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by prewett 3y ago
Why is home ownership critical to a meaningful life? I've rented my entire life, never even wanted to own until very recently, and it's been completely irrelevant to meaning in my life. For that matter, for much of European histor
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by prewett 3y ago
I agree that we need real, substantive community. However, I'm skeptical of the helping-others-builds-community narrative. Shared service can create community, but to be sustainable the service is something that fills you up. I'
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by prewett 3y ago
If it's really their due, you should give it to them. This value system where you have to punish people if they don't have the "right" views needs to stop. Would you like someone to do that to you? If they did good work,
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by prewett 3y ago
"Kvetch and eat: aspiring entrepreneur wants to make practicing medicine easier. Will buy steak dinner if you complain about things that drive you nuts about practicing medicine. Side effects may include catharsis and hope for the futu
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by prewett 3y ago
Those problems can be really tedious: - Writing a screen saver on Window NT 4. Starting the screen-saver blue-screens the computer. Rebooting + loading Visual Studio takes several minutes. After several days of this, it turned out I forgot
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by prewett 3y ago
Flies feel the rush of air from our oncoming hand and get out of the way, just like we look up from our book (phone, these days) when we feel air from the oncoming subway train we are waiting for. The secret to killing flies is that they ha
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by prewett 3y ago
I'm not saying anything one way or the other what we "should" do, just answering the question "what would make private parties adopt renewable energy". My answer ("money"), in fact, agrees with you: whethe
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by prewett 3y ago
> What would motivate the private sector to solve the problem? Money. Cost of grid-solar is somewhere between 50% - 70% of coal and the trend is decreasing renewable cost. [1] If you are a utility, what is the next plant you are going to
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by prewett 3y ago
How is this different from Hershey funding a school for orphans from its profit, or Microsoft funding Internet Explorer with some of the price you paid for Windows (theoretically), or any business that uses income from its stable products t
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by prewett 3y ago
The Mac SE had a 20 MB hard disk in 1987! And there was no way Windows 95--which everyone had by 1998--was fitting on a floppy of any size.
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by prewett 3y ago
And floppy floppies wasn't "cutting edge technology [in 1998]", either. The OG floppy disks were 8 inches, though, 5 inch floppies were the small ones (hence why 3.5" disks were "microfloppies"): https:/&
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by prewett 3y ago
'Gaudi' is properly pronounced Ga-oo-DEE in his native Catalan, whereas (in my dialect) 'gaudy' is pronounced GAW-dee. My guess is Intel wasn't even thinking about 'gaudy' because they were thinking about
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by prewett 3y ago
Who is the target audience for this? Software developers are obviously a good fit, but after spending all day on puzzles, I might not be interested in doing it read a novel, especially one that appears to be about an angsty teenager. (But i
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by prewett 3y ago
I've made a point of not bothering to learn new tech environments unless I was interested, and it hasn't made me unable to collaborate. Usually I just learn it on the fly, when I'm asked to do something outside my usual scope
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by prewett 3y ago
Sounds like Apple needs to increase its dividend, this does not sound like a promising use of capital for Apple.
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by prewett 3y ago
I'm so old that the web was called "Gopher", and Google was called "archie", which indexed the filenames on anonymous FTP sites. Since most of the file were named with 8.3 conventions, it was pretty unclear what som
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by prewett 3y ago
Regarding social media, there are rather a lot of social media platforms: FB-Instagram-WhatsApp, TikTok, Reddit, Snapchat, LinkedIn, StackOverflow, plus platforms like the neighborhood app whose name I can't remember. A new social medi
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by prewett 3y ago
I'm not surprised. If I understand his 12-tone system correctly, you need to use each tone equally frequently throughout the piece. But that is the musical equivalent of white noise, or the the equivalent of saying that a novel needs t
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by prewett 3y ago
Maybe because not all of China supports the CCP's goals, means, and ideology? Substantial numbers of people disagree with some or all of those, and nobody gets to influence the CCP so it hardly represents anyone besides Party members.
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by prewett 3y ago
Good for China, but since they have CCP people in every group to report on people, neighbors in every community whose job it is to report on people, do things like WeChat dropping messages containing unwanted content, censor people's p
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by prewett 3y ago
As I understand it, the interest rate used to be capped at something like 10%, but when the base interest rate rose above/near that, many people couldn’t get credit at all (why offer unsecured credit, which is high-risk to the lender,
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by prewett 3y ago
I find it easier to rest my second finger and drag with the third finger as I don't have to twist my hand that way.
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by prewett 3y ago
As far as I can tell, 75% is gross margins, and 75% is fairly standard for gross margins. Net profit margins are only 48%, although that is still rather high. I would expect more around 30%, which it looks like their historical net margin
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by prewett 3y ago
In a static universe there would be no redshift, since the redshift comes from the universe expanding.
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by prewett 3y ago
And I thought database tables designed five years ago and multi-hundred line SQL queries were a problem, wow!
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by prewett 3y ago
I gave up on that because the valuation formulae all divide by a small number with large uncertainty. Instead I use dividend yield, P/E, P/B, and P/S, all relative to historical values for that company.
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by prewett 3y ago
I normally think the entire market is overpriced, which I mostly still do, but I'm not convinced that tech stocks are overpriced, at least the ones he referred to. Nvidia has a forward P/E of 32, which is in line with Microsoft (3
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Observations on Ritual [vs Dopamine Tech](honest-broker.com)
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by prewett 3y ago
Thomas Crapper sold an improved toilet with his name marked on them, which were popular in England. US soldiers stationed there started referring to toilets as "the crapper", possibly because in the US "crap" still meant
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by prewett 3y ago
I would dearly love to have a flop like the Apple Watch... If a product with tens of billions in yearly revenue is a flop, well, sign me up!

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