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by topkai22 6y ago
Costs don't scale linear with the production of more meals. If the variable costs (like food and staff) are lower than or roughly equal to the fixed costs (like rent) then 30% off the face price of food might be still be a money making
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by topkai22 6y ago
Having been fully remote for 4 years now, I've had plenty of water cooler type conversations with other remote employees- humans are social creatures, and with an experienced fully remote work force we end up socializing remotely, inc
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by topkai22 6y ago
Apple is a phone company that has a side business in personal computers. This is good for Apple, because the personal computer business as a whole has been pretty stagnant for a long time. The article would have been much improved by at lea
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by topkai22 6y ago
GDPR doesn't affect the legal definition in the US or other non party jurisdictions. It has a pratical effect because few businesses or hosting platforms can avoid doing business in the EU, but the copyright regime in the US remains th
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by topkai22 6y ago
Mine used to send them out to 250 of her closest friends every Christmas card time, and get them included in the church newsletter occasionally.
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by topkai22 6y ago
In the US and presumably many other jurisdictions, that's not true. The owner of the copyright of the photograph is the one who took it, not the subject of the photograph, baring pre-existing contract arrangements. There are limits, bu
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by topkai22 6y ago
I think return is too important a keyword to make optional like that. However, I could totally get behind a shortening like if(?foo){return null}
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by topkai22 6y ago
I'm VERY excited for Record types. Automatically having automatically deep equality in data types is going to really help maintainability- no more "developer adds a field to the type but not to the equals function" type error
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by topkai22 6y ago
Go into the market for a mildly big ticket item other than a house and do some searches or browse some websites with privacy blockers off. You'll get start getting "relevant" ads. I went to a e-bike manufacturer's websit
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by topkai22 6y ago
All true, but I was surprised I never saw a guy selling bulk rolls of TP in the parking lot (or I guess never heard how to buy it on the internet via eBay). I'm sure it existed somewhere, but it wasn't prominent enough to supply m
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by topkai22 6y ago
It is still tough to find toilet paper at retail here (Reno, Nevada), but manageable. The lack of commercially packaged TP being sold at retail or alternative market mechanisms remains one of the greate mysteries of the crisis for me. I kno
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by topkai22 6y ago
From my understanding, the shortages have already happened or are already happening. I was able to buy flour at my grocery store for first time in 2 months yesterady, I haven't seen a sale on meat since March, up till May we still had
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by topkai22 6y ago
I actively think about three levels of knowledge that I need to acquire- Broad- keeping up with changes in the overall industry. At this level I'm just trying to learn all the new things that are popping up, when they would be applie
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by topkai22 6y ago
My college did a school wide seminar on RSVP. I remember we did a before and after reading speed test where the presenter had everyone raise thier hand and then lower it as he read said thier reading speed. I was in one the earlier b
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by topkai22 6y ago
I appreciate Musk being upset at Alameda county being more conservative in reopening then the state of California, the way he approached it really upset me. The "we'll open in defiance to authorities" approach was wrong and s
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by topkai22 6y ago
I’m the team lead and I’m on the phone with my team members at least half a day every day. We definitely chit chat and talk socially as a matter of course throughout the day.
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by topkai22 6y ago
But it has an impact on your team's ability to deliver value over the long term. Social bonding increases generally increases trust and trust increases willingness to communicate. If I've had multiple positive social experiences w
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by topkai22 6y ago
I've been doing WFH for years. Some of my collegues I've never met in person. I still consider many of them "work-friends" and I feel satisfied with my work/social factor. We are still in repeated regular meetings,
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by topkai22 6y ago
The claim is that it’s “commercially available telemetry data”, which sounds fishy but could be true I guess.
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by topkai22 6y ago
Maybe not motion sickness, but I’ve yet to wear a VR set I can enjoy for more than 10-15 minutes at a time. I think some people just adapt to stereoscopic illusion better than others- I struggle during 3D movies too.
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by topkai22 6y ago
It isn't always- there are certainly times where a PE company recognizes that a fundamental good company is doing stupid things with its assets. One of the reasons why LBOs and "corporate raiding" was such a cultural meme in
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by topkai22 6y ago
I think the reason LBOs are so hated is difference in utility between the capitalists and the community. The capitalists (PE, management, and lenders) are putting a boatload of money at risk to make an even larger boatload of money, and are
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by topkai22 6y ago
You are at the limits of my understanding- in my simple example, the entity that took the company private is only on the hook for the principal, but these deals can be super complicated- multiple layers of companies transfering or lending m
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by topkai22 6y ago
Yeah, that's pretty much the canonical model. Huge in the 80s for a variety of reasons, still extremely common today. There are other models for PE and going private- sometimes companies don't use nearly so much leverage and are e
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by topkai22 6y ago
Becuase the risk of investment is now structured differently with leverage. Let's pretend we live in world where companies are always worth 10x earnings + assets. Our pretend company $100M makes $5M in earnings and has $50M in assets (
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by topkai22 6y ago
Private equity companies exist to purchase existing companies from their current owners and then run them better/extract more value from them. The canonical example of this is purchasing a public company by acquiring all outstanding sh
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by topkai22 6y ago
I'll admit I've got a particularly killer use case. My daily project has an enterprise system for its backend. Its obnoxiously complex software, so devs generally only run part of it locally and part of it off of shared infrastruc
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by topkai22 6y ago
There is preview pricing available for VS Code Spaces, which is almost the same thing. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/visual-stu... The estimated cost for a full time developer to use the s
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by topkai22 6y ago
I doubt codespaces will be free- this is how VS Code starts seeing increased monetization. It'll be interesting to see if the self hosted codespace options are no-cost as well.
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by topkai22 6y ago
I largely agree, but the flip side of the coin is that if there is an environment where you repeatdly play with the same individuals over and over again, they stop being strangers. I'm really starting to feel there is possibility to in

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