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by mandevil 1y ago
But didn't they spend $9 billion? If I have a machine that magically turns $9 billion of investor money into $4 billion in revenue, I need to have a pretty awesome story for how in the future I am going to be making enormous piles of m
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by mandevil 1y ago
If you had said "were" instead of "are" this would be a true statement. Since South Dakota v. Wayfair in 2018, states have been allowed to charge sales taxes on businesses that have no operations in their state. That dec
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by mandevil 1y ago
The biggest thing is about "Amazon was started in a garage" is that Jeff Bezos had worked at hedge fund D.E. Shaw (founded in 1989) from 1990-1994 (that's where he met MacKenzie, she was an admin staff, he was a finance guy).
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by mandevil 1y ago
2025 RSA Conference USA in San Francisco. So lots of papers are going to be presented and talks given on new clever ways researchers have figured out to beat different layers of security, tracking APT's, etc. https://www.rsa
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by mandevil 1y ago
Is there such thing as proper plastic recycling today? My understanding is that all current generation plastic recycling is basically a scam, minor pilot projects because it is so energy inefficient that you can't possibly do it at sma
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by mandevil 1y ago
The only times I've ever heard of this working are when you have a huge war-chest to subsidize both sides of the marketplace to come out and play on your app. If you can offer better prices than normal to both sides (with the gap made
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by mandevil 1y ago
US Government employees basically can't sign non-disparagement agreements, the Federal Government doesn't enter into agreements without a fixed time commitment to judge compliance, and there are incredibly strong whistleblower pro
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by mandevil 1y ago
This is wildly wrong. Ever since the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890 (1) companies are forbidden from using monopoly powers to force other parties to sign deals, which is the question about which Perplexity is testifying- whether Google is u
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by mandevil 1y ago
On February 6th, Marko Elez announced his resignation from DOGE after the WSJ discovered many racist posts he made in 2024 (which they published on the 5th). That likely made someone really interested in what his actual coding skill levels
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by mandevil 1y ago
I think this is true for most any subject taught in school. I have loved history since I was six and my parents got me my first adult history book. I love how all stories fit together, understanding why things happened the way they did, how
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by mandevil 1y ago
At one point they discussed jettisoning the landing stage of the LM, for less mass so that the PC+2 burn would get them home faster, but most of the batteries and O2 tanks on the LM were in the descent stage (4 of the 6 batteries, I don&#x2
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by mandevil 1y ago
What is the support for the idea that AI is a winner takes all market? I don't see any network effects or lock-in in this market. If you built a IDE that queries two different services, I don't think anyone would object or notice.
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by mandevil 2y ago
I suspect it's because in real life, you will have just sat through a death-by-powerpoint on principles of landnav for 90 minutes of some bored E6 reading off the slides to a whole bunch of even more bored E4's and then you get to
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by mandevil 2y ago
Law does not work like engineering does. Lawyers, judges and juries understand the intent of the law, and are not bound like we software engineers are to the exact commands in front of them. You could try to convince a jury of this argume
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by mandevil 2y ago
It's kind of a chicken and the egg, but I feel like 1966 with Vietnam, race riots across the US, the Cuban Missile Crisis only four years past, and everything else was hardly a time that people would have been optimistic. But you had a
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by mandevil 2y ago
I feel like a big problem in the modern world is the small scale of our dreams. Dreams drive us, they change the world. In 1865, French author Jules Verne decided to write a book to inspire people to dream big, impossible dreams. He decided
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by mandevil 2y ago
Right. The thing that bugs me about Apollo 13 is that they played up the drama unnecessarily, because the ground crew was so large, well-trained, and in sync. Like the scene where they dump a box of stuff and say "You have to make this
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by mandevil 2y ago
For the longest time, it worked in the US because we had overlapping political parties. For reasons (mostly having to do with race) you had conservative and liberal Democrats and Republicans, and they overlapped a lot ideologically, so bill
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by mandevil 2y ago
https://x.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1907536257476903047 first picture clearly shows "Heard and McDonald Island: Tariff charged to the USA including currency manipulation and trade barriers: 10% USA Discounted Re
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Parcae Ocean Surveillance Satellites(thespacereview.com)
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If someone complained to us TAs during or after the lab that the simulators were incorrect, we were quite open that indeed they were, and that was not our doing, but we were okay with it because lying documentation was a part of the real wo
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by mandevil 2y ago
I took and then TA'd a class where the semester long project was to control robots (it was a software engineering principles class, the actual code writing could be done in a single weekend, but you had to do all the other stuff of sof
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by mandevil 2y ago
"What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater? Here at least We shall be free: th’Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may r
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by mandevil 2y ago
Epic is my wife's favorite, for sure. Both of the switch-overs she was involved in were to Epic. They also cost more than the others. One thing I have learned in my two decades of SWE'ing is how vitally important active competitio
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by mandevil 2y ago
My wife is a hospital pharmacist. Cerner is a poular EMR system, is ~#2 in the market (behind Epic). These systems are ridiculously difficult to change between (everyone from your front-check-in desk to every surgeon who has privileges need
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by mandevil 2y ago
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8264257/ 2023 Study: "Despite Public Health Initiatives across Europe recommending that women take 0.4 mg folic acid before becoming pregnant and during the first trim
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by mandevil 2y ago
"In Switzerland 85% of domestic salt consumed is fluoridated and 67% in Germany. Salt fluoridation schemes are reaching more than one hundred million in Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Cuba. The cost of salt fluoridation is very low, within
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by mandevil 2y ago
From my understanding of Southern California's HOT lane experience, people become desensitized to the price over time, so you need to raise it regularly or the congestion benefits go away and it just becomes a regular road plus an extr
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by mandevil 2y ago
That's a privilege that the dominant players in the market can get away with. If you are the #1, everyone will do what they need to to run on your stuff. But the players trying desperately to get programmers (and customers) to pay atte
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by mandevil 2y ago
Indeed I am! I am trying to make the case that something like social security is economically efficient even setting aside any moral case for taking care of vulnerable people. I believe social security pencils out as a huge positive to the

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