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by ska 3y ago
This is also why you can end up with an extended hold on a deposited check. Consider for example personal check issued between banks in two countries. There may not be a formal complete resolution process, so funds are released to you only
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by ska 3y ago
And I'm saying it's not really a smoke-screen, but rather it is what happens whenever there is high variability. Note that I included both greed & fear in the mix. I guess I'm objecting to "arbitrary" rather th
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by ska 3y ago
It's not really arbitrary. Some of the underlying costs really are driven by things completely outside of your control (e.g. interest rates knock on effects). So if your COGS are shifting you have to respond to that, but in most cases
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by ska 3y ago
> So we get stuck with high prices, Yes, historically this is how it works. High inflation leads to higher prices which then settle, an higher salaries etc. lag but roughly catch up. It's more useful to think of inflation as a rate
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by ska 3y ago
Sure it's a solecism, but they communicated what they actually meant.
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by ska 3y ago
But at target rates it would be about 8% since 2019, not 20%.
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by ska 3y ago
> So inflation going down means the companies balked and have to back down and drop prices? No, it means that the rate of price increases has slowed.
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by ska 3y ago
That is certainly plausible. It's a bit like the transition from LP records to CDs (and somewhat to tapes). With so much less room, covers became simpler and blander, at least in aggregate.
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by ska 3y ago
FWIW, I've seen rental contracts that insisted on it. I imagine it varies by jurisdiction how legal/enforceable that is.
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by ska 3y ago
> I've never met Quite.
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by ska 3y ago
There is a point in the company size (in some metric) vs. job responsibility curve where you can successfully make contract changes, within reason. One thing you should absolutely consider is pushing for a specific severance clause. This s
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by ska 3y ago
> meant scale == grows (mostly independently) of human hours. This is a pernicious usage of "scale" that has crept into tech-speak, because it makes the term strictly less useful.
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by ska 3y ago
> Obviously, local laws will vary greatly. Yes this is one area where it is all over the map, and you have to check your employment jurisdiction.
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by ska 3y ago
Conversely, how relevant do you think 2023 techniques will be at all in a hypothetical AGI future? Doesn't the relevance of these questions embed some pretty strong assumptions?
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by ska 3y ago
Sometimes. So Dec is the worst case, especially if you have a longish period. You end up paying top rates on this year, then suddenly have no income come January. Of course details vary country to country. One fairly common thing is you ca
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by ska 3y ago
Depending on the jurisdiction, severance packages may be required for mass layoffs.
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by ska 3y ago
Sorry for late reply. It's more complicated than that, most countries (there are lots with GST) who implement it have replaced something existing for manufacturers etc. Usual justifications are 1) avoid cascading (you pay tax on the t
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by ska 3y ago
It's one of those things like rectangle commands; once you know they exist it's hard not to miss them in editors that don't support.
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by ska 3y ago
Hence the idea of Steelmanning.
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by ska 3y ago
It's not a sales tax, it's similar to a VAT but doesn't just compound. So I suspect that if you are manufacturer, you pay it on your raw materials, you collect it on your finished goods, and there is a credit system in place
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by ska 3y ago
Lots of embedded work won't tolerate an OS, sometimes not even an RTOS, which I think was GPs point - nothing specific about Linux. Or to put it another way, the only reason you would want to move to an OS is to add complexity to what
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by ska 3y ago
> Or is tax evasion generally not an issue among smaller merchants in India? I've read income tax evasion is nearly endemic there, but don't know how reliable that was. In retail the more likely problem is avoiding collectin
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by ska 3y ago
> prosecutors tend to only bring cases where the defendant is clearly guilty. This isn't quite right. Prosecutors tend to only bring cases where they judge they can win (including pleas, etc.). There is some correlation with guilt,
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by ska 3y ago
> It's also the only timekeeping device that will still work after three days away from an electric plug Quartz watches go years on a small battery, and keep better time. Sure, it's admirable engineering, it's just most ob
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by ska 3y ago
There is some truth in this. In the startup world, we often tend to avoid this framing because it isn't positive - but every startup begins in the process of failing (running out of resources and ceasing to be a going concern, one way
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by ska 3y ago
> Then how does WhatsApp run their service for free across multiple platforms? FWIW, this is always a good question to ask yourself when considering using a service... they are getting paid for it one way or another.
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by ska 3y ago
> Hasn't it been disproven now though? No, it hasn't. And there isn't much serious work being done on it afaics, but lots of anectdata and politics. I think it is clear that it is possible to build productive fully remote
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by ska 3y ago
FWIW in my experience delays in e.g. home renos (or for that matter larger scale projects) are mostly for reasons unrelated to the engineering. In software projects, it's probably the #1 reason (i.e. we didn't know how to do it
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by ska 3y ago
> That sounds like an awfully bold claim. To the contrary, it's nearly canonical. Most of the problems pointed out in the 70s (mythical man month) have still not been resolved, 50 years later. >you wouldn't believe how hard
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by ska 3y ago
> and two hiccups out of a dozen or so seems like a decent track record to me. certainly better that the good (bad?) old days! At one point with laptops at least it seemed to be no better than chance. Maybe worse.

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