jtmcmc

23 ms·

181.
by jtmcmc 9y ago
in 2016 amazon's annual revenue was 136 billion dollars. That means it was .66% of it's total revenue. I would argue that the potential damage to Amazon's brand is quite a bit more than that.
182.
by jtmcmc 9y ago
city and state isps
183.
by jtmcmc 9y ago
If only you could build high density mixed use construction rather than monolithic apartment buildings.
184.
by jtmcmc 9y ago
I had a birthday party at an aladdin's castle!
185.
by jtmcmc 9y ago
It's too bad they can't rollout self driving cars in places with less extreme edge case scenarios like... Chandler AZ and then build up to more challenging scenarios like NYC!
186.
by jtmcmc 9y ago
also you can always use lyx if you don't want to write a whole bunch of raw LaTeX
187.
by jtmcmc 9y ago
also this is the king's meal so a very meat heavy meal as a sign of opulence seems to make more sense.
188.
by jtmcmc 9y ago
dense housing is efficient in all manner of ways. American sprawl is one of the primary reasons we contribute so much greenhouse gas per capita
189.
by jtmcmc 9y ago
terrible weather? lack of real feeder schools for tech entrepreneurialism ?
190.
by jtmcmc 9y ago
I don't know when you applied but my understanding is that MIT http://news.mit.edu/2008/tuition-0307 this is from 2008 presumably that number has gone up (stanford is now free for families earning under 125k for
191.
by jtmcmc 9y ago
This is talking about all jobs not tech jobs - there are any number of people that live in the bay area that don't work in tech. This is much more about them than tech workers...
192.
by jtmcmc 9y ago
we've known this for a very long time that legality of drugs had very little to do with their actual danger to society or individuals and much more to do with fear mongering and racism
193.
by jtmcmc 9y ago
particularly with a business that relies on network effect the beginning is often not profitable as you need to kickstart people using the system on either side hence signup promos on both sides etc...
194.
by jtmcmc 9y ago
this is awful. that person was absolutely reckless and horrible.
195.
by jtmcmc 9y ago
Clojure is much 'closer to the metal' than django in the sense that you have to rebuild all of the pre-built, fairly hardened pieces that django has.
196.
by jtmcmc 9y ago
i would bet the cost of servicing clients between 10gb and 1tb is probably a losing money proposition at the cost they could charge.
197.
by jtmcmc 9y ago
I'd guess that most of their revenue is enterprise generated.
198.
by jtmcmc 9y ago
right. slashdot, ars, anandtech were foundational websites to me growing up - amazing that this was 17+ years ago
199.
by jtmcmc 9y ago
Also this indicated quite a good understanding of 'hacker' culture at the time. It's from http://phrack.org/issues/7/3.html
200.
by jtmcmc 9y ago
though GDPR is making more work for me I am glad to see it!
201.
by jtmcmc 9y ago
my linear algebra teacher taught it in a visual and proof focused way and it was amazing. He also tied it upwards into abstract algebra WRT vector spaces. He also taught my abstract algebra where he tied things back into linear algebra. Tha
202.
by jtmcmc 9y ago
where do you live with mass transit and cheap housing? Also Chicago?
203.
by jtmcmc 9y ago
Addiction by definition does cause negative destructive behavior. That's part of the definition. What you're describing is a combination of the psychoactive effects of it and its withdrawal symptoms. I do agree with you, however.
204.
by jtmcmc 9y ago
This was a fascinating thread of a product I would possibly have used but now won't...
205.
by jtmcmc 9y ago
I would say on the one side that there is still little science in our current policies around drugs and on the other side I would say that many dedicated individuals and organizations like the Drug Policy Alliance have spent immense amounts
206.
by jtmcmc 9y ago
Why? The problems with addiction - specifically opioid addiction - is that it causes negative, destructive behavior. This isn't a consequence of having a physical dependence we are all physically dependent on things after all.
207.
by jtmcmc 9y ago
SPF, DKIM and DMARC are about authentication not deliverability. They do have some impact on deliverability but their primary usage is authentication. The main way that intersects with reputation is that properly authenticating allows vario
208.
by jtmcmc 9y ago
Most important line in this article Leo Linbeck III is executive chairman of Linbeck Group, a Houston-based institutional construction firm and vice chairman of the Center for Opportunity Urbanism.
209.
by jtmcmc 9y ago
probably not madison considering the government there. I'm also betting on pittsburgh or perhaps minneapolis.
210.
by jtmcmc 9y ago
No this is the adult equivalent of this administration is so radically incompetent and awful that working in it forces you to compromise your morals while also accomplishing nothing you see as important.

More ›