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by sokoloff 1y ago
To make this concrete, Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning founded Tesla Motors. Musk later invested and, most certainly, made it vastly more successful than the two founders were on track to do, but Tesla Motors was already founded witho
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I'm very much free trade and pro-globalization, but it seems perfectly reasonable to me that a candidate for political office in country X should be most concerned about the overall welfare of the citizens of country X, then next for t
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by sokoloff 1y ago
If I'm concerned with the overall citizen population's job prospects, the relative size of the increases matters more to me than the absolute change. If I created 1 nepotistic software job for my kid and 3 jobs for software prof
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Libertarian values are 0.0% in conflict with compassionate acts. They are in conflict with compelled compassionate acts.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
> I think the order here is reversed: If you ask the public for money, it's fair to perform a public service. If you just do something you wanted to do anyways, and probably would have done anyways, then it might be viewed as less-t
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by sokoloff 1y ago
> Let the 400 people with half of the wealth in America figure it out. That's off by large factor. What I could find quickly was an estimate that the top 400 own a little over 4%, not 50%.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
The heated filament in many old CRTs would glow orange.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I asked the appraiser what he was looking for on one of my refinances. "I pretty much just verify the house is real, measure the foundation [for square footage], count the floors, bedrooms, and bathrooms, then find some local comps to
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Hiring your own good builder and having them build to your (and your architect's) specifications is the easiest way to avoid bad builders. Buying tract homes is hard to avoid the high-volume builders (by definition), but it's enti
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by sokoloff 1y ago
An appraisal is required, to ensure the property is worth enough that the lender will be OK in the event of a foreclosure. I've never had an inspection requirement as part of purchase initial financing nor as part of a refinancing.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
As a serial home owner, I don't think this would help the process overall. The home inspection I got on my first home was something like 16 pages of absolute nonsense. "Dishwasher is of unverified age and might fail soon." &q
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I paid $40 to park for 3 hours in Boston yesterday. I could drive around the city at an average speed of 10-15 miles per hour for under $3 in gas per hour.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
The developer getting mad about their own choice is fundamentally different from other people getting mad about their choice.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Suppose we allow only short published stump speeches and nothing else. What prevents the green team from registering 200 yellow candidates who will all submit yellow-sounding platforms in order to split the vote? Don’t we want to allow the
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Enforceable for kids that won’t buy a $10 magnet or open them with a couple of pencils and banging the pouch to dislodge the pin.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
There might be no amount of money that someone is likely to pay you , but I bet there's an amount of money that you would do it for.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Things that are inherently "about spending time with people" are very likely to be more effective in a higher bandwidth, more natural setting (read: in-person). On the spectrum from postal mail, e-mail, text/instant messaging
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by sokoloff 1y ago
> I can honestly say there is no amount of money that would convince me to go to an office. I enjoy remote work quite a bit (after thinking I'd hate it). There is absolutely an amount of money that would convince me to take an in-of
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by sokoloff 1y ago
All else being equal, this is almost certainly true. All else is nowhere near equal , of course. That's the real rub.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Given the topic at hand, would you consider Anthropic’s actions “small-time infring[ing]”?
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by sokoloff 1y ago
If you think that’s an easier route, I doubt it’s ever been easier to found a company and own almost all of it. On this very site is a link at the bottom to apply for substantial funding and help in succeeding at a modest cost of equity. Bu
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by sokoloff 1y ago
What is happening is some companies are choosing A and others are choosing B. Employees who really care about A will prefer companies who chose A, same for B. Employees who care more about other properties C, D, E, etc. but not much about A
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I agree that there should be an option for a user to select "I never want to pay so much as $0.01 and if there is a circumstance where I'd need to, I expect you to shut off my services and delete my data if needed in order to avoi
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by sokoloff 1y ago
My position doesn’t require a lot of faith in the FBI. If they fail in parallel construction, they always have the option to continue . For the vast majority of cases where opsec isn't 100% foolproof, we hear about them. For the few c
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by sokoloff 1y ago
> someone shared something incriminating in a group chat and got arrested, and that info was only shared in the group chat “Only” is doing an incredible amount of work there. Unless you concoct something incriminating solely for the purp
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Indeed, if you keep your usage within the tier of usage that is free, they charge you exactly $0 per month. It is only for usage beyond that free tier that you are charged.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Sorry to not have all the details handy, but if anyone in New England is interested in a smaller-scale version of this, I have in a storage unit around 45 minutes north of Boston what I recall to be around 3-4 old Sparcs, probably Sparc 20s
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I would wager a lot of money that they did test it at an even smaller scale before expanding the testing program to these 500 locations.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Storage billing is partly time-based. EBS is billed by the second (with a one minute minimum, I think). Once a customer hits their billing cap, either AWS has to give away that storage, have the bill continue to increase, or destroy user da
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by sokoloff 1y ago
What would the would “tier” mean here? There is a US tax bracket (tier) where no tax is due on long-term capital gains. That doesn’t mean it’s wrong when I pay long-term capital gains.

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