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by twoodfin 1y ago
What the film makes clear (to me at least) was that General Magic desperately needed a product person. They had the right tech, maybe a hair too early, but manageable, and the smart folks to build on it & iterate. What they were missi
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by twoodfin 1y ago
Chris Lehane’s Wikipedia page apparently hasn’t caught up with his resume: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Lehane Fixer par excellence !
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by twoodfin 1y ago
Unfortunately my understanding of the R&D expensing rule is that it is lifted directly from GAAP, which means private companies have to adhere to those (heavyweight) rules to comply.
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by twoodfin 1y ago
What about construction worker and other labor time to build a factory? That’s the analogy being made here by the tax code: Software whose development is a capital expense with value returned over time.
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by twoodfin 1y ago
Note you can turn off the display-enhanced HDR in Photos settings.
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by twoodfin 1y ago
One of the most important aspects of slow system calls is how they interact with signals, which is the mechanism you specifically asked about. I didn’t ask about anything. Was this AI-generated?
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by twoodfin 1y ago
I mean exploring why the Empire builds the Death Star in the first place. There’s a version of Andor that does a bit more than hint that the Death Star is the ultimate (and ultimately doomed) metaphorical reply to Nemik’s manifesto. In the
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by twoodfin 1y ago
My main (mild) criticism of the now-complete Andor->Rogue One arc is that it only put its toe into the waters of the Death Star. Giving that concept a thematic heft well beyond its Flash-Gordon-supervillain origins appeared “fully armed
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by twoodfin 1y ago
The Waymo v. Lyft v. Uber (page 302) trends in SF surprised me. Having never ridden in a Waymo, I’m curious if anyone sees a reason those trends won’t continue in SF or replicate elsewhere.
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by twoodfin 1y ago
Again, not seeing the “forcing” in that choice of time and effort.
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by twoodfin 1y ago
Why is anyone forced to reverse engineer the pricing scheme? Simply decide if the ticket is worth the money to you. You typically have other airlines to compare to, other fares on the same airline for different itineraries, and other modes
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by twoodfin 1y ago
Personally, I want capital markets that are dynamic enough that some fraction of $n00 billion businesses become $(n-k)00 billion businesses (check out the aggregate market cap today of GE’s progeny). I’m not even sure there’s a counterfactu
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The Finale of "The Rehearsal" Is Outlandish and Sublime(newyorker.com)
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No. The “vanishing middle class” is a convenient political myth supported by anecdotes and misleading charts. Most of the middle class that “vanished” became part of the upper classes, at least as they would have been defined in real econo
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by twoodfin 1y ago
I think it’s also reasonable to want to see some assurance that Harvard has reckoned with the frankly racist and discriminatory admissions policy that was well-documented in the filings for Students for Fair Admissions @ SCOTUS.
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by twoodfin 1y ago
Lambda: The Ultimate Enumerative Combinator
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That’s what “real” means, it accounts for increased costs due to inflation. If you’re worried that more income is being consumed by necessities, real disposable income is also on a steady upward trend: https://fred.stlouisfed.org
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by twoodfin 1y ago
Slowly strangling any real growth? https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N
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by twoodfin 1y ago
The Feds can't say "you can't regulate in a way we don't like" to the states. They absolutely can when it comes to interstate commerce, which by precedent has a rather broad definition under which this kind of reg
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by twoodfin 1y ago
Icon also provided GvR with the inspiration for Python’s generators: https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5948 I had a period where I studied a new, obscure programming language almost daily; Icon stood out as one of t
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by twoodfin 1y ago
This doesn’t have anything to do with the 10th Amendment (little does). This is a straightforward declaration of Commerce Clause authority. This SCOTUS has made it clear the “Dormant Commerce Clause” is not stirring awake, so if Congress wa
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by twoodfin 1y ago
Not at all. If merchants wanted to ditch high-fee credit cards and spend the money they save on advertising or lower prices to win back the customers they lose as a result, they could do that tomorrow. Cash and debit cards are available alt
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by twoodfin 1y ago
What you’re looking for exists: It’s called American Express. American Express has since expanded its brand into credit cards, but the original lineup has been charge cards which work as you describe for almost 70 years.
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by twoodfin 1y ago
What’s the source of this “should”, and why doesn’t it apply to the majority of businesses that finance the cash flow to sustain short-term operations?
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I finance all my burritos: It’s fantastically more convenient than cash, incrementally builds my credit rating, & I capture some of the efficiency surplus via rewards points. The article makes the point that BNPL packages up almost the
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by twoodfin 1y ago
OOP was well-popularized by the time Java emerged in the mid-1990’s. If anything, OOP was past the peak of the hype cycle at that time and Java gave it a renewed boost.
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You’d worry about 100% CPU because even if the OS was successfully optimizing for throughput (as Linux is very good at), latency/p99 is certain to suffer as spare cycles disappear. That’s not a concern with typical GPU workloads, which
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by twoodfin 1y ago
Lest you worry you (or your parents) should have stashed away a few Altairs, that $397 in a tax-advantaged retirement account investing in the S&P 500 would be worth more than $70k today.
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The negative effect is that you have to bring the lawyers back in, and they tend to take an extremely conservative position on what might be litigated as offering “Redis-as-a-service”.
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Both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush were huge free traders, and Barack Obama largely carried on that bi-partisan tradition. But the resurgent left of the Democratic Party, inspired by the anti-WTO “Battle of Seattle” and led by folks like

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