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by skolsuper 6y ago
Amortized over 100m customers, in a country where network engineers can be found for $250/month, they're pretty close to free. It's easy to underestimate how profitable it is to run a telco
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by skolsuper 6y ago
miles? minutes? metres? My high school maths teacher would like a word
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by skolsuper 6y ago
Thanks
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by skolsuper 6y ago
Does the US approach mean countries like New Zealand need to stay isolated until a vaccine is found? Or would herd immunity eventually eradicate the virus in US?
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by skolsuper 6y ago
There are democracies we could have enriched instead, rather than supporting an authoritarian regime
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by skolsuper 6y ago
A company of this size? Just 10 or 20 times I'm guessing, which really doesn't seem like a high multiple. This is why laws are required to correct the incentives here.
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by skolsuper 6y ago
What about it?
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by skolsuper 6y ago
I think you missed the context of the founder-CEO being a 51% shareholder.
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by skolsuper 6y ago
How many lottery winners feel ripped off by the lottery? Not agreeing with the GP comment but your question is just silly
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by skolsuper 7y ago
If they truly believe that the autopilot driving is safer than unassisted, they might reasonably consider it an immoral act not to ship it. Given the number of lives lost in auto accidents every day, the issue is not as clear-cut as you&#x
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by skolsuper 7y ago
High test coverage is mainly useful for code that will be worked on by more than one person, so it makes sense that you wouldn't want to add it to your personal projects. Doesn't mean it's not worthwhile.
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by skolsuper 7y ago
Are you above average height? I'm 6'4" and get upgraded often. Seems to be more likely if I check in at the airport quite early.
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by skolsuper 7y ago
Thai also: there are 19+ vowels but they all sound only one way wherever they appear. Sometimes if I don't know how to pronounce a brand name, I'll try to find their Thai packaging and read it there. Unfortunately they do have so
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by skolsuper 7y ago
Quinoa Cliquey Segue ... I had the exact same experience with these three and probably more. I'd love to see more examples if you have any
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by skolsuper 7y ago
It's a joke, punning on the headline and cryogenic freezing
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by skolsuper 7y ago
I don't necessarily like it, but a lot of people make their living on LinkedIn. This is quite an ignorant statement.
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by skolsuper 7y ago
IME Slack at big companies has mostly been a ground-up initiative by engineers that were sick of important discussions happening in long email chains. It's strange to read that network effects or entrenchment made Slack so huge when 5
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by skolsuper 7y ago
Out of curiosity, did you intentionally choose examples reminiscent of the Titanic and 737MAX?
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by skolsuper 7y ago
It really wasn't, but I suppose it clears the low, low bar of perl 5/6
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by skolsuper 7y ago
Assuming no slowdown from all the context-switching (a generous assumption), and equal sized features, splitting the team would make the high priority feature take twice as long to deliver.
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by skolsuper 8y ago
At the same time, if it comes from a place of genuine concern, even unnatural communication can be empathetic. I once asked for help on an online forum, and one person responded with something along the lines of "I don't know how
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by skolsuper 8y ago
It's very common in rural Asia. Users share apks via P2P file sharing. Typically one person in the village will set up everyone's phone for them. Usually with all apps preloaded, but they're actually quite savvy about addin
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by skolsuper 8y ago
Most people that _play_ dwarf fortress probably memorise more arcane commands than that, let alone the people that write it.
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by skolsuper 8y ago
Well, someone making a naive guess at where to put a solar system relay might think to put it in the middle, maybe around Mars or the asteroid belt? This shows that the best place would be around Mercury and maybe 2 more at its Lagrange po
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by skolsuper 8y ago
VPC?
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by skolsuper 8y ago
Ah, I understand now. As some anecdata: here in Singapore (a country I think is renowned for it's multiculturalism, but correct me if I'm wrong), practically every important form, from opening a bank account to renting a condo to
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by skolsuper 8y ago
I'm really struggling to understand your first sentence. Are you saying people generally aren't racist outside the US? Because my experience has been very, very different (and that's as a white male)
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by skolsuper 8y ago
Some enigma operators had flourishes that the code-breakers could pick up on. Starting or ending a lot of messages with "Heil Hitler" was also a factor IIRC
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by skolsuper 8y ago
Glass is opaque to UV
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by skolsuper 8y ago
Yes but the inverse isn't true either: removing anonymity doesn't cause everyone to trust each other. If you don't have trust, or you're not sure, an exercise like this is a good idea

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