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by variaga 5y ago
Every message you send is implicitly requesting something though - the time and attention of the person reading it. Time is one of the most precious commodities we have - it seems appropriate to thank people for spending it on you. Thanks
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by variaga 5y ago
Fair enough on it being rhetorical; FWIW, I didn't mean to single out 'you' - I should have phrased it "If anyone doesn't think.../they haven't been..."
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by variaga 5y ago
>What's with all the effort to discredit this source? If you don't think FB would organize a pro-FB shill campaign, you haven't been paying attention. The tell is the ad hominum "not a real whistleblower"/
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by variaga 5y ago
The immediate amnesia thing: https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/
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by variaga 5y ago
I think it's worse than that. I think the core problem is that the world is a messy complicated place and any time you take a simple, straightforward set of rules and require strict obedience to them in the real world, you're goi
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by variaga 5y ago
If you assume that the rich always figure out ways to avoid progressive taxes, why would you not also assume they would figure out ways to avoid paying a flat tax as well? The thing that makes taxes complicated isn't the progressive ta
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by variaga 5y ago
I'd suggest: "Our (Stockfish) lawsuit against Chessbase"
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by variaga 5y ago
/me just now realizing that everything Bilbo did as a "burglar" was actually robbery.
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by variaga 5y ago
No, debts are massively _hurt_ by deflation. Since debts/credits are made in nominal terms debtors are benefited by inflation, and creditors are benefited by deflation. Example: in 2021 I borrow $100, with an agreement to pay back $105
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by variaga 5y ago
The rough theory - as I understand it - is that the virus is composed of other things as well as the spike protein e.g. the proteins in the viral shell. The immune system can learn to attack _whatever_ foreign materials it encounters. So
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by variaga 5y ago
The fact that most people interested in Seasteading are the kind of libertarians who think things like "building codes", "safety inspections", "occupational licensing of marine engineers" and "paying taxes
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by variaga 5y ago
I'd describe it as "they both have a veto" - BR and HM must both say "yes" for the hire to happen.
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by variaga 5y ago
The article specifically stated that Amazon managers were hiring unqualified people: >Instead, Amazon managers are hiring people they otherwise wouldn't, or shouldn't, just so they can later fire them to hit their goal. And as
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by variaga 5y ago
Summers during college, I worked as staff at a summer camp, where part of the "camp experience" was that the kids got to (had to) help wash the dishes are meals. This was usually done by a rota, so a different subset (4 to 5) o
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by variaga 5y ago
Inflation helps debtors (because the real value of the nominal debt is reduced by inflation - debtors borrowed "high value" money and later, after inflation, can pay it off with "low value" money) and hurts creditors (sa
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by variaga 5y ago
The Washingtonian's employees presumably know their CEO better than any of us do, and their interpretation of the op-ed resulted in them organizing a work stoppage the next day . So maybe your reading is a bit too charitable, as it
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by variaga 5y ago
>In practice this works really well as long as the change is to eliminate an unwanted side effect rather than to change a previously documented behavior ...and then you deploy and discover that somebody was depending on that "unwa
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by variaga 5y ago
What's missing IMO from those example comments (and most automatic documentation) is the "why". I can almost always look at the code to figure out that a function takes a Foo and returns a Bar. What's almost never obvio
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by variaga 5y ago
Your point is valid, but this is almost certainly a shuttle run, so it won't be even one full wafer.
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by variaga 5y ago
SiFive is in the business of selling IP cores and back-end implementation services. The gold standard for IP core validation is "silicon proven" i.e. that it's not just a nice theoretical design on paper, but someone has ac
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by variaga 6y ago
Yes, that's a good analogy, although the nm number by itself isn't the full version e.g for 28nm alone, TSMC had 28HP, 28HPL, 28HPM, 28HPC and 28HPC+ variants, of which only HPM and HPC (but not HPC+!) are at all compatible. 28HP
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by variaga 6y ago
You're basically right. Nobody doing actual chip design cares about process nm numbers. Process selection done right is a fairly tedious comparison of dynamic power consumption, static power consumption, achievable operating frequenc
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by variaga 6y ago
I use signs (not ASL) to communicate with my dog. When she was a puppy, she was having trouble learning verbal commands, so I started pairing them with unique gestures, which worked much better. Eventually, I mostly dropped the verbal par
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by variaga 6y ago
TIL Zimbabwe, Ecuador, El Salvador, Palau, East Timor and the British Virgin Islands are all "basically US colonies". What about countries that don't use the dollar as currency directly, but keep a fixed exchange rate to the
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by variaga 6y ago
Electical power is fungible and an increase in demand for any power increases the profitability of all existing sources of power including coal, reducing the rate at which fossil-fuel power sources will be replaced. The idea that cons
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by variaga 6y ago
> do we really think people are stupid enough to gamble away lots of money they can't afford to lose? Yes. Yes we do. Because "people" have done exactly that in every previous stock market bubble, and at every casino, an
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by variaga 6y ago
Correct - Robinhood's _marketing_ was "we'll democratize finance". Robinhood's _purpose_ was to sell order-flow information to the hedge funds. Retail investors were never the customer, always the product. This is
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by variaga 6y ago
This is the correct take. If you thought free brokerage accounts with no-fee transactions was too good to be true... you were right! There was a catch, and this is it.
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by variaga 6y ago
First one, then the other
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by variaga 6y ago
Sears didn't just "go bankrupt" - it was killed by CEO Eddie Lampert. https://www.businessinsider.com/how-eddie-lampert-set-sears-...

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