JacobAldridge

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by JacobAldridge 6mo ago
I remember when Sriracha disappeared from the market for a while (2022?). The story I heard at the time was heavily positive, talking up the handshakes and relationship angle - suggesting the supplier had a bad harvest (drought) so the manu
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Hello/Goodbye to Milo(joinmilo.substack.com)
3 points by JacobAldridge 8mo ago|0 comments
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Trajectoids: Creating a shape that rolls along a desired path(techxplore.com)
1 points by JacobAldridge 2y ago|0 comments
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He's 130, with three eyes and two girlfriends: meet New Zealand' tuatara Henry(theguardian.com)
3 points by JacobAldridge 2y ago|0 comments
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Andrew S. Tanenbaum Receives ACM Software System Award(vu.nl)
381 points by JacobAldridge 2y ago|102 comments
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by JacobAldridge 3y ago
As the aphorism goes, there are Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics.
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The Uselessness of Net Promoter Score(madhurchadha.com)
4 points by JacobAldridge 3y ago|0 comments
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by JacobAldridge 3y ago
I don’t know if there’s an xkcd for this, but there’s certainly an SMBC - https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-02-17 I don’t think I’ve ever finished Doom, and I mostly played it on other people’s PCs when I was in h
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Doom at 30: what it means, by the people who made it(theguardian.com)
4 points by JacobAldridge 3y ago|1 comments
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by JacobAldridge 3y ago
Only if they know their Alphabet
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by JacobAldridge 3y ago
I think everyone on Twitter still calls it Facebook, but not sure if every Google employee thinks differently.
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by JacobAldridge 3y ago
Flashbacks to 2008, when u/zemaj searched for NetworkSolutionsSucksBalls.com so we could all chuckle at the Network Solutions man at work under that domain. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=96246 Plus ça change.
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by JacobAldridge 3y ago
How ironic that now English is the global lingua franca.
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by JacobAldridge 3y ago
Wholly unrelated to the topic at hand, but while you’re here… I minimise how many email subscriptions I have, so don’t keep pace with many writers. But I have an annual tradition going back maybe 8-10 years of over my Christmas break readin
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by JacobAldridge 3y ago
I’ll join the others in chorus recommending an in-person attendance to the Van Gogh museum. I attended after enjoying another classic Amsterdam experience, munching through a potent hash brownie. Despite giving myself the recommended enjoym
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by JacobAldridge 3y ago
I’m in a similar boat. Currently using an iPhone 8 (that’s less than 2 years old); I figure the next move will be one of the Minis perhaps?
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by JacobAldridge 3y ago
I agree with you. Debt is a terrible master, but can be a wonderful servant and I wouldn’t be as financially successful as I am without leverage. And that’s not a wealth empire - just a regular family geared into real estate. Of course, the
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by JacobAldridge 3y ago
On the less technical front, rebranding and repackaging my SME coaching (10-100 employees) business. I explain that AI means I bring Actual Intelligence, but increasingly I’m getting hands on implementing some actual AI tools to free up som
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by JacobAldridge 3y ago
I was only 12 when Shoemaker-Levy banged into Jupiter in 1994, so wiser minds or those with better memories may correct me. At the time, the leading theory for what killed the dinosaurs was still quite terrestrial - volcanos and climate cha
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by JacobAldridge 3y ago
I think I just realised why no farmers trained in Artificial Insemination are opening my “Detailed” and “Visual” Artificial Intelligence tutorials…
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by JacobAldridge 3y ago
Not meaningless, just temporary in a way they didn’t forecast. Imagine you could buy a house for $200,000, live in it for a year, and then sell it for $1M. Would you take that deal, even if you didn’t like the seller?
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by JacobAldridge 3y ago
Don't get me wrong - I never saw the value! Just answering the question. Why in 2021 did they give him that payout? Likely because they thought it offered the best ROI moving forward (and for some shareholders, especially anyone who so
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by JacobAldridge 3y ago
"Neumann’s ability to negotiate such rich terms was helped by the fact that his shareholdings controlled 10 times the votes of a normal shareholder, and he was able to argue for a higher price to cede control." Correctly or, mor
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by JacobAldridge 3y ago
I would bet picodollars that rarely happens here…
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by JacobAldridge 3y ago
Depending on the size of the company, you’d probably need a team; but there aren’t too many companies with a tax attorney on the staff so the accounting team would be doing the heavy lifting.
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by JacobAldridge 3y ago
> What if all corporate accountants were required to be government employees? So then what if a company is seeking to expand internationally, and looking at options for various reasons (including costs, which includes the tax burden). Is
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Portugal’s bid to attract foreign money backfires on local rental market(theguardian.com)
4 points by JacobAldridge 3y ago|1 comments
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by JacobAldridge 3y ago
I always remember c as the c onstant speed of light [in a vacuum], but never pondered the actual origin beyond the perhaps rudimentary algebra “x, y, z are variables and a, b, c are constants”. I don’t think I thought c came from “cons
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2023 UNAIDS global AIDS update(thepath.unaids.org)
26 points by JacobAldridge 3y ago|45 comments
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by JacobAldridge 3y ago
For anyone not familiar with the (now 16 year old) comment that Colin is perhaps best remembered here for - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079 He’s brought far more value to the community than that, of course.

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