johngalt

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by johngalt 15y ago
Idly I've wondered if there was a way to turn the efficient markets model on it's head. Rather than gathering a ton of predictive information to try and get another 2% efficiency, instead use the already efficient market activity to predict
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by johngalt 15y ago
Tinted Windows I've noticed other drivers are more courteous when I'm driving a car without tinted windows. Specifically I had two cars. One was an older standard cab pickup with no window tint anywhere (think fishbowl) and the other was a
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by johngalt 15y ago
"An unarmed man being by definition a non-combatant." So an unarmed enemy messenger carrying orders or a scout acting as a lookout is off limits? A radio operator calling in mortar strikes? You can be a combatant without holding a gun. You
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by johngalt 15y ago
Careful with that type of data sharing. It can fail the game theory test. Lets say I'm a selfishly amoral actor in the room rental industry, and I want to lock up the market for myself. I can silence all my competition by releasing blacklis
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by johngalt 15y ago
To make space travel more common there must be an economic reason to make the trip. Solve that problem, otherwise we'll always be confined to one off stunts. Once the cost of a moon mission is a substantial net gain you'll see the real sp
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by johngalt 15y ago
But there is an element of permission inherent in DHCP. Your device is actively configuring my device specifically to allow network access . It's not an open door; it's a sign saying "This way please". That said, its obvious this was an at
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by johngalt 15y ago
IT here who has tried this. Completely agree, av tools are pigs and they never seem to stop viruses. Intuitively virus writers must test vs common av tools before releasing. A locked down network without av on the endpoints worked better
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by johngalt 15y ago
DevOps: The term applied when it was rediscovered that IT pros do more than fight fires. Organizations cut their IT staff down to just helpdesk types, because they are cheap and that's what they interact with daily. Constantly growing the n
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by johngalt 15y ago
The problem with BYOD is that it's in the businesses interest to ensure all employees have the same tools/capabilities. If I'm sending a document to a co-worker should I have to guess what format his device will be capable of receiving/disp
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by johngalt 15y ago
Refer to the job posting "oh? I thought the job posting said you were looking for someone at my level?" There are secretaries/assistants that make 50k a year. They are screwing with you.
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by johngalt 15y ago
We are surrounded by devices that will break or do us harm if used unsafely. Articles like this one seem to point out the obvious "why not just make it impossible to be unsafe?" Yet this is not the case (or even a stated goal) in any other
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by johngalt 15y ago
You can't blame people for shooting other people, that's what guns are for! Shooting people are guns intended purpose. It's the clothing manufactures fault for not making all shirts out of Kevlar. They should make it safer to be shot.
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by johngalt 15y ago
Yumm... Anchovy pizza. I recommend a veggie special + anchovies. If you don't want all the veggies anchovy and black olives works too. Don't combine anchovy with pepperoni or sausage as its salt overload.
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by johngalt 15y ago
The next headline would be "permanent war declared against Oilistan" and war spending is never a boondoggle. Governments always use a crisis to grow their power.
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by johngalt 15y ago
"The American republic will endure until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money" Alexis de Tocqueville
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by johngalt 15y ago
When I look at history I don't see people that expected incorrect rates of growth, I see people that predicted incorrect directions of growth. When nuclear power was new people predicted the future would be shaped by massive amounts of clea
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by johngalt 15y ago
ARM claims that soon they can catch up to where ATI was eight years ago... ummm congratulations?
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by johngalt 15y ago
There will always be people looking to take advantage. I had a potential employer call me in for three multiple hour "interviews" during which time they grilled me on how I would handle problem X and design system Y. I was fairly naive beca
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by johngalt 15y ago
This is why cash is king and "equity" is worthless. Hey bizdev weenies out there that wonder why you can't find a technical cofounder/employee who will work for equity, here is your answer.
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by johngalt 15y ago
Why isn't Facebook having their servers seized? Google? Amazon? If the FBI is really targeting the "badguys" I'm sure there have been more badguys using facebook/gmail/AWS than any single colo. Why haven't there been similar seizures of any
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by johngalt 15y ago
Perhaps some people take an issue with mandatory police inspections. Someone who's salary I pay, using equipment I bought, forcibly stopping me on a street that I paid to build, and asking me what business I have being there. Edit: What i
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by johngalt 15y ago
I don't see it as a "USA is bad" post. Quite the opposite. It's a validation of what this country was founded upon. American exceptionalism isn't that people here are incorruptible. It's that we decided wherever possible to avoid creating p
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by johngalt 15y ago
My gut says that desalination is a better option. The amount of energy need to drag around something that size could be better applied just desalinating the ocean water you already have. Even if they can plan some route that will give them
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by johngalt 15y ago
If the track record remains good, the brand will on mean more after 1000 not less. A better question would be: With all the 'me too' incubators out there, how much can YC scale horizontally? YC has been eating the Angel's lunch, but there
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by johngalt 15y ago
Hybrid drives won't take off. Just hit the history books. It's not like there were hybrid tape/HDD drives. When a technology like this comes along it will slowly marginalize the old gear. So my crystal ball predicts the adoption of tiered s
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by johngalt 15y ago
Hmm... interesting, it appears that average private school tuition is over $3000 less than the average public school expenditure per pupil and there are better student teacher ratios. Wonder why he's not asking to be turned into a private s
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by johngalt 15y ago
Ok now lets see what private schools are paid per student and compare outcomes.
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by johngalt 15y ago
Perhaps a new entity is needed? Think of a zipcar like service which is accountable for the vehicle. Large enough to absorb the occasional accident, and pressure automakers for safety/efficiency improvements.
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by johngalt 15y ago
The problem you run into with evap cooling is that you only get the benefit once for a given volume of air. Once you humidify the air you can't humidify that same air again. So its all about how much dry air you can bring in and how quickly
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by johngalt 15y ago
The operating principle isn't rare. We use swamp coolers here in Arizona all the time. But I wouldn't use them to store food. There are a number of limitations to them. The maximum cooling you'll get is 20F less than ambient, and that is en

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