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by ukulele 8y ago
First, thanks for putting the work in on prettier! It's a great tool, and it's helping a lot of devs & teams. I find your approach much more reasonable than the one outlined in the article, which to me feels like complexity fo
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by ukulele 8y ago
Using PE ratio to compare a high growth company to a low growth company is almost never a good idea. You're penalizing Netflix for investing in its business. When people refer to short term Wall Street silliness, this is the kind of th
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by ukulele 8y ago
I think many that we know about have orbits in the thousands of years or less, with some known in the millions. But would it be possible for a huge grouping or sequence of them to maintain such an orbit together?
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by ukulele 8y ago
I've often wondered: is it possible for a grouping of asteroids to have a highly elliptical orbit and pass Earth's distance to the sun very infrequently, say every X million years? Is it possible that there is some very regular
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by ukulele 8y ago
> Use that expertise to build a tilt-rotor commercial plane. They have, it's called the AW609. And like its predecessor V-22, it has crashed and killed the occupants early on and is nowhere near commercial readiness. Uber's est
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by ukulele 8y ago
I agree with the sentiment but not the tense. It should read "Judge the value of what you'll have by what you'll have to give up to get it." This is actually in line with the example the author gives. If it's past t
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by ukulele 8y ago
The problem was discussed several times across different courses for us. Essentially this is all based on Friedman's book Capitalism and Freedom, which says: > There is one and only one social responsibility of business – to use its
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by ukulele 8y ago
I had several instances of the opposite while across the Bay: put ethics above profit always. It sounds like you just had a bad professor (which you already know).
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by ukulele 8y ago
I like that you're building something in this vein, but the benefit is not immediately clear to me. Has it been your experience that talking with others during a lecture is helpful?
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by ukulele 8y ago
In addition to shedding light on the author's experiences, this is also an excellent piece of writing. It's not what normally shows in HN, but I'm glad it did.
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by ukulele 8y ago
If you're ever in the Bay Area, go across the bridge to Sausalito and look back at the city at sunset. The Salesforce Tower looks like a chrome cylinder jammed into some mashed potatoes. It's incredible how much newer and shinier
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by ukulele 8y ago
> How about putting pressure on your reps to draw up some regulations? I think the idea is to convince the company directly rather than relying on politicians. > Because it obviously doesn’t work with these corporations. There are som
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by ukulele 8y ago
The only problem with the "something tells me" line of reasoning is that it's always being espoused by someone. Literally at any point you can find people who feel the way you do. Good news is that if you keep it up you&#x2
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by ukulele 8y ago
That's a great starting point, and one this article makes zero effort to address. Unfortunately nuance doesn't get clicks.
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by ukulele 8y ago
Per the article, the reason is that they're lobbying to keep the existing tax code rather than simplify it. I generally agree, but I think terms like "evil" and "parasite" get thrown around a bit too easily. We&#x27
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by ukulele 8y ago
No, truly I am.
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by ukulele 9y ago
In sum: static sites will keep the scary hackers away. Here's how you build a self-hosted static site with Contentful, starting at just $250/month for the privilege of using our editor. What a great deal!
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by ukulele 9y ago
The project is not being actively maintained https://github.com/NYTimes/ice/issues/126
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by ukulele 9y ago
It's not about forecasting the weather: good gas peakers can respond in under 10 minutes. I meant predictable in the sense of day/night/season.
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by ukulele 9y ago
This is essentially incorrect. Renewables have predictable generation when deployed on a large scale, and gas peaker plants can respond to changes as needed. With the simplistic model of the article (nuclear + wind), it is easy to reach the
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by ukulele 9y ago
My family vacations there every year and my grandparents lived there for 30 years. I can assure you the crazy is real and not imagined.
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by ukulele 9y ago
It's funny that Florida has such a pristine reputation internationally. I'm from the Southern US, and my view of Florida is that it's where 80% of the crazies in the US live. Anytime I see a batsh*t crazy headline? Florida. C
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by ukulele 9y ago
About 1/4 of Norway's GDP is oil and gas (US is about 7%). Ireland is a particularly ironic choice given their recent GDP growth and subsequent dip were mostly from being a tax haven for wealthy US companies. I wouldn't perso
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by ukulele 9y ago
I always find it odd that people are surprised when modern manufacturing can yield better results on a given metric (e.g. sound quality). Are there any real counter examples, where old techniques haven't been met or surpassed?
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by ukulele 9y ago
To have a massive positive impact on the world.
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by ukulele 9y ago
I've been in VC for ~10 years, and we see a lot of founder squabbles. A lot of what makes for great companies is simple: a smart team in a great market, just plowing through things for 3-5 years. That 3-5 years part is the one that tri
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by ukulele 9y ago
I'm thinking the other way around. Telecoms will have incentive to not invest at all in states with stricter laws. Then in a few years they can say "See, it stifles innovation!"
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by ukulele 9y ago
Thanks for the recommendation. Was it the one by Mike Duncan?
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by ukulele 9y ago
I had a similar reaction. I was hoping the article would touch on less obvious things, and I even read it as 829 bytes the first time (then was confused for a second). Hard to take it seriously after that.
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by ukulele 9y ago
I've always thought of ambivalent as meaning no strong feelings either way, but I see that it can also mean mixed feelings (even strong ones). Is there a word that doesn't also include the first part, where it means solely having

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