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by ralph84 6y ago
Why is it hard to fathom? The dolphin waiting for consent to make sweet love never reproduces because the rape-posse gets to the fertile females first. The real world of evolutionary success isn’t all rainbows and unicorns.
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by ralph84 6y ago
State and local governments are allowed to borrow and they do quite a lot of it. The difference is they don’t have a guaranteed buyer for their debt like the federal government does with the federal reserve.
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by ralph84 6y ago
Case in point: If you don’t want to discuss politics at work you must be a “jerk”.
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by ralph84 6y ago
Ours has also tapered off over the last few months, not because people are remote, but because they're afraid of being called out for not being sufficiently woke. Easier to remain silent than try to appease the cancel mobs.
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by ralph84 6y ago
Subsidizing access to computing devices would be much more beneficial to society than subsidizing junk mail and online shopping.
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by ralph84 6y ago
I guess maybe you haven't enabled electronic statements for your accounts or something, but for me 99% of what I get from USPS is junk mail or online shopping deliveries. Not clear why either of those need to be subsidized.
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by ralph84 6y ago
Valuations that in hindsight end up being too optimistic aren't unique to public markets. WeWork didn't have to go public to be valued at $47 billion. In fact it was the act of trying to go public that brought the valuation back t
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by ralph84 6y ago
The inclusion criteria[0] were: > The snapshot will include every repo with any commits between the announcement at GitHub Universe on November 13th and 02/02/2020, every repo with at least 1 star and any commits from the year
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by ralph84 6y ago
> our constitution would forbid it [Citation needed] On the contrary, the US constitution specifically permits regulation of international trade as an enumerated power. All the US government needs to do is put ByteDance on the same entit
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by ralph84 6y ago
If the US banned American companies from selling to ByteDance/TikTok, then yes, ByteDance would have to move to a non-US cloud like Alibaba.
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by ralph84 6y ago
Selling one-off servers without any engagement with the customer isn't their business model. Has nothing to do with the year on the calendar.
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by ralph84 6y ago
> If Apple designed an RDBMS as a consumer product, there wouldn’t be any exposed indexes. Apple has an RDBMS product: FileMaker. It does support automatically creating indexes, but indexes are exposed and users can manually configure in
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by ralph84 6y ago
At age 65 (or any age) I'd evaluate my risk and modify my own activities. I wouldn't even dream of asking others to give up their work or school or favorite activities because of my own frailty.
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by ralph84 6y ago
Yes in theory the CEO reports to the board and the board reports to shareholders. In reality shareholders have zero say over what the CEO does, regardless of the share voting structure. They get the chance once a year to rubber-stamp the CE
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by ralph84 6y ago
All CEOs are essentially dictators. At least Zuckerberg is a founder and the largest shareholder, so he should have more of the company’s long-term interests in mind than your typical carpetbagging CEO who’s in it to juice the stock price f
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by ralph84 6y ago
They know what it means. It means a copyright holder of the Linux kernel would have to sue them in China. Good luck with that.
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by ralph84 6y ago
This reads like an ad hominem.
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by ralph84 6y ago
I thought China would wait to take Taiwan first, so they could limit resistance in Taiwan by saying "we'll let you have your own system like we did in Hong Kong." Now that China has reneged on Hong Kong, Taiwan won't bel
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by ralph84 6y ago
Before the rise of index investing, mom and pop didn't invest in stocks at all. They had a defined-benefit pension and kept their savings in a portfolio of CDs and government bonds.
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by ralph84 6y ago
Do you really need ML to tell you to eat better and exercise?
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by ralph84 6y ago
A lot of the Hertz articles, including this one, fail to call out that the vast majority of Hertz’s debt is vehicle debt. They finance new cars, rent them out for a while, then dispose of them. That all works fine and vehicle debt is not a
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by ralph84 6y ago
Employers are cutting people’s compensation. In any case, completely different scenarios. Except in very rare cases, employers don’t make huge upfront payments before the work is done. College students do.
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by ralph84 6y ago
Why can't it be both? Companies locate where the talent is; the talent goes where the companies are. Your standard positive feedback loop.
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by ralph84 6y ago
A private key is not required to validate certs (private keys are for generating certs). A cert chain back to a trusted root cert is required for validation. A phishing site would just trust all certs.
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by ralph84 6y ago
How does a client-side cert help with authenticating the server? Why wouldn’t a phishing site also ask for the client-side cert if the real site does?
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by ralph84 6y ago
> the best and hardest working people in the world That's not the majority of international students in the US. It's those whose parents can afford to pay for them to study abroad.
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by ralph84 6y ago
Careers never fully recover from extended unemployment. There is plenty of research on this from previous downturns.
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by ralph84 6y ago
> If your goal is to get people back to work ASAP, you'd want to go to a state with few(er) worker protections. Ha ha. Yes it's due to "worker protections" that workers at Amazon/Whole Foods can sell flowers but
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by ralph84 6y ago
Would be nice to have more details on exactly what happened with the trades. Did the trades clear? Did IB liquidate the contracts before expiration? Was someone on the hook for taking physical delivery?
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by ralph84 6y ago
Thank you for your service, low-six-figure-man

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