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by peterbonney 5y ago
That makes sense. Ruby is an excellent base for starting with Elixir.
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by peterbonney 5y ago
We use Elixir, and basically every developer we’ve hired has had zero Elixir experience prior to joining our team. Like any language it takes some time to get up to speed with the ins and outs, but I’d rather have a good developer with no E
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by peterbonney 5y ago
$2 million is the minimum to be listed - it is not the median, let alone the mean. Eric Schmidt alone has wealth equivalent to 10,000 people with a “mere” $2 million.
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by peterbonney 5y ago
When you’re extremely unlikely to win by conventional means then a high variance strategy is the best way to maximize your chances of winning. Sure, if you play this race out 50 times maybe she only wins 1 time by breaking away and hoping o
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Plants Feel Pain and Might Even See(m.nautil.us)
6 points by peterbonney 5y ago|1 comments
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A Grizzly Bear Terrorized a Man For Days at a Remote Alaska Cabin(nytimes.com)
3 points by peterbonney 5y ago|0 comments
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by peterbonney 5y ago
> But then how does the buyer make money? They buy a ton of stock of a company that still might go out of business. But then how does the short-seller make money? They short a ton of stock of a company that still might not go out of busi
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by peterbonney 5y ago
Can you give some examples where something like this played out the way you describe? Even a single example?
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by peterbonney 5y ago
Heck, can he list even one company?
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by peterbonney 5y ago
> Even if you tried to stem the drop, the short sellers can just borrow even more stocks and continue to overwhelm you with selling pressure. The problem with this kind of reasoning is that it applies even more strongly in reverse, becau
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by peterbonney 5y ago
Hi, former hedge fund portfolio manager here (for 13 years). First, companies with strong fundamentals and short term liquidity issues rarely go bankrupt, because there are plenty of entities willing to lend them money to smooth out their c
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by peterbonney 5y ago
If I’ve understood you correctly, it isn’t the nature of the investor that is creating the conflict, but something inherent to owning stocks: if I own shares of a company I am implicitly the enemy of short sellers. Is that more or less corr
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by peterbonney 5y ago
Can you explain the conflict of interest?
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by peterbonney 5y ago
Ah yes, the old canard that hiring a more diverse workforce requires a lowering of standards, as opposed to the likelihood that targeting a more diverse candidate pool will bring in a greater proportion of highly qualified candidates (owing
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Buying a pink NFT cat was a crypto nightmare(bbc.com)
2 points by peterbonney 5y ago|0 comments
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by peterbonney 5y ago
Am I alone in not seeing a paradox here? It's no different from a variety of things that make sense at some scales and not at others. Seems similar to office space - a 5 person company will find the economics of coworking space compell
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by peterbonney 5y ago
“This system is provably secure.” Okay, against what specific threat model? Can it protect against an admin’s password/key being stolen/hacked/guessed or any of the other extremely mundane attacks you’re actually likely to en
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by peterbonney 5y ago
Wait until you find out what happens to your warranty if you take your car to the track…
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by peterbonney 5y ago
Losing users and contributors, sure. Losing users who would otherwise be willing to pay for a commercial license (as the OP said they are) that could be negotiated to explicitly cover whatever future use case they’re concerned about? That m
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by peterbonney 5y ago
> In the end though I highly doubt that's whats going to happen. The most likely outcome is that we just get told to get rid of Grafana and use something else. Whatever you replace it with will have the same licensing overhead. Agai
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by peterbonney 5y ago
That makes zero business sense. Your first post is about the one time and perpetual operational overhead associated with operating under the prior FOSS license (yes, you’re saying it’s the new license that’s a problem, but since the situati
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by peterbonney 6y ago
I used Bitcoin to buy milk, therefore it is a cow.
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(Elixir) A cleaner way to organize tests using ExUnit’s named setup(vendorful.com)
14 points by peterbonney 6y ago|0 comments
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by peterbonney 6y ago
And many times have you been subpoenaed, exactly?
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by peterbonney 6y ago
You’re getting downvoted because your position is absurd on its face. Just because subpoenas are likely to be dismissed does not make them unworthy of reporting, and arguably quite the opposite - particularly when it is a major federal agen
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by peterbonney 6y ago
I think change of address data isn't reliable in a city where so many people own or rent vacation homes within driving distance. The article only posits that the USPS data may miss some people who moved and didn't change their add
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by peterbonney 7y ago
The hypothetical scenario you’re describing and the story I just read have almost nothing in common except the word “weekend”. Deployment over the weekend can make a lot of sense in the world of B2B, but there’s a difference between a caref
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by peterbonney 7y ago
Interesting story about the one person with the bad attitude, but the plural of anecdote is not data. Replace “play a board game” with “go to a bar” or “watch football” or “play basketball” or “go to a wine tasting” or “put on boxing gloves
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by peterbonney 9y ago
This is the distinction I was getting at - something like GnuPG provides tremendous value to society as a whole . Saving ArcelorMittal some money in its manufacturing process doesn't benefit anyone except ArcelorMittal's executiv
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by peterbonney 9y ago
This is a really cool piece of engineering, but I'm bothered by the idea that the going rate for a huge multinational corporation to get a prototype of a potentially extremely valuable technology is less than 10k of prize money [1], pl

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