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by jshaqaw 4y ago
Bell Labs in its prime was a marvel of human civilization. But let’s admit the economic conditions which made it possible. Pre antitrust Bell was an absolute monopoly. They could afford science projects with no economic returns because they
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by jshaqaw 4y ago
I totally remember the time the oracle feed flash loan thing on my fdic insured US dollars was hacked and it violently went to near zero. Oh wait - that never happened.
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by jshaqaw 4y ago
I’ve wanted to jump to something sexier for a long time but finding data deep in my notes is so fast on Evernote. It’s also the only way I’ve found to stay in eats sync btw laptop and iPad.
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by jshaqaw 4y ago
This again? McKinsey doesn’t really charge 3mm for that 23 year old. In reality the customer pays for a project what they pay. How that gets allocated over project staff is meaningless technicalities. As for the value of that 23 year old -
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by jshaqaw 4y ago
It is embarrassing that rich tech bro drivel like the Network State is what counts as intellectual discourse in modern society.
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by jshaqaw 4y ago
After my 2018 top line Intel based MacBook Pro needed weird surgery involving me stacking thermal pads onto the motherboard to remain usable (not something I was thrilled to do with my expensive machine!), Apple is guilty until proven innoc
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by jshaqaw 4y ago
Interesting to me that here on Hacker News there are so many "VR will never happen" based on a static view of where tech is today. I don't think that staring into a lit rectangle with a keyboard based on 1800s technology is
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by jshaqaw 4y ago
The crypto community managed to ignore every lesson from 2008 on cascading networks of financial instability. This is a market microstructure built on sand. We are still in the early innings of what the ultimate forced unwind will look like
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by jshaqaw 4y ago
I’m trying to say this without sounding like a conceited jack@&$ but failing so I’ll just do it. Based on what seem to be objective markers of cognitive performance over the last quarter century this hasn’t been an issue. Neither has it
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by jshaqaw 4y ago
I am not a vegan but this article conflates a bunch of issues. Shocker- the consumer packaged goods industry has latched onto veganism to sell more high margin processed food. As to arguments about the need for supplements to get vital nutr
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by jshaqaw 4y ago
We have a single data point for the performance of crypto as an asset class during a time of inflation. Admittedly a single data point isn't great but it's all we have. What do you take from the data so far? I don't see Bi
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by jshaqaw 4y ago
Lots of jobs can be done remotely. We all know that. But putting together something new and dynamic? You need to meet people. In person. A lot. You need to build relationships. You need to have conversations where you explore ideas and test
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by jshaqaw 4y ago
The number of brain cells and compute cycles being wasted on this nonsense is staggering.
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by jshaqaw 4y ago
Please make your Turing complete game of life execute arbitrary Lisp code and you will have rescued the holy grail of computer language hacker nerdom here.
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by jshaqaw 4y ago
Just talk to VCs, CFOs, and their bankers around offerings. Targeting say the Russell 2k inclusion criteria is an explicit part of the roadshow pitch.
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by jshaqaw 4y ago
You aren’t tracking the whole market. An index is a subset. Even total market indices have weightings which embed biases. And the whole game has been reverse engineered by charlatans to dump crap into rivers of blind money. If think capital
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by jshaqaw 4y ago
Refreshing my memory via Wikipedia the PCjr and AT did come out about the same time but the AT cost 6k in 1984 vs 1500 for the Jr. 6k in 1984 was around 12-13k in 2022 dollars.
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by jshaqaw 4y ago
That was the first gen keyboard quickly replaced by a nice model which was perfectly comfortable and quote ahead of its time wireless (IR).
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by jshaqaw 4y ago
Interest to revisit such militant attitudes should the current crash of inflated bullshit techcos continue. Is your kids 529 plan on the S&P. Well congrats - you got to buy Tesla at the peak of Elon’s pump train just in time to be a tic
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by jshaqaw 4y ago
Little known fun-fact re Lotus 1-2-3 was that it came on a ROM cartridge for the PCJr. The PCJr was a total sad sack of a machine. Technically superior to the PC and cheaper too so IBM intentionally crippled it with incompatibility bugs s
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by jshaqaw 4y ago
With full warning that it is heterodox, stock-flow macroeconomic models (lots here on it at the Levy Institute: https://www.levyinstitute.org/publications/a-stock-flow-appr... ) is another framework for macroeconomic t
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by jshaqaw 5y ago
Here is a study of one. My next day mood is so predictably awful I pretty much cut alcohol to zero. Like a little buzz well as the next guy but the price for me is just too high. My wife doesn’t affect at all the next day.
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by jshaqaw 5y ago
This is a neat project. Visual tree/outline approaches to s-expressions is an idea which recurs from time to time. I haven’t embraced them myself but I appreciate the approach. That said, usually if you are many levels deep in nested p
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by jshaqaw 5y ago
Byte was great in the day as was Compute with all those pages of hand entry Basic or assembly code.
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by jshaqaw 5y ago
Yes operating systems are crufty wastelands. Yes the modern internet is a bordello of privacy snooping con men stealing our minds with dopamine engineering. But most of all, when many of us (not all!) age our passions shift from abstraction
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by jshaqaw 5y ago
Given this is Hacker News… it was a magical time for technology. Yes it helped I was ages 5-15 for that period. Computers were just coming into the general population and that was a mind blowing thing. At the same time, the pre-mass interne
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by jshaqaw 5y ago
This makes a lot of sense in at least a few cases I can think of. Yes if I want to do a pair trade/arb at a spread it doesn’t make sense to try and execute both parts atomically ca interacting with another party directly looking to put
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by jshaqaw 5y ago
There is an interesting kernel of an idea that much of math is emergent from A low level basic structure but it didn’t take a book the size of Kentucky to say it and others like Chaitin say the same thing with far more clarity and far less
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by jshaqaw 5y ago
Not limited to Hacker News. Other forums I participate in have seen parallel shifts downward in civility. Some of it is generational. For better or worse younger generations often see strident online discourse as totally different than how
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by jshaqaw 5y ago
Why do you say Facebook threw it away? Talk to most consumers and Oculus is almost a synonym for VR like a "Xerox machine." I wont weigh on on the tech merits vs competitors but the brand is strong.

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