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by mediaman 4y ago
Privilege is necessarily a comparative concept. Most people in America are privileged compared to a rural Chinese farmer. The median Google employee is privileged compared to average American citizens. It's healthy to acknowledge this.
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by mediaman 4y ago
Given median comp at Google, working at Google is quite privileged. Going to Stanford is likewise privileged. Being privileged isn't an insult, just a recognition of fact.
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by mediaman 4y ago
It appears pretty clear that PG wrote what he actually thought in response to ChatGPT's render of his potential thoughts.
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by mediaman 4y ago
To be fair, it's unlikely to see many warehouse workers be laid off, because the attrition rate is so high they can just attrit out within months. The exception would be total warehouse closures, but I don't think we've seen
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by mediaman 4y ago
He said he wasn't upgrading amperage, so wire size requirements for existing breakers should not change. It sounds like he was adding circuits which means he's running wires for those new circuits anyway.
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by mediaman 4y ago
I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for, but Grist has relationship-driven spreadsheets where the formulas are all Python code. And you can have multiple tables show on the same page, where selection of one filters the oth
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by mediaman 4y ago
You can use an encoder on the motor and count the rotations to slow down. Limit switches can be used to maintain calibration, in case the encoder misses some pulses over time.
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by mediaman 4y ago
Fun to watch young tech companies learn how to do HR in real time!
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by mediaman 4y ago
Depends how much they needed her cooperation, which will determine how much of a deal she got, if any. If they wanted her cooperation, but didn't absolutely need it, they may have struck a cooperation deal in which she still sees some
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by mediaman 4y ago
Fair enough, from customer complaints I've probably hired one or two of them for deliveries...
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by mediaman 4y ago
That's hilarious. Okay, go tell every warehouse and factory with a loading dock out there that their systems are out of date and they need to use RFID for everything. And if they don't -- well, we won't send this truck to you
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by mediaman 4y ago
True, but I don't think police are as worried about long-haul truckers behaving well, versus someone in a civilian car. The trucker needs to keep their CDL, and they do trucking professionally.
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by mediaman 4y ago
There's definitely a counter-culture of people in America who believe that being pleasant or warm is to lose some sort of dignity; that being nice is subordinate conformist behavior. Instead they proudly wear surliness and aloofness to
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by mediaman 4y ago
Servicing marine nuclear reactor units requires very special skills and is expensive. So is the initial capital cost. Servicing large marine diesel systems uses labor that is much more available globally.
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by mediaman 4y ago
Another one I'm trying out is Grist. They have Python scripting for functions and their way of viewing multiple tables on one screen is helpful. So far I'm liking it, although it misses some things like prefiltered referential sel
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by mediaman 4y ago
This is different. In the case of the VC who bought shares in the startup, they at least have the price they paid for the shares. In the case of crypto companies who create their own tokens and then use them as collateral, they never actual
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by mediaman 4y ago
I can't look at their balance sheet and conclude that they were anything but ignorant of traditional finance. He seemed completely unaware of duration risk, and it seems like they have never talked to an accountant or anyone who has ev
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by mediaman 4y ago
The industry does not have a great reputation. You will make less money and in worse working conditions, likely with more travel. The machines are cool. Automation Direct has some starter PLCs that are in the hundreds of dollars, and they h
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by mediaman 4y ago
Many of these VCs seem to just be grifting into whatever market they can get the most potential capital gains from the 'greater fool theory.' In other words, they don't care what value it generates; they care if there's
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by mediaman 4y ago
The plants look terrible when the light is on, for sure. But I know of plenty of commercial greenhouses that use them prior to shipping to retail.
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by mediaman 4y ago
If you understand what a discount rate is, you understand why higher interest rates decrease value. It's just math: the present value of x cash n years in the future at i discount rate is: x / ((1+i)^n) Discount rates are affected
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by mediaman 4y ago
I don't disagree that private equity has, historically, not been great at adding value. Sometimes they're good at cutting waste such as private jets and fat management perks. They're finance people, not product people, and th
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by mediaman 4y ago
He already hired the best lawyers available. What do you mean by his behavior changing if his net worth were more liquid? Are you suggesting he couldn't afford expensive lawyers because he couldn't get enough cash? He has had no i
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by mediaman 4y ago
The commitment for financing had already been made by banks and could not be rescinded simply because they suddenly don't like Musk anymore. Throughout this whole saga it has been popularly believed that (1) the breakup fee represents
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by mediaman 4y ago
For some reason, public technical forums often seem to develop that way. The Arduino official forums, for example, are filled with toxic people who are often fairly skilled but whose replies nearly always drip with condescension. It's
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by mediaman 4y ago
Sure, but the problem is that so many communities are moving discussion around solving domain-specific problems to Discord. And the collective wealth of knowledge - some of which gets accumulated across decades - instead becomes an amnesiac
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by mediaman 4y ago
I'm a partner in a factory and I believe this is an incredibly important area, and the requirements are fairly different than normal "just put it on Confluence" workplaces, in a way that most tech people don't understand
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by mediaman 4y ago
The dollar is not falling. It has been extremely strong against any standard world currency basket. So strong it hurts exporters.
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by mediaman 4y ago
To those arguing that legions of lawyers are going to track you down and sue you: Yes, in many jurisdictions, including the US, canceling your credit card does not change your obligation to pay. (Imagine buying a $10,000 physical product an
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by mediaman 4y ago
This is a claim that's often repeated ad nauseum: plastic recycling doesn't work and it's a sham. There's an element of truth to it: plastics recycling in the USA today is, in aggregate, in a sorry state. But it's b

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