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by mediaman 6y ago
The Economist certainly has an ideological bias. However, unlike many publications, they are fairly forthcoming about it, and are clear about their position. I don't agree with all of their positions (though I agree with most), but I m
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by mediaman 6y ago
A general pattern of tech folks trying to understand a subject is that they will analyze billions of data points while doing everything in their power to avoid or minimize talking with people.
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by mediaman 6y ago
The CEO selling most of their shares after the lock-up period expires would be seen as a majorly negative signal. If you are not the CEO or a top executive, investors won't care, or even know. It's best to diversify. Even if you l
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Violent Extremism, the Middle East, and Leaded Gasoline(jabberwocking.com)
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by mediaman 6y ago
Agreed. Google sheets feels great initially. Then you go to do that thing that you do in Excel, and...you look for it, and it seems like a basic omission, so you figure you just missed it, and Google around for it, and no, it's just no
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by mediaman 6y ago
Sometimes you come across communities that look, from the outside, like a Disney theme park. You enter the gates and you're in a different reality. Everyday words have different meanings, and there are stories built up about their defi
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by mediaman 6y ago
On safari it doesn't do that if the contents are blank, but if you type something in the email box, tab directs to the address bar. Weird. Works fine on Firefox and Chrome.
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Bitcoin has a strong base of advocacy not based on any logic or utility but solely sprung from the mule stubbornness of those who profited from their speculation. 1. Bitcoin is environmentally damaging. It produces 37 megatons of CO2 per ye
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by mediaman 6y ago
I don't know about residential. Seems mostly to be a plaything. But there is big potential for this in industrial settings. Imagine being able to monitor machine uptime around the clock by sensing amperage usage. Tracking cycle time by
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by mediaman 6y ago
The St. Louis Fed has additional detail on this misleading statistic. There are several measures of money supply, but two count for the most in this discussion. The poster chooses M1. This is all transaction deposit accounts: i.e., your che
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by mediaman 6y ago
In my experience, management never thinks their maintenance team doesn't need improvement, because single failures cause so much financial pain. It's true they don't want to spend more money on labor. And sometimes that means
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by mediaman 6y ago
Exactly that was found to be responsible for mass killings of salmon in the Puget Sound, and the consequent deaths of orcas and other wildlife. A rubberizer additive put in tires was getting atomized and then washed off into the streams. It
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by mediaman 6y ago
Vertical farm companies attract a lot of attention from tech people who love the idea of hermetically sealed crop growing, but it's not where the action is. That's because climate controlled hydroponic greenhouses get you most of
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by mediaman 6y ago
Yes, I think that's an element of it. For me, it's when the metric they're proud of is always changing from quarter to quarter, and it's rarely the one we agree to focus on. Like they make a basket of six metrics and usu
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As was mentioned in the article, Citibank has a "six-eyes" policy. They had three people review and approve this transaction. They were all confused by the interface. (I am not sure what this policy means if one of the three peopl
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by mediaman 6y ago
Yeah, something like this would be much better off with a rocker switch with Grinder: ON, OFF. Then it saves state between runs and it's always clear if the grinder is on or off.
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by mediaman 6y ago
Did you know this because he was reporting to you? I find people who are constantly measuring some metric they're doing well on (and this metric always changes) and then making sure you know about it are covering for some sort of perfo
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by mediaman 6y ago
PET has a much higher melt temperature, which would degrade the HDPE. At HDPE melt temperatures, the PET would remain unmelted, which would probably cause strength and visual problems.
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Sure, they're flammable. But the amount of BTUs in, say, packaging, is negligible, because it's so lightweight. When you combine lots of recycled packaging into dense bricks, it becomes a lot of dense BTUs, so can provide a lot of
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by mediaman 6y ago
I'm not nearly as well read as you, but I've really enjoyed Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and War and Peace. I enjoyed Tolstoy's constant arguing against the Great Man Theory, even if I disagree with aspects of his position. A
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by mediaman 6y ago
Agreed, almost certainly the case. However, they should have inserted some notice in the UI that this was a result of a margin call that couldn't be met, given the level of knowledge of many of their users.
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by mediaman 6y ago
Most advocates argue that short-sellers help find the accurate price of a security, in service of the broader market goal of capital allocation. People who argue that markets should be long-only wind up advocating for frauds and failures to
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by mediaman 6y ago
What happens if you move to, say, 2kV? Higher differences in potential create bigger risks of arcing, and need thicker insulation. Can this be mitigated in connector design? Or is this just considered too risky to be anywhere near people? I
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by mediaman 6y ago
Bitcoin in particular would have really benefited from some basic understanding of monetary economics. If you want it to be a currency, it needs to be able to expand its supply to meet demand as a medium of exchange. Otherwise you get huge
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by mediaman 6y ago
Agreed. I really dislike avatar-only interaction. Tried it recently with a Quest and it's hard to read who you're talking with, or recognize a face you've met in person. Combining video of the face mapped onto a virtual space
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by mediaman 6y ago
It's weird for me to hear all these stories about MBAs. While I'm not an MBA myself, I was in investment banking and planned to get an MBA before I left finance and did something else instead. I regularly pay engineers more than I
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by mediaman 6y ago
In California, yes, because they are grown naturally there, and growing in a vertical farm seems kind of pointless, except as novelty. But on the East Coast, vertical farms can serve a useful economic purpose for some crops which would othe
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by mediaman 6y ago
When would sublinear costs exist? Sublinear costs seem like something that you'd be best off delaying to fix, maybe forever, since their impact lessens the longer you wait. Maybe this would apply when a major change will happen that wo
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by mediaman 6y ago
Prosecutors had argued that Jones had illegally accessed systems to send a public health message through a state alert system. But there does not appear to be evidence that this happened. Instead, they have collected evidence that she alleg
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by mediaman 6y ago
I recently became a supplier to a megacorp. They'll plop a weekly meeting on eight peoples' calendars like it's nothing. I tried sending out email summaries on various projects, so they could just refer to that instead of hav

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