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by xenadu02 4y ago
It will eventually settle. If they sue and win Musk's financing will have long backed out so they aren't going to end up with enough to close the deal. I suppose they could force him into bankruptcy which would end up with his own
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by xenadu02 4y ago
I'm somewhat surprised. The National Weather Service in the US has a website: https://weather.gov . There is a radar map https://radar.weather.gov/ and forecasts https://digital.weather.gov . They
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by xenadu02 4y ago
You can rent a 3/2 house with garage for 4k in San Francisco. My mortgage in SF is not even 10k! The only people paying 5-10k for an apartment are doing it in a trendy area, posh building, or both. Personally I'd consider that a w
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by xenadu02 4y ago
We don't really know because Dr Calhoun didn't keep research notes or samples, published few scientific papers on his research, never captured or shared significant statistical data, had few controls and little regard for cofounds
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by xenadu02 4y ago
> The societal structures that have worked in the past I think you are vastly over-estimating these "societal structures". You don't clearly define them but based on conservative ideology they represent a temporary family
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by xenadu02 4y ago
Sorry I should have been clearer: I am referring to "Sonic Fiber" which is their own infrastructure, not any kind of resold service which they do offer in areas where they have not deployed their own fiber infrastructure. In the B
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by xenadu02 4y ago
> Something is gonna have to give. Why? The work product of a senior engineer (on average) is worth some multiple of the TC or the company wouldn't be paying it. Tom Cruise makes way more than the director or the studio execs too. B
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by xenadu02 4y ago
Besides what DannyBee says about termination being a lot cheaper and easier when you can tolerate small losses (which is most people): Big infrastructure often orders the cables pre-terminated, eg an ISP will order their arial cable with bu
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by xenadu02 4y ago
This sounds like post-hoc rationalization. I have Sonic fiber in SF. 1Gbps symmetric, over a "fragile fiber" run directly into my home. It works quite well. The drop cable is pre-made in standard lengths with weatherproof connecto
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by xenadu02 4y ago
> I'd argue that SSDs have done more harm than good I can't imagine the thought process that would lead to a statement like that. SSDs are the single best thing to happen to personal computing in the past 15 years. Absolutely n
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by xenadu02 4y ago
As long as it isn't too disadvantageous for female giraffes it highly likely that it is easier for evolution to end up with both sexes having long necks, for the same reason male mammals have nipples. Sometimes the genes involved are s
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by xenadu02 4y ago
In macOS terms ssh is a "StandardIO" session, not an Aqua (UI) session so it shouldn't even attempt the biometric prompt in that case.
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by xenadu02 4y ago
> He would be wrong with those claims, too. No he isn't. His point is that some potential business models need $X amount of software engineering work to have a viable product, has a potential customer base of $Y, and the market will
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by xenadu02 4y ago
I don't think his tweet is saying SWEs don't deserve 400k. He's saying some business models are not viable at that price. So in relation to his tweet that's not wrong. If your medical business needs to hire doctors for 2
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by xenadu02 4y ago
This is absolutely correct. Source: bought a house in SF in the past year. The majority of SF's land area is single-family housing. There's as much undeveloped land in Sunset backyards as there is in all of Golden Gate Park - poss
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by xenadu02 4y ago
I find it hilarious that all of the anti-EU arguments are more or less the same as the arguments against the United States government. The states joining up to form a larger entity certainly took some power away from the individual states a
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by xenadu02 4y ago
Interesting that this is so complicated in a big Bay Area tech company. At a fruit-themed Bay Area company I can register a domain name behind a load balancer, issue a new cert, kickoff a VM to host it internally all in the same day without
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by xenadu02 4y ago
In other words: no, you can't make certain kinds of innovations without begging permission first.
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by xenadu02 4y ago
It seems more likely to be a result of consolidation on the manufacturing side and the monopolizers paying their competitors to stay out of the market (or to just resell the main brand which subsequently rations the supply). Shire pulled th
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by xenadu02 4y ago
This is correct. Wood frame buildings sway and flex during an earthquake. The weight is less important. The problem spots tend to be attachment to the foundation (the building disconnects from the moving ground and starts to skitter around)
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by xenadu02 4y ago
> You couldn't and still can't call out fair prices on mobile software. People weren't and aren't willing to pay those. I'm not sure if that is strictly true. Prices did vary a lot in the beginning. However scale
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by xenadu02 4y ago
We should have libmetamalloc that tracks a history of program invocations using the actual workload on the actual machine. Cycle through different malloc implementations for each execve(). After gathering enough statistical data select the
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by xenadu02 4y ago
> Unfortunately, I think Apple lost a lot of the institutional knowledge from the Newton project before the iPhone was developed, or perhaps it was never that widespread even inside Apple. What makes you believe that? > But perhaps mo
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by xenadu02 4y ago
Innovating too early usually fails. Wait too long and it's not innovation. There's an art to innovating enough that people want to buy what you're selling given the limitations of hardware/networks/ecosystems at the
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by xenadu02 4y ago
You know how YC investors pick teams, not products? Apple at the time bought a team, not the technology. They also bought credibility by bringing a founder back on-board. Apple's biggest problem at the time was bad management, followed
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by xenadu02 4y ago
> What really kills me is that none of the complainers have any experience designing consumer hardware let alone running a business that sells those designs This applies to the majority of people commenting about such things here on HN.
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by xenadu02 4y ago
It seems like the expense would be in the armored outer cable, repeaters, and labor for laying the cable but perhaps at those distances the glass cost matters? Still it seems like you'd want to cram as many fibers into the cable as pos
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by xenadu02 4y ago
Funny that some people commenting on the video immediately claim it is fake. This kind of abuse was extremely common when CS was in perpetual beta and voice chat first started being a thing. There is clearly a subset of online gamers, espec
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by xenadu02 4y ago
Command-` does this natively: cycle through windows of the active application. Note that on an ANSI keyboard backtick is right above Tab so it makes sense from a layout perspective.
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by xenadu02 4y ago
> in a hermetically sealed room I thought these chambers have pressure-triggered relief valves and rely on elevated pressure in the chamber to force air out? Basically dumping some of the existing air/gas in the chamber which carrie

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