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by trimbo 5y ago
"Prince of Darkness": https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093777/ I've always liked the movie because it attempts to examine religious lore with science, faith vs. logic. It touches on many explanations f
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by trimbo 5y ago
I was wrong, I glossed over the "migrating fish" reference here: > But Central Valley lawmakers are hopping mad that the governor didn’t declare drought statewide, because they want the rules bent to allow the opposite — more w
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by trimbo 5y ago
1000 word opinion piece and not one mention of the Delta Smelt? The author is right though, this climate is the norm. A better way to put it is that California has always been in drought. So when politicians say "drought", they ac
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by trimbo 5y ago
IIRC, Yahoo didn't have search tech until they bought Inktomi. They outsourced their search to Inktomi in the 90s, then to Google in 2000. It was only after Yahoo bought Inktomi that they brought it in house (can't remember timeli
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by trimbo 5y ago
Bitcoin is not a collectible any more than individual gold bars are collectibles. A collectible can be compared in value to another collectible of the same type. I might want a 1979 Dave Kingman card because I'm nostalgic for Dave &quo
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by trimbo 5y ago
It seems like equities do not (long term) perform well relative to currency in inflationary markets because companies' costs also rise. Apple, e.g. would be spending more per unit iPhone and would eat margin or require a price increase
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by trimbo 6y ago
For those of you in the Bay Area, the USS Pampanito also does this. https://maritime.org/education/edupampanito/pampanito-overni...
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by trimbo 6y ago
> I absolutely do not understand why you would vote against your own collective interest The answer is in the article > Some workers who voted not to unionize said they ultimately didn’t see how a union would improve their pay or work
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by trimbo 6y ago
People have been complaining about SF real estate prices since at least 1846. [1] [1] - https://books.google.com/books?id=GiAa8pLrSTIC&lpg=PA45&lr&p...
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by trimbo 6y ago
> People who bought had all the chances to try and decide not to buy, or to even return after trying Random missed keystrokes long after the return period are the problem. Mine is 3 years old and I just had the keyboard[1] swapped out by
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Salesforce cancels huge downtown office lease in SF(sfgate.com)
31 points by trimbo 6y ago|2 comments
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by trimbo 6y ago
I was a customer of theirs for years and he would respond on Twitter to random customers (me included, a couple times). Seemed like a really great leader.
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by trimbo 6y ago
Save the risk of forgery, physical cash is still the only way for a seller to guarantee the dollar value of a transaction with an unknown buyer. Otherwise Paypal could block it, or your bank, or the buyer could reverse the charge, or whatev
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by trimbo 6y ago
Does it actually miss data that should be there or does the Takeout fail?
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by trimbo 6y ago
Spending energy on bitcoin would replace the need for militaries?
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by trimbo 6y ago
They paid an average of $52,765 So their new purchase has currently lost 7% but their stock is up 9% today. It all makes perfect sense!
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by trimbo 6y ago
At least I got this sock puppet dog out of it (Yes, for real, I have one)
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by trimbo 6y ago
A $24bn public valuation without a product for sale has to be off the charts as "going public early", though, right? Amazon raised, what, $50M or $100M in its IPO (and is what I'd consider an early one)?
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by trimbo 6y ago
VASAviation already has the radar/ATC video up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7-zh7Sebr8
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by trimbo 6y ago
> The vast majority of startups go bust before IPO or acquisition In recent times, these giant late rounds with the amount of preference given mean that when acquisition happens, it often doesn't pay out for regular employees/c
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by trimbo 6y ago
Years ago, after doing well on regular interviews, I was once asked to do a presentation like this and I withdrew instead. For a regular interview, both candidate and employer give equal time. But for take home assignments, the employer is
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by trimbo 6y ago
Maybe a better comparison would be mutually assured destruction. Enormous, world-level resources spent towards trying to ensure an outcome for something that no one wants to have happen. Those enriched along the way were the purveyors, not
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by trimbo 6y ago
Not an economist, but IMO this might be the most effective emergency monetary policy ever enacted. Massive amounts of money printed with very little effect on average things people need to pay for. The inflation occurred, but it occurred in
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by trimbo 6y ago
Why not both? For the defense of passive investing, I liked "A Random Walk Down Wall Street"[1]. There are like 7 editions of this book because it was true when it was published nearly 50 years ago and still true today. Maybe some
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by trimbo 6y ago
Sure. Because if you're a startup hiring SWEs, which are a scarce resource, why would you want them implementing something that exists and isn't part of your core business? Also, the customer is the PR/marketing department, n
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by trimbo 6y ago
Unlimited data is $30 extra. https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/exp-unlimited-data
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by trimbo 6y ago
Have you noticed their declining OS release quality in recent years? I have, and I now wait 6 months to upgrade. The triangle is real[1]. Something's gotta give when a deadline can't move, and as we know from Brooks, software deve
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by trimbo 6y ago
The touchbar wouldn't be so bad if it was further away from the number keys. The touchbar is ridiculously sensitive, so typing numbers means risking hitting it, then suddenly my computer unmutes.
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by trimbo 6y ago
This is an absolutely on-point observation about company dynamics that a large number of people in the tech industry have never had to experience. It's why growth is so critical.
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by trimbo 6y ago
I apparently can't summon the correct search terms to find the audio of the Nobel lecture. Can you provide a link?

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