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by sethev 9y ago
It's hard to imagine a tax that would be sensitive to this difference unless it was a tax on market cap, which would be very odd because shareholders are the owners. So it would be a tax on one entity for the value of assets owned by a
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by sethev 9y ago
In my view, yes. If there's an all powerful force with a mind then everything is a theological question, though. "Does God choose to present my senses with evidence that leads me to believe gravity works the same way as I remember
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by sethev 9y ago
To me, this is equivalent to saying there are no scientific questions.
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by sethev 9y ago
One of the bizarre things about this controversy is that even if you grant all of the memo's assumptions (something that I won't do except hypothetically), it still wouldn't follow that _Google's_ policy was bad for Goog
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by sethev 9y ago
His argument seems to boil down to "men and women are different, maybe that's why there are fewer women in tech". That's not an argument, it's speculation that there's an argument. The bulk of the manifesto is
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by sethev 9y ago
Having a phd in biology doesn't prevent someone from being wrong
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by sethev 9y ago
Even if you spread Visa's transactions evenly over time, the 100 billion transactions per year [1] that they perform would be a couple orders of magnitude higher than what bitcoin can support (~3000 TPS) [1] https://usa.visa
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The 70 mph test run that Hyperloop is hailing as a ‘Kitty Hawk moment’(washingtonpost.com)
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by sethev 9y ago
A unikernel is running a single process in a single address space. So yes, if you compromise the app you compromise the whole system but the whole system is the app.
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by sethev 9y ago
I'd be cautious of answers to questions like that that sound like a story. But it's worth pointing out that the ancestors of whales started out on land and it's not necessary to imagine they jumped straight from that to fully
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by sethev 9y ago
There's also a race condition in there when you receive the duplicate before publish_and_commit is done doing its thing - assuming they're not actually serializing all messages through a single thread like the pseudocode implies.
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by sethev 9y ago
Accenture revenue in 2016, $32.9 billion. Consulting definitely scales.
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by sethev 9y ago
This issue seems to be a bit of a geek trap. Yes, border agents have a fair amount of authority. No, you're not required to twist your mind into a pretzel trying to decide whether what you choose to put on your device constitutes hidin
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by sethev 9y ago
If the question is "are you hiding any information" then the obvious (and true) answer is no. If the question is "did you use travel mode for 1password" then that's a very different question. Unless you can point ou
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by sethev 9y ago
So are you required to have all the data that's ever been on your device at the time that you cross an international border? Are you required to copy passwords that were never in 1password onto your device before you travel? EDIT: Anot
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by sethev 9y ago
You seem to stumbling into the distinction between functional and non-functional requirements. Netflix spends massively more on content then tech so that's consistent with what you're saying. To use you're Disney example thou
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by sethev 9y ago
I really want somebody to cut one of those bags open - it's almost certainly already filled with juice. It seems unlikely that a person could manually squeeze the juice out of raw fruit this way.
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by sethev 9y ago
How does the fact that other companies have streaming video services lead to Netflix not having to solve that problem? This seems a bit like saying that Walmart doesn't need to worry about managing their supply chain because Cosco has
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by sethev 9y ago
You're the one who's muddying the water by using a second sense of the word discrimination when everybody else is talking about the first.
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by sethev 9y ago
You're mixing meanings of discrimination. Barring women from participating in an event is completely separate from how prizes are handed out. Mixing these two senses of the word 'discrimination' like your doing is equivocatio
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by sethev 9y ago
Do you feel the same way about age range based prizes or golf handicaps?
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by sethev 10y ago
Lack of transparency is an even greater fatal flaw in _non_ nationalized healthcare.
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by sethev 10y ago
Counterfactual history can be fun but it's highly speculative. That's true even for well studied historical events - it's even more true for something opaque like a private company's growth. What were Trello's main
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by sethev 10y ago
The grandparent post was pointing out that once you've decided to hire someone for one day they'll probably be around for at least 6 months. That's where the majority of the cost comes from.
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by sethev 10y ago
"Managing someone out" is a large company concept. Once they realize the mistake, the owner of a small company can get rid of somebody immediately. It can take surprisingly long to realize there's been a hiring mistake, thoug
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by sethev 10y ago
You're making a big assumption that he could have achieved the same result using the techniques that failed for the rest of the team.
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by sethev 10y ago
"My calculation, admittedly very rough, is that the search by the elite for superior investment advice has caused it, in aggregate, to waste more than $100 billion over the past decade."
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by sethev 10y ago
Sure - that's a plausible guess. It also didn't seem to bother his base.
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by sethev 10y ago
It may sound conspiratorial but Trump did say this about Amazon: "Believe me, if I become president, oh do they have problems, they are going to have such problems" [1] We'll see. [1]: https://www.theguardian.com&#x
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by sethev 10y ago
That seems like an absurd splitting of hairs. Under that logic the concept of a strike breaker couldn't exist. "It was coal workers who were striking, but the replacements are not coal workers per se they were non-participating la

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