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by twoodfin 2y ago
Another way to see that would be the Supreme Court affirming that if the SEC accuses you of what is clearly common law fraud, and wants to penalize you millions of dollars, they are required by the Constitution to bring those charges to Ar
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by twoodfin 2y ago
Citrix/Terminal Services was certainly worse in the design sense, but from the corporate buyer's perspective (i.e. the only buyer) it was significantly better : They could deploy hundreds or thousands or tens of thousands of ch
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by twoodfin 2y ago
It was used widely, it was just called Citrix.
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by twoodfin 2y ago
Right, my point is there are a few more strategic buyers outside the trillionaires club.
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by twoodfin 2y ago
Tabular, for example, seemed to do OK finding a non-strategic buyer.
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by twoodfin 2y ago
Freedom of association is in the First Amendment with the other biggies. If I have a list of people who want to spend $500 to join my weekly poker night club, it’s my Constitutional right to choose whom to let in, assuming I’m not discrimin
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by twoodfin 2y ago
Do you know a good paper on the development of StrongARM?
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by twoodfin 2y ago
That’s my point: If the demand for high-end compute at the turn of the millennium had looked the same as the demand for high-end compute in 1992, Itanium probably would have conquered the world. But Tim Berners-Lee had a NeXT and some good
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by twoodfin 2y ago
The Apache #’s pretty much give the game away: An Itanium clocked 50% higher was losing to a 2yo Alpha by about 20% on throughput at peak. VLIW made sense when Intel wanted to win the FP-heavy workstation market. But while it was in develop
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by twoodfin 2y ago
I don’t think ad placement for children should be the primary concern. Unless I’m misunderstanding the current state of the technology, it’s possible today with a little effort to put my biometrics in a feedback loop with (say) GPT-4o, an
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by twoodfin 2y ago
Minor alien-encounter film trivia: That Bill Clinton speech is what Robert Zemeckis ripped off to create a news footage facsimile of a more dramatic discovery in Contact .
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by twoodfin 2y ago
When Alpha was a vaguely viable platform, it was fantastically helpful to throw it into a build farm to find these kinds of issues.
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by twoodfin 2y ago
Yes, I suspect if you were doing real research vs. clickbait for Lending Tree you’d find some way to calibrate owner estimates to actual sale prices & adjust for that bias.
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by twoodfin 2y ago
The data set being used clocks the median value of an owner-occupied housing unit @ $282k: https://www.census.gov/acs/www/about/why-we-ask-each-questio...
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by twoodfin 2y ago
I’m probably missing something obvious, but what’s wrong with Apache parquet-java for this use case?
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by twoodfin 2y ago
I was curious, too. It’s from the 2022 American Community Survey: https://www.census.gov/acs/www/about/why-we-ask-each-questio... It’s an owner-reported estimate of a hypothetical sale price.
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by twoodfin 2y ago
More specifically, I get the impression it’s part of a strategy to recenter the Windows desktop experience from “the PC on your desk” to “an aggregated view of your workplace-focused cloud services”.
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by twoodfin 2y ago
Lenders hand over bad loans to collection agencies (“accept the consequences”) all the time. Cost of doing business. That an innocent person’s credit is destroyed is just collateral damage from their perspective.
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by twoodfin 2y ago
You can challenge entries your credit report today. Win the challenge, whoever reported the entry is liable to the Feds. Maybe add a modest bounty for the injured taxpayer.
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by twoodfin 2y ago
Kind of funny that the network computer/thin client vision that 30 years ago was trying to break Microsoft’s stranglehold on the app platform is now being embraced as the future of the Windows experience!
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by twoodfin 2y ago
My pet solution has been to make the credit reporters liable for transmitting false information to the CRAs. Chase tells Experian I opened a new line of credit with them, but it later is demonstrated that it was a scammer with my SSN? Con
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by twoodfin 2y ago
I’m not clear on the virtues or potential of a model like this over a pure text model using STT/TTS to achieve similar results. Is the idea that as these models grow in sophistication they can properly interpret (or produce) inflection
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by twoodfin 2y ago
Gruber edges up to this in a footnote, but I think the prerecorded keynotes are particularly corrosive to the spirit of risk and excitement that he misses in Tim Cook’s Apple. Jobs cared deeply about the keynotes and was ruthlessly strategi
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by twoodfin 2y ago
Apple did so many of these reinvent-the-world projects in the systems area alone that somewhere on Earth-87 they’re running their Hobbit-based phones on NuKernel and the apps are all written in Dylan.
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by twoodfin 2y ago
One way to think about this silly math in reverse: Split-adjusted, Amazon IPO’d at $0.075 a share. If instead of raiding my $3 piece of Jeff’s billion, I had the good sense to give him that pittance 25 years ago, it’d be worth $7,400 toda
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by twoodfin 2y ago
This is obviously survivor bias in the extreme, but Amazon started out by razoring a slice of the (relatively, at the time) huge market for paper books.
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by twoodfin 2y ago
“mut XOR shared” is less about protecting you from accidentally making inconsistent mutations, it’s more about the compiler’s need for a strong invariant against action-at-a-distance so it can manage to reason correctly about code in an iso
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by twoodfin 2y ago
The incidence of corporate taxes on the average American is hotly debated but it’s definitely well above 0. Confiscating 100% of the ultra wealthy’s wealth would—for any reasonable definition of “ultra wealthy”—perhaps fund the government f
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by twoodfin 2y ago
Imports aren’t so challenging: You’re effectively imposing a new tariff, and tariff calculation is already a complex business of defining categories and setting rates. It’s a drop in the proverbial bucket for some Federal agency to annually
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by twoodfin 2y ago
It’s extremely likely, verging on certitude. In some ways, the pressure of requirements like this may be positive: “Do we really need a dependency on ‘leftpad’?” But it will also add pressure to make unsound NIH choices as you suggest.

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