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by jldugger 4y ago
Technically, not all ESPPs work like your example. And realistically, we're talking about $2,000 every six months, and half that after taxes. For the kind of person who can afford can afford to max it out, this is less exciting. I won&
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by jldugger 4y ago
Where would that data live and how would we disentangle it from income effects?
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by jldugger 4y ago
I mean, thats more or less correct, though. It just isn't like, what we make interstellar spaceship chassis out of. But we might put it in windows of the ISS.
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by jldugger 4y ago
> Why would I want to look at the SOFR? I'm asking what your preferred metric for interest rates is. Apparently you want to look at the yield curve slope? Which is fine, and commonly used as a leading indicator of recessions. But in
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by jldugger 4y ago
Okay, you wanna look at SOFR instead? It shows the same thing but is an actual measure of economic activity instead of policy goals: > The Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) is a broad measure of the cost of borrowing cash overnight
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by jldugger 4y ago
Investopedia? I don't have any advice here, but The Personal MBA[1] is a reading list, and their pick "How to Read a Financial Report: Wringing Vital Signs Out of the Numbers"[2] doesn't sound like the worst. But I haven
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by jldugger 4y ago
> Interest rates are high and I am worried about getting my next round of funding or meeting minimum payments on corporate debt. Curiously they IPOed in 2021 and report no debt. Perhaps they intended to borrow and got sidelined by rate h
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by jldugger 4y ago
> Everywhere you look, the economic indicators are solid. Sure, if you cherry pick the indicators. There's a pretty big one you're tiptoeing around: the Fed Funds Rate has gone from 0.25 in 2022 to 4.75. > I do not have insi
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by jldugger 4y ago
> It does not promote any sort of political speech. I mean, the analysis of Harry Potter's universe goes beyond trans identity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1iaJWSwUZs
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by jldugger 4y ago
And as a GCP customer, you might be worried that GCP prices will go up to make those all important revenue targets, or that some of the lowest engagement GCP services will be EOL'd.
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by jldugger 4y ago
> If this is the new term for "employee", I'm out AFIACT, it's intended to distinguish between employees who manage people and those who don't. I.e. "the set of employees is the set of managers plus the set
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by jldugger 4y ago
Man, IRC was so toxic in many regards. Two stories: On EFnet, there were aggressive racists in positions of authority. References to burning crosses, etc. Many of the earliest bash.org quotes originated there, including the idea that "
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by jldugger 4y ago
Facebook was kicking and screaming about it, they effectively got it delayed, and when it did it pretty much capped them.
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by jldugger 4y ago
> Every company that relies on performance marketing, from Snap to YouTube to Meta to Shopify has seen its revenue growth crash from the moment ATT came into force in late 2021, even as companies and products that were isolated from its
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by jldugger 4y ago
Probably because you spend all days indoors watching TED talks in poorly ventilated apartments.
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by jldugger 4y ago
I think you just passed the CIA entrance exam. Please report to langley at your earliest convenience.
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by jldugger 4y ago
See also: sidemouth https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CheekyMouth
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by jldugger 4y ago
Have you met our lord and savior Named Regions?
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by jldugger 4y ago
It's not me you have to convince buddy, its the Sand Hill Property team and their econometrist, who are probably expecting an interest rate cut cycle this year.
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by jldugger 4y ago
Interest rates are super high right now, so you might get some reprieve in the short term. They'll probably slow play Vallco until rates come down, doing just enough to keep their zoning exemption?
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by jldugger 4y ago
The author, Matt Stratton, used to be a devrel for PagerDuty. One imagines he had some inside information on layoff emails.
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by jldugger 4y ago
> Most places in the US, the local tax is the same statewide. Is it? Kansas[1] has the same setup: > Q:What is the sales tax rate in Kansas? > A: The state rate is 6.50%. However, various cities and counties in Kansas have an addit
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by jldugger 4y ago
ChatGPT will have the same problem, since it works on the text iOS gave it. It's not clear to me it would perform any better at reformulating your query.
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by jldugger 4y ago
Interesting, I'm not sure I see the link. Is SSSP relevant in programming FPGAs optimally?
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by jldugger 4y ago
ChatGPT is GPT-3.5 plus some human feedback reinforcement learning[1] to steer it away from the things that tanked Tay. Meaning they had a bunch humans test the thing out, rate responses, and incorporate that into future training. [1]
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by jldugger 4y ago
> in December Amazon laid off 10,000 people, most of which were in the Alexa division Maybe the new tech worked _really well_.
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by jldugger 4y ago
> It keeps mishearing "a lamp" as "alarm", Doesn't this Shortcut use the same voice recognition? Doesn't seem like a problem GPT solves.
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by jldugger 4y ago
> Can somebody help me to understand how a LLM has achieved this capability. It's worth clarifying what is being accomplished here. iOS is handling speech recognition, and Shortcuts is handling task execution with an unspecified and
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by jldugger 4y ago
I mean, he was definitely selling a product there. SVN was pretty good, barring the merge logic being a PITA.
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by jldugger 4y ago
SVN is a relatively sane option, especially before git was published. But in 2023 its mostly been replaced.

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