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by robzyb 11y ago
> Being 33, it has essentially been OTC my whole life and I seriously took for granted how awesome this drug was until I could not take it (or any other NSAID) any longer. Wait. Why could you not take any NSAID any longer? I am someone w
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by robzyb 11y ago
I think that part of the problem is that the legal system is not just maintaining some basic population. And even if it was maintaining some basic population, the incentives become misaligned when you start introducing a for-profit prison i
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> I'd sign for it. Just imagine: millions of people that can't switch providers that you can charge whatever you want. So would I! My only point is that, in general, a gross margin of 50% is not that impressive for a company. I
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by robzyb 11y ago
I'm sorry to repost the exact same reply, but... IBM's 2014 revenue was $93Bn. IBM's 2014 costs was $46Bn. Therefore their gross profit was $46Bn (after rounding). This results in a gross margin of 46/93 = 51%. If I look
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by robzyb 11y ago
IBM's 2014 revenue was $93Bn. IBM's 2014 costs was $46Bn. Therefore their gross profit was $46Bn (after rounding). This results in a gross margin of 46/93 = 51%. If I looked through the NYSE I'd find no shortage of compa
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by robzyb 11y ago
A gross margin of 50% is not that impressive. Also, a "gross margin" number is not very insightful without additional information.
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Japan’s Mobingi, automating cloud management, secures $125,000 from 500 Startups(thebridge.jp)
1 points by robzyb 11y ago|0 comments
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by robzyb 11y ago
> It has run for years and years without stopping, charging or winding. A small point of note - it has been wound. But not by hand. It has a rotor (i.e. weight) in it that spins when you move, and this winds the watch. http:/&#x2
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by robzyb 11y ago
> wait, insurance companies don't usually make an actual profit directly from premiums? Well, it depends how you measure it. In a basic model an insurance company's profit is: Profit = Premiums + Investment Returns - Claims - E
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by robzyb 11y ago
That's essentially a statistics / data analytics question. Statisticians (et. al) are well versed at receiving a whole bunch of messy data and figuring out the value that they want to observe. From a rough perspective, I think it
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by robzyb 11y ago
> I'm in a european country, and next-door to my office is a Porsche dealership where new cars roll out daily, filled with young men satisfied they used their whole bonus. Why do you think that they didnt order it a few weeks/
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by robzyb 11y ago
> The JS code sent to kentonv's browser might be safe, but you can't really meaningfully comment on hobs' situation [...] But if that's the case then you shouldn't click on anything on HN. I would argue that it
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by robzyb 11y ago
> These people may have domain-specific knowledge that you don't have. Indeed. They implicitly apply domain-specific knowledge during the execution of the tasks that you observed. It's great that your tool is as effective as th
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by robzyb 11y ago
I want this for wikipedia.
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by robzyb 11y ago
That's fantastic, but are there security concerns? I was thinking about setting up a similar IPython-as-a-service thing, but 5 minutes on Google suggested that it would be difficult to do it securely. This isn't just limited to da
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by robzyb 11y ago
Thanks! Every now and then I want to see individual CPU usage (usually when I want to check if a program is multithreaded) and I Google to find a way to do it. I always end up doing `sudo apt-get install htop`.
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by robzyb 11y ago
> Vote with your dollars then. Usually that is said in the context of economics or capitalism. I've never heard it apply to actual politics before. Its almost scary in the context of actual politics.
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by robzyb 11y ago
> Are you saying the assumption that the curve will change significantly is questionable or that the effects of the assumed change in the curve change are immaterial? Sorry, that's not quite what I am saying. My point was that &quot
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Service-Oriented Architecture: Scaling Our Codebase As We Grow(eng.uber.com)
54 points by robzyb 11y ago|18 comments
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by robzyb 11y ago
Actuarial student here. Mortality improvements are important, but immaterial in this context ;) I think that this should be taken as more of a qualitative illustration of the uncertainty of life, as opposed to a quantitative measurement.
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by robzyb 11y ago
We know. They say very clearly on the front page that one of their advantages is: > Generate and manage SSL certificates quickly and easily without looking up complex OpenSSL commands.
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by robzyb 11y ago
Back of the envelope thoughts: Donating money is unlikely to be more efficient. They have to be electron-juice too, and while it might be cheaper for them to buy it, they also have to pay for hardware on top of it. Option A) You spend $10 o
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by robzyb 11y ago
Fun fact: In Japan most companies will pay for your public transport ticket. Never heard any suggestion of discrimination based on this though. Although time cost > public transport cost.
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by robzyb 11y ago
> Oh, and the job market for software engineering here is rubbish ;-) I'm not in software engineering ;)
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by robzyb 11y ago
> And you will be competing for resources and attention with all the politely racist elderly that lived in that place since forever. Does not sound like a retirement plan for me. The currently-elderly might not be there by the time miste
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by robzyb 11y ago
> Japan is pretty famously racist I think that a certain degree of delicacy when you make statements like that. I know what you're trying to say, and I think its true, but I think one has to be careful with the word "racist&quo
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by robzyb 11y ago
I'm glad you asked ;) https://github.com/robzyb/velis-gplv3/blob/master/velis/veli...
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by robzyb 11y ago
So my Ford Model T won't be able to read it? (That is my humorous way of saying that Python 2.3 is rather old and therefore HIGHEST_PROTOCOL seems like it would be a desirable trade off for most.)
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by robzyb 11y ago
Haha, my apologies!
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by robzyb 11y ago
This reminds me of Dave Jones, an electronics engineer that runs the EEVBlog on YouTube. He created a little product, a small electronic tester, and sold them on KS/IGG. I remember a whole bunch of tweets and youtube videos about how m

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