josh_fyi

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by josh_fyi 2y ago
As DHH himself says here: The cloud allows flexibility, which is essential when you are figuring out what you are doing, as in a startup. If you are large and stable and know what you want, then yes, you can go on-prem. But note that the cl
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by josh_fyi 2y ago
They are probably doing it in an attempt to get coverage by insurance (even if that is now not available). They can then raise the price manyfold. See this discussion of prescription-only smartphone apps. https://www.astralcodext
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by josh_fyi 3y ago
Why do these teachers take on such a life? You could say that the long-timers were fooled, they are now in too deep, and can't start a new career, but those deciding whether to do a PhD must know what they are facing, no? This sort of
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by josh_fyi 3y ago
"IBM and the Holocaust", Edwin Black, 2001. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
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by josh_fyi 3y ago
When I was at IBM around 2010, they offered $250 for filing patent, then $750 when the patent office approved it, usually after 3-8 years -- if you were still at IBM. Then after a few years, they swapped those numbers around, so that if you
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by josh_fyi 3y ago
That's great! Liberia can't afford to protect its forest, and this deal allows that.
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by josh_fyi 3y ago
I was hoping to see "Best Practices for Time Travelers (2043)"
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by josh_fyi 3y ago
Eritrea is the only other country to tax non-residents.
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by josh_fyi 3y ago
Thank you. That does make sense. But do lawsuits against arbitrators happen with any non-trivial frequency? From the little I know, lawsuits against arbitrators are not a serious threat that arbitrators face. But even so, all an arbitrator
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by josh_fyi 3y ago
Thank you. That does make sense. But as pointed out by the article, typical consumers/workers have no idea about how to choose an arbitrator and do not hire a lawyer.
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by josh_fyi 3y ago
The points in the article seem quite obvious. I wonder then, why do arbitrators ever rule against the companies that pay their fees? I asked on Law Stack Exchange, but the answers were not quite convincing. https://law.stackexc
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by josh_fyi 3y ago
It is briefly mentioned here that the major driver of the high-end of their tech industry (mostly near Ramallah rather than in Gaza) is Israeli entrepreneurs, who hire teams and also encourage entrepreneurship.
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by josh_fyi 3y ago
Perhaps it's a symbolic statement that their data should not be used for training, in the thought that these ML systems are configured to avoid training on AI-generated data.
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by josh_fyi 3y ago
It's like saying "That's already done" when undertaking to do a task, as a sort of guarantee, asking for the thing to be considered done, similar to "consider it done".
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by josh_fyi 3y ago
Even the recycled wastewater is potable, but it is use for agriculture to satisfy people's sensibilities.
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by josh_fyi 3y ago
In Israel they add minerals back in because the desalinated water is too pure.
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by josh_fyi 3y ago
Not nothing or nominal, but cheap enough that it is feasible, and about the same as other options. We also recycle 80% of the water, first in the world. The second-place country does 15%,
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by josh_fyi 3y ago
Or the humanities need to tighten up, to build a system that encourages and enables students to get on with their lives.
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by josh_fyi 3y ago
They imagine themselves as an aristocracy of talent, whose brilliance let's them live the life of the aristocracy of bloodlines.
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by josh_fyi 3y ago
> reads a new book once per week" type of discipline that the average ivy leaguer tends to have I got two degrees and spent five years at Harvard, and -- no, they don't.
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by josh_fyi 3y ago
I studied at Harvard and the answer is that they want to pretend to be so smart and talented that they don't need to work. The image is of the effete aristocrat who enjoys life without lifting a finger. Think of George W. Bush: Got i
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by josh_fyi 3y ago
What is the time period? Is that 98% per day, per month, etc? If there is a loss of 2% a day, then in a month, about half is lost.
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by josh_fyi 3y ago
The key is to have no involvement from marketing and other executives, other than the engineering department. The approval process should be very very fast and easy. For example, just the CTO needs to approve and he does this almost always,
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by josh_fyi 3y ago
The people being involuntarily detained have to pay the hospital bill, and in the US that is expensive .
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by josh_fyi 3y ago
The discounts vary randomly, and the publically advertised discount prices often disappear the moment you log in. (They would say these are for new customers only.) This incentivizes creating an account per course under different email va
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
Any employees at those shifts are going to be terrified...
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
Two new sections were opened in the Moscow Metro in 1943! Just when the country was burning all its resources on total war. I don't really understand how it was even possible.
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
H.P. Lovecraft "At the Mountains of Madness", 1931 describes these creatures from an ancient civilization in Antartica, millions of years ago: a "penguin... of a huge, unknown species larger than the greatest of the known kin
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
The Law of Return does not distinguish patrilineal from matrilineal descent. Indeed, most such immigrants are not Jewish by religious law, even if ethnically they have that connection.
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
They are military. They signed up to live under military discipline. So how about imposing on them the discipline of not gambling, at least on base? The Navy has strict rules banning alcohol on ship: strict rules are not impossible

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