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by mightybyte 3y ago
That seems reasonable to me. But I guess therein lies the rub. I get impression that many BH shareholders feel Warren and Charlie will be better at deploying that capital than they will.
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by mightybyte 3y ago
> if a corporation can't find any opportunities for use of capital..., it should be distributed to shareholders A ways down the article says: "The firm spent $1.1 billion to repurchase shares, bringing the nine-month total to a
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by mightybyte 3y ago
Cash, diamonds, etc are actually better for crime than cryptocurrency because they're less traceable.
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by mightybyte 3y ago
Some years ago I was moving to a different state and looking for a job. I ended up doing interviews at six different companies. Five of those came from direct personal connections (mostly via coworkers) and one came from generic search &#
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by mightybyte 3y ago
Nebula is another option along these lines. https://nebula.defined.net/docs/ I've been using it for the better part of a year and am very happy with it. It is able to make point-to-point network connections in m
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by mightybyte 3y ago
I remember running across this book in a bookstore in the 80s! What a blast from the past. In particular I remember the picture on page 73.
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by mightybyte 3y ago
I'm familiar with Iocaine Powder. The fact that it won an internet Roshambo competition doesn't mean that it's the dominant strategy. If the opponent knows what move Iocaine Powder is going to play, the structure of Roshamb
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by mightybyte 3y ago
> There is no way to decide. Yep. Kind of like paper-rock-scissors, there is no dominant strategy.
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by mightybyte 3y ago
Anyone else share my thought that Twilio (and any other companies like them that I'm not aware of) is likely the primary driver of the massive epidemic of spam text messages and phone calls? Phone and text have been rendered almost co
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by mightybyte 3y ago
I saw something very similar to this some years back. Can't remember the site though.
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by mightybyte 3y ago
The Nomad also had an absurdly slow UI.
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by mightybyte 3y ago
Have you tried Nebula ( https://nebula.defined.net )? I set up a personal Nebula network a few months ago and have been very happy with it thus far. It has the ability to do mesh-style direct routing so you don't necessaril
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by mightybyte 4y ago
I have received a referral bonus that traced directly back to a "who is hiring" post. Haven't posted on "who wants to be hired" though.
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by mightybyte 4y ago
> But I think each prong of attack opens up a little more of Trumps weakness and eventually, either through weight of legal cost or dumb luck they will find something to hang him with. The thing that surprised me yesterday was learning t
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by mightybyte 4y ago
I'm not quite sure of that interpretation of the text. Here's the quote: > We are also announcing a similar systemic risk exception for Signature Bank, New York, New York, which was closed today by its state chartering authori
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by mightybyte 4y ago
Oh good point, my bad. I was skimming for "runs" (more of a piano term) and missed the bits about "rolls". I also wasn't aware that this is a thing in tetris. Very cool!
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by mightybyte 4y ago
Oh, I wasn't aware of that! Thanks for the pointer!
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by mightybyte 4y ago
I would actually disagree with hand alternation as a goal. I think optimizing first for runs (see my other comment in this thread about runs for a description) would actually allow longer periods of relaxation. If you alternate hands each
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by mightybyte 4y ago
EDIT: Due to terminology differences I missed that my point here was indeed taken into account with this layout. Super excited to see this! --- I think most of the efficiency functions that these kinds of efforts tend to optimize for miss
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by mightybyte 4y ago
I'm always torn between this and the advice that any response just validates for them that there's a real person behind the contact info and therefore it's definitely valuable to keep spamming.
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by mightybyte 4y ago
Recently I've kind of felt like it's Twilio & similar that are driving this, because they have made tools for this kind of mass spamming of texts and calls widely accessible. I'm sure it's a very complex web of fact
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by mightybyte 4y ago
In this case I would say very much thriving. This person could easily handle a $5,000 unexpected expense. When I moved to NYC, I was able to get a very comfortable apartment outside Manhattan but still very convenient to subway lines, and
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by mightybyte 4y ago
It took me awhile to realize but this is one of the big things that algebraic data types (ADTs) help you to do...design your data types so they have exactly the number of valid states that your domain has. To use another common FP way of s
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NYT Podcast: The Online Search Wars Got Scary. Fast(podcasts.apple.com)
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by mightybyte 4y ago
I think this is a common misconception. People say this about NYC, but it's simply not true. I have artist friends who live in NYC and make something like 30k / year. No, you probably won't be able to live in Manhattan wit
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by mightybyte 4y ago
For a more modern one, Apocalyptica's Nothing Else Matters (the Official Video on YouTube is the exact version) is one of the most memorable frisson experiences I've had in recent years. After I first heard it while dancing I lis
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by mightybyte 4y ago
> But for anyone in IT or related fields? $20/month feels like a nobrainer if you're in the West. Yes, I definitely hear you. If you're living well within your means then sure. But on the other hand, a shocking number o
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by mightybyte 4y ago
> especially when you're a freelancer I think that's the big qualifier here. The productivity paying off the price is only meaningful if your time and money are arbitrarily fungible for each other, and for most people they are
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by mightybyte 4y ago
Both breadth and depth are useful. See my comment elsewhere here about learning with iterative deepening.
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by mightybyte 4y ago
Here's a nice talk along these lines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8KcCU-p8QA My TL;DR (probably somewhat flawed since it's been awhile since I last watched it): 1. Use an iterative deepening approach to learn

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