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by rsj_hn 5y ago
git was a great breakthrough in terms of performance and supporting distributed workflows, but now like many technological breakthroughs there needs to be an interface that exposes completely different abstractions based on the user's
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
1790s But I would say "oligarchic tendencies" rather than a pure oligarchy, which is the natural and default state of the world once you chop off the head of the monarch and no longer have power vested in a single individual -- it
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
We are seeing more of it as the Federal government is more paralyzed due to internal divisions in the country. We've already seen states declare themselves immigration "sanctuary" states where immigration laws will not be enf
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> However, it is indeed historically and factually a province of China. It was a part of China. But things change. The CCP took over the mainland but not Formosa, the rump state moved to Formosa, and these became two separate countries
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> Do you think this is okay, or should things change? This is not the result of accelerated classes, it's the lack of accelerated classes. Really it's the result of insufficient sorting. If we had good sorting, we'd be rou
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The slower students slow down the faster students, the disruptive students disrupt the less disruptive students. This is why there are accelerated classes, to allow each student to reach their potential, as well as why disruptive students n
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> but it’s not a justification for different treatment of cash and stock comp for employees. It is, because the firm will give stock comp -- which is a share of future profits, in proportion to the capital provided by employees -- if it
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
You think the U.S. or Europe would have engaged in technology transfers to the USSR and allowed the USSR to export manufactured goods to them? We allowed China to do this to drive a wedge between China and the USSR. That option was not avai
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
I have never seen it, but am aware of the low brow reputation. If you genuinely like it, could you tell me what you like about it? I recently saw some old episodes of Knight Rider and admit that the show was fun.
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I assume it will be about as nuanced as those HN submissions with the words "Big Tech" in the title
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LOL, no to both!
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As you know, the sale of stock is a capital account operation, so just giving the money to an employee appears to be a current expense with no offsetting current revenue. It would be like selling off a share of your future profits to make
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
It is not flim-flam. The shareholders elect a board, and the board has to approve stock based compensation. The shareholders price shares based on this expected dilution so no one is being fooled and there is no sleight of hand. All of this
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err, no comment
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> They are losing money via dilution for the shareholders at the time that they issued the stock. I'm not sure what you mean by "losing money via dilution". Companies don't lose money via the market repricing their sh
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I'll chime in and say that covid lockdowns plus the war on fossil fuels (one of the dominant input costs of food production) is my best bet for explaining this. Both of these are certainly policies advocated by the political leadership
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I would say that Montesquieu was on the "reducing the power of the state" bandwagon even before then.
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I saw a very similar thing with eval. There was an evaluation of a nested JSON object x["a"]["b"]["c"] And the developer decided that this was best evaluated by eval. During the code review phase I ta
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> He may have been a racist bigot, I sense an inner authoritarian coming out of their pupa here. > even the far right tends to have a little grudging respect for the ability of someone like Noam Chomsky The "far right" has
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Well, I think the point is that issuing more stock already shows up in the earnings per share data so there is not a good reason to double count it. A company that issues stock to employees is not losing money, what it's doing is trans
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Saipan Windmill Washers(everything2.com)
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> The point is surely that many people without much power take issue with the discourse that the internet has enabled Well sure, but that's always been the case. E.g. in the past, people who were outside the overton window had no ch
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Perhaps you are confusing me with another poster?
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Dude, it's a company that makes consumer goods. It's not the government refusing to credential a reporter. If you are actually an objective news company trying to evaluate a product, then do what Consumer Reports does and go to th
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I'm not going to try to diagnose you, but in general, the outrage that people have that someone is saying the wrong thing online is exactly what I'm talking about. The definition of "elite" is of course murky, but that d
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No, because the bank can borrow the reserve from another bank. That's the whole point of the overnight market. But what if no other bank has any reserve to lend? Why then you have a banking crisis as collectively the banking system i
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Biden pushes G20 energy producing countries to boost production(reuters.com)
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Correct, which is why there is a such a strong push to get Facebook to increase censorship. All of this communication freedom is absolutely freaking elites out, as their ability to control the discourse has slipped substantially.
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You meant to say "dictate" architecture, right? Well, it serves the university right for not building a dorm that was 13% smaller or cheaper. They obviously had that choice and decided to go with the donation option instead.
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Excellent. The PEV revolution could open the way for a flourishing of unique autos that support privacy and maintainability. Or it could be a DRM locked down dystopia.

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