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by peller 10y ago
Both The Idea Factory and Titan were excellent. Haven't read any of the others yet. I'd recommend reading The First Tycoon [0] before Titan , as chronologically it sets the stage very well for the world Rockefeller rose to p
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by peller 10y ago
This comment (not mine) in a recent thread seems relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13155334
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by peller 10y ago
For what it's worth, AMD has been working on a CUDA compatibility solution for at least a year now. Announcement[0] and Progress[1] [0] http://www.anandtech.com/show/9792/amd-sc15-boltzmann-initia... [1] htt
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by peller 10y ago
But it's not equivalent, because there's this thing about wealth: Scenario A: Let's say he donates all he's worth today, minus what he needs to live out his days and provide for his family. Call it $80B. Awesome. Potenti
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by peller 10y ago
You're free to think that, but the flip side is, of those few families who've got exorbitant wealth, the ones that donate to useful causes are in the minority. Furthermore, Gates got there by providing a useful good to a lot of
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by peller 10y ago
I'm not convinced that statement applies to this particular fund's goals. The first greentech "boom" you mentioned in another reply, to me was very much like the dot-com boom. Everybody wanted in on the gold rush, and ve
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by peller 10y ago
Couldn't you have said the same thing about investing in internet businesses in 2002? And you'd have been correct - but oh so wrong.
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by peller 10y ago
A link that may change your perspective on electric cars: http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/06/how-tesla-will-change-your-lif...
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by peller 10y ago
How far away do you find you have to sit?
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by peller 10y ago
For such a big expenditure, some prototyping first? Maybe buy a mainboard or two and some CPUs/HDDs/SSDs and benchmark them on your specific workloads. Also look into using something like bcache if going all-SSDs is too expensive.
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by peller 10y ago
Technically not yet, but from the official Vue 2.0 release announcement: > we have started an official collaboration to make Vue 2.0 the actual JavaScript runtime framework for Weex. This will enable users to write universal Vue componen
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by peller 10y ago
OK, by revenue, sure. But calling it "pure and utter bullshit" is probably going a little far, don't you think? (Where is the line item for "AI"? Datacenter and Auto? Not to mention many "gaming" cards are
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by peller 10y ago
Have you looked into Gatsby by chance? It's another Webpack/React static site generator. I'd be curious how they compare. https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby
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by peller 10y ago
There's always the classics: https://www.amazon.com/Design-Patterns-Elements-Reusable-Obj... https://www.amazon.com/Refactoring-Improving-Design-Existing... EDIT: And it appears the website is a direct
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by peller 10y ago
I had to look it up. And you're right, I didn't know what the accountants think gross profit means. The thing is, gross profit doesn't include operating expenses[0]: "rent, equipment, inventory costs, marketing, payroll,
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by peller 10y ago
I use Gogs[0] to host a private git server on a subdomain of my website. It's designed to be more or less a clone of github, so there's minimal learning curve, and since it's written in Go (single binary) it's much more
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by peller 10y ago
Giving the meat vs vegetarian study authors the benefit of the doubt with respect to their calculations of greenhouse gas emissions from "production, transport, storage, cooking and wastage of food", and considering that on the co
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by peller 10y ago
Interesting. I think what would be so hard about doing such an estimation is that most of the damage is just so far removed from us end consumers. It seems to me, very hard to extrapolate what one gallon of gas burned or one hamburger of me
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by peller 10y ago
Yea. The reason I called out fish is that they have the advantage of more-or-less not needing to support their own body weight to move around, unlike land-based animals, and therefore they have the closest ratio to 1.
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by peller 10y ago
You make a valid point that there are varying degrees of offense. There's this thing called the "feed conversion ratio"[0] that measures how much input it takes to get the desired output. But for all meats, even fish, the rat
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by peller 10y ago
Ah it's just an expression, basically meaning "everything you need included." In the context of web frameworks, "batteries" are typically things like: - An HTML templating language for your views - An Object Relatio
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by peller 10y ago
I'm a big fan of Flask, but if OP has never used a web framework before, personally I'd recommend starting with Django, because there are more resources out there. Flask is great if you know what you're doing and have the e
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by peller 10y ago
Animal agriculture is also a huge contributor to the global climate change problem. Again, basically swept under the rug. My suspicion is that many powerful people feel (rightly or wrongly) that the subject of enforcing diet is simply too u
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by peller 10y ago
I'll second this recommendation. "Cliff Notes": https://sivers.org/book/SuperhumanByHabit
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by peller 10y ago
Is adding root SSH keys common practice in the hosting world?
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by peller 10y ago
For a good deep-dive, I found this one very helpful: https://codewords.recurse.com/issues/two/git-from-the-inside... Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12802949
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by peller 10y ago
Great list. To add to this, basic (de)construction tools: - screwdrivers - hammer - clamps / workbench with vice - hand saw - rulers / measuring tape - hand drill (w/ bits) - random assortment of screws, nails, bolts & nu
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by peller 10y ago
Even that doesn't appear to be true, though: http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/11/on-fiji-ants-have-lea... EDIT: I'm dumb, same ants.
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by peller 10y ago
No problem, glad to hear you got it working!
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by peller 10y ago
It's true that the definition of "free" is somewhat overloaded, and means different things to different people. But to say it's not all that meaningful or important is, I think, going way too far. As for your point about

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