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by roymurdock 7y ago
My question is what is the point of the trade war. What does trump get from initiating/escalating it, or who is directing him to do it. Seems to be a net negative for all sectors of the economy.
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by roymurdock 7y ago
Thank you @dang and @sctb!! Loved learning more about you and reading about your passion for the community, it really comes through in the quotes. Keep up the great work.
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by roymurdock 7y ago
This probably isn't going to happen. Getting to level 5 will require "V2X" technology - vehicles communicating with other vehicles and the road/traffic infrastructure itself. We will need a forward-thinking government to
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by roymurdock 7y ago
You'd be surprised how many companies operate with this biz model today. I call em zombie companies. management just sucks out the profit while they slowly crumble. Sad for all involved. Spinning out internal CRUD from a zombie co. is
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by roymurdock 7y ago
IBM is all in on the multi cloud story since they missed the cloud memo, and RH openshift is their key to allowing customers to lift and shift from AWS to Azure to GCP etc. Plus it's pretty clear they know how to do layoffs and that kn
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by roymurdock 7y ago
Check out this website: https://www.rtings.com/headphones/reviews/best I recently went with the new Sony's after trying on a bunch of high end noise cancelling speakers in store. very happy with them so far:
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Ask HN: What would you do with 5G?
10 points by roymurdock 7y ago|9 comments
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Sidewalk Labs (Google) Publishes MIDP Plan for Toronto(engadget.com)
5 points by roymurdock 7y ago|0 comments
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by roymurdock 7y ago
Why didn't the partners immediately ask you to clarify the discrepancy between the numbers you stated on your app and the numbers you were telling them? Is there not enough time to have a bit of a back and forth?
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by roymurdock 7y ago
you can have both as long as productivity is growing, increasing labor's bargaining power and wages unfortunately productivity is pretty stagnant across developed economies, including japan if capital and business owners have no need f
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by roymurdock 7y ago
Thanks for the recommendations, and for saving me some time/money picking up Klein's book. I'll check out the reports you've linked, and Gates' blog post.
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by roymurdock 7y ago
China buys US debt so it can peg the Yuan to the dollar to keep volatility low and manage its export levels accordingly. China only owns 5% of outstanding US national debt, so even if they sold it off in a flash sale for some reason, someon
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by roymurdock 7y ago
Yeah seconded, this really is an excellent list. Very pleasantly surprised to see "The Rise and Fall of American Growth" as first on the list, it should be required reading as a guide to what we're seeing playing out in Ameri
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by roymurdock 7y ago
Call them back!
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by roymurdock 7y ago
The commenter I replied to left out this important detail that is also somewhat buried 3/4 of the way into the letter. Definitely read her original statement and form your own opinion based on the source material.
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by roymurdock 7y ago
"The short explanation for my decision is my health: I’m having another baby in the fall (I acknowledge that there’s incredible privilege in being able to walk away from a job like this)."
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by roymurdock 7y ago
Do you live anywhere near LA? You mention you surf? If so hit me up at murdock.roy@gmail.com and let's hang out. I'm 26 and still figuring stuff out too...don't worry, everyone is constantly trying to figure it out...
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by roymurdock 7y ago
Yep, definitely we have much more freedom of travel and work. which is great if you embrace and are prepared and ready for that lifestyle. keep doing your thing! another book/movie that addresses the american dream trap is revolutionar
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by roymurdock 7y ago
i'm 26 and have traveled a fair bit and lived/worked in the US and UK young people go to the cities for high status, high paying jobs to pay off student loans and/or save up for the future in an increasingly uncertain world c
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by roymurdock 7y ago
We are currently seeing more of a diffusion of technology outside of the first world and a regression to the mean across economies than the breakout productivity growth we saw in the US/Europe/Japan post WWII So productivity growt
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by roymurdock 7y ago
That's not what the author is arguing, he's simply stating that a main driver of this tech cycle - matching platforms for the sharing of private assets such as Uber and AirBnB - is running into problems, with appetite decreasing i
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by roymurdock 7y ago
I'm actually considering doing something similar...would love to have a quick chat if you have time, my email is murdock.roy@gmail.com - thanks.
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by roymurdock 7y ago
Yea thanks for the reply. Glad everything worked out for you, sounds like you had a solid plan from the get go and executed well
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by roymurdock 7y ago
What kind of role are you in now? I'm curious as I work with a lot of embedded devs but see that most of the salary money is flowing towards AI (very unclear what many of these roles actually are) and its less sexy but more concrete co
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by roymurdock 7y ago
Second this, you need to be political to make partner in your practice or move up the ladder to manager/professor even as a Dr. unless you go into private practice or start your own thing
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by roymurdock 7y ago
Sounds about right, either public offering or up for sale to a big tech co or Softbank. If IBM starts to muck about with Red Hat the value of SUSE could go up as well for an IPO.
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by roymurdock 7y ago
Author isn't saying anything new or insightful Until he can say when and how the debt collection chain will break down and spiral out of control, what types of non performing loans will spark a recession, and how he's going to hed
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by roymurdock 7y ago
It sounds like you basically dropped all other costs but teacher salary and found STEM professor salaries to be 10% higher (Facilities dropped, same cost per student on dorms + maintenance, building capex dropped) You really need to do a pe
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by roymurdock 7y ago
Here's a good blog with a breakdown of costs to climb Everest and how they're evolving: http://www.alanarnette.com/blog/2018/12/17/how-much-does-it-... Sounds like 2019 is the year of China exe
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by roymurdock 7y ago
More of a wealth marker than anything else (who else can pay $45k-130k and take months off work to prep?) It used to be one team was allowed a permit per year, but has since evolved to be a tourist mecca: http://www.alanarnette.c

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