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by viscanti 6y ago
Which is fine until you run out of uwsgi workers because a downstream gets really slow sometime. The point of async python isn't to speed things up, it's so you don't have to try to guess the right number of uwsgi workers you
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by viscanti 6y ago
They're getting stock in a post-acquisition combined entity. So a better way to think of it is they get 52% of the combination of both companies (which makes it weird to think they're the ones getting acquired - but that has to do
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by viscanti 6y ago
76% is "75% or more". So it's covered.
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> Paying a handful of percent on debt that will only be borrowed for a few months at a time is, of course, seen as a reasonable cost to smooth out cash flow and leave the other money invested at a much higher return. It's not just t
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by viscanti 6y ago
You're entitled to your opinions. But the 50 percent rule is pretty established by real estate investors as a way to estimate those fixed costs. https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/7172/46252-what-i...
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by viscanti 6y ago
Generally their biggest fixed cost is rent, which most didn't pay.
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by viscanti 6y ago
Things like property taxes and maintenance are fixed costs for property owners. Those can eat up 50% or more of the rental income. So if renters aren't paying, even property owners who don't have a mortgage have high fixed costs t
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The opportunity cost of the downpayment (and also the fact that lots of people wouldn't have the money for a down payment anyway). Generally the returns from property investing are relatively low compared to other investments.
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by viscanti 6y ago
If the dirt cheap cost is substantially lower than the recycle price, why would they do that?
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by viscanti 6y ago
Seems like having the president attack Twitter for their speech (adding extra speech that suggests that some shared information is disputed) is the actual violation of Free Speech. The First Amendment says that the federal government can&#x
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by viscanti 6y ago
It appears these bikes were designed to not be user serviceable. Bespoke tools are needed to do any maintenance and there aren't off the shelf parts for anyone who would need anything replaced. This seems very different than selling a
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by viscanti 6y ago
Presumably there's more valuable data than just maps. I would imagine that Lyft could give valuable real-time data like areas of the city where there's traffic congestion and slower drive times. It's unclear how you'd va
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by viscanti 6y ago
>Should the "working class" person in Alabama without any retirement prospects be forced to bail out (via the Federal Gov't) the state of California's very generous pensions that were not fiscally sustainable in the f
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by viscanti 7y ago
Counterpoint: Microsoft's obsession with backward compatibility is why there are so many zero day exploits for their OS. Complexity comes with a cost.
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by viscanti 7y ago
But it's different than literally every other employment opportunity right? No one flips burgers at McDonalds and runs across the street to make a taco at Taco Bell and then runs back to do more burgers at McDonalds all in the same hou
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by viscanti 7y ago
> The main difference is that the handymen can easily look for other customers elsewhere to find an alternative job. Uber drivers don't have this choice. I'm not sure what the situation is like in France, but most Uber drivers
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by viscanti 7y ago
The author doesn't have the vocabulary for it, but what they're explaining is the difference between complicated problems and complex problems. The existing education system trains software engineers to solve complicated problems,
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by viscanti 7y ago
Great point. There's enough research there to show it's not just a fun sci-fi idea. It's not something that should be dismissed so easily.
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by viscanti 7y ago
You're comparing all their lines of business but the OP talks specifically about the Rides business which they said generated a large EBIDTA profit and was more than enough to cover all G&A and R&D. It doesn't look like th
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by viscanti 7y ago
This appears to have been debunked already. https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/29/coronavirus-china-lab-m...
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by viscanti 7y ago
No one lives in the overcrowded costal states anymore. They're too overcrowded.
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I noticed a lot of people using scooters and bikes when I visited Venice Beach in December. There appear to be markets where they're used year round.
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> Did Parisians continue speaking to you in French? I found that they immediately switched to English when I spoke French to them. I've found this to be the case too. But their English is almost always better than my French. I'
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by viscanti 7y ago
> Online content is often low-quality, highly commercial in nature and very ephemeral. One question I ask myself when consuming online content is "would I pay any money for this". Generally the answer is no, the quality isn&#x2
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by viscanti 7y ago
Pro tip: If you find that the only argument you can make is whataboutism, then you're probably defending something that you shouldn't be defending. It's fine to talk about the political influence of Zuckerberg's friends
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> While they are all still in the greater SV orbit - commuting between many of the greater SV cities is a fucking nightmare. The same could be said about commuting across opposite sides of LA.
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by viscanti 7y ago
Usually ads care about more demographic data than just device type. Unless you are advertising iPhone cases you probably care more about other data.
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by viscanti 7y ago
+1. Team of Teams is a great intro to leadership for tech. General Chrystal identifies the distinction between complicated and complex areas and shows best practices for dealing with complexity (it's not just a semantic argument but ac
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by viscanti 7y ago
But don't a lot of people who live in the Rust Belt shop at Walmart and benefit from cheaper prices generally? I haven't seen any "made in America" competitor to Walmart that's thriving because there's so much
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by viscanti 7y ago
Google can use the data to help advertisers better target ads to you to trick you into buying stuff you otherwise wouldn't.

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