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by nmfisher 6y ago
Wow, that guy was on the more attractive side of the spectrum, too. Reminds how eternally grateful I should be that my romantic life predates Tinder.
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Musk is probably worse than Jobs, and he has fairly well-known talent retention problem ascribed directly to his personal behaviour, but both Tesla and SpaceX are doing exceptionally well. There's always someone next in line.
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Thanks for the recommendation - will definitely check it out.
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by nmfisher 6y ago
"Existential threat" doesn't mean "fatal", it means "something that threatens the entirety of human existence". Being generous, let's say that means "50% of the human race dying out". I&#x27
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by nmfisher 6y ago
I actually toyed with asking for a refund on this book (though in the end I decided not to). Except the palette chapter, it doesn't help you build an aesthetically pleasing design from the ground up. All the examples are about making &
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by nmfisher 6y ago
I’m not sure what you’re talking about. I’m not going to ask my developer - who I pay $2000 a day - to spend 10 days optimising my codebase to avoid an extra $5000 in server costs. It doesn’t matter if they’re a 10xer or a 1xer, their time
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by nmfisher 6y ago
I mean, as a general expectation, that’s ridiculous. Businesses will always optimise for profitability, expecting them to eat their margin voluntarily for environmental concerns is unlikely to be a solution. As a policy, though, it makes se
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by nmfisher 6y ago
> So making your code 100x faster saves you more than 100 servers. Yeah, but "making your code 100x faster" might cost significantly more than just adding 100x servers. As with most things, the only absolute rule is "it d
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Exactly my experience too. If there’s one thing I want an antitrust investigation to focus on, it’s the gradual monopoly that Google/Microsoft/etc have inadvertently built over “clean” IP addresses. It’s now practically impossible
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by nmfisher 6y ago
“Dying” is quite the stretch. I think a better description would be “trying to squeeze as much revenue from existing products”.
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Learning the basics of AWK (I can't admit to being a super-user) was probably the biggest boost to my productivity in NLP.
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Bezos clearly doesn't fall into this category. He literally built Amazon himself, on his knees, packing books with his bare hands. If there's one billionaire with intimate knowledge of the "lower" levels of his business,
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Maybe I'm misreading the article (or your post), but isn't that first article saying exactly the opposite? > When someone is infected with a virus they’ve seen before, the immune system tends to pump out antibodies created duri
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by nmfisher 6y ago
That I agree with.
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Governments are able to choose which nationalities are allowed entry via immigration policy. Some might find criminal representation very relevant to that policy decision. Perhaps you do not. That’s certainly your prerogative. But outright
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by nmfisher 6y ago
> It’s a short blog post about struggles with a TV remote, and then an image of an MSPaint remote which LITERALLY has hieroglyphics on it When it comes to "design thinking", that practically amounts to a PhD thesis. As a rule I
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by nmfisher 6y ago
I believe the vaccination drive was a cover, not fake - people were still vaccinated as intended. That doesn't necessarily mean it was justified, but I do think it's important to note the difference.
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by nmfisher 6y ago
I don’t know why you think it’s not possible (or that it’s anything more than trivial). Revenue, affiliated companies, third party service providers, etc are all basic legal concepts. The risk is far more likely to be inadvertently making t
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Agreed, this is a perfectly acceptable solution too.
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Of course, licence clauses won't physically stop someone who is fine with wilful infringement. But they're not intended to. They're intended to restrict the behaviour of people who, by and large, respect the law. It's pr
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by nmfisher 6y ago
> I'm confused. Where in this comment chain does what you describe seem to be happening? The closest I can find is the great-great-great-great grandparent, which states “The guy had armies of white supremacist supporters and adviser
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Extending restrictions to affiliates/related bodies corporate is absolute bread and butter commercial legal work. Most lawyers are writing these kind of clauses week in, week out. What you are presumably referring to is transfer pricin
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by nmfisher 6y ago
I mean, this is a fairly trivial loophole to close if you have a lawyer who knows what they're doing. In fact, you don't even need to close the loophole. You just need to make FAANG employees pause long enough to worry that they m
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by nmfisher 6y ago
That just simply reinforces my view that Trump is just a childish buffoon who will never admit he made a mistake about anything, and is incapable or unwilling to give a straight answer to any question. He's the type of person that scre
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by nmfisher 6y ago
I'm glad it's not just me who thinks this. I think Trump is an absolutely foul human being, but "stand by, stand back" was clearly a fumbled response to the moderator's request that he call on them to "stand do
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by nmfisher 6y ago
As much as is believed desirable by the elected representatives of the democratic society in which you live.
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by nmfisher 6y ago
And which Apple anyway can now prevent you from doing (by explicitly requiring Sign In with Apple and letting users turn off email forwarding).
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by nmfisher 6y ago
In Australia, it’s not so much deductions (home office, car, computer, phone, etc), as much as absurdly legal practices like “distributing” income to your family. This means you can divvy up your income so it’s taxed at each family member’
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by nmfisher 6y ago
I grew up with IRC (and still idle on various channels, and Discord is definitely the closest anything has come to replacing that community feeling from the 90s and early 2000s. They're all very niche servers - I'd say about 10 da
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by nmfisher 6y ago
I wouldn't say most doctors are incompetent, but I would say that most are automatons working to a checklist which probably hasn't been updated since they left school. Patient reports symptoms A, B, C? Order tests X, Y, Z, presc

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