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by xvedejas 4y ago
This sounds like a case for different corporate governance, yeah?
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by xvedejas 4y ago
Okay, interesting. I'm guessing those people typically had many normal shares too, right? Otherwise if they're given a fairly small financial stake, and have no skin in the game -- I'm guessing that most investors wouldn&#x27
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by xvedejas 4y ago
Aren't those classes of stock with voting power worth a lot more? I'm not sure how you'd possibly avoid being rich on paper if you have a majority voting power for Google.
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by xvedejas 4y ago
There are hundreds of stories like this out of Caltech as well. Ultimately it makes one believe the saying that it's better to ask for forgiveness than permission, and that getting things done relies on this.
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by xvedejas 4y ago
Although battery fires can easily reach 1500C, and involve reactions that generate oxygen, meaning that depriving the fire of oxygen isn't enough to put it out. The best you can typically do is just let it burn itself out. This works b
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by xvedejas 4y ago
It makes a lot more sense if you have multiple screens, and want to effectively have certain windows open in particular groups.
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by xvedejas 4y ago
We can treat them the same: hold someone accountable when their project over-spends and under-delivers. Maybe even fire them. It would happen naturally in successful companies, but (at least in the US) there's often no accountability i
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by xvedejas 4y ago
If daily user growth is increasing linearly, total user count is squaring over time. Exponential growth would be when daily growth is proportional to the current number of users, which is different.
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by xvedejas 4y ago
There is zero mechanism for average Russians to pressure their government, otherwise I suspect we would not have gotten into this situation in the first place.
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by xvedejas 4y ago
Yes, 2 hours from Sac. Quite rough to do every day, but I'd think pleasant to do twice a week; there's WiFi and a café on board, for what it's worth. That said, if you just want cheaper housing, Fairfield is only an hour away
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by xvedejas 4y ago
This is not a strategy for everyone, but I definitely pay less in SF than I would in most cities because I know people willing to live with me long-term (and split rent) here. Generally it's easier in SF to find a roommate who is high-
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by xvedejas 4y ago
The capitol corridor train is pleasant enough, even if not the most convenient of bay area transit options.
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by xvedejas 4y ago
I'm having trouble figuring out what you mean by 480 days. Per year? Per child? Per couple, for the duration of their marriage? What if one parent doesn't work? I guess it doesn't work how I first assumed (per year), because
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by xvedejas 4y ago
The landowners pay the tax. Because of the vertical supply curve (land supply is fixed), it does not get passed on. This is true for any good that has fixed supply when the tax is equal to the gain in having exclusive rights to that good.
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by xvedejas 4y ago
One of the ways I avoid getting stabbed with a dirty needle is based on background rates. I think I'm safe in sticking with my priors that acupuncture clinics are held to less of a standard than vaccines are. Hypodermic needles necessa
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by xvedejas 4y ago
There's a lot of analysis out there showing that LVT is the one kind of tax that is not transferred into rent. On the contrary, it's expected that rents would drop under LVT, since land would become less scarce where people are wi
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by xvedejas 4y ago
This is maybe true for the landowner, but it's much less true for the renter. Since land is more available (due to fewer underproductive uses), you can expect more competition to put renters in land efficient configurations (high rises
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by xvedejas 4y ago
But surely we can deduce that property taxes are _more_ immoral than a land value tax. With both, you do have to pay more when the wealthy decide your area is valuable. (Leave aside for the moment the argument that some Georgists will argue
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by xvedejas 4y ago
They now do have a remedial kind of class, "Math 1d", which is to be taken concurrently with Math 1a. I was placed into it after not trying very hard on my placement test, but they let me drop it when I told them I didn't nee
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by xvedejas 5y ago
This is a useful thing: storing energy in a phase change makes it easier to keep the energy stored for a longer period of time compared to if there was no phase change. The difficult part is that steam is much farther from ambient temperatu
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by xvedejas 5y ago
This seems to be missing my biggest gripe: adding new attributes to classes outside of `__init__()` or `__slots__`. Sadly I have to deal with code that does this with some frequency. Sometimes the attribute is added and accessed outside of
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by xvedejas 5y ago
Is that capital X and O? So you need to hold shift as well?
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by xvedejas 5y ago
Is heel striking bad? I am not a runner, but I've practiced heel striking while backpacking to give myself more foot-stamina. Maybe there's a better way?
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by xvedejas 5y ago
For me, the urges for sugar and alcohol are very very similar. I've never had urges to binge either, but cutting either out completely after semi-consistent use does result in similar cravings. And I've noticed that my urge for bo
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by xvedejas 5y ago
To add a bit more detail: the amount you have to zoom in for shapes to look right will increase with absolute latitude. So the equator pretty much always looks good on Mercator, Europe looks good if you're looking at the continent scal
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by xvedejas 5y ago
The more you zoom in, the better Mercator should be. That's a big part of why Web Mercator exists: there are no other options beyond mercator if you want a projection where north is always up, and right-angle street intersections look
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by xvedejas 5y ago
lon=x, lat=y is not Mercator at all, it gives the "equirectangular" projection. This has none of the nice properties of Mercator (angles are heavily distorted).
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by xvedejas 5y ago
I'm going through this right now. 3 trips to the ER to get a diagnosis, since it just happened spontaneously. Two months so far laying flat 20+ hours a day. I haven't been able to see a neurologist yet about it (I have an appointm
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by xvedejas 5y ago
I find it interesting how many neighborhoods all across America I hear described as "just-beginning-to-gentrify". The neighborhood I live in has been described as that for thirty years now. Depending on who you ask, it's eith
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by xvedejas 5y ago
It shouldn't be considered a local maximum if slight deviations can improve the situation. In that case, it's just lack of ability to optimize.

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