meatysnapper

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by meatysnapper 11y ago
Yeah I used to live right near the SoMa fire station and it was non-stop noise. It's too bad we don't have decent, reliable public transportation so people can be housed relatively cheaply and still be able to get around quickly,
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
Thanks for nothing, Normandy!
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
Honestly, I expected inflation for the last 6 years, but we haven't seen it. However, prices are creeping up nicely, in all the desirable places. Is that really that different?
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
Amazon is widely recognized to have a horrible work culture. Microsoft, for all its evils, does not (or at least didn't, before stack ranking). I know a bunch of people from both places, and the latter group was much happier. Tellingly
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
MongoDB, the carrot top of data stores.
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
False analogy. You should say "Seems to work fine in Chile". Chile and Venezuela are similar countries; both have an abundant natural resource (copper vs oil). The one critical difference is property rights- such a thing does not
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
Think of a quantum computer as an analog computer. You don't program it, you construct it.
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
Or as Frank Zappa quipped, "The entertainment branch of the military industrial complex"
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
I spent most of my childhood reading and doing sports. Didn't ever pay attention in school except math and history, where I lucked out and had good teachers who kicked our asses. Reading/screwing around with computers was a great
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
Japan has always been fascinating to the West, from the moment Perry told them to open the hell up. Japan has such an interesting wacky culture, architecture, art, lifestyle. They've always had craftsmen the like of whom can compete wi
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
As opposed to the previous management? 3 heads of product since 2013: Sippey, Graf, Weil. How's that supposed to work?
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
Amazon had a nice tax dodge for a while too. Lower price for the same thing; not bad.
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
The interesting question will be the on-going struggle between engineering (Roetter/Weil) and business (Noto/Bain), who actually want to run a profitable company. My bet is Roetter and Weil will be out before the year is done.
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
I can just see it... Twitch, but for coding. Bring on a tech celebrity for some color, and have a regular commentator and just mock the programmer for their "poor java style".
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
Ecuador really has very good geography for building space-launch structures (9 very large mountains over 5000m). Probably the perfect place to build something, if you were gonna build it.
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
And how much money does the non-ads part of Google make?
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
Yeah, Eastern Ukraine (ethnic Russians) vs the rest have been at each other's throats for a while. This was the logical conclusion of years of discontent.
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
Previous to PDX have only confirmed what my friends from their have said- friendly, attractive and "welcoming" women. Contrary to the parent post, people in PDX have lots of casual sex too.
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
God I wish I was in NYC. The stories I've heard from buddies there! West coast scene is not like this at all, especially not in Man-Francisco or Man-Jose (unless you like men of course).
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
In all fairness, Canada and Australia are more or less commodity extraction economies with catastrophically inflated real estate markets. Lower commodity prices could prick that situation and cause some jumbled jonathans.
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
I want to emphasize that organizing these images would be a non-trivial amount of work. More worthwhile than bombing a bunch of sand people somewhere, certainly, but still non-trivial.
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
There is of course the theory that the reason the Spaniards found it so easy to whoop dat Aztec was because of the hostility caused by so much human sacrifice.
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
Not to mention nice tax loopholes
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
What, you've never watched a politician or an actor on TV?
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
I think the advantage of a massive skilled labor pool and investors within walking distance is a nearly insurmountable advantage. For a small company, I'd say the time/cost of hiring a few good engineers is way more than a few mon
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
As much as I'd like the US to crash to reality a bit so we can get our house together... a Chinese slowdown + European clusterfuck makes the US the best place to invest, still. That gives this boom a slightly longer lease on life.
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
Which explains why, in the early 90s, all endurance sports records dropped like a rock, because of a major nutritional breakthrough.... wait, it was just the introduction of EPO.
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
I would hate to be immortalized by what I at least consider to be a pretty mediocre beer. I do not get they hype at all, and I've had it bottle and tap numerous times.
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
Perhaps in the US it is considered the paper of record. In the land of shoddy journalism it is pathetically easy to be the best print paper. However, the rest of the world has significantly better news and papers- Spiegel, Le Monde, FT, Eco
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by meatysnapper 11y ago
In contrast to Grindr/Tiner: "Smush as a Service"

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