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151.
by wbl 4mo ago
I, unlike you, live in a democracy and expect the government to not send goons to intimidate opponents.
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by wbl 4mo ago
It took a bit for the VC world to heat up and a lot of big companies had laid people off.
153.
by wbl 4mo ago
If your career was entirely post GFC you lived through the good times. The GFC and dot com crash were not good.
154.
by wbl 4mo ago
Most transactions just getting the results is all you need
155.
by wbl 4mo ago
And then we watch fraud soar. The 3% pays for a lot of bad transactions reversals and dispute management.
156.
by wbl 4mo ago
Market cap weighting is special. If company A has 500 shares, company B 500 also, than a fund that has 5 shares of A and 5 of B is market cap weighted.
157.
by wbl 4mo ago
The US did not have a civilian engineering school for a few decades after the founding. West Point was the only institution creating engineers. Given they had responsibility for port defenses the civil engineering of waterways was an easy a
158.
by wbl 4mo ago
In the right case just one. The US invasion of Afghanistan required some extremely rare language knowledge to be successful.
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by wbl 4mo ago
IBM
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by wbl 4mo ago
Doesn't actually work that well. Browsers hate this, the hardware isn't actually difficult for bots to access, and privacy story is bad. There are solutions being worked on.
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by wbl 4mo ago
There is a meme going around of a screenshot of a vet textbook: "Do not fight the cat. It has sharper claws, faster, and no code of ethics. Use your brain. Use drugs"
162.
by wbl 6mo ago
Don't forget the locking semantics. That was fun and caused Sage to fail.
163.
by wbl 6mo ago
"NFS provides the semantics your applications expect" is one of the funniest things I have ever read.
164.
by wbl 6mo ago
Have fun trying that in CA.
165.
by wbl 6mo ago
The first time I played it I got a little sleepy and went to bed. It was 3 am.
166.
by wbl 7mo ago
A site can authenticate a client cert from a different PKI than one it has.
167.
by wbl 7mo ago
Dylan going electric was not about instrument choices. It was about abandoning the radical folk music tradition that Seeger, Guthrie, etc. had revived.
168.
by wbl 7mo ago
Hensel's lemma is an analytic fact about the radius and speed of convergence of Newtons method in the p-adics.
169.
by wbl 7mo ago
Why exactly do you have complex error analysis happening above a component that has the error? That's anti modular.
170.
by wbl 7mo ago
I think you want sum types which admittedly Go doesn't have in a matchable way. However complex error recovery is an anti pattern for Go.
171.
by wbl 7mo ago
That's what all these accounting rules exist to stop. No, you can't pretend that equipment breaking doesn't happen. No, you need to account for fixing the roof etc.
172.
by wbl 7mo ago
People are dying of these diseases every day
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by wbl 7mo ago
Worth it
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by wbl 7mo ago
Kids have different maturities and should face increasing responsibilities as they age.
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by wbl 7mo ago
Ultrahigh density polyethylene isn't that exotic.
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by wbl 7mo ago
JP threw his own money on the table . Silicon valley's VCs whined for bailouts.
177.
by wbl 7mo ago
This is well known in Perl as the Schwartz transform
178.
by wbl 8mo ago
Not at interconnect speeds
179.
by wbl 8mo ago
They wouldn't for me: not that obese, no other health effects.
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by wbl 8mo ago
I'm obese. The drugs are approved. But without another condition they aren't covered by my HMO so I have to go outside.

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