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by jmharvey 5y ago
I've been trying to shift to contactless payments recently, and my anecdotal experience has been the opposite: mom-and-pop shops usually have some kind of terminal from a dedicated payments company (verifone, square, etc) that's b
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by jmharvey 5y ago
> At the most basic level, some entity is making statements about their financials (like “we have X in reserves”) and nobody can check this This is not a problem unique to stablecoin providers. Every company with a large number of stakeh
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by jmharvey 5y ago
Well, most of the time, anyway. If you do find a lottery game where the odds are in your favor, something resembling the Kelly criterion is a reasonable starting point for a bankroll-management strategy.
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Tactical advice for finding startup ideas(waseem.substack.com)
4 points by jmharvey 6y ago|0 comments
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Fintech’s Newest Unicorn(pilot.com)
3 points by jmharvey 6y ago|0 comments
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Jeff Bezos-backed accounting startup hits $1.2B valuation after new round(cnbc.com)
9 points by jmharvey 6y ago|1 comments
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by jmharvey 6y ago
Interesting. As you scale from 100 to 200 to 300 servers, how does that translate into differences in the product? More pages indexed? More frequent indexing? Faster response times?
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by jmharvey 7y ago
Celestial Seasons FAQ [1] says they sell 1.6 billion cups of tea per year, so this would work out to about 5 grams per serving, which seems around the right ballpark for the entire tea bag. Maybe their thinking is that without the staples,
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by jmharvey 7y ago
> As programmer becomes more proficient at work in things like language syntax, api's, library and algorithms, the usage of googling will go down, as it becomes distraction, instead of helping in doing a programming task quicker. Th
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by jmharvey 7y ago
I'm sure I'm not the only one here in a position where I can re-shape my company's interview process. And it's loud and clear in the comments here that people are unhappy with the status quo. So, if you were making a hir
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by jmharvey 7y ago
I agree with this, but to be clear, the "summer interns hypothesis" is not "summer interns go around breaking stuff," it's "the existing population of engineers has finite resources, and when the interns and ne
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by jmharvey 7y ago
I own broad index funds. I expect that at some point, Uber will be added to the index that the funds track, so the funds will buy Uber. The basic reasoning here just boils down to market consensus that Uber is worth $x billion, and I don&#x
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by jmharvey 8y ago
Yes. I pay my taxes, and I suspect many other people do, too. Tax compliance in the US is generally pretty high. I also don't steal books from the library, even though I'm pretty sure I could get away with it.
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by jmharvey 8y ago
From a tax perspective, sure. If you bought any time before the fall of 2017, and sold any time in 2018, it's pretty easy to have realized a gain in 2018.
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A Strange Massachusetts Election Helps Explain Britain’s Brexit Chaos(nytimes.com)
1 points by jmharvey 8y ago|0 comments
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by jmharvey 8y ago
One reason the Forbes list is so dominated by self-made entrepreneurs is that it's relatively easy to verify their wealth based on public records. Jeff Bezos' net worth is, to a first approximation, the same as his stake in Amazon
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by jmharvey 8y ago
The "Responsibilities" section is stuff I'd expect to ask/answer in an early round interview. But yeah, the rest is all offer-stage stuff.
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Iterative Optimization on Hot Paths in Go Apps(medium.com)
47 points by jmharvey 8y ago|34 comments
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by jmharvey 8y ago
I didn't have a turbo button on my first PC (mid 1990s), but the BIOS menu had a "deturbo" option. I had one game (some version of The Incredible Machine, or possibly a knock-off) that could only really be played in deturbo m
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by jmharvey 8y ago
The thing I find curious about UPS/Fedex operations is that they're still oriented around a "make deliveries during business hours" model that made sense decades ago when businesses were overnighting documents to each ot
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by jmharvey 9y ago
You don't even need to use exotic materials with negative thermal expansion: instead, you can use a combination of materials with different coefficients of thermal expansion pointed in opposite directions. This was one of the innovatio
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by jmharvey 9y ago
I also saw those reports. I found that WNYC's "Breaking News Consumer Handbook"[1] was a useful tool for sorting through the various reports. Many of the reports citing a "domestic dispute" either cited other news o
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by jmharvey 9y ago
As presented, this looks like a pretty classic "overdriving your headlights" situation. Even though they're made of retroreflective material, only two lane divider dashes at a time can be seen in the video, indicating somethi
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by jmharvey 9y ago
As presented, this looks like a pretty classic "overdriving your headlights" situation. Even though they're made of retroreflective material, only two lane divider dashes at a time can be seen in the video, indicating somethi
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by jmharvey 9y ago
High speed scanner, and an unreasonable amount of manual effort.
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by jmharvey 9y ago
> a few years ago Megabucks (Wisconsin lottery) was above pot odds even after taxes and with the cash payout option This happens more often than you'd think. For example, eyeballing it, it looks like Indiana's Cash 5 lottery ha
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by jmharvey 9y ago
Yeah, that's basically what it is. The tickets that are still within the 6 year audit window have all been digitized; at this point I mostly keep them as a souvenir.
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by jmharvey 9y ago
A little, but mostly just as a casual interest these days.
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by jmharvey 9y ago
For the record, plenty of people came to my Super Bowl party in 2005.
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by jmharvey 9y ago
Yes, we do get stories about a NYC kid being abducted on a 2-block walk from school. Specifically, one kid being abducted, in 1979. Getting hit by a car is a real risk worth accounting for. Getting abducted on the way to school isn't.

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