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by kbutler 5y ago
I'd have to peg that purchase as the inflection point turning away from "don't be evil."
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by kbutler 5y ago
WordPerfect bought a little company I worked for, "SoftSolutions". Then Novell bought WordPerfect. The combined company? NoPerfectSolutions
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by kbutler 5y ago
"seems hardly difficult" and "could probably use" is seldom faster than "out of the box" and "already nicely integrated"
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by kbutler 5y ago
Have you considered how much time the "senior data scientists" saved, and how much better algorithmic solution they were able to develop by being able to iteratively explore the problem space and refine the algorithm in a convenie
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by kbutler 5y ago
Beginner approachability seems to be the key feature. Possibly also integration with external libraries.
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by kbutler 6y ago
It is known as a "derived work", not a split copyright. The copyright owner of the original owns that copyright, including of the elements incorporated into the derived work. The copyright to the creative elements of the derived w
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by kbutler 6y ago
Adam Schiff's "Russian disinformation campaign" assertion was denied by the director of national intelligence, and yet it persists. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/john-ratcliffe-rejec... “This i
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by kbutler 6y ago
For me, it's inaccurate in that I don't really like to talk about myself - especially ad hoc. And some friends really are interested in what's going on in my life (and I need to push myself to share more). I find are two type
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by kbutler 6y ago
> a company can (indeed must) publish their process...everyone else can learn it I used to find this compelling, then I found out that standard practice is to avoid reading patents, because 1) they're not written to instruct, but dr
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by kbutler 6y ago
Nice to have a hard-sided sleeping unit for bear country. Nice to have a reasonable bed after an exhausting day canyoneering. Nice to have a heater for that sudden snowstorm in June. It isn't going on the backpacking trip (but could be
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by kbutler 6y ago
Analogous to the hygiene hypothesis - that too clean an environment causes the body's immune system to respond inappropriately, causing autoimmune disorders, etc. And maybe the Culture books are really an exploration of that idea.
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by kbutler 6y ago
GDP per capita of $12,000 implies family of 4 is $48,000, because "per capita" is per person in that family.
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by kbutler 6y ago
Nope. Please quit projecting your hostility, insecurity, and ignorance on to me.
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by kbutler 6y ago
Sorry you were offended - I was suggesting you would enjoy quotations from Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations" where he describes landlords as non-productive leeches. I was not commenting on the use of quotation marks. My sugges
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by kbutler 6y ago
Look at the data on deficits linked above. This seems to be the pattern: Republican president: spend on this! Republican congress: OK Democratic congress: OK, as long as we spend on this, too. Democratic president: spend on this!
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by kbutler 6y ago
Markets for air already exist where scarcity prevails: - scuba - medical oxygen - submarines - space - polluted areas (search for "beijing canned air") The law privatizing air that you suggest would match rental ho
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by kbutler 6y ago
>> choose to continue paying rent shows it is valuable to you. > It is valuable to me. That is the very definition of economic value. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/economic-value.asp
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by kbutler 6y ago
Middlemen get a bad rap, because people don't see that they are providing a valuable service. Your financial resources make the risk acceptable to you. It's probably less acceptable to your tenants. In the same way, you choose to
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by kbutler 6y ago
Who controls spending? Especially on transfer programs, which represent the bulk of the deficit? (It’s not the president) http://goliards.us/adelphi/deficits/index.html is more useful. It shows party control of th
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by kbutler 6y ago
You’ve just stated that you choose to rent. Your landlord is thus providing a service you value (adding to the economy). You are providing a service your tenants value. In your case, this may be mostly the assumption of risk - what if your
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by kbutler 6y ago
The public clamor for “$2k” checks, which comprise less than 1/4 of the $1.9 trillion dollar package that’s now entering reconciliation proves pretty strongly that the public is not sensitive to the cost of their government “benefits”.
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by kbutler 6y ago
Did you compel them to make that deal? Did you deceive them to make that deal? You had the credit and financial resources to commit to that purchase. Some reasons they may choose to rent instead: - lack capital - lack credit rating - not wi
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by kbutler 6y ago
The covid relief plan would prove a definitive counter to your hypothetical concern over tax money.
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by kbutler 6y ago
So, yes, you can go downhill on cross-country skis, but you can't go cross-country on downhill skis? (Telemark and alpine touring skis are variants of Nordic skis that shift closer to the downhill pattern, with alpine touring bindings
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by kbutler 6y ago
Annoying, yes. Invasion of privacy? No. (Someone, somewhere bought one of these. Who's privacy has been invaded?) Considered a dark pattern? Again, "somebody bought one of these". Pretty insignificant.
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by kbutler 6y ago
> I benefit without producing any utility for the economy at all. You provide the tenants the opportunity to have housing without the risks of ownership (the down payment and risk of declines. See 2008, for example). It's not for e
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by kbutler 6y ago
I worked East coast time from the Mountain time zone, with colleagues primarily in the East Coast, Europe, and India. The 6am meetings were a constant feature - complicated by the semi-annual daylight saving time dance. Indian coworkers shi
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by kbutler 6y ago
Was that because the data was not actually peak _instantaneous_ rain rates, but rather rates averaged over a period of time (likely hours or longer)? Seems like microwave links would be most sensitive to instantaneous rate along specific pa
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by kbutler 6y ago
"planners used historical climate data ...the water no longer flowed there." This article implies the water changes were driven by climate change, but it appears the changes were from overpumping the aquifer that fed the surface w
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by kbutler 6y ago
I asked a panhandler what meal to order for him from the restaurant where he was begging. He ate one bite, asked me again for cash, and threw it away. Begging on the streets is unsafe for the homeless and for the public - giving that way pr

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