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by lainga 7y ago
The backstory to REAMDE is that an MMORPG turns out to also be a really good platform for teleconferencing. Gradually more and more business moves into this MMORPG until the company releases a "business version" and a significant
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by lainga 7y ago
We are 2 or 3 cool projects like these away from the McGuffin tech in Neal Stephenson's REAMDE.
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by lainga 7y ago
Well, think about it this way, everyone will be 200% unemployed by the end of the year.
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by lainga 7y ago
perfect for systemd-hurd. the microkernel does barely anything, it's all delegated to systemd
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by lainga 7y ago
"There was a counter-backlash from the United States Flag Association and the Daughters of the American Revolution, who felt it inappropriate for Americans to have to change the traditional salute because foreigners had later adopted a
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by lainga 7y ago
The mentioned "endemic anti-Americanism" of postwar France was very widespread. It was found among the SFIO and diverse left, of course, for evident reasons. But it was also a component of Gaullism, I think as a chafing at having
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by lainga 7y ago
Have you heard of Cosmism? It was a Russian art-cultural movement in the early 20th century with similar ideas.
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by lainga 7y ago
I think directing the Eye of Sauron upon any company-required software is a modern form of collective bargaining. Individually, at many companies around the world, one engineer's concerns about Zoom or w/e will not reach or convin
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by lainga 7y ago
I've had good results with the IBM mainframe-targeting z/OS, mainly due to hardware synergies
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by lainga 7y ago
I think it's cloud9 but easier and aimed at less-technical users. Like Processing. I gave it a brief shot because joelspolsky and that was my impression anyway.
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by lainga 7y ago
How do you feel when you watch a political debate?
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by lainga 7y ago
It wasn't celebratory. They had to haul home all the ammunition they didn't fire.
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by lainga 7y ago
The reason why I used a two day old report on March 29 is simple, there was no full report yesterday nor today. I'm guessing the Tokyo lockdown means that nobody can get to work, and PCs are too expensive to buy for home use so the pe
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by lainga 7y ago
I had something vaguely similar at an internship. Each team was in a separate room for security reasons (aerospace firm), so the co. was all groups of 6-10 people in little open-plan offices. I thought that was nice and quiet.
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by lainga 7y ago
Huh! Some interesting perspective that it seems so outlandish. I've already seen Ground Station in the AWS console, all by itself in its own category, for the past few months, and thought it was widely-known.
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by lainga 7y ago
That raises a good question: what proportion of small businesses (SBA definition or JPM's sample definition) have shareholders? Vs. being sole proprietorships or partnerships?
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by lainga 7y ago
Taken as a unit or class of businesses that's true. But the individual picture... I think JPM has taken the median of outflows, and the median of inflows - not the median of margins. I can't say from the report, but I wonder if bu
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by lainga 7y ago
How does wealth concentration tie into the report's findings? What I saw was that most of the small businesses in the JPM report are operating on margins of a few dollars a day. That might be the consequence of competition, driving dow
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by lainga 7y ago
Yes I do, sadly, I need it for my job. I don't like it, and I want it replaced, but until then I have to commit to the decision my team has made.
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by lainga 7y ago
Ever studied how economies have behaved in real MMOs?
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by lainga 7y ago
Someone (Matt Levine??) on Bloomberg said that "Russia and Saudi Arabia seem to have accepted that periodically bankrupting US fracking operations is a cost of business". Periodically - because US oil extraction is done by many fi
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by lainga 7y ago
Hoh! I spend most of my time figuring out pipenv (not my design choice!) .
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by lainga 7y ago
Is it right for Piketty to assert that the Democratic Party was a homogeneous whole in the 60's? What exactly was Daley doing at Chicago in 1968 in the interests of social democracy? You may as well claim that the Democrats transitione
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by lainga 7y ago
"Because immediately after joining The Younglings bags of money will fall out of the sky! Okay.. maybe not quite.. BUT if you want to transform your good business into an extraordinary sales machine, then join us!" It's an ex
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by lainga 7y ago
Did the recent money-market bailout fall under the Fed's remit? Yes, the mechanism was different, but they were basically acting like the FDIC in that they were rescuing household savings.
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by lainga 7y ago
Thousands of U.S. Land Corporations form shell companies; sad dogs, one-legged orphans popular choices for board of directors
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by lainga 7y ago
A device activation is a device activation, you can't say it's only half.
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by lainga 7y ago
Exception is for very deepwater fish like yellowfin tuna and skipjack.
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by lainga 7y ago
I seem to recall that many of the victims of the pandemic in 1918 may have succumbed to acetaminophen overdoses, and not the flu itself.
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by lainga 7y ago
Well, that is a good example of an assignment you'd do at your local university and wouldn't get assigned at Stanford.

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