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by sokoloff 5mo ago
I think there's plenty of room for people to object to the "had to change licenses" framing. They chose to change licenses, same as they chose the original license. That original license probably helped them with goodwill a
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
Same in financial services. I became a VP at 28 or 29 and we had Assistant VPs in their early 20s in tech.
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
Those stopped being redeemable for silver in 1968, so their value is no longer defined by the metal prices of 2026.
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by sokoloff 6mo ago
On the opposite direction (but compatible overall view): if I think a candidate is marginal/on the bubble of passing, I’m much more likely to move forward with them if they’re unemployed. Someone unemployed might be a little rusty (and
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by sokoloff 6mo ago
Classic Wikipedia. “I spoke with Cliff today; now I have to go discuss on the Talk page whether or not he’s dead.”
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by sokoloff 6mo ago
Good luck working in tech for a company that's never done a layoff. Just Apple (and even there only "mostly") among big tech?
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by sokoloff 6mo ago
> When you're talking about a $3k USD computer, it's pushing 10% or more of the median after tax income. If it lasts for 10 years, it's more like 1% of the after tax income of a median individual earner over that period. I
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by sokoloff 6mo ago
> "normal people" will no longer be able to purchase computers, Starbucks' revenue was almost $10B in the last quarter. Most people can clearly afford $1/day for something as useful as a computer.
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by sokoloff 6mo ago
An 4K Apple ][ cost the equivalent of around $7K when released. A C64 cost the equivalent of around $2K when released. Both were fairly popular and vastly less useful than a computer today. If the cheapest useful computer ends up costing $3
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by sokoloff 6mo ago
After the recent run-up, where are prices on a per-performance basis? Back to 2019? Computers were incredibly more expensive when I was growing up. People bought them anyway. Is a computer that lasts 5-8 really productive years (and is stil
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by sokoloff 6mo ago
Is there a different layoff email that would leave you satisfied and happy?
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by sokoloff 6mo ago
I'm not sure if this was tongue-in-cheek or not, but Yahoo created its own news site in 1996: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo_News and FB had Zynga's Farmville as well.
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by sokoloff 6mo ago
> But you'd have a phone or car that weighed 40% more and cost 40% more than one that had no buffer and ran at the bleeding edge on day 1. But it would also behave on day 1000 just as well as when the user agreed to buy it on day 1,
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by sokoloff 6mo ago
Even though there clearly must be a line on some topics, many people think those lines should be placed to minimize the number of times people are forced to do something (or prevented from doing something) against their will. It’s not at al
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by sokoloff 6mo ago
Do what EVs do: make 100% on the display not 100.0% electro-chemically and 0% not be 0.0% chemically. This is a serious suggestion, as I think it’s actually net beneficial for the consumer.
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by sokoloff 6mo ago
What is a “special tool”? A Philips screwdriver is pretty clearly not, but is a T-5 Torx? A security T-5? A Tri-wing? A Pentalobe?
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by sokoloff 6mo ago
Except in this case, the company also now owns EBay with a market cap of around $44B before the takeover bid was announced. I don’t think GP was claiming it was an infinite money hack at all.
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by sokoloff 6mo ago
The headline seems written to guide the reader towards concluding that this is IP theft. If ASU holds the rights to the underlying IP (such as if the work is a “work made for hire”), it’s not at all obvious that they need specific additiona
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by sokoloff 6mo ago
The timeline doesn't match. The Flynn Effect covers from around 1930s to 1980s and the phase out of leaded gasoline happened during the very end of that timeline, meaning adolescent IQ measurements during the time the Flynn Effect cove
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by sokoloff 6mo ago
It seems obvious that IQ test scores can be improved with interventions and further that actual [as opposed to measured] general intelligence can be affected by environmental factors that shape whether the brain develops under good, neutral
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by sokoloff 6mo ago
If the measured cognitive abilities of a typical 2000-era Homo sapiens are statistically significantly different from 1900-era Homo sapiens, to me that casts some doubt as to how likely similar a 125K years ago and since out-competed specie
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by sokoloff 6mo ago
I find things like that hard to perfectly square with observations like the Flynn Effect (“the substantial and long-sustained increase in both fluid and crystallized intelligence test scores that were measured in many parts of the world ove
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by sokoloff 6mo ago
There’s a large risk and hugely adversarial nature/motivation for predators to bypass whatever proactive filtering is put in place.
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by sokoloff 6mo ago
Thermodynamically, the heat lost to the outside is roughly linear with the temperature delta between inside and outside. All else equal, setbacks do reduce energy lost to the outside; whether that saves money depends somewhat on the recover
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by sokoloff 6mo ago
But you still need to move air for cooling (as opposed to using water for heating), because you can’t cause condensation during cooling without creating damage and health risks. Hydronic (water transport) heat is great: extremely comfortabl
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by sokoloff 6mo ago
When does an existing mortgage lender get involved in a house remodel? (assuming you’re not trying to borrow more money for it) I’ve owned houses for 30 years and no bank has gotten review of contemplated projects or anything other than app
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by sokoloff 6mo ago
> We just smiled and nodded. I’d have skipped the nod.
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by sokoloff 6mo ago
> you'd expect 40% of the vehicles to be tanker trucks. I’d expect tanker trucks to carry far more fuel than the typical vehicle.
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by sokoloff 6mo ago
I think an awful lot of people would rather receive their livelihood without being subject to measurement.
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by sokoloff 6mo ago
I come from purely middle-class roots (100% blue collar grandparents and public school teacher parents). I got a lot of inexpensive credit extended to me throughout my life, without any rich people knowing me from Adam.

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