sammydavis

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by sammydavis 11y ago
Well, we all know that Russia and far-right parties are above reproach and discussion. You come across as a shill for rich people who don't like having their private tax avoidance information shared. The news articles had plenty of lib
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They will likely cost billions for the first person, 100s of millions for the next, and keep getting cheaper. Think cell phones, now so cheap your pencil could have one inside for almost nothing in a few years.
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by sammydavis 11y ago
Thanks for your thoughtful insight. Battery technology for electric cars appears to be on a slow doubling rate but hopefully faster than 20 years. Maybe 10% improvement per year (72/10 = 7.2 years to double then). Kurzweil doesn't
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by sammydavis 11y ago
Predicting the future of lifespan based on the last 100 years is reasonable. That sensible system can't predict a black swan or revolutionary idea; suppose wereduce the chance of heart attacks by 90% by treating your blood chemistry. T
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by sammydavis 11y ago
Come on, science is not the faith part! Things that are observable and testable are clearly science. Things that are just ideas, ideas that are not verifiable (like string theory which don't predict anything) are not science, it's
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by sammydavis 11y ago
Drugs that change our metabolism can affect how much damage something does to your body, and you die because your body systems fail or degrade. So fixing some causes and symptoms should be able to increase your possible lifespan. Just like
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wow, where did you live where getting to microsoft via 520 took 1.5 hours? 1 hour i believe as an occasional max. maybe across puget sound?
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a lot of tech-forward companies do it, and not ironically. search for the testing on the toilet series at google.
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Fayetteville and Little Rock are the two innovation centers (hard not to quote those 2 words). Acxiom, Walmart.
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Washington state is the easy counter case for high tax states. No state income tax, 10% sales tax. Doing about as well as these states. In fact, you are prohibited from moving here. And there's a constant complaint that we are overtaxe
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Ha. Even worse, if you go out to eat on the east coast you often have to wear "nice clothes", they won't let you into the better restaurant unless you have a tie and jacket. What rubbish. :-) I want to drive my Tesla up to th
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Good point, in wa state there were non-competes for sandwich shop makers. This is just to keep poor people from having economic opportunity. This is different than keep my recipes secret. This is you can't do minimally trained labor fo
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In Washington state, all the big companies,medium companies, and startups I have applied to use noncompetes. Amazon, Facebook (I'm pretty sure), google, microsoft, all use noncompetes.
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Even if you beat the cases easily, I don't want to face the potential stress and lawyer overhead to adjudicate one. It probably takes a long time to come to a judge. It just sounds bad. So I imagine companies think this will discourage
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by sammydavis 11y ago
All those issues sound just like the scenario in Washington State, which mostly means the greater Seattle area. Our blocking issues for growing are enough devs, infrastructure costs (roads are crowded, buildings are in shorter supply, hard
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In my experience, all the money is in writing the hardened, scalable infrastructure. But then my experience is in the database, microsoft, oracle, amazon, facebook worlds.
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by sammydavis 11y ago
You are pretty wrong about software development. The only problem there is too much bugging from recruiters all the time. I can switch jobs without any trouble. The only problem is the amount of work is so great, the opportunities too huge,
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What you are describing as a private revelation from god is not different than the ones in christianity, such as seeing that burning bush.
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I am sure there were other things like this kicking around at the time as people have been discussing. I worked on improving the performance of the terraserver project a little bit. I was part of the team that designed and wrote sql server
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The US hasn't fallen into feudalism, but it is increasingly much harder for people with interest and capabilities to get to college because of the cost - unless their own parents "gifted them" with a good edu & economic b
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by sammydavis 11y ago
Could you describe where your system sits on the FIT spectrum that the article discusses? Do you believe that scheme for thinking about the trade-offs between isolation, throughput, and fairness doesn't hold for marklogic?
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I recently interviewed for 4 jobs, one of them was one of these type of "you must implement this in 1 hour". It was painful. I didn't finish in time. Apparently the idea was you much choose language X, it will e pretty easy w
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I thought it was certain there will be less right of center people in the us, as the older white conservative/republican generation dies off, and is replaced by more people of color and/or somewhat less conservative kids. To me th