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by xyzzy21 6y ago
There is a phrase: "He is well-schooled but poorly educated" This is specifically and commonly referring to Ivy League grads. A degree is a Bayesian result that might (or might not) indicate successful education. Thus being schoo
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
Not creepy at all... NOT. But maybe that's the point. A webcam already can surveil like this.
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
Absolutely! And the FPGAs need not even be as efficient in packing as Xilinx or Altera. The thing that always gets me: you are already charging for HW - that's the only real business model. The CAD tools 1) suck, 2) aren't going
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
ARM doesn't make anything either - it's 100% IP just like Redbull. And RAMBUS is/was another. This is a quite viable business model. It's largely the reason why Intel is on the skids but ARM is in ascendency: no one com
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
Actually I think we peaked 10-20 years ago. My father experience most of the peak 50-odd years - thankfully he didn't live to see what the world has become. The sobering reality once you understand things is that we are never more tha
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
So much of Google's HR policies are so clearly illegal I still boggled by it. We saw this in spades with Damore but also with numerous other situations since. When I started working at HP, within 1 week we had "Neophytes Training
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
We are a long way from solid-state batteries being a thing. 20 years minimum. The one key problem is that you must put them under insanely large pressures to make them work. Basically the solid components are far too diffuse and low densi
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
It depends on the definition of "semiconductor startup". Since 1990 there have been no foundry or IDM (vertical) startups funded by Sandhill road VCs. ZERO. Zip. Nada. Fabless have been founded exclusively by VCs. But they are NO
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
Depending on the power-relationship with any given customer, you may not get the option to dictate this - sometimes the customer tells you want it will do and you have to follow. Other times you can dictate but without the flexibility, you
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
Great article! And it only schemes the surface. There's also PO-based vs. CC-based payment which have different sequencing of the details. You have one I run into all the time: Net-30 vs. Net-60 vs. Net-90. As well as linkages to quo
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
Yep. WeWork was always a non-tech real estate play with some very bad finance built into it; it was NEVER a tech company in any way shape or form simply because it had a web site! But that was the lie told - "We will have double-digit
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
You are also more likely to be financially successful when you do not actually need the financial success.
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
The actual "radioactivity" is due to nature uranium and thorium in the original phosphate rock. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphogypsum There are NUMEROUS places in the US that have similar or larger NATU
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
The United States did in 1959: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS_Savannah
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
What's the energy consumption to make this moderately complex organic compound? If it takes more energy (largely generated from fossil fuels - and generating CO2 itself) than it removes... it's not going to be viable. You must h
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
We've been down this path before with vaccines. Often what seems promising early on doesn't pan out long-term. This is why clinical trials are so lengthy. You have to operate at the time-constants of biology and the human body r
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
Several things about this: 1. Uber was already under a consent decree related to ADA violations when this both was happening and got filed. So this was already a known problem and executive management had AMPLE time to remedy it. This is
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
Legally it's simple - don't drive for Uber or Lyft.
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
"The Cloud" absolutely can NOT be trusted with anything serious. I'm still amazed serious people actually think it's a smart or wise idea. It's become a "Go to the fridge and get the box" type of mindles
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
Woke and Cancelling IS McMartin all over again; precisely. I used to live and work near Manhattan Beach (where McMartin was located) and it was obviously an irrational panic from the very beginning! The moment they started talking about &q
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
This is long trodden knowledge dating back to the 1960-1970s when NASA studied it. At Earth orbit you only double the total power/meter^2 and that boost is no where near covering the added cost of space launch for anything (even with S
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
Cancer is not a specific thing. It's like saying: White People do X - not only not ALL, not often not even more than one. "White People" is a label that ignores individuals and no two are the same. Sometimes similar but nev
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
I'm not happy with ANY of it which is why I have no social media accounts and I've been seriously considering a "dumb phone" to replace my smart phone. I simply don't use most of the features and it's a securi
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
Not when I can buy an ICE and operate for cheaper - note the nearest "charge station" to me is 30+ miles away and then the next nearest is 100+ miles beyond that. The drop in diesel and gasoline prices recently only cements the va
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
Well, like the old SNL skit: "With a name like that, you KNOW it must be good."
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
Overhead costs for most jobs including benefits are typically only 120%-150% of salary (people in sales are typically 200% of base salary with most of that being travel and expenses, but they are the ones bringing in top-line revenue for th
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
I no longer see "believing in God" as being necessary per se to practice or benefit from religion. More important is the self-discipline it can create through repetition and habit. Religion has the same function as "branding
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
Agreed (I should read the questions more carefully) - this is stuff you learn working on the corporate world in about 10-15 years if you pay attention or what you can learn in an MBA program IFF you don't treat the program as a rote co
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
For the same reason we had a toilet paper shortage: there are two legal "types" of the thing and legally you can't "cross the streams". Not without the exact same people complaining to make it housing crying bloody
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
Yeah. Those of us in the industry (and who personally saw Silicon Valley become a dried husk in the mid-1990s due to outsourcing) have known this for 20 years. We've also known that China has been intentionally inducing all the world&

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