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by vladd 5y ago
If a poem (or book) makes 10% of its readers more likely to become geniuses and contribute to solving world problems such as cancer, but 0.1% of its readers are more likely to commit suicide, should that book be banned by law? Today's
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by vladd 5y ago
It's always relevant to ask: what problem are we trying to solve? The ban is meant to bring EU closer to the 2050 zero-CO2 emission goal. This will be achieved by shrinking current emissions while increasing CO2 removal ( see https:&#
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by vladd 6y ago
>> He said in a phone interview with a pro-government TV talk show that the amount takes into account the salvage operation, costs of stalled traffic, and lost transit fees for the week that the Ever Given had blocked the Suez Canal.
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UiPath Inc S-1 SEC Form(sec.report)
54 points by vladd 6y ago|56 comments
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by vladd 6y ago
Seems the article is confusing the "trigger" of an event with its "root cause". I like to give the example of the Concorde airplane crash [0] to exemplify the difference: the incident was triggered by debris on the run
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by vladd 6y ago
Unrealized gains are temporary in nature. Next year the pandemic could stop and the value of the company could drop back to previous values. Should the tax remain in effect in that case? You'd end up with a system where volatile compan
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by vladd 6y ago
The errors I've seen with some startups is that they rely on the unsubscribe mechanism of the mail sending platform, but then they use their customer-base emails across multiple mail sending platforms (and obviously people unsubscribe
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by vladd 6y ago
Deans, just like CEOs, are at the top of the leadership chain to protect the interests of the institution, and especially to maintain a long-term vision against short-term gains and speculation. Most people cave in when it's time to ma
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by vladd 6y ago
At the end of the day, students vote with their wallet. The decision of the dean chooses to protect an environment of low-risk social-compliant low-EQ classroom, which will act as a deterrent on the university's prestige moving forward
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by vladd 6y ago
In finance, you would compare 2020-q2 with 2019-q2. You would still get a similar 8% - 9% drop. That figure (32.9%) is based on future projections. Stating the predicted future as something that took place already would get someone fired in
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by vladd 6y ago
If spot instance price is the only communication channel between you and the cloud provider to achieve this, it's hard to do a good job at it. For example, if the spot price was $0.60 one hour ago, and $0.55 right now, and you still ha
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by vladd 6y ago
> One way to do it would be assign various jobs a value. Or you could use real money. It's not the value of the outcome for that job that you're interested, but rather its sensitivity to a delayed latency in executing it. For e
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by vladd 7y ago
There are significant second order effects (and 3rd, 4th degree effects and so on) that are difficult to foresee and accurately simulate. For example, just to continue on your train of thoughts, the number of average children in existing yo
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by vladd 7y ago
The economy is going to change, for sure. But different verticals are going to react differently to this state of intermittent lock-downs. Travel-related industries (hotels, restaurants, airlines, oil) are going downwards. Food delivery and
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Berkshire Hathaway 2019 Annual Report [pdf](berkshirehathaway.com)
2 points by vladd 7y ago|0 comments
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by vladd 7y ago
By reading the postmortem I got the feeling that it focuses primarily on providing a timeline of historical events without being future-looking. I did not find any questions that would trigger a path of improvement for similar future events
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by vladd 7y ago
Are you talking about "The Cloud is Just Someone Else's Computer"? If so, it's available at https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-cloud-is-just-someone-else...
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It’s later than you think(linkedin.com)
4 points by vladd 7y ago|1 comments
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Berkshire Hathaway 2018 Annual Shareholder Letter [pdf](berkshirehathaway.com)
151 points by vladd 8y ago|97 comments
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by vladd 8y ago
Uber and Lyft businesses are a marketplace that benefits from the effects of scale: when lots of drivers and customers are present, supply and demand are near each other and balance out nicely. It also suffers from the chicken and the egg p
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by vladd 8y ago
You can check-out http://www.curlie.org/ , which is the successor of DMoz, the volunteer-powered now-defunct Directory of Mozilla project.
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by vladd 8y ago
> anybody reading these plots? This is really the worst news A significant amount of work and investment goes into making some of these plots trend that way: https://datareport.goalkeepers.org/ You might be down-voted be
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by vladd 8y ago
In some situations, disagreement early in the decision making process could be beneficial to all participants. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disagree_and_commit for context (a principle used at Intel and Amazon).
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by vladd 8y ago
> If sharing won't generate enough revenue to pay for the cost, why would you? Any one-time cost can be amortized in time by recurring revenues, after which you're left with pure profit. Technical work (manage your reader'
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by vladd 8y ago
I don't think EU will be special in the grand scheme of things. US legislation is already pending under draft form ( https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-internet-privacy/pris... ). To rephrase: if you prod
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by vladd 8y ago
Subscriptions is the end-result. To get there you need many things: brand, reputation, good crawling, incoming links from authoritative sites. All of these are predicated on the idea of a global Internet. If webmasters in Europe stop linkin
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by vladd 8y ago
> It's unlikely that the benefits for the business would outweigh the costs. On the Internet, nobody cares where you are located. The fact that one cannot be bothered to serve their bytes, at basically marginal networking costs (and
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by vladd 8y ago
http://archive.is/MMWqL
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by vladd 8y ago
You can keep the timetable no matter what -- use sails just to save fuel consumption when weather is favorable.
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by vladd 8y ago
New features introduced in TLS 1.3 include: * smaller latency (0-RTT: zero round-trips support). * removes insecure encryption primitives (SHA1, MD5, RC4). * elliptic curve support. * downgrade protection. Some interesting read

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