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by takinola 3y ago
As someone that falls on the "deliberate" thinking side of the spectrum, I found that it helps to ask questions in the moment rather than proffer ideas. When presented new information, I try to understand the following: 1. How ca
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by takinola 3y ago
My understanding is these are called Paper Towns. Map makers add them as a way to identify when their copyright is being violated by others coping the maps wholesale.
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by takinola 3y ago
My (uneducated) guess is that Wendy's has a demand smoothing problem and some high up executive read a book on dynamic pricing and reached for the most complicated solution to implement it. This brings to mind the old chestnut about t
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by takinola 3y ago
> when several individuals hoard the majority of money, it leaves less for everyone else I don't agree with this. Wealth is created everyday. If I start a SaaS business and grow it to become a billionaire, there does not need to b
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by takinola 3y ago
I don't follow this argument. The amount of money is fantastic and its effects enormous but I don't see why it should be out of the reach of any singular person. The issue of effectiveness shouldn't come into play at all. I
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by takinola 3y ago
Yes, donating stocks does not trigger a taxable event (YMMV, consult your tax attorney, etc). Not sure if it is possible to figure out how to donate pre-tax income (vs pre-tax gains). If you do, please share your knowledge.
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by takinola 3y ago
The problem with option #1 is you can be as good as you like but you are still screwed if some other asshole pushes the button. At least with option #2, you have some control over your your survival. Plus, these options are not mutually ex
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by takinola 3y ago
It kinda makes sense if you have that type of money. Let's say a bunker costs $10 million and offers a 10% incremental chance of surviving an apocalypse then it's pretty much a no-brainer if you are worth a billion or more. For o
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by takinola 3y ago
Sounds like dogs found another way to solve their problems ie get humans to do it for them. It's a pretty good solution as long as there is a sympathetic human around. Of course, they would be SOL if they ever find themselves alone o
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by takinola 3y ago
This Digital Ocean guide [1] is my go-to explainer for journalctl. Digital Ocean has pretty good tutorials all round. [1] https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-...
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by takinola 3y ago
I used to have a bag full of chargers and cables for devices long departed. I kept them on the off chance that I would need one or the other. A few weeks ago, I realized that I had never once needed any of them over the decades. Feeling
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by takinola 3y ago
Ehh, you should always take general business advice for what it is. It is usually not a great idea to treat them as gospel given that for every best-practice, there is an exception. Instead, realize that some things are (probably) necessa
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by takinola 3y ago
As I was building LLM projects, I found I was re-implementing a new vector database for each one. So I built RagTag ( https://ragtag.weaveapi.com ), a vectordb/RAG as a service to make the process faster. This provides a CR
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Running Doom on Biological Cells(youtube.com)
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by takinola 3y ago
I keep a list of tasks that I need to accomplish each day. Some of these are very simple and easy to knock out. I use the time in between activities to knock off one or two each time.
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by takinola 3y ago
Not really. Imagine you want to buy my car. I give you the make, model and let you test drive it. I also tell you that I paid $X for it and so I’m selling it at some related price F(x). At this point you have all the information to make an
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by takinola 3y ago
Valuations of public companies are decided by a small number of parties. Those parties can decide the valuation is whatever they want it to be. As long as the underlying economics of the business are not obscured, there is no fraud being pe
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by takinola 3y ago
The US doesn't do government-owned (except in exceptional circumstances). For one, they would be sued by the shareholders (unfair seizure) and competitors (unfair competition). It also is not clear that the government acquiring somet
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by takinola 3y ago
LTS support lasts for 5 years so this works out to be a problem that happens twice a decade so I'm willing to put up with it.
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by takinola 3y ago
Handlers don't need to blend it nearly as much. They just need a plausible reason to be in the vicinity of their assets. A lot of diplomatic staff are spy handlers. Also, businessmen, military attaches, etc. Every country has some
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by takinola 3y ago
My understanding is spies are mostly compromised nationals as opposed to foreigners trying to blend in.
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by takinola 3y ago
That's still a lot of friction. You would be surprised at how little friction is too much when it comes to consumer apps. Today alone, I have probably consumed a dozen or more pieces of content. I don't want to apply more thoug
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by takinola 3y ago
Honestly, I can't remember exactly. I believe there are some settings in Ubuntu that apply updates automatically. I set just the security updates to reduce the risk of breaking something. The beauty of the system is that I can forge
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by takinola 3y ago
It's basically a combination of documentation (Step 1: Do this, Step 2 Do that) and shell scripts wherever possible. I can just follow the steps and run the commands without thinking and go from a bare server to a fully deployed worki
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by takinola 3y ago
Interestingly, I have a very different experience than you. I simply have a script that sets up the server. I keep updating the script to make it better each time I hit an edge case. At this point, it's pretty bullet-proof. Updates
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by takinola 3y ago
Micropayments struggle because they add friction to the process of consuming content. Right now, if I see a great blog post, video, whatever, I spend a bit of time taking it in and then move on. With micropayments, I now have to think abo
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by takinola 3y ago
> Thus if you are a rich person trying to donate a lot of money to a truly good cause the charity will sometimes be forced to refuse your money despite needing it - just to keep the IRS away. I would be very surprised if this is true for
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by takinola 3y ago
I would be interested to see any data on how much the 1-2 day delivery promise drives customer purchases from Amazon? Personally, the thing that matters much more is the breadth of the offering. I would buy much more from Costco if they ca
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by takinola 3y ago
Tells are something you see more of in “movie” poker rather than real poker. Most poker guides (as the OP alludes) discourage tell based play unless you are playing with people you are very familiar with and have studied over time. Even the
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by takinola 3y ago
I wish the author had included concrete examples of finding edges (and the process of finding them). I wonder if anyone here has an example from their experience?

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