jpmattia

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by jpmattia 11y ago
In principle: If you pirate movies or the GPL, the legal system comes after you. So no, not completely broken. But that's my point: Those industries have taken the path of serving the subsegment of the market that won't break t
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by jpmattia 11y ago
I'm beginning to find the various articles about ad-blocking fatuous, and I doubt I'm the only one. Ads served via a centralized vendor can be blocked trivially, and people are choosing to block them. You can make a whole lot of
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by jpmattia 11y ago
This really need to be better known.
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by jpmattia 11y ago
I was a much later generation (late 90s), but the end of the video has kind of a funny discussion on motivation: When you arrive at Bell and have access to a collection of amazing resources and amazing people and very few constraints, it&#
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by jpmattia 11y ago
Am I wrong for thinking that failure to honor the TTL in the first place is a bug?
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by jpmattia 11y ago
> You have n-type material, where the charge carriers are electrons. So far so good (a real particle) Even that: It's a quasi particle. It's an electron with an effective mass, which differs from the mass of an electron in
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by jpmattia 11y ago
Or if the writer is in a different mood: PLAN IS NOT GOOD. _red said "The unaddressed issues in this plan will likely make it a very expensive failure!"
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by jpmattia 11y ago
> I think a lesson everyone should have in life is witnessing something first-hand in real life, and then reading about it in the media, Even better: Saying something to a reporter, and then reading what you supposedly said within quo
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by jpmattia 11y ago
Doubtful: You can't really dope it n-type. Diamond has the interesting property of having it's conduction band above vacuum level, so that free electrons would (in principle) fall out of the material. (Surface physics gets in th
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by jpmattia 11y ago
> When a certain amount of time is needed to process new information, then halts make sense for relatively brief periods. Yes. I'm referring to the automatic halts after a percentage drop. > Halting Pets.com in 2000 wouldnt have
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by jpmattia 11y ago
> I think it is OK to have trading halts for particular situations. Sure, but that's not what I'm referring to: Anytime a stock drop by a given percentage, it is halted. Also, if the market drops by a percentage, the entire m
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by jpmattia 11y ago
I always wondered what evidence there is that a trading freeze would stabilize a market. Considering the US market has trading halts as well, US regulators should take note: Sometimes a stock goes down because it should.
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by jpmattia 11y ago
The title is not particularly clear. "Continued" means that the ELA is maintained at the current level. Put another way, there will be no further increase in ELA and the Greek banks have used the previous allotment, so their coff
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by jpmattia 11y ago
It really depends on your personal burn rate. In truth, I'm a bit amazed by many of the HN comments. The materialistic stuff (ferrari bmw etc) has powerful symbolism to many. However, if you look at the article, it is mainly about th
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by jpmattia 11y ago
Good post. One nit tho: > - if your child gets an expensive health problem like leukemia or spouse gets cancer, your medical bills could blow past the lifetime cap of the health insurance policy The lifetime cap was one of the things
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by jpmattia 11y ago
> Snowden is a traitor and deserves to be locked up. If only there were some agency in charge of national security so that we could prevent these things from happening.
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by jpmattia 11y ago
It turns out: No. You're thinking about it from only one side of the table. For example: Gov'ts issue bonds on a regular basis to finance their debts. They depend on that market being there in order to continue normal operation
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by jpmattia 11y ago
Maybe OT, but does anyone have decent estimates for what percentage of users are blocking ads? Would also be interesting to know percentage vs browser.
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by jpmattia 11y ago
FTL: > The remaining $52.2 million was distributed to holders of the company's preferred stock—less than their total liquidation preference of $57.9 million I'm not sure that's different than my point. $7.8M for the curr
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by jpmattia 11y ago
> The buyer shouldn't care if they are in place or not Sure I do. Given a finite pot of money, I want 100% of it to go into incentive-based payouts. If the new company doesn't hit the goals, then I didn't lose so much
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by jpmattia 11y ago
Can anyone point to a deal where liquidation prefs are exercised? Because any buyer would have to be crazy to let those stay in place. (If you're buying for a price that the liquidation kicks in, then it's not a giant success an
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by jpmattia 11y ago
It's been eons since I touched this stuff, but the article said that they're on GaAs on Si wafers for a substrate. Is that the usual these days? ISTR that SiC was always a PITA to grow on decent/cheap substrates, which may h
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by jpmattia 11y ago
Yes, I'm surprised that didn't make bigger headlines. "Hoocoodanode that our easy monetary policy would have inflated stock prices?!"
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by jpmattia 11y ago
Another MIT alum here in my 50s: Phil is not far off, but I think he is underestimating the selection bias for that event. Even back in the 80s, nobody chose engineering because it is a cushy lifelong path. Edit: BTW, many of his posts ar
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by jpmattia 11y ago
I would love to see polygraphs calibrated with a simple game of hi-lo. Pretty simple metric: Pick a number 1-1024, the questioner gets it right or wrong.
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by jpmattia 12y ago
Glad that things are going ok now, but this kinda popped out at me: > Yeah, pancreatic cancer patient here. Mine presented as acid reflux, which my GP treated with Prilosec. The fact that you walked in with pancreatic cancer and got to
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by jpmattia 12y ago
It would be interesting to know how reproducible the reproducibility test turns out to be. Edit: Just to expand a bit -- Suppose I flip a fair coin 100 times, and publish each result as its own god-given Truth. Now somebody comes along an
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by jpmattia 12y ago
> Were their visas tied to their work contract? No, they held US citizenship. They were just hardworking immigrants. I'm the grandson of immigrants, which makes me positively lazy by comparison. I pretty much have to knock off aft
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by jpmattia 12y ago
> do you know anyone who actually does measurable quality work for 16h straight in a consistent way? Knock it down to 14h, and I can think of 2 people. I worked for both, and both fell into the category of having moved to the US from
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by jpmattia 12y ago
I'm not sure, but it sounds like the lesson is: Anyone can be a decent salesperson if you have a decent product.

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