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by jordanb 2y ago
That's not the way I remember the cloud transition at all. My company adopted an internal cloud. VMWare had some great quarters. Openstack got really big for a while and everyone was trying to hire for it. All the hosting companies sta
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In TNG we see Barkley get addicted to the holodeck and use it to play out fantasies with female members of the crew. Through the episode we end up learning that Barkley escaped to the holodeck because he was having problems and not being fu
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by jordanb 2y ago
I was not advocating for or against stock buybacks (I have opinions but they're not relevant). I was just pointing out that you were in error by lumping stock buybacks with dividends and contrasting both to "earnings coming from g
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To the extent that's true clearly we need a wealth tax. But also it's not true. Dividends are taxed at the capital gains rate which is quite low, and for tax deferred investment schemes (which is to say, retirement savings) they&#
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by jordanb 2y ago
> The PE jackals This pretty much explains most of what's wrong with the current US economy. My previous employer was a 120 year old retailer, destroyed by private equity. My current employer is 100 years old, market research firm.
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Anti-aircraft weapons have gotten better. In WWII the Axis didn't have proximity fuses so the shells would explode at a predetermined range and throw shrapnel. Now anti-aircraft weapons explode at a very specific distance and create a
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"If the president does it, that makes it legal." -- Richard Nixon
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They had an opportunity to buy netflix for $50 million after the dot com bust.
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I've seen that claim made but I've not seen it in reality. There are examples of where LLMs are useful for information retrieval in that they can take vague queries and produce good summaries, but they're just as likely to pr
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This podcast talks about Nazi drug use: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3_3aUKfLoI One of the takeaways is that meth works ok during fast blitz campaigns like Poland or France where you want to get the whole thing over in
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Doh yeah. It's too late.
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A chronograph has a chronograph or detent escapement. The purpose of which is eliminate the sliding friction in the escapement and variability caused by viscosity change in lubrication with temperature. I never heard that a stopwatch makes
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Dunno how it can be considered a "chronograph" when it has a lever escapement.
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> Congress already decides how much to spend and on what weapons systems for the various branches of the military. Congress directs some times and defers other times. Congress absolutely does not direct every pentagon spending program. &
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> My guess is that if gerrymandering were completely outlawed, Democrats would easily maintain control of the House, with a healthy margin, more or less permanently. The republicans would then find it necessary to change the constituenci
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> Have you considered that our founding documents/government was structured this way on purpose? The senate was modeled on the house of lords and the expectation was that the country would be mostly ruled by the representatives in t
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> Congress was supposed to generally be weak and deadlocked unless an overwhelming majority of people wanted something. It was not. Rules that make congress "weak and deadlocked" are mostly not in the constitution. For instance
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It's an attitude that benefits powerful people, and it's held against people who have no power.
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Technically they still can do that but they can now be overridden by any judge for any reason. This is an obscene power-grab by our most corrupt and least accountable branch of government.
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Which is why I said: > The only upside is that the number of possible screen resolutions were pretty small. But there was 640, 800, 1024. Many websites would do fixed width 800px and then you'd have to scroll left at 640 or have big
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by jordanb 2y ago
People think that the worst part of being a janitor is cleaning toilets. In reality the worst part of being a janitor is living in poverty. This is true about a lot of jobs in our economy.
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I strongly feel like infinite scroll was the harbinger of the dark pattern web. It broke the back button. It broke the idea that a list of results could be a static thing. It began the transition from sensible user-friendly ordering of item
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A friend described that era (looking back from the 2010s) as the "amateur web". Another thing worth mentioning is nobody really had any idea how to be responsive. The technology for it barely worked (things like percent widths for
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ICE cars are designed such that the brakes can always overpower the engine. If you put both pedals on the wall the car will not move. Because electric cars have phenomenal torque, it's not possible to make brakes big enough to stop the
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> OpenLibrary's "emergency library" made IA legally vulnerable According to the plaintiffs and the judge who agreed with them, controlled digital lending was always illegal and they always had grounds to sue. So it did not
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The emergency library wasn't what publishers sued over. They used it perhaps as a rhetorical cover but what they were actually suing to prevent is IA offering digital versions of scanned hardcopy books. With IA's loss, publishers
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I thought one of the underlying reasons for ZIRP was a massive public underinvestment. Basically the supply of government debt was so restricted and the demand for it was so high that people were willing in many cases to pay the government
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I suspect it was really a matter of how VC sold itself in a ZIRP environment. They were "the yield guys" in an environment where there was no yield. They could have advertised themselves as "we're making big long term in
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By reinforced concrete do you mean they build forms and pour the concrete into the forms, or do you mean tilt-up (pour slabs horizontally then lift them to vertical to form wall sections) or do you mean reinforced-CMU (build a CMU wall then
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Where do you live? I live in Chicago and everyone goes to the park. I have friends in New York and that's even more true there.

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