lbriner

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by lbriner 5y ago
In an energy market, contracts are signed for months an/or years. If France thinks it has plenty of gas supply, it can agree to sell electricity capacity to other countries, when the gas goes away, they can't just cancel the contr
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by lbriner 5y ago
They are also enormously expensive to construct and don't scale down. You can build a single wind turbine for what, $100K? Even a basic nuclear power plant is now around $50B, which is a large chunk of change to take away from taxpayer
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by lbriner 5y ago
I think it depends on your location. In the US, I think there is little to stop people being fired for any number of reasons including, "I don't think you fit in". In most of Europe, being fired is very rare because it usuall
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by lbriner 5y ago
The ultimate skill of the CEO is looking at what is and isn't working and adapting. If you read an article A about how Air BnB worked out by visiting every customer and taking photos, you have to decide whether that translates to your
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by lbriner 5y ago
I think it is fair to say that YC are not just "an accelerator", they have a massive pool of investors and advisors. I too was in an accelerator but although famous, was nowhere near as potent as YC. Sure, there are things that yo
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by lbriner 5y ago
In the UK (and I'm sure elsewhere), inheritance tax is the main vehicle to try and avoid dynasties being created once one person has accumulated massive wealth. As others have said, it is income that is taxed, there will be plenty of p
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by lbriner 5y ago
I guess they only work if everyone uses them, otherwise the danger is that a billionaire takes their business elsewhere.
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by lbriner 5y ago
What is wrong with being 12th? The numbers all look pretty massive anyway and my 70Mb/s is fast enough for me to work from home and stream video.
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by lbriner 5y ago
I guess many manufacturers are trying to talk the crisis down to keep their share price high but there are few reasons to think this will get better any time soon. The additional demands from lock-down are remaining with many people still w
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by lbriner 5y ago
Isn't the problem that carrot only works if it is bigger than their criminal carrot and the stick only works if it is bigger than their own sticks? If you cane someone who was brought up with violence, it can reinforce the idea that on
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by lbriner 5y ago
Prepares to be downvoted... Why are these supposed to be special? Everyone would agree with these in theory but the problem is not lack of these principles, the problem is how to actually use them in a fast moving business with imperfect to
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by lbriner 5y ago
My pet peeve with search results is simply that there are ancient technical results that in many cases are irrelevant. If I am searching for a Window error message, I don't want some old forum post from 2001, especially if it didn&#x27
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by lbriner 5y ago
A good top-tip from David Hansson was if you are not sure, pay them to produce something useful for the company, perhaps about a week's worth. Then you are seeing what they are really like to work with and what they can produce without
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by lbriner 5y ago
That is true but also, if the previous management have gone and a new management really care, how long should they be judged by their predecessors. I think this issue comes up all the time with individuals either being negligent or just pla
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by lbriner 5y ago
I wondered the same thing. How many customers can honestly say that the emmission levels had anything to do with their purchase? It is the governments/health services that have to pick up the pieces if the emmissions were really that b
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by lbriner 5y ago
Having an architect can be helpful but it can also be significantly more expensive and if there is a problem, then you are likely to be pulled into the argument anyway. Definitely communication, good diagrams, developing a good rappour with
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by lbriner 5y ago
It is hard since even experienced and capable builders might still take you for a ride. In the UK, plumbers are notorious for not turning up to jobs and not even calling etc. Those that know what they are doing are also prone to inflate a q
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by lbriner 5y ago
Personally, I think consulting works well, like contracting works well, when you have a specific requirement that the Consultant/Contractor can meet. We paid a lot of money for a software consultant once to produce an encryption librar
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by lbriner 5y ago
I knew a few friends at college whose first jobs were at consulting firms. It seemed a bit of a misnomer since they had no practical experience. I think sometimes people don't want to hire pragmatist consultants who will rock the boat
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by lbriner 5y ago
I guess it depends on your interests outside of work and if you have any. Some people work so hard, they have nothing outside of work that they fit-in with. Its a bit like people who retire and spend their retirement years watching TV. Imag
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by lbriner 5y ago
We had a talk once from a man who had sold his company at around 23 years old for several million, a lot to a young man. He said he thought he would live the dream, travel the world, go and do whatever he wanted, waking up at 10am every day
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by lbriner 5y ago
I'm not particularly into animal rights but this does seem gratuitous to catch them in such large numbers with no-one making sure that enough have been caught. How many will definitely become food and how many will spoil/get disca
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by lbriner 5y ago
The idea that distractions hurt productivity is not surprising but this doesn't sound like anything other than solution by committee. If something isn't working, create a team to sort it out. Sorry, but the team is already there.
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by lbriner 5y ago
I think the article covers it pretty well, or at least what the problems are. What is very worrying is someone accepting they cannot verify the technology because "IP" but still handing over enormous money. You would think there w
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by lbriner 5y ago
This is only half the story really. The hardest part by far is setting up the monitoring to gather historical data, otherwise this article could be shortened to "measure it over a month and take the 90 percentile". Setting the lim
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by lbriner 5y ago
YouTube has a tonne of great presentations on different subjects like these, otherwise you could try the Khan Academy. You might even find some decent text books with exercises online but if you prefer to watch etc, YT is great. However, if
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by lbriner 5y ago
This might be a stupid question but can't we mix the best of both worlds in a programming language? To have GC where it makes sense and doesn't add too much overhead but allowing non-GC objects that require a bit more care and whe
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by lbriner 5y ago
Surely AI can also be taught some boundary conditions like "thou shalt not build SQL from strings"?
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by lbriner 5y ago
It's all very well that a company can disable your account without any recourse but I would be interested in someone with deep enough pockets to take legal action against an organisation that actually posseses your property. If a bank
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by lbriner 5y ago
There is a logical flaw in his comment that "Facebook needs publishers". Although that is true in general , it does not follow that they need you as a publisher. As others have said, it is insanity to invest time and money into

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