tamana

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511.
by tamana 11y ago
The cost to create and maintain a public good are not relevantly to its "publicness". Only the cost to access it is. Clean air and national securty also cost money to maintain, but have no user fees.
512.
by tamana 11y ago
Digital objects that are torrentable are public goods. This includes media files and local machine software but not web services.
513.
by tamana 11y ago
Not O(n) because your eyesight is highly parallel pattern recognition, and you can move items in batch.
514.
by tamana 11y ago
The internet is hard to police. Brick and mortar Casinos won't let kids in.
515.
by tamana 11y ago
The status symbol creates the financial value.
516.
by tamana 11y ago
You are upset that people enjoy a videogame differently from you. Maybe the gamblint is the game (that's where the money is made) and the fighting is the sideshow.
517.
by tamana 11y ago
Not really the same. McD's is adding a lottery ticket on top of a regular purchase that sells high volumes at the same price when the lottery isn't running. valve is selling lottery tickets standalone..
518.
by tamana 11y ago
That ambiguity in hotword detection makes me nervous.
519.
by tamana 11y ago
What about when folks want lots of useful things?
520.
by tamana 11y ago
Google makes their money primarily from users clicking on ads they want to follow. Ad blockers don't affect that. Not everyone hates ads.
521.
by tamana 11y ago
LinkedIn, the website for old people?
522.
by tamana 11y ago
The script downloads a binary onto your system. How would you inspect that?
523.
by tamana 11y ago
This assumption fails in the network connected world where a program can download custom instructions after installation.
524.
by tamana 11y ago
What happens if your webhost is hacked and someone installs a malicious install.sh? Without a published signature to verify against, there's no way to detect it.
525.
by tamana 11y ago
Sounds good.
526.
by tamana 11y ago
That statement is absurd on its face, the system is designed to be subjective, not objective.
527.
by tamana 11y ago
There is no peer reviewed evidence in favor of peer review?
528.
by tamana 11y ago
More to the point, peer review picks an limited sample of papers to accept, based on interestingness and X printed pages per month per journal. There is no peer review system that will review and accept every valid research project.
529.
by tamana 11y ago
Why would you guess when someone told you they calculated? For marroed filing jointly earning $450k, the marginal rate is 35% federal plus 2.35% Medicare tax plus 9.3% CA tax. 5% higher for $500k
530.
by tamana 11y ago
All except Amazon, you mean! Frugal FTW
531.
by tamana 11y ago
Look at profit (excluding cost of investing in new business) per engineer.
532.
by tamana 11y ago
Interview for a job, learn market value.
533.
by tamana 11y ago
Parent poster is being silly. It's trivial to withold some money for taxes. The pain is in calculating get your 1099 because the stock brokers get it wrong evey year, often more than once .
534.
by tamana 11y ago
How do you know how much money is earned by people you don't talk to?
535.
by tamana 11y ago
That's deeply not true for at least 10 years. Amazon has worldwide coverage for oncall rotations, and VPN for access from home or anywhere with a cell connection
536.
by tamana 11y ago
Amazon has front loaded cash signing bonuses. What you call "signing bonus" I call "guaranteed raise if you stay"
537.
by tamana 11y ago
It's actually 5; 15; 20,20 ; 20,20 and there's also refreshes that vest at (probably) a different time of half-year.
538.
by tamana 11y ago
And things like quality of life in the suburb vs the polluted air and noisy bright nights if living in the city.
539.
by tamana 11y ago
Why does loction matter? Are you prohibited from seeing a doctor outiside of inner London?
540.
by tamana 11y ago
Where are these 10s of thousands of former Amazonians working now?

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