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by tntn 8y ago
Unix was neither open source nor free of charge. C won long before Linux came around.
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by tntn 8y ago
I would recommend reading Oppenheim's Signals & Systems book. It's important material for many subfields of EE.
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by tntn 8y ago
Check the distance from the center to the dart?
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by tntn 8y ago
> but to claim that Utah is only MLMs is just silly. I agree. That's why I have not made that claim.
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by tntn 8y ago
To clarify, I started this trend of listing companies, and failed to recognize that apparently "Silicon Slopes" refers to larger region than Utah County. Before looking into it more, I would have said that it was only Utah County,
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by tntn 8y ago
The history is important. Silicon Valley has a history of creating undeniably valuable innovations and legitimate companies dating back 60+ years: HP, Shockley, SRI, Fairchild, Intel, Cisco, Apple, etc. This is the backdrop for Silicon Vall
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by tntn 8y ago
> Like door to door summer sales, and the massive bro culture associated with that. But just sign up, you'll make $50000 in 3 months! /s
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by tntn 8y ago
Again to clarify, I didn't mention them because they are based in Salt Lake. There are lots of great places in Salt Lake, but the discussion above was focused on Utah County (Provo, Orem, Lehi, etc.)
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by tntn 8y ago
That's mostly because Domo doesn't really say what Domo does.
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by tntn 8y ago
It's mostly just that particular part of Utah. Mormonism is also highly correlated with successful and honest businesses. See https://www.economist.com/node/21554173
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by tntn 8y ago
I know. I also listed some (Qualtrics, Adobe). However, I have no way of telling if some of the companies on your list are any more legitimate than Domo, which has for years been heralded as a legitimate tech company in the area. To clarify
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by tntn 8y ago
Most of the profitable other companies in the region almost literally sell snake oil.
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by tntn 8y ago
Right on. "Silicon Slopes" is surprisingly effective attempt by Utah County people to get investors to dump money there. Quick summary of the companies in "Silicon Slopes": Qualtrics (surveys), Domo (vapor), Adobe, Micro
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by tntn 8y ago
Seems pretty unsurprising given that domo is by all appearances the result of the Utah County MLM-royalty types getting into tech.
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by tntn 8y ago
Meh? Basically no one is as into the markings on the Saturn V first stage as this guy, so I don't see how assuming his wife (if he is married) wouldn't be super into it is offensive.
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by tntn 8y ago
Are you from (i.e. born/raised) the Bay Area by chance?
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by tntn 8y ago
Obamacare was an attempt in that direction, but for a lot of healthy people it made more sense to pay the relatively low penalty than get insurance. This breaks everything about it.
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by tntn 8y ago
Both happen. I think the point OP was making is that the cost for anyone who pays (insured or not) is higher in order to compensate for the required care to people who never pay.
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by tntn 8y ago
I don't think that socialized medicine is certainly necessary. Compulsory private health insurance like Switzerland is workable.
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by tntn 8y ago
Seems like the U.S. should adopt the Swiss system. It's much more effective than the current U.S. train wreck without quite so much political baggage as single-payer systems.
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by tntn 8y ago
Would you mind clarifying which vile views you are referring to?
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by tntn 9y ago
How can we expect democracy to work well when most Americans (including college graduates) don't understand enough about American history, institutions, and civics to pass a basic test? Just follow the party line or vote for the person
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by tntn 9y ago
If I were reading this about Uber, my first response would be surprise that they have company rules.
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by tntn 9y ago
Listen up, kids! Always do what everyone else is doing, never make anyone mad, always choose the popular path. /s It seems like everything worth doing nowadays results in someone hating you.
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by tntn 9y ago
I don't view these two perspectives as from different sides of anything. Joy seems to talk about unintended consequences in a more general sense than just superintelligence, and Cegłowski also discusses the serious problems of not-inte
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by tntn 9y ago
I'll just leave this here: "Our definition of success has become narrow, boring, and limited. If we want young people to be creative and innovative, we need to reward them for it." from "Skip The Hedge Fund: We Need Youn
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by tntn 9y ago
Despite other comments below, I think that the equivalence drawn between "failed to save" and "killed" reflects an interesting philosophical choice. I don't think that this equivalence is universally accepted, even
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by tntn 9y ago
I see similar statements to this quite frequently around this topic, and every time they strike me as quite simplistic. If such a conflict were to ever happen (and let us pray that it doesn't), I feel that it would be quite a bit more
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What Critics Don't Understand About Gun Culture(theatlantic.com)
21 points by tntn 9y ago|43 comments
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by tntn 9y ago
I like to think of myself as intelligent, and I am religious. I'd like to gain some insight into exactly what kind of serious cherry picking I'm doing. Could you provide some examples of what you had in mind when you wrote your co

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