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by ptero 3y ago
I am sure they are, but with the options built up during the globalization it will be much, much harder than in Argentina (Cuba, Soviet Union, etc.) in the last century. Not impossible, but very hard. Also, after three decades of globalizat
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by ptero 3y ago
I believe this setup works (until it does not, but does work for a very long time) in Argentina in large part due to currency controls making it hard to purchase dollars. Should the same high-inflation state come to the US it would be a ver
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by ptero 3y ago
Many companies also install DB, k8, etc. because costs don't matter as much. In the times of easy money they focus on running fast, borrowing if needed. When money is harder to borrow, as it is now, some of those decisions get reassess
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by ptero 3y ago
While not specific to chipmaking, Lyn Alden's latest public newsletter on reshoring is, as always, excellent: https://www.lynalden.com/reshoring/ The relevant point is that while the manufacturing portion is real,
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by ptero 3y ago
I don't think this is the only way. I spent a couple of weeks in Rwanda last summer and was stunned by how clean the streets are both in Kigali and in the countryside. I heard several years ago the picture was similar to neighboring co
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by ptero 3y ago
There is a fair amount of vitriol towards companies requiring some in office time, assuming anything from BS to evil intent. While I personally like being able to work from home I have seen many cases when bringing the team into the office,
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by ptero 3y ago
As an earlier reply said, fortresses and heavy armor did prove effective against the fast, lightly armored Mongolian archers. The effectiveness of the Alexander's sarissa is as much a result of training and tactics as the weapon itself
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by ptero 3y ago
For every thread that I comment on there are usually several that I read because I find others' comments informative or thought-provoking. Reading comments is basically why I am on HN. There may be the same dynamic in play here. On t
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by ptero 3y ago
I wish @dang would weigh in. Either unflag it (as I hope) on the grounds of it being a key event of high interest to curious people or confirm that this doesn't belong on HN (which would be a valid point, too).
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by ptero 3y ago
> Wagner has crossed the Rubicon Prigozhin did, and maybe a few of his top lieutenants, but Wagner is not a uniform structure. Wagner is a mix of: A) Older, experienced soldiers of fortune types. They did tours in Africa and other places
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by ptero 3y ago
Totally an armchair opinion, but I think Prigozhin is a toast and he knows it. He cannot fight (troops hated, plus ranks decimated in Bakhmut) and cannot hide (no one will take him). He may be just trying to go down with a bang. My 2c.
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by ptero 3y ago
The sister thread notes that this requires inverting the process, so it is likely only useful to those hosting the particular AI model; not an outside person who wants to check if a specific image is AI generated.
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by ptero 3y ago
For home loans, even non recourse, it is not a purely financial transaction. Defaulting on a loan stays on your credit report for a while and might not only hit your chances of getting another loan, give a (small) hit to your job search (es
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by ptero 3y ago
For a while I viewed Jupyter as a toy that is neither here nor there (sitting between the chairs of development and explanation, briefing or visualization and not doing either job great). But about 2 years ago when I changed jobs into a &qu
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by ptero 3y ago
I use Debian on the desktop with various hardware, both inside the case and outside it (various SDRs and data capture toys) and it works great for me. Just a data point, YMMV.
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by ptero 3y ago
If you are interested in the macro situation in finance I cannot recommend Lyn Alden high enough. She wrote (among other things) a number of articles covering liquidity state, Fed and Treasury interplay, effects of TGA drawdown, etc.
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by ptero 3y ago
> News outlets have deteriorated because they can't make money. There are taxpayer-supported, nonprofit news sources. They are not any better, spewing the same type of opinionated stuff (propaganda, really). The need to make money i
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by ptero 3y ago
> You have to be a moron to move right now unless you have to. Not necessarily. The current state of high rates and high valuations (due to few sellers) is very unusual. It is so skewed that, for example, I could sell my condo and use
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by ptero 3y ago
> most would tend to lose career velocity as they jump from one domain to the next Absolutely. Gaining expertise in another domain would also cost time and effort (and maybe money). So I would not do it first thing after graduation and w
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by ptero 3y ago
There are definitely data points different from mine. And apologies if I am offering advice where none is wanted, but I want to clarify what I meant above. What I meant by "broadening experience" is not a hobby-level stuff you des
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by ptero 3y ago
Graduating engineers who studied computer science in a decent school (not necessarily at Stanford; any school that covered languages and algorithms and made students use those in context of practical problems) will do just fine. They will n
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by ptero 3y ago
While Matlab language is horrific, switching requires much more than that. Matlab has a lot of inertia in large scientific projects. It will change, eventually, but this is a slow process. Fortran was the tool for numerical computation fo
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by ptero 3y ago
This is indeed the case and one can argue that it makes sense for a small company to focus on the MVP and initial growth. But every such decision needs to be reexamined from time to time as the company scales up. That is unpleasant, req
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by ptero 3y ago
The problem is not what happens to the shareholders (they get zeroed out the same way that shareholders of other failing companies would be), but what happens to the depositors . The rules, as written, say that deposits above $250k can be
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by ptero 3y ago
> there’s no reason why a narrow bank couldn’t take deposits, stick them in with the fed providing 4% interest, and keep 25% of that for itself to cover its costs, passing 3% onto the customer. The problem with this business model is tha
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by ptero 3y ago
This does happen, but rarely. Family boutique hotels should not overbook. It happens more frequently at business hotels, because those tend to offer no-fee cancellations, overbook and as a result never know how many people will actually s
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by ptero 3y ago
That does not match my experience. IME the bumping is first and foremost dependent on the time of arrival. While the hotel has rooms, they will give them out to those who booked and show up. Should the hotel run out due to overbooking, how
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by ptero 3y ago
Expressive languages help, but for anything larger than a homework problem I would still sketch up the system elements and how they communicate on a piece of paper, then write the implementation in a high level pseudocode. My 2c.
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by ptero 3y ago
I disagree, but upvoted as I do not think you should be downvoted for your opinion. My objections: First, all employers are different; some provide a big portion of the funding. Even if not, HSAs can bring huge benefits if executed right. T
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by ptero 3y ago
You should be able to transfer a rollover IRA to your latest employer's 401k (and I think a regular, non-Roth, non-rollover IRA as well). One could probably enjoy unrestricted security choice of the traditional brokerage, then move fun

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