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by ptero 5y ago
Public utilities are high on that list, too. Old tech, stable IT jobs, good benefits, but (IMO) also boring as hell. My 2c.
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by ptero 5y ago
That is a disadvantage, but pipelines are very valuable. For example, Russia would love to sell gas to China, which would love to buy it, but pipelines take a heck of a long time to build. And regional, lower volume pipelines can be a night
633.
by ptero 5y ago
Pipelines (which I would not underestimate) and storage?
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by ptero 5y ago
My main monitor is Dell u3014, 60Hz. I had a Dell 3008 at work and replaced it with 3017 when it died, so I had this tech for over 10 years both at home and at work. What am I missing with 60Hz compared to 120Hz? Honest question. When I loo
635.
by ptero 5y ago
If you mean en route radars, those should not be affected. Those are big rotators that work the same, 24x7, regardless of how many planes are in the area of the coverage.
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by ptero 5y ago
One of the most important things a FOSS (and not only) engineer can do is learn to say no. And then decide if they do it for fun, or want money. There may be some overlaps, but it should be crystal clear which is the main one. This is 100%
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by ptero 5y ago
There are plenty of good books, but IMO the problem with Bob (and the thing to keep in mind not to become one) is that when the company tried to help him, he not only resisted, but effectively sabotaged this. Books are good, but if you are
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by ptero 5y ago
OK, Western providers do this, too. But I think the much bigger problem is that all independent media, everything except reliably pro-Kremlin sources, is being very aggressively shut down from the inside. And that includes access to outside
639.
by ptero 5y ago
IF the breakup happens (and I personally think this is very unlikely) in the near term it will likely be contracted to oil major that gives highest bribes. Which should be a minor change to the outside world. My 2c.
640.
by ptero 5y ago
The article proposes to replace the current file system approach (which works just fine for me, by the way, thank you very much) with something different to solve a problem that I (just like the post you reply to) have no interest in. Bette
641.
by ptero 5y ago
The article focuses on order book basics of matching buyers and sellers, which is a pretty small part of "understanding the stock market" for anyone who wants to invest. I would also look at long-term history, business cycle (in t
642.
by ptero 5y ago
One of the things PG reiterates is that at the early stage what the startup is doing changes rapidly. Many companies that end up being very successful have a product that looks quite different from what they set out to achieve. In such a
643.
by ptero 5y ago
s/all/many/ But the point of the argument is still valid -- it is present often enough and not only for nefarious purposes.
644.
by ptero 5y ago
I do not see it this way. Lockdowns have significant costs (medical, mental, economic). If we implement them, it should be based on strong causal relationship to health outcomes which should be observable on most countries. I can understand
645.
by ptero 5y ago
It is not clear to me that low incremental death rates are due to lockdowns (or, for that matter vaccination rates). Balkans had low rates with no lockdowns (and vaccination rates of under 35% throughout last summer). I am not claiming that
646.
by ptero 5y ago
I think while you can hit an interviewer with a strong dislike of the FB and everything it means, including the people who work there, it is probably a rare thing. I guess a slightly more likely case is for your resume to get rejected as
647.
by ptero 5y ago
I doubt many (any?) startups would match FB's 10-year senior engineer's total comp. That would burn up the startup's cash (and/or ownership) very quickly. I think the main draws at a startup for a post-FAANG senior engin
648.
by ptero 5y ago
>> When I wrote that gold held its value I meant exactly that: preservation of value. > Re-read the articles. ... If you're looking for long term inflation protection (50+ years) then it doesn't either. How about some spe
649.
by ptero 5y ago
> You sure about that? You woulda been better off holding SPY for 50 years than gold. Holding its value in inflation-adjusted terms is very different than getting the highest return. I think most gold investors want the first and ignore
650.
by ptero 5y ago
I think the vast majority of the people buying gold bars (or their digital equivalents, like shares of physical gold holding funds) do this to hedge a variety of life risks and value a relatively low volatility. Gold prices do fluctuate, bu
651.
by ptero 5y ago
With this definition my guess is there is likely to be some manipulation. But as BTC is not regulated by the SEC I personally do not see a major problem with it, either. My guess is that most people that I know that buy BTC, either directly
652.
by ptero 5y ago
Depends on what you mean by the manipulation. Many stock, future, precious metal prices are affected by actors who want to temporarily move it for profit. Some are illegal, some perfectly legal. In what way do you expect Bitcoin to be diffe
653.
by ptero 5y ago
I think I did not express myself well. The problem I was referring to with the schools is not that some teachers are better and some are worse, class features, etc. This matters, but there are bigger problems as US lacks a uniform school
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by ptero 5y ago
One big issue with making a no-college a viable option is that in the US the school education is absolutely atrocious. In many colleges the first year of science or engineering degree classes focus on providing a decent background that shou
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by ptero 5y ago
This is a fascinating collection (especially in-depth plots of each type), thank you for posting (and many, many thanks to the author for building this)!
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by ptero 5y ago
I am not sure of this (or maybe I misunderstood your point, sorry). Instead of retail clients, which could get a raw deal from the bank, we can look at inter-bank rates for a sanity check. And those rates, paid to non-retail customers (wh
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by ptero 5y ago
I think a few posts here are conflating crypto currencies, NFTs and crypto lending in stablecoin for "too good to be true" interest. The article focuses on the last point, which rings absolutely true to me. Offering huge yields (&
658.
by ptero 5y ago
Even if you leave the spinner at "only" 1 km/s and the spinner has a (pretty big) diameter of 2 km, it is 100G.
659.
by ptero 5y ago
> and not come out as human paste This is a hard part (which sounds impossible to me): since all acceleration needs to be done in a spinner, you need to get to 7900 m/s (even assuming no braking from the atmosphere). And a = v^2 &#x
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by ptero 5y ago
How do you know?

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