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by jnwatson 3y ago
The central bank wouldn't just sit there and allow the money supply to increase unbounded. They'd turn their knobs so the money supply would remain more per less constant.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
The US already has a negative income tax in EITC. In fact, the implementation of the EITC is the biggest argument against it; it had so many conditions as to be less effective.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
Congrats for halfway implementing a $30 Chromecast?
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by jnwatson 3y ago
Last time I heard a few years ago, it cost low seven figures by the time you're done with everything. There's not a lot of competition in this space.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
It is interesting to look at the SKPP and what a conforming implementation ensures against seL4, which has been formally verified to be correct. SKPP requires non-interference but not actual correctness, whereas with seL4 it actually is sho
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by jnwatson 3y ago
If that's copyright washing so are Cliff's Notes.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
Among the riskiest economic decisions you can make is to hire a software developer. A bunch of things have to line up just right to even break even on a developer's output.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
Purchase price isn't public, but founders/owners did well. They already started up a competitor.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
It took a long time before we came up with a bunch of mechanisms to hide the power profile of ECC scalar multiplies. I expect the same here.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
68 new stations in the Paris area and it took forty years to get a Metro stop at DC's biggest airport.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
It is impressive how much effort the human race is spending trying to prevent algorithms from generating pictures of naked people.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
Or 1972 at the end of the Apollo missions? No human has left LEO in 52 years.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
There's a great show on Amazon Prime with a similar premise. The uploading process is hilariously gruesome and also 100% fatal.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
Satya's main mistake was not having a spot on the board. Everything after that was in defense of the initial investment, and he played all the right moves. While having OpenAI as a Microsoft DeepMind would have been an ok second-best s
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by jnwatson 3y ago
This board's sole job is to pick the new board. The new board will have Sam.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
Former boss.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
Wow. I remember using exiftool as part of a Perl program I used to organize my early digital photos. That was a long time ago.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
DC has been experimenting with these. It requires a lot more human labor to manage them, but holy smokes are they effective.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
Yet another reason why WFH is useful is meetings. Now that I'm more senior, I'm in a lot more meetings. I average 7 meetings a day. At the FAANG I work for, you have to be a vice president before you get your own office room. Tha
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by jnwatson 3y ago
Yet he managed to create versions of it that work better than what Google itself could make.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
Folks in general are going to look much more askance of complicated corporate structures.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
That Microsoft agreed to such a deal is negligence of the highest order.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
"SARS-CoV-2 virus has already been found to infect many organs outside the respiratory system. But until now it hadn't been shown to attack the arteries." It is stuff like this that really lends credence to the lab leak theor
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by jnwatson 3y ago
Mountain View is already a Google company town.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
Cross-state small claims isn't trivial...
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by jnwatson 3y ago
The parent company of Regus owns Spaces.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
"Executive suites" have been around for decades. IWG/Regus, probably the biggest player has been around for 24 years.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
I know lots of kids that like dark chocolate. In the States where the standard is Hershey's milk chocolate, it is easy to like anything else.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
Why? Are you going to make your own mayonnaise for 2 tablespoons?
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by jnwatson 3y ago
That would be a novel.

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