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by mattrp 7y ago
Scott Adams has a Clearview investor on his podcast (ep. 798). Tone deaf really doesn’t adequately describe this investors level of concern about critics. When I was a teenager I once asked a musician what he thought of a certain store fo
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by mattrp 7y ago
Thank you for the recommendation. There’s also the excellent movie Kon Tiki (2017) about the famous Norwegian team that replicated the “backwards” journey from South America to Polynesia following WWII.
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by mattrp 7y ago
While this points to outright scam - I’ve seen a fair number of pitch decks that deserve to be thrown in the trash but get serious attention anyway. It seems obvious but I’ve seen a number of investors who will ignore a history of average
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by mattrp 7y ago
I can personally attest that sarcasm will get you labeled as a jerk, downvoted on hn and generally despised, but it will not boost your productivity.
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by mattrp 7y ago
Get switchres.. you can lower the refresh until it displays the desired resolution.
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by mattrp 7y ago
I use a 65” 4K screen as my home office monitor. I had a 21:9 monitor before this but i always felt I was missing the top half of my screen. Now admittedly every time I sit down at this I hear my mother saying, don’t sit so close to the t
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by mattrp 7y ago
This is the generally correct answer for most time divided (tdm) services. I worked on dsl back in the 90s and we experimented with pretty much all the flavors (SDSL, ADSL,etc) and while some of the plant that was built to recent modern st
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by mattrp 7y ago
Big fan of pandas as well... but I have to admit there are some things at the beginning were like wtf... some of which are now deprecated thankfully. But more on topic to this post I really can’t see why someone would want to solve speed o
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by mattrp 7y ago
Just put the following in your bashrc and it will simplify everything: Alias emacs=‘vim’ :)
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by mattrp 7y ago
It’s just for this sort of turn of events that hn should allow a limited number of memes and emojis.
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by mattrp 7y ago
I sympathize with your view that the media tends to lump things together in a gross and unfair way. However we happen to be talking about a company with a culture that apparently sees nothing wrong with openly trashing the faa’s certificat
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by mattrp 7y ago
It wasn’t perfectly reasonable to have a non redundant sensor that could have life threatening consequences if it failed.... and to also make the sensor failure alarm optional equipment doesn’t sound very reasonable to me either. It’s not
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by mattrp 7y ago
I remember we got one of those workstations at work. No one could figure out what it’s purpose should be.. someone suggested it would make a decent mmorpg server... and it was.
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by mattrp 7y ago
All those countries actually know what it’s like to live behind the iron curtain and don’t really want to do so again. What should happen is the US should move it’s German bases to a country that actually wants them there like Poland but d
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by mattrp 7y ago
Talk about clumsy, I seem to remember Russia turning off the gas back in the 90s and everyone was surprised at just how easily nato’s entire infrastructure could be held ransom by the flick of a switch. The issue basically boils down to th
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by mattrp 7y ago
Serious question - would it make these studies more accurate if in addition, the scientists were also able to control for differences in dna? ie, maybe protein absorption is not as good in a significant amount of the tested population for
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by mattrp 7y ago
Excellent questions indeed. I started an Ask HN in case anyone wants to comment there. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22004803
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Ask HN: Customer endorsements / use of customer logos on website
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by mattrp 7y ago
Thorium may be a solution. There are also molten salt reactors that are very promising. Unfortunately, when you look at nuclear energy policy, the two people most likely to be willing/capable to create positive policies supporting th
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by mattrp 7y ago
I was just about to start an ask hn on this topic. I’m surprised big tech or anyone allows the use of logo and names in this manner but obviously it’s very common to do this. It seems highly unethical to use the name of a company and impl
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by mattrp 7y ago
And how long before the regulations change to allow it? And how much longer before local zoning allows it? And how much before a utility clears all the build and commissioning hurdles and plant trials? And how long before sufficient quant
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by mattrp 7y ago
They don't have to work that hard to stifle nuclear because that battle was largely fought and won 3 decades ago. By and large it has remained 'won.' Without splitting hairs the point remains that nuclear was scapegoated su
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by mattrp 7y ago
> But what it was designed to do was stupid You mean like making unflyable planes flyable as software does for the f16 and a host of other military aircraft?
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by mattrp 7y ago
I don't think deregulation, mergers or accountants killed the Max or its passengers. I think it was an engineering culture in love with the simplicity of an idea that on the face of it was genius. What made the Max work was the idea
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by mattrp 7y ago
I would like to comment - respectfully - I hope. I do believe death to America is the literal intent. I think the author of the article below is somehow attempting to sugar coat the saying as a means of arming a sympathetic audience on so
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by mattrp 7y ago
100% in agreement. One major risk you’ve accumulated by slacking is that you may not easily get another job if google does eventually push you out. Your next employer will say, tell us what you’ve done - specifically. At some point you e
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by mattrp 7y ago
That’s the gist but the surprising thing is that the incumbents and the PUC’s have created a sort of toxic scheme with rate base accounting that is now showing itself in the form of aging and poorly maintained infrastructure.
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by mattrp 7y ago
Don’t forget to add this - if you’re operating as a utility you will be regulated as a utility.
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by mattrp 7y ago
Not only that - compare the sugar profiles of whole, 2% and skim - you may be a bit surprised (roughly equal if not the same). Also if your kids are drinking those single serve boxes... I’ve seen the sugar on those as high as 18-20g. Way
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by mattrp 7y ago
I don’t think it’s a mistake that the headline is intended to make Boeing sound uncaring and wrong-headed. The headline is intended to provoke discussion. However, if you pick almost any problem in any industry, the solution invariably is

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