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by jungturk 4y ago
Probly more akin to Feynman diagrams, with the steps/building blocks being the intermediate particles. Youtube does a good job of cataloging those (e.g. "hiphop dance move basics") but at least as important are the conserved
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by jungturk 4y ago
A car that's fully fueled when you leave your home is even simpler.
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by jungturk 4y ago
Datadog is an application monitoring suite (distributed trace, log aggregation, infrastructure instrumentation, dashboarding) that includes a web-based front-end which makes use of these components.
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by jungturk 4y ago
Yes, though in the US the capital gains tax (for investments held over a year) is quite often lower than the tax on dividends (which are treated as income).
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by jungturk 4y ago
Nope - the material universe seems to be able to achieve unimaginably spectacular feats (e.g. us) within the confines of physics, chemistry, and biology. I won't be surprised if such creativity will find a way to port "consciousn
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by jungturk 4y ago
For those unfamiliar with Nick Lane - his books are really good reads even if you're not familiar with the subject matter. Easy to approach, witty, and wry. I just finished 2005's "Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the M
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by jungturk 4y ago
from the article: > it took me a lot of time to understand what this pattern does and had my "aha!" moment The patterns are shorthand to discuss a set of concepts that can be useful in considering solutions to certain problems.
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by jungturk 4y ago
Can't companies negotiate contract terms with unions that preserve the flexibility they desire while addressing the concerns the workers had?
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by jungturk 4y ago
Indeed - seems like the resilience strategies we use in distributed software apply? In my experience it took some time for businesses to accept the extra expense and complexity required to guarantee service levels (though many have come aro
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by jungturk 4y ago
Yes, it does (from the point of view of observers outside the gravity well), and yes they could. They could also accelerate themselves to relativistic speeds to accomplish the same feat.
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by jungturk 4y ago
Yes, the two settings (aka "reference frames" in special and general relativity) can experience time at different rates. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation
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by jungturk 4y ago
Roberts' concurrence did not extend to overturning Roe - he stopped at Casey. In your hypothetical, Roe would still be the law of the land today.
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by jungturk 4y ago
The argument is that a state is denying the woman's liberty and/or denying them the privileges due to citizens on behalf of a party that is neither person nor citizen. (Obviously the conferring the status of personhood on the unbo
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by jungturk 4y ago
Roberts' concurrence was in ruling against Casey (decided 6-3). He did not concur with overturning Roe - that was decided 5-4.
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by jungturk 4y ago
Excellent book on just that subject, if you're not already familiar with it: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/748807.Mathematics
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by jungturk 4y ago
Most of these are the usual suspects in capital-intensive industries (energy, transportation, telecommunications), but a few of these are taking their place due to acquisitions.
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by jungturk 4y ago
Definitely a more flexible option, but you might trade overall value for that flexibility (in the sense that you can frequently use accrued points for more value than the cash).
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by jungturk 4y ago
I do think coming to terms with hunger is a huge part of weight loss - its can be an absolutely uncomfortable, anxious, or dreadful feeling for many and its a wrecking ball to well laid plans. Like most primal drives - once its present in m
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by jungturk 4y ago
Jaxx has been in the local wallet business for a long time. Mac and mobile. https://jaxx.io/
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by jungturk 4y ago
I'm happy to hear you're in a battlefield environment that's supportive of the additional opportunity, and I'm excited to see what pops out next.
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by jungturk 4y ago
> our pilot use case driving our eng priorities – an internal support app for a Series B SAAS startup While your passion for the project and excitement at its prospects are clear (and I've very much enjoyed following along), this co
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by jungturk 5y ago
https://twitter.com/Alwaleed_Talal/status/151461595698675712...
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by jungturk 5y ago
So the censorship problem is that the twitter feed became less interesting for you as a user? That sounds more like just bad product choices (assuming it drives users away) rather than any sort of issue of rights.
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by jungturk 5y ago
Sure - if an offer is greater than the conceivable return then of course you take it, but Musk's offer is less than the stock traded at 6 months ago and 30% below the stock's all-time-high from 14 months ago.
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by jungturk 5y ago
There's an entire sector of funds that include criteria around environmental, social, and governance impacts in addition to returns on investment. https://www.investor.gov/introduction-investing/general-reso...
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by jungturk 5y ago
A parameter in assessing the relative value of the offer to shareholders is the time horizon. Perhaps the board believes the value of the shares over the next year or two is substantially higher than Musk's offer, such that they should
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by jungturk 5y ago
This general concept is described in the "evolutionarily stable strategies" aspect of game theory. In certain environments (say, one dominated by good-faith communicators) it may be advantageous to be a bad-faith communicator, whi
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by jungturk 5y ago
> Another user comes back, does the same thing, and another and another -- we are bleeding money. Isn't this prevented with authorizing features before dispatch? Why are unlimited users allowed access to indefinite resources? This
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by jungturk 5y ago
Any particulate service agreement isn't decentralized necessarily (I am still using one central bank), but the market is (I can change providers if I choose). A _standardized_ API would allow providers and consumers a choice, which dis
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by jungturk 5y ago
A stock tactic for fears and anxieties during trips is to allow yourself to experience them, to accept them, and to allow them to pass. Another is to put yourself is a goofy/stimulating/amusing situation that distracts the mind fr

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