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by useful 5y ago
My understand is that commercial real estate loans require additional collateral for lower rents than what was agreed to when the mortgage was created. Building value is basically (monthly rent * constant).Accepting lower than when the mort
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by useful 5y ago
Remittance. Moving suitcases of money back and forth is hard if it is not an equal flow back and forth. Do you own every location?
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by useful 5y ago
Serology tests are a thing for a lot of vaccines. You can get them from a doctor if you are traveling overseas to see if you need redo a vaccine. I'm not a doctor, but if you don't have any kind of immune response after 2 doses of
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by useful 5y ago
Thats not the same thing. Imagine there is a 3rd person whos whole job will tell you that they "know" when to sell the restaurant. For this, they will charge a 1%/year flat fee based on the current value of the business. They
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by useful 5y ago
Why is carried interest still a thing? Why are fixed fees taken by investment managers not taxed as income? I think the current administration could fix these things easily but we are talking about all kinds of other things while ignoring l
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by useful 5y ago
various interpreters have ways to make external calls via com/web/etc. APL is basically python calling C++/C#/Java/etc. Seeing pure APL for XML parsing is.. interesting. Most interpreters support saved/read of
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by useful 5y ago
As someone who has used APL professionally to maintain a legacy codebase https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write-only_language Anyway, I like reduce, shape, membership, find, and/or, and ceiling/floor. I actually
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by useful 5y ago
I'd much rather put kwh limits on proof of work. That would stop large farms that aren't green. Outside of ethereum, proof of stake is no different than a database. The ownership is so centralized that you only have 3-5 people&#x2
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by useful 6y ago
the risk in being in cash is much greater than anywhere else Technology is deflationary, growth in tech looks to be the least risky. Technology has prevented inflation and will for a while. I think the only lever the US has for inflation is
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by useful 6y ago
I bet this uses DLSS to get the resolution. I see no one talking about it but why push a high bitrate when you can just upscale with AI.
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by useful 6y ago
Once you get the "feel" doing wattage is pretty easy on a static trainer if you change gears or your pedal stroke rate. That amount of practice and effort to learn when you only want to spend 10-20 minutes working out is beyond a
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by useful 6y ago
I have a C2 and a Wahoo Kickr. I think you are targeting the wrong market if you intend to build a machine. As a cyclist, the market sweet spot to me is the ability to set a wattage on a rower and have the machine automatically adjust the r
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by useful 6y ago
Counterpoint: if tanks were the primary way to transport something obvious like a giant battle tank that were being used to kill people and attempt overthrow of the government. If the checkpoints setup couldn't catch enough of them to
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by useful 6y ago
I have no idea. But you can also sell an aftermarket 10k upgrade of "trim". I don't think toyota can offer that. I don't think the bull case is very strong. But I do think the previous bear cases of "they cant run a
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by useful 6y ago
because they can sell 10k of software upgrades? Tesla is worth like 700/share in 4 years if everything works out with their factories and expansion. If they hit the lottery and magically figure out self driving, then they will 2x-3x, b
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by useful 6y ago
there are devices you can put on your water meter that passively watch flow by listening to the meter turn
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by useful 6y ago
I love the concept of uber and yelp, I've used them a lot. But once I could price compare them via google maps they became un-investable to me because they can only compete in 2 areas, people and policy. Once you lose control of the sa
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by useful 6y ago
Mortgage applications and insurance products are largely all computerized for some companies. Some home buying companies make offers on homes without any human intervention.
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by useful 6y ago
All of this is fine if you don't work with others. The point of these tools is to standardize around something to reduce the cognitive load someone has to experience contributing to code that they didn't write. The amount of possi
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by useful 6y ago
The industry is moving to a being able to purchase products instead of complete PSS/GDS solutions. As an airline you'll be able to buy an inventory management system from Amadeus, a pricing system from Sabre, a support system from
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by useful 6y ago
Some receipts are not itemized. Especially if the check is split.
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by useful 6y ago
I have no personal experience but my waiter and restaurant owner friends seem to think that gift cards are also a good way to skim some money from your employer while traveling. Buy some bread and peanut butter at the store, get a gift card
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by useful 6y ago
Maybe check out https://littlefreelibrary.org/ we grab books on walks and leave any books we enjoy but no longer want.
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by useful 6y ago
strava for route planning base on street "popularity" is pretty good at picking safe routes.
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by useful 6y ago
I stopped using Google maps for turn by turn directions on my bike after every unfinished road told me to make a right followed by an immediate uturn for 10 miles. Maybe they should buy Garmin. They have the best data set in the fitness ind
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by useful 6y ago
I was the team lead to rewrite a large APL codebase with a very small team as part of a much larger group that refused to change and I'll agree with this. Once we started documenting and building tests for the code that replaced APL it
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by useful 7y ago
Autocomplete is the first step. Then you get linting, static analysis, autoformat on save, and code snippets. All built into your fancy IDE with plugins. You are super productive, you learn from its suggestions that you can quickly flip thr
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by useful 7y ago
Somewhat related, if someone want to build something awesome, I haven't seen anything that merges lucene with BPE/SentencePiece. SentencePiece has to make it so you can shrink the memory requirements of your indexes for search and
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by useful 7y ago
but it was used in many places, so the rule of three applies. Personally, I would have kept the code that he wrote and made something that handled the special cases you are talking about. Everything should be replaceable, not extendable. No
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by useful 7y ago
I know a few people who have been hacked with this method via t-mobile in order to control chat rooms on telegram and steal crypto. According to this paper, t-mobile has the smallest surface area, which is sad.

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