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by sigstoat 7y ago
> They provide less donor data, so charities can't thank donors or reach out to them again in the future. wait, facebook does something to help me maintain my privacy? i hate giving some place $25 and then getting monthly mail for
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> What's sad is dandelions are neither ugly as lawn owner, i like the flowers, and abhor the dense wad of ugly they leave behind after seeding, which in my experience actively displaces the grass that was trying to grow there.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
DEA registration is the only way you can order reference standards for these particular scheduled compounds. the DEA is feds. they don't give a shit about the state laws, and don't permit registered labs to do testing for organiza
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> Hydroponic cannabis is grown in highly controlled environments and the dosage levels are tested to be within an acceptable range. the cannabis testing industry is largely garbage. the labs that are properly equipped to do the testing a
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by sigstoat 7y ago
receiving it all _is_ the problem. nobody would pay the price for an RF front end with the bandwidth to digitize the entire OTA TV portion of the spectrum. they're spread from 54MHz to 806MHz. that's 752MHz of analog bandwidth. th
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> when in reality we all know it doesn’t in the online space yeah, Sears, keep telling yourself that online is a different market.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
musictheory.net is an excellent site, and buried distressingly far down this comment page. you can just click on the link and read for half an hour and you’ll have more practical understanding than you’ll ever squeeze out of all of the comm
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> You can't compare them to the entire retail market. sure i can. i do every time i buy something at my grocery store, or local retailers, that i could've gotten from amazon.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> With no competition, companies like Amazon amazon has only got ~5% of the US retail market. this ongoing meme that they've got no competition is surreal.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
there are clearly a lot of folks returning bad motherboards to amazon as "ordered wrong item" or whatever, and they make no attempt to verify the return. i had to stop getting motherboards there years ago.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> 37% down since IPO isn't great basically every company drops from their IPO. indexes and funds and such don't include them for months (6? or more?) in order to give that a chance to settle out.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
i saw so many of their buses and vans engaging in wildly dangerous behavior when the weather was bad, along E470 and further north. i assume their insurance cut them off at some point.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
i've added a link to them in my hacker news profile. i'll remove it in a day or two, as i don't want to leave my connection to them permanently in my comment history.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> Try finding a gig as a top-notch embedded coder who has spent a decade or two doing C. Uncool stack with a helping of age bias on top. my previous employer literally can't hire folks like that fast enough.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
not all roles build equally useful networks. i was in, i dunno, "research aerospace" for 10+ years, and it was basically a waste from a networking standpoint. nearly everyone i knew there is either still in the same job, or retire
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by sigstoat 7y ago
bogleheads. https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Main_Page not flawless, but way better than anything else you're going to get without effort.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
and the only energy that comes into the sun-earth system is weak background radiation! it's not enough for _anything_! we're doomed.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> Keep in mind they're not buying the stock they own in the first place, they're being given it via stock options at crazy discounts. ...is your salary received from the company at a "crazy discount"? the equity is pa
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by sigstoat 7y ago
you’re on a board very nearly dedicated to startups. perhaps the s&p500 is no longer a good place to do r&d, compared to smaller, vc-backed startups. if they see significantly reduced gains from r&d compared to smaller companies
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by sigstoat 7y ago
you just taxed the folks selling it at the same time. does the company get a tax break if it buys its shares back at less than it sold them for?
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> no persons involved are being hit with criminal charges can the FTC or whoever else is involved _at_ _this_ _stage_ even file criminal charges against individuals? we see over and over comments of the "omg no criminal charges&quot
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by sigstoat 7y ago
seems like convenience stores could be a reasonable distribution channel. japan does that, i believe? and US stores usually have similarly produced (but less tasty) food.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> Satellite internet has historically been high latency and ultra-low upload speeds please read any article on starlink, putting the satellites into low earth orbit makes a huge difference, no it isn't marketing bullshit.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
the set of folks with a legal obligation to give you good answers to questions is very small and doesn't include amazon. > misdirects me in order to make more money from me literally the entire sales profession. if you want everyone
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by sigstoat 7y ago
looks like you rounded those a bit. contextualized a bit: GOOG did 19.4% annualized during Sundar's term, and the S&P500 did 14.3% annualized over the same time. ish.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
i'm entirely open to believing that! there are a huge number of cannabidiol compounds in the plants, and teasing them apart is a very recent endeavor. (it's also totally orthogonal to my claim.)
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by sigstoat 7y ago
CBD is a single molecule (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabidiol ). it doesn't matter where you get that molecule from, or if you synthesize it from raw chemical feedstocks.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> First of all, the kernel BPF implementation is GPLv2, which means you cannot rip out the runtime and embed it in your userspace code unless you are able to distribute your userspace software as GPLv2 mmm right, should've thought
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by sigstoat 7y ago
if i like the guarantees that BPF gives the kernel, and want to embed it into my user-space software so that it can execute BPF programs received from other untrusted processes, are there any hints on where to start? the "BPF beginners
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> But if you're currently a PIA user, it would be foolish to keep using them while you're waiting for them to prove that. Cancel PIA for now, and if a year from now they're still on the level, you can make a more informed

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