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by mlyle 1y ago
I think the accountant would retort that it's way better to get $125 of profit from $500 of revenue than from $1000 of revenue, overall. In the former case, you have a lot of padding for conditions to change, and in the latter case yo
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by mlyle 1y ago
You've never had the experience of having a somewhat challenging / unusual request result in an agent abruptly dropping the call? They can figure out pretty quickly that A) it's going to be hard to help you, and B) you'r
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by mlyle 1y ago
> My domain registration is just over 25 years old... I guess I'm also "legacy"? Mine too -- I mean, I had domains in 1994-1995. Most people who have legacy AOL emails have them from more than 25 years ago-- indeed AOL was
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by mlyle 1y ago
> > mostly for accessing legacy sites that were around at that time.
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:D I've actually seen it. I'm retired from tech and a high school teacher these days and allowed to teach wack/out of level things. I would love to teach operating systems with NetBSD, but between the space hardware stuff I
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by mlyle 1y ago
Thank -you- for all you do! Donated. NetBSD has been a labor of love for a long, long time. In the mid-90's I was a teenager with a 486-25 on a desk in a closet running NetBSD 0.9-1.0, connected to 10base2 going to my dad's offic
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by mlyle 1y ago
You know, honestly: thinking back to 1992 as a 13 year old, and downloading ircii source code and hacking on it (commenting out the 3 lines with build errors on AIX and then seeing what happened)... trying to add a function here or there or
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by mlyle 1y ago
Your original assertion was "...by buying NFA machine guns knowing the number is capped and the price is likely to only go up" Later you said lower risk than many individual stocks. Maybe, maybe not depending on how we define thi
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by mlyle 1y ago
There's an international market in gold. NFA firearms have an artificially high value because of the exact set of legal restrictions that the government has put in place: loose enough to not crater legal demand, yet tight enough to res
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by mlyle 1y ago
> As for current NFA items holder, the constitution requires them to be compensated fair value if they are to be confiscated. There's plenty of ways to not confiscate them but impair their value. Further restrictions on transfer, re
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by mlyle 1y ago
But something like legislation preventing further transfers, etc, could also happen.
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"Allegedly" is the key word here. Alleged by people who allege a whole lot of untrue things and don't seem to have any evidence for this particular thing.
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by mlyle 1y ago
I've done plenty of those self-actualizing things. I've learned to fly airplanes. I've done hobby projects. I've gotten into astronomy. I've learned to make things in many kinds of ways (carpentry, sheetmetal, ma
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by mlyle 1y ago
> Just to be clear, are you saying the only life work that you can find fulfillment in is work that can be perfectly automated and handled by AI? No. I'm not saying that applies to me, but it may be getting dangerously close to man
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by mlyle 1y ago
> > Humans derive a lot of meaning from being useful and valued. Sure, humans relying on jobs for income is a problem with transitions. But people finding purpose in jobs is a problem, too. Right now how we get there is being "f
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by mlyle 1y ago
But it's not, really. Machines doing stuff instead of humans is great as long as it serves some kind of human purpose . If it lets humans do more human things as a result and have purpose, great. If it supplants things humans valu
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by mlyle 1y ago
Modern terminals do color just fine-- 24 bit color support has existed since 2010-ish, and been mainstream since 2015. There's nothing wrong with graphical IDEs... or text user interfaces. Great developers use both. Low effort troll
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by mlyle 1y ago
When you declare a fuel emergency or even urgency, there's often follow up to figure out why (mechanical issue? problem with dispatch? problem with flying technique? exceptional weather condition that could be forecast better? etc).
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by mlyle 1y ago
You don't need anonymity so much until certain things show up: other anonymous people, commercial bulk data aggregation, bullying subcultures, blending of real life with the online world, political intolerance. Unfortunately, I don&#x2
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by mlyle 1y ago
Molds intended for large production are expensive, but it's going to be expensive no matter where you do it (and can be procured internationally if you want). If you're making something with injection molding, you will need a mol
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by mlyle 1y ago
The peace prize stands out for being different. The economics one stands out for not being endowed by Nobel but instead Sveriges Riksbank well after his death (thus it's the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences). But it's a
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by mlyle 1y ago
I still think vibe coding is a win. Sure, you can't turn it loose on a massive codebase, yet. But in about 45 minutes I got 700 lines of relatively compact web code to use plotly, jszip, and paraparse to suck in video files, CSV telem
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by mlyle 1y ago
> Every time that particular model gets over 50 (50%) we've had a recession. Isn't that a little broken? It says there's a 51% chance of it happening, and it always happens?
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by mlyle 1y ago
The problem is camera marketing makes it really unclear what you're actually getting. Really lossless? Does it trigger more on-body processing? Does it throw away bits to be "visually lossless"? If you shoot a few thousand
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by mlyle 1y ago
> to "rapid change in valuations". Yes. This seems to be what you're doing-- carrying the metaphor too far. I believe the common use relates the asset prices to intrinsic or fundamental values.
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by mlyle 1y ago
A bubble's when values inflate well beyond intrinsic valuations. You can have a crash without this having happened.
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by mlyle 1y ago
In general, when you are appealing fines you have to have posted them as bond. It's a low fine, but your particular objection is invalid.
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by mlyle 1y ago
I think a bubble implies that the industry was overvalued compared to its long term fundamental value. Having a dip and then a return to growth and exceeding the previous peak size isn't exactly a bubble. The internet and tech sector
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by mlyle 1y ago
The function sets the shape of the curve that the skier skis down. It is not the path of the skier vs time. (Gravity works, you can jump, etc). In later levels, you use t to make a floor that actually moves. The relationship between y and
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by mlyle 1y ago
You're getting the gist of how to transform functions in a fun way.

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