisingly small) premium for 100% of your power to come from renewables.
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by jcheng 6y ago
No, just increasing gross profit over time.
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by jcheng 6y ago
I was hoping to replace my laptop with a NUC running Linux, that I would transport between home and office. Since a NUC is a (small) desktop machine it doesn’t have a battery. Hibernate would have been great.
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by jcheng 6y ago
Is this year's claim of "supposedly back on track" more credible than every previous year's? (Honest question!)
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by jcheng 6y ago
This is talking about the error in the difference between two values with the same units though. For temperature, it wouldn’t matter if you’re using C, K, or F for your starting values, the % error of the difference would be the same (I t
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by jcheng 6y ago
I would like a term that is inclusive of CC0.
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by jcheng 6y ago
Whatever happened to Joe Hewitt (one of my developer heroes back in the day)? Did he retire after Facebook?
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by jcheng 6y ago
Yes, the example in the blog post uses ggplot2.
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by jcheng 6y ago
According to https://edd.ca.gov/Unemployment/Eligibility.htm in order to qualify for unemployment benefits in California, you must be "physically able to work, available for work, and ready and willing to accept w
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by jcheng 6y ago
IIUC, the 20% cut does not apply to web stores, it's for SaaS vendors who want to offer a plugin to Shopify web store owners, via Shopify's App Store.
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by jcheng 6y ago
Just Fry's Electronics. The grocery stores are not affiliated (although TIL they were started by members of the same family!).
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by jcheng 6y ago
Ruby has generators, but it’s not just blocks and yield. Generators are special because after they’ve yielded (in the Python sense) a value, they are actually no longer on the stack at all. But when their next value is requested, they pick
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by jcheng 6y ago
Hi, I’m with RStudio. We generally treat “working in RStudio but not elsewhere” as serious bugs, especially in our open source R packages. Not only because we don’t want to artificially limit usage of other interactive environments, but bec
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by jcheng 6y ago
Just want to point out that the abstract says the relationship is linear with log(income). And Fig 1 shows an x-axis range of 15,000-500,000; even if their conclusions are true, I wouldn't be surprised if the relationship breaks down b
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by jcheng 6y ago
Our family has a 2012 VW Golf and a 2017 VW Golf. Compared to the former, the latter has a number of worthwhile upgrades. CarPlay makes both navigation and music enormously better. Automatic parallel parking comes in handy for getting into
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by jcheng 6y ago
> battery prices aren't getting any cheaper I thought they were getting dramatically cheaper every year?
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by jcheng 6y ago
If you need to use an older version of a package and don’t have a packrat/renv lockfile already, then packrat/renv are not going to help you. mran/checkpoint could though. I agree packrat (which I created) was a poor solution

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