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by pilom 10y ago
So this is why our API had a rash of 500 errors last night. We haven't been very happy with the uptime of this service, mostly because they do deploys that break things for a couple minutes about once a month.
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by pilom 10y ago
Honestly curious, how? Did you stay on Income Based Repayment forever? Get multiple Doctorates while deferring payments? Refinanced multiple times? Most US loans have 10-15 year payment plans so something unusual happened in your case.
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by pilom 10y ago
Not at all what I was thinking. I was imagining the US spending money to build highways and electrical infrastructure and water purification plants etc. At that point people can start spending money on luxuries we produce rather than on bas
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by pilom 10y ago
True but I bet it lasts us until either 1) after my lifetime or 2) we can redirect our efforts to supporting large numbers of people on other worlds or the terraforming necessary to start that process.
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by pilom 10y ago
Sounds like we need to start spending globally. Massive infrastructure spending in third world countries to encourage demand for our products.
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by pilom 10y ago
"the cost of food is a good proxy for the cost of the inputs to that food." An "organic" apple probably has a lower energy cost than a factory farmed one even though it costs much more. It is more likely to be harvested
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by pilom 10y ago
You're absolutely right, it is fed 12,000 calories of alfalfa. Even if alfalfa were less energy intensive to grow than leafy green vegetables, it will never be 12 times less intensive. Almonds or blueberries requiring 2x more energy pe
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by pilom 10y ago
I'm curious about the reasons women (especially in Denver aparently) are so unhappy with the balance. Is it due to women being more likely to have jobs that are less balanced or something else?
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by pilom 10y ago
"fruit and most leafy-green vegetables have a similar cost per calorie to meat. Thus, I would argue that they have about the same environmental impact as meat." Unfortunately, this is provably false. For beef, you need to grow 12,
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by pilom 10y ago
Pulling away from the metaphor for a moment, I was under the impression that with today's technology (not the panels of 20 years ago), solar panels take about 4 years to produce as much power as it took to manufacture them and then ser
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by pilom 10y ago
In principle, sure, in practice, each liquid fueling station has multiple pumps each with a throughput of 1 vehicle every 3 or so minutes. Charging stations on the other hand usually just have one or two plugs with a throughput of 30 minute
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by pilom 10y ago
What can you do? 1. If you are on a jury, remember that it is FAR FAR FAR worse to imprison an innocent person than to let a guilty person free, regardless of the crime. Listen to evidence and make a personal decision about the defendant&#
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Box of Rocks subscription service(boxofrocks.com)
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by pilom 10y ago
When interest rates are so low (which encourages borrowing but discourages investment) and some people see a down market coming (which means having a big powder keg available to buy up competitors or whatever when the crash happens is a ver
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by pilom 10y ago
I'm in the US. I'm not talking about negotiating raises at the same company. The key is when you go looking for that new job, negotiate with the new company. After finding another offer I've had my current company offer $15k
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by pilom 10y ago
Its too bad young people don't negotiate more. When your next salary is anchored so heavily on your current salary, a little negotiation early can have such an impact on lifetime earnings.
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by pilom 10y ago
Stock buybacks have gotten popular over dividends because Shareholders ask for it not management. For the average long term institutional investor, dividends are taxed while increase in inherent value (as opposed to market value capital gai
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by pilom 10y ago
CRISPR really does make me believe that someone who lives to be 200+ is alive today. The potential and speed of improvement is so astronomical I can't wait to see the future.
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by pilom 10y ago
The gist of their analysis was "since the market always goes up eventually, investing all up front will give you higher average returns but significantly higher variability"
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by pilom 10y ago
If you want to run your own analysis about what retirement might look like for you, I recommend the extremely powerful http://cfiresim.com/
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by pilom 10y ago
Just to be clear, his public art isn't universally loved. He's been trying for over a decade to string fabric over the Arkansas River in Colorado. The locals almost universally hate the idea but it looks like there isn't anyt
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by pilom 10y ago
But why should Twilio care about the next guy in line? Their job is to get the best deal on capital they can get and giving some of that available capital to the underwriters is a bad idea from a shareholders perspective.
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by pilom 10y ago
You know what I wish my parents had taken the time to teach me? How credit cards work, how student loans work, and why I should max my 401k. Yes all of those things could change with legislation, but I'd be much much better off knowing
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by pilom 10y ago
Beanstalk doesn't like having more than one virtual host per application/server/load balancer. You can do it but its a lot of custom code to make it work. Beanstalk does do deploys very well though with automatic deploys to a
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by pilom 10y ago
It is indeed illegal on the federal level. Currently everyone is just an executive order away from crack down on all of it. The guidance that the Obama Administration has been using is not to enforce the law in states where it has been lega
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by pilom 10y ago
The problem is that revenue is not profit. If expenses are greater than revenue and the trends don't show that changing soon (i.e. "default dead") then it is extremely hard to justify such a high valuation. There are the empl
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by pilom 10y ago
If you want to be able to fly around like this at low altitude, why not just get a powered paraglider? Cheaper, safer, longer flight time and you can buy one today?
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by pilom 10y ago
The issue is that some shareholders were forced to sell at $13/share even if they didn't want to. There were a minority of shareholders who were holding onto the shares on the assumption that the new long term vision would work ou
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by pilom 10y ago
Unfortunately this would create a huge disincentive for developers to use any new features no matter how compelling. Would you learn any new features if there was a chance in 2 years all of your users would drop support for it?
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by pilom 10y ago
Can anyone recommend an updated browser that skips most unused features to run faster, use less memory or be more secure?

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