simonh

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by simonh 3y ago
That was probably down to having a Blitter, rather than mathematical performance. This was a memory copy function in one of the support chips (Agnes), that massiveky speeded up things like sprite and window movement and line drawing.
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by simonh 3y ago
>They knew it was coming, and increasing temporarily the headcount was their plan. I see no evidence for this. Business was booming by the end of 2021 and headcount increases realised in 2022 would have started the year before, which was
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by simonh 3y ago
They are responding to changes in demand. Do you think they have an obligation to make a loss in future if they made a profit in the past? What effect do you think this would have on their ability to attract investment, the interest rates t
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by simonh 3y ago
>>I'm owed fair compensation for my work, and reasonable notice and compensation if I'm let go, which has happened. > >You're not owed either of these things. They're in my contract, and protected under UK em
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by simonh 3y ago
From 2021 to 2022 Maersk increased head count by 20%. Now they're cutting it by 10%, but it's not necessarily the same workers. A 10% churn rate is pretty common. A decent chunk of the 10% cuts could well be managed through early
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by simonh 3y ago
So are you suggesting they should not have hired those workers, and left that customer demand stay unsatisfied, with all the knock-on consequences for workers in other sectors? These kinds of policies just lead to ossification of the econom
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by simonh 3y ago
Of course, but if I do a marathon on a scooter am I really doing a marathon?
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by simonh 3y ago
Sure, but that's got nothing to do with any additional requirement due to your propulstion system.
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by simonh 3y ago
https://ourworldindata.org/trust#:~:text=A%20Gini%20index%20... . >"A common way to get a first-order approximation of this relationship is to estimate the correlations between trust and GDP per capita. This visualiz
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by simonh 3y ago
In space if you’re careful you only need a plate of shielding between the drive and the crew/cargo section.
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by simonh 3y ago
If the sequence is from an external source or reference, then the individual key presses are not a result of your free choices.
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by simonh 3y ago
> Also, do we really have better propulsion technology to make space travel more efficient? It’s not really the propulsion technology that’s the key, it’s not throwing away a whole bunch of rocket engines every time, just to launch somet
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by simonh 3y ago
You don’t need to know where the target is going to be exactly in advance, and you don't have to personally be in firearm range or line of sight.
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by simonh 3y ago
> Falcon Heavy never actually achieved reuse/landing for the core stage, and has since abandoned even attempting it. That’s a weird thing to list as a criticism, the centre core ends up going way higher and faster than a normal boos
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by simonh 3y ago
Microsoft thought the way you do for years after the iPhone came out. They thought they’d be fine competing using CE based systems. They completely underestimated the advantages a modern, secure, pre-emptive multitasking OS with proper proc
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by simonh 3y ago
Reading this you would think billionaires are all sitting is swimming pools full of money like Scrooge McDuck. The vast majority of these assets are in the form of the ownership of companies. The only way to unlock that wealth is to force s
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by simonh 3y ago
UBI doesn't have to mean everyone gets a higher income. It could be revenue/income neutral over the population as a whole if properly funded by tax adjustments.
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by simonh 3y ago
Very nice. There was a gorgeous visualisation of the universe in terms of distance scale on Kottke a few days ago. https://www.pablocarlosbudassi.com/2021/02/the-infographic-a...
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by simonh 3y ago
>'One of the most fundamental philosophical questions is about the nature of time, precisely because all of our "laws" of physics are time reversible' Many of our theories are, but the thing is we have several direct
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by simonh 3y ago
I think an appeal to quantum mechanics is a different argument from the one under discussion, which is based on discrete physics.
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by simonh 3y ago
It’s always interesting to compare to see how and why some of the hits and misses happen. The optimism is exaggerated, but overall there has been a sustained global boom. The thing is the benefits have disproportionately accrued to modernis
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by simonh 3y ago
The point of a land value tax is to incentivise that realisation. In prosperous cities the reduction is inner city population is due to land being used commercially, and maybe up to a point that's fine. You can always adjust the value
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by simonh 3y ago
If you really want to micromanage property types you could always adjust the land value tax based on actual usage.
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by simonh 3y ago
Sure, to some extent, but overall it's clearly in our interests to have that land be used productively. If we want some land to be fallow, as policy, again there are better options than it just being underdeveloped, such as park land o
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by simonh 3y ago
So we're paying for all those facilities, infrastructure and so on, and it's going to waste. That's inefficient. We want that land being used productively, contributing to the economy, making profits which pay taxes, to pay f
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by simonh 3y ago
We already tax revenue and/or profits in various ways anyway. If land is in a city, that gives it a high value and revenue earning potential due to no work or expenditure from the land owner, but ongoing costs to the taxpayer to provid
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by simonh 3y ago
That just means beliefs about things that do not or will not ever affect you, er, don’t affect you. It seems like a trivial point. You’re still accumulating risk though. You don’t know when a false belief will lead yo to make a consequentia
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by simonh 3y ago
Funnily enough the inventor of the coat was actually also called McIntosh.
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by simonh 3y ago
If we want such a surplus of energy, at this point it's pretty clear Fusion isn't the way to get it in even the medium term, and maybe even not remotely affordably in the long term. We've already sunk 4 or 5 Manhattan project
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by simonh 3y ago
Or in fact in most habitats humans have colonised within the last hundred thousand years. People forget that fire, spears, clothing, constructed shelters, etc are technology.

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