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by trimbo 5y ago
The one I grew up near was eventually sold to Crown Castle, now used as a cell tower. https://long-lines.net/places-routes/Lake_Zurich_IL/index.ht...
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by trimbo 5y ago
Your comment reminds me of Kary Mullis's Nobel lecture https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1993/mullis/lect...
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> Stock and bonuses are W2 income and taxed at your marginal rate If you click on the link of that text, their point is that stock is not always W2 income. For example, if someone joins a startup, pre-exercises and files an 83b, that giv
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Renaissance executives agree to pay around $7B to settle dispute with IRS(reuters.com)
125 points by trimbo 5y ago|86 comments
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Indonesia has a bilateral agreement for airworthiness with the FAA[1]. [1] - https://www.faa.gov/aircraft/air_cert/international/bilatera...
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Maybe it's because an election concluded and all news-type media has dropped off considerably. https://thehill.com/homenews/media/551210-tv-news-ratings-on...
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If there's a large enough market, why doesn't someone buy it and then undercut the original seller by selling it for 3 BTC? Or 1? (Or maybe they do?)
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by trimbo 5y ago
When I was 18, I wrote some shareware and asked for $10 from those who used and liked the program. Lots of nice people from all over the planet sent in some money, and sometimes with letters. Most often it was a thank you note. Sometimes pe
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by trimbo 5y ago
I don't know if you remember this but MTV had very little variety with music videos, at least in those early years. I cannot tell you the number of times I saw "Little Red Corvette"[1] and "Jeopardy"[2] at a friend&
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by trimbo 5y ago
How much power is required to pump so much water from sea level to the elevation and distance of the Central Valley? Just as one example, Tulare is at 300 ft, ~100 mi from the ocean.
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by trimbo 5y ago
> Engineering is about trade-off and if for a given project with a given team F# is the best choice - given the information available - please go for it. What objective measure can someone use to determine whether F# is the best choice?
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by trimbo 5y ago
> More recently, and more sensationally, there is an entire chapter on Tatlock’s death in Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin’s biography of Oppenheimer I read American Prometheus last summer, and did not walk away with any inkling that the disc
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by trimbo 5y ago
> even at peak IBM it was an office name, not a household name I'm curious to see data on this. My guess is that in the early to mid 80s, IBM had to have been the top consumer technology brand. At least in knowledge of the brand, ev
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by trimbo 5y ago
How does this work, do they only interview at places that don't already have anyone experienced with the technology?
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by trimbo 5y ago
Yes https://www.walmart.com/browse/home/caskets/4044_4431611_105...
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by trimbo 5y ago
Grandparent post was speaking about Apple generally: "There's a huge market out there that has never used nor wanted an iPhone or any other Apple product."
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by trimbo 5y ago
> Apple is insignificant outside of the English speaking first world Japan has a higher share of iOS than the US or UK. Also China is ~20% iOS. Sounds small until you realize that percentage equates to more iOS devices than the US.
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by trimbo 5y ago
Next we'll get to hear that modernizing old software systems is too hard, so they're still running COBOL on a mainframe out of a single DC that had a fiber cut or something.
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by trimbo 5y ago
This risk has been acknowledged for a long time. Shortly after 9/11 and the anthrax attacks in 2001, the US began stockpiling enough smallpox vaccine for the whole country[1]. They claim to have kept that stockpile going[2] but they al
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by trimbo 5y ago
Related: Pound sterling from 1209-2019: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1031884/value-pound-ster...
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by trimbo 5y ago
This study backs up the claim that people who had it don't need to get vaccinated. If it gets widely reported, that probably means fewer people will get vaccinated. So let me ask you this, what's the worst case scenario if they&#x
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by trimbo 5y ago
I have confirmation bias here because this is a result I would have expected BUT.. Preprint, non-peer reviewed.
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Fueling the Future: MQ-25 first to conduct unmanned aerial tanking(navair.navy.mil)
1 points by trimbo 5y ago|0 comments
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As did Blackberry! And countless other "innovators dilemma" examples. Intel's a little different though. It's not like consumer sentiment has changed like in the case of the C64->PC or BB->iPhone. AMD and ARM are s
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by trimbo 5y ago
How is "never the case" derived from this email? This email was sent after iPhone shipped and doesn't say anything about shipping Cocoa Touch as a goal before this point.
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by trimbo 5y ago
Despite all of the 14nm++++++ ridiculousness, 2020 was Intel's best year ever[1]. I think Intel has a huge challenge ahead but one thing that's helped them is that Skylake was competitive enough to get them through the process nod
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by trimbo 5y ago
It takes way more investment to do what you're asking. Collecting the video, getting a warrant, tracking down the person, sending a team to arrest them, etc. How much does that all cost the city? Average cop makes over $50/hr in S
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> So burning electricity on running a cryptocurrency is not right, but burning electricity on running servers for Facebook or user tracking is all right? Spinning up cores to do intensive math for the sake of its difficulty is wasting en
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by trimbo 5y ago
Replying to myself: What about "Devs"? Not a movie but... https://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/devs

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