joncrane

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by joncrane 8y ago
Any publicly held company is ethically obligated to maximize profits as the agents of the shareholders, the vast majority of which only want the stock price to be maximized.
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by joncrane 8y ago
I remember about 8 years ago when I was founding a company to repair cell phones. The local municipality had a program where I could meet with a mentor to help me set up a company. Create a business plan and estimate costs and revenues, w
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by joncrane 8y ago
4chan is the place where everyone can comment with very little effort.
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by joncrane 8y ago
The problem is, in order to operate as human beings, we have to assume the vast majority of our assumptions about the world are solid. For example, gravity will continue to push objects down in a fairly predictable way, the air we breathe
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by joncrane 8y ago
I think in this case you want to replace "fetishize" with "pervert." The verb, not the noun, but the word fits.
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by joncrane 8y ago
...and eBay didn't have to solve any logistics or shipping problems because they crowdsourced it.
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by joncrane 8y ago
Funny, the headline I read earlier said "Samsung Smart TVs will add iTunes...." Simply switching the subject of the sentence makes a huge difference in how the story is interpreted.
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by joncrane 8y ago
"Fun" fact: when Jeff Gordon was in his NASCAR heyday, his car had a very colorful livery and his team was called the "Rainbow Warriors." This was when his main rival was Dale Earnhardt. Back then, the traditional NAS
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by joncrane 8y ago
What kinds of chemicals are in these batteries, and what does disposal/recycling look like?
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by joncrane 8y ago
Why didn't you use MARC?
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by joncrane 8y ago
Mattermost is the only one I've used and it's both easy to administer and works great.
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by joncrane 8y ago
The point is that the vast majority of the wealth was generated after the split.
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by joncrane 8y ago
Ironically, Pandora's whole point is to create the musical equivalent of filter bubbles, and it's really cool.
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by joncrane 8y ago
Then they are preparing for this year/quarter to be a "big bath." They are basically compressing all their bad stuff into a certain time period so that in the quarters/years immediately later, their earnings are higher
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by joncrane 8y ago
I disagree wholeheartedly. Movie tastes are very niche and this is why Netflix makes so many weird/off stuff. But movies right now are like an "all or nothing" proposition so they have to cater to the lowest common denominat
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by joncrane 8y ago
I didn't form the sentence with that in mind, but once it was formed, I recognized it and left it! Especially since fancy watches are called "chronographs."
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by joncrane 8y ago
This is amazing.
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by joncrane 8y ago
Aren't watches anachronistic, though? It's basically a fashion statement rather than a functional timepiece; we're surrounded by devices that can tell the time for us. A watch's only purpose is wealth/fashion sign
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by joncrane 8y ago
The fact that the drink-giver's fingers are on the subject's head gives it away. No way his squad mate is pointing his gun anywhere near his colleague's fingers.
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by joncrane 8y ago
They already have a foothold in the server market: AWS just released new families of instance types based on AMD CPUs.
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by joncrane 8y ago
The thing that concerns me is that "I do not think I have any real hobbies." I suggest continuing to work, but perhaps being pickier about where you work. Perhaps there's a dream job you've always wanted to do that up u
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by joncrane 8y ago
This is a pretty good system that I think I would be happy working under. My only question is, is it possible to game the system? Meaning, deploy some sloppy code or config the week you know you're on call so you get a few extra 2.0x
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by joncrane 8y ago
Source(s)?
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by joncrane 8y ago
I've heard that the environmental impact of building the vehicles (the batteries in particular) and charging them outweighs the savings in emissions. Basically batteries use lots of toxic chemicals and require LOTS of energy during man
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by joncrane 8y ago
>A lot of the old school recommendations create more issues than they solve, like rotating every database login password every 90 days or so. This is one of the ones that drives me crazy. You can maybe make it work if you have a really
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by joncrane 8y ago
It's relatively well known that if there's a chemical you want, there are several factories in China that will make it and ship it to you. Anabolic Steroids are one example, Fentanyl is another, I'm sure there are many more.
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by joncrane 8y ago
Now it's our job to bring peace and prosperity to the next ones.
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by joncrane 8y ago
LOL this is what I love about Cloud Guru. 1.75 normally, 2.0 when I'm caffeinated and ready to chug from the firehose.
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by joncrane 8y ago
They display the same pictures to multiple people and have some kind of agreement algorithm.
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by joncrane 8y ago
People are also taking the shortest/fastest routes now where before they just took the way they knew got them there.

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