sigstoat

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by sigstoat 7y ago
look, buddy, i'm with you on the monopoly issue, but this whole side loading thing is bullshit. i don't think these mechanisms work the way you think they do, and they're certainly not reasonable for even expert users to keep
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> So you may be on the west end of one town, and the post office that's closest to you is in another town (or is just named after another town, the name of the post office can be arbitrary as well). That's your address. it isn&
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by sigstoat 7y ago
last i looked that requires a couple hundred dollar per year special developer account from apple, with special checks to make sure you're actually a business doing it for business reasons. and they still sign your apps, they just do i
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by sigstoat 7y ago
cloudflare running SMTP relays for your own mail system, in both directions, doing spam filtering, etc, could be valuable. argo, edge workers, etc could all be useful in an email environment. most everyone is already convinced you can'
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> One feature I would love is a global code search... that can usefully search code for more than function names.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
and yet, reasonable people who know what they're doing buy bonds with negative interest rates. the financial world is more complicated than you realize.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> possibly have other unforseen effects possibly? besides, as the sibling comment notes, making it impossible for anyone to rent? a few more seconds of thought notes that it would also cause troubles for anyone inheriting a home. want to
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by sigstoat 7y ago
and the point is they'll take care of themselves by renting the cheap housing if that's all thats available. even if the rental cost is fixed, they'll outbid by being better tenants, or hiring agencies to get their name in fi
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> Relegating each customer to their own physical computer would raise costs so high as to essentially eliminate the purpose of the cloud's existence plenty of places rent bare metal machines, and the price doesn't seem quite th
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> I have around 54k in there and am up 16.05% and where would you be if you'd just stuffed all your original cash into VTI and not fiddled with things?
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> whatever day old bread you managed to beg from the local grocer since they can still sell day old bread, and a lot of people buy it on purpose to save a few cents, this doesn't sound too bad?
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> Much of that is economic. Our society places no value on most people that age. this feels like a theory in search of facts. are your friends hanging out with you simply because of your economic value to them? or weirder, hanging out wi
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> Also if you have thousands of variables, you probably shouldn't be writing SMT statements directly. Usually you have some sort of script for your problem domain that emits SMT then invokes the solver. E.g. the popular SMT solver Z
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> Daily life is /very/ stressful. [...] Want a pizza delivered? Nope. Chinese? Hahah. uh. if that constitutes stressful, how do you survive receiving bad personal news?
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> Just watch Prometheus or watch some movie with lots of space stations where things are great, and draw the opposite conclusion! fiction isn't evidence of anything.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
not the index funds, unlike what the sibling comments are suggesting. IPOs aren't even added to the indexes until it's been some months since their IPO.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
in the unlikely event someone manages to shove that thing inside of their helmet, do they _need_ an accurate measurement? if it hits 5000, it can just be read as "way too much".
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by sigstoat 7y ago
pgadmin? https://www.pgadmin.org/screenshots/#9
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by sigstoat 7y ago
since everyone is so hot on correlation and causation in this thread: i've seen some nice looking charts of all(?) the ways causation might work between two variables that are correlated. they have maybe 14-16 nice little directed grap
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> In 2010, Cerberus had the holding company borrow $225 million from an undisclosed group of lenders, most likely hedge funds. [...] ah, thank you for pointing that out. but then: > In April 2012, Cerberus did something fateful, which
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> Then Remington borrowed $225M which it transferred to S which then bought back its stock X from Cerberus. hmm. so, who is willing to loan Remington $225M in that situation? it seems like "recently bought by private equity company
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by sigstoat 7y ago
yes, you are.
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by sigstoat 8y ago
folks, the latency of other space-based internet services is because you're talking to satellites out at geosynchronous orbit. starlink is low orbit, and depending on the route your packets need to take, might be lower-latency than gro
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by sigstoat 8y ago
they're not licensed to practice medicine in the US. and last i checked they can't transfer their licenses easily, or at all.
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by sigstoat 8y ago
> To me, these income sharing agreements and bootcamps seem like not great deals when you look at instruction time per dollar. if that's your metric, universities lose out wildly to all of the free education available online. > I
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by sigstoat 8y ago
> you have to push back and argue no, you don't.
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by sigstoat 8y ago
usually means something rather more mundane than a fireball. basically anything that happened that you didn't want to happen is an anomaly. 10 years ago the folks putting your reaction wheels together botched it, and now they're a
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by sigstoat 8y ago
> I don't think we can argue that any 18-year-old is ever fully "aware" of long-term risks, no matter what they are told. hmm, what's that say about letting them vote and enter contracts?
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by sigstoat 8y ago
> My friend put it to me this way- The government wants me to vaccinate my kids, but doesn’t want me to have public health insurance, paternity leave, etc. If they really cared about health, why are they not pushing vitamins or organic v
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by sigstoat 8y ago
> but why should people be forced to change their career in order to avoid exploitation? "change their career"? come on, it isn't as though they're being asked to become coal miners or journalists. just go compete for

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