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by prewett 5y ago
Some days Mr. Market is euphoric will buy at any price; some days Mr. Market is depressed and thinks the world is end and sells for a song; most days Mr. Market is moderately optimistic. But what Mr. Market is willing to pay for your portfo
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by prewett 5y ago
What I've found is even worse: on medium-size personal projects I inevitably pass the wrong type to a function (or refactor and forget to change a call somewhere). Generally it does not fail until somewhere else, which relies on it bei
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by prewett 5y ago
Intel can already peak at AMD's designs, just take the cover off and dissolve off the layers one by one. It's probably about as helpful getting your competitor's source code; figuring out what's going on probably takes l
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by prewett 5y ago
That's a great way to get corruption. Relying on independently wealthy people to sacrificially serve their country is not a reliable way of getting good quality talent. My father spent some time in Bolivia some decades ago, and people
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by prewett 5y ago
Check the tourist visa requirements. China has (or at least had) a 60 day or 90 day multi-entry tourist visa with no maximum number of days. So you just take a trip to Japan ever couple of months and come back. Even if it had a 180 day per
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by prewett 5y ago
My dad frequently says that sooner or later the finance guys get in charge of the company and then they cut the fat and keep cutting into the product. Sooner or later they go too far. Seems fairly inevitable, seems to happen a lot. I assume
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by prewett 5y ago
There's one context I am aware of that "rub" and "genie" go together, and I would certainly expect Google to suggest something with Aladdin pretty high. There is that song with the lyrics "I'm a genie in a
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by prewett 5y ago
I expect it is because jet turbine blades need to be precisely shaped to maximize proper airflow; spin around so fast that the shear forces destroy most materials; operate in an environment so hot that it melts most materials (which does no
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by prewett 5y ago
It's fun to click around for a bit, but then you realize that there isn't that much variation between pixels, and you'd like to see the whole watershed. I think there was such a map posted on HN some years ago, but I was not
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by prewett 5y ago
As a one-time thing, sure, stack rank is likely to be fairly effective. But what would have happened on your team if you had to get rid of your lowest performer every year?
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by prewett 5y ago
How does one find contract opportunities with a FAANG?
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by prewett 5y ago
I've decided English spelling is about like Chinese characters. If you see a new word you can make some guesses about how it is pronounced (many characters have pronunciation hints), but you won't really know until you hear someon
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by prewett 5y ago
That might not be just the accent. I noticed that British English seems to use synonyms for a lot of nouns. Sometimes this just sounds quaint (rubbish -> trash), sometimes it takes me a moment (car park -> parking lot), but sometimes
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by prewett 5y ago
Is this not understanding things like gerunds why we now have things like "ad spend", when "ad spending" is the pre-existing way of nounifying the verb?
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by prewett 5y ago
You can copy your home directory on macOS, too, I do it every time I get a new machine and it works fine. I just `cp -a` my home directory onto the external drive and do the same back off. I do have to chown -R the directory sometimes, if t
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by prewett 5y ago
I'm no fan of Chinese IP theft, but it is not true that the British did nothing to protect their IP. When Francis Lowell [1] went to Britain to learn about cotton mills, he could find nothing printed, and I believe it was illegal to ta
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by prewett 5y ago
For a while I bought motherboards with upgradable CPUs. I quit doing that after a while because by the time I wanted to upgrade, the newer chips required a new socket, I needed faster memory that the motherboard didn't support, etc.
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by prewett 5y ago
It used to be available at ditu.google.cn (only from within China), don't know if it still is.
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by prewett 5y ago
China is not a democracy
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by prewett 5y ago
Except that there isn't a slow plugin that needs to be re-downloaded and browser re-started every time you use it, which were the worst bits of Flash as far as I was concerned.
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by prewett 5y ago
The are one of 15 companies that has an architectural license, which is the most flexible type of license. I don't think the details of the license are public (not even all 15 of the licensees are known). They were also an initial inve
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by prewett 5y ago
> We have to do better What would a better structure look like? And I don't think things like national healthcare, less racism, etc. are included, because those could be implemented in the current structure. I think history shows th
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by prewett 5y ago
How is it mean? They get all their needs provided for, two companions, no fear of predators, and every so often they get put out on a ball which dispenses candy when they run.
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by prewett 5y ago
> If you're in the majority of people who don't have those things ... Home ownership in the US is around 65% [0], so the majority do have an asset and mortgage. There are also some people who choose not to own a house but hav
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by prewett 5y ago
This is in contrast to Victor Havel's essay on Communism, "The Power of the Powerless". Everyone except the boy in this story is Havel's green-grocer, who puts up a sign he doesn't believe in because that's how
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by prewett 5y ago
I switch to macOS after successive updates of Ubuntu caused audio to be a pain in the neck (due to PulseAudio), no longer waking from sleep, and wifi not working. This was quite a while ago. Audio still doesn't work by default on my Ub
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by prewett 5y ago
But you don't have to update. The consequence is that every day you have to choose "Ask me later" on the notification that pops up once a day, but that's a lot easier than restoring everything I have open. I only updat
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by prewett 5y ago
If you're running a non-iTunes music app (including web pages, on newer versions of macOS), the play/pause button goes to whichever one last grabbed the audio. So if you start VLC (or whatever) first thing (or add it to the auto-s
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by prewett 5y ago
Even worse, prices have doubled but dividends have remained about the same (that is, yields have decreased).
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by prewett 5y ago
But forward PE is making a bunch of assumptions of the type the article warns about, namely that the future will be like the past. So by using forward PE you are implicitly making the those questionable assumptions. If you want something to

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