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by nmfisher 6y ago
While I totally agree with you, I also wonder if unit testing is used in the engine itself.
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by nmfisher 6y ago
The Economist is always published on Saturday, and is regularly linked on HN. I think more likely they timed their launch to coincide with the Economist article and then someone unrelated just happened to link the article just before their
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by nmfisher 6y ago
> Google are great at hiding their revenue but I guarantee you that Australia represented a good 20% of the US based revenue. Despite having a population that's only 10% or so. Source please - otherwise you're just pulling numb
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Only if the company allows them to (or is simultaneously raising capital). Also I believe (though not 100% sure, depending on where you are) that income tax is paid on dividends, irrespective of whether you subsequently reinvest.
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by nmfisher 6y ago
IP cross-licensing/royalties is the biggest loophole when it comes to transfer pricing. The reason is pretty clear. There's usually no independent measure of value (because it's not like Apple/Nike/etc are licensing
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Not exactly, because share buybacks are optional. A shareholder can decline to participate, increasing their stake in the company (meaning the investor believes that the net present value of the shares is higher than the price offered under
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Where is this nest egg coming from?
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Those countries also have the benefit of 100 odd years of technological improvements. It’s not unreasonable to expect they take advantage of that.
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Exactly. I can’t believe the number of people who think that BTC is some magic shield against the powers that be.
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by nmfisher 6y ago
There’s so many things wrong with this comment. Until people start accepting bitcoin for bread, rent and salaries, Tesla most certainly does not have a “stash of money that cannot be forcibly shut down”. It has something that might be abl
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by nmfisher 6y ago
I mean, that’s been pretty standard in every country I’ve dealt with outside the USA for a long long time. If anything, I’d say that’s more a reflection of the poor state of the USA banking sector than its currency.
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by nmfisher 6y ago
> Here is the most obvious one - true sovereignty over your capital. When you have bitcoin, you have have physical ownership of a digitally transferable asset. Not legal ownership where a custodian ultimately decides whether you can acce
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by nmfisher 6y ago
How many products and services are bought every day with conventional monetary systems? How many products and services are bought every day with Bitcoin? I suspect BTC will have as much impact on conventional currencies as a fly landing on
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by nmfisher 6y ago
> - The headphone is recommended on Reddit. This is not a coincidence, I'm guessing Reddit is around 1/3 astroturfing to 2/3 legitimate discussion. I don't fault people for doing it, but I'm not going to pretend
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by nmfisher 6y ago
These are literally some of the most profitable companies in the world. Are you honestly saying they would cease to be profitable if they hired a few hundred people to staff a customer service team?
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by nmfisher 6y ago
> I would much rather my son hate me now and thank me later than the other way around. Well put.
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Those are definitely problems for the corporate world (except for Jupyter, a Julia kernel already exists for that). Again, I’m not an academic so take what I say with a grain of salt - but I can see Julia paying dividends very very quickly
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by nmfisher 6y ago
I’m overwhelmingly favourable towards Dart. While I picked it up for mobile (Flutter) dev, I’ve been slowly replacing a lot of scripting/backend work with it too. It’s the ideal replacement for general purpose scripting and browser wor
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Not a mathematician/physicist/etc, but having literally dived into Julia today, I think you’d be surprised. It definitely seems like “Python 2.0” for numerical computing.
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by nmfisher 6y ago
That is only fraudulent if you never intend on delivering.
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Is "market maker" an officially/legally designated status?
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by nmfisher 6y ago
I can’t say for sure that they’re all not fronts. However, I know someone who owns one in the CBD and it is definitely legitimate - not to mention makes money hand over fist. There are tens of thousands of mainland Chinese living in the CB
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Agreed. I can’t emphasise enough how maddening it is to have $5000+ worth of Apple devices in my house (some of which are more powerful than my 5 year old laptop) and none of them can compile software for their own ecosystem.
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Can you explain why this is not fully open to paying customers?
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by nmfisher 6y ago
"It's a free country" doesn't really add much to the discussion. No-one is saying her employees should be legally forced to stay with the company. What is being said, however, is that we should reverse this spiralling cu
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Let me get this straight - are you saying “vaccines cause autism, we just don’t have the proof yet”?
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by nmfisher 6y ago
> They are too expensive to run - hundreds of GB of GPU memory - so they can't be deployed for the public at large yet, kind of like the SGI workstations from 20 years ago. You can do that and more for cheap today, but not then. I d
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Either OpenAI or Microsoft demoed something similar to this some time in theist 12-18 months. The fact that it’s not released (and also the fact that GPT-3 etc are still not publicly available) makes me suspect that these models are far too
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Even still, the initial Cabal was three engineers, a writer, an animator and a designer, so you can assume that the broader team was at least that much again. That's 12 people full-time working for 2-3 years (and the actual credits go
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Fascinating article. One question remains unanswered though - how did Valve afford all of this? Given Half Life was their first game, where was the money coming from to not only produce an entire game, but to then scrap it and redesign&#x2F

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