UkrainianJew

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by UkrainianJew 4y ago
>At $3/coffee (black, nothing fancy) purchased on average four times per week across 4.5 years of school, the total came to roughly $1,700 $3 x 2 people x 365 days = ~$2K A decent fully automatic Espresso machine is ~$1K. You load t
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by UkrainianJew 4y ago
Sadly, this is not very practical. A lithium cell in itself is a chemical time bomb: if it gets mechanically damaged or short-circuited, it has enough oomph to burn your device, skin or house. For factory-produced battery packs this effect
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by UkrainianJew 4y ago
I find it rather worrying in the long term. Russia has been an extremely inefficient and corrupt state for the past 2 decades. Export oil & gas, import everything else, let the cronies pocket the proceeds, while having most manufacturin
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by UkrainianJew 4y ago
The quality of the political leadership is a direct consequence of what average people want from their leadership. For the past decade or so the modus operandi has been: 1. Print more money, give it to bureaucrats and corporations 2. Toss i
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by UkrainianJew 4y ago
The best time was at the peak. The second best time is now (*) * - not an investment advice.
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by UkrainianJew 4y ago
It's from a press-release that is intended to minimize the fears among investors. So the number likely includes part-time youtube moderators, cafeteria staff, and a lot of other minor jobs with incredibly high churn.
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by UkrainianJew 4y ago
May I humbly ask for an example? In my personal experience, trying to rush a short-term solution while ignoring the long-term implications always makes situation worse. Like eating planting stock to address immediate hunger would cause a de
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by UkrainianJew 4y ago
>You don't get anything "for free", and cutting supports like this will inevitably doom a sputtering economy, when the actual solution was almost certainly more government spending, not less. Government spending isn't
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Study: Association between mask mandates and Covid infections in North Dakota(researchsquare.com)
67 points by UkrainianJew 4y ago|94 comments
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by UkrainianJew 4y ago
Like it or not, the mainstream liberal arts education has devolved into a religion of its own. For instance, we treat climate change not as an engineering problem worth solving (how many "climate studies" prepare actual engineers
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by UkrainianJew 4y ago
I also remember Air Canada or WestJet doing the same to some small air company offering cheap flights from Kelowna (?), but I cannot find the news piece. Does anybody here have a better memory than myself?
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by UkrainianJew 4y ago
The utterly inefficient and overpriced Canadian telecoms exist only because we allow one specific behavior: 1. A new local player comes to town, builds their own infrastructure (e.g. connects one building to fiber) and starts offering compe
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by UkrainianJew 4y ago
Heat keeps leaking out. The amount of stored heat is proportional to the cube of the linear size, the leak rate is proportional to the surface area (square of the linear size). Hence, the bigger the storage, the higher the efficiency. Same
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by UkrainianJew 4y ago
Don't blame the VCs, blame the public. Extra headcount absolutely increases your perceived credibility at an IPO, so they are growing this metric. In defense of the public, if 10 devs out of 30 decide to leave and open a competing busi
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by UkrainianJew 4y ago
They can and will use legal means to go after anyone trying to use the network this way in order to make the content less discoverable and discourage others from following suit. Being coined as the Napster on Blockchain is the worst possibl
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by UkrainianJew 4y ago
Curiosity question: has anyone done any work on reverse-engineering the Sony Mega Bass feature they used to have on old analog players (and ported to some early MP3 ones)? It sounded so much deeper than any phone/sound card would give.
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by UkrainianJew 4y ago
That would paint a huge red target mark on filecoin's back, given that they raised over a quarter-billion. They would take it down faster than you can have an 8TB HDD shipped to you.
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by UkrainianJew 4y ago
More like an ad company driven by dark patterns that needs to pretend being good and nice and innovative as otherwise it will lose goodwill just like Facebook did.
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by UkrainianJew 4y ago
>I can't think of a way to do things like proving that a particular debit happened. Prove to whom? Banks have multiple layers of redundancy (including internal logs, paper/PDF statements, etc). So in case of any software error
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by UkrainianJew 4y ago
>For example, who wouldn't want a system that forces banks to track customer balances in a secure, private, and auditable data structure? Crypto doesn't force banks to do that. Also, if it was a real problem, there would be leg
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by UkrainianJew 4y ago
It's not that easy. Lots of Amazon's profits come from countless unprofitable startups blowing VC money on AWS. Google is swimming in money because numerous companies have generous ad budgets. Apple relies on people exchanging the
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by UkrainianJew 4y ago
IANAL, but I think what they are trying to say here is "We are not a bank. Dear SEC, please don't treat us like one - go ask Metropolitan for all your regulatory cravings". "Therefore, each Customer is a customer of the
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by UkrainianJew 4y ago
>So does that mean anyone with less than $250k is guaranteed their money? Is there any legal backing? No, it means that up to $250K of Voyager's USD is protected by FDIC in case their bank flops. That is the combined limit shared be
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by UkrainianJew 4y ago
>That is gross incompetence. Not necessarily. As a CEO, you suddenly see your sales plunge. You run the numbers and think: is it just a panic/fluke? Is it going to bounce back? Are we losing the sales to a new competitor? You eventu
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by UkrainianJew 4y ago
Yep, the cleanest country on the planet, where the biggest share of the GDP is flipping the real estate to the Chinese capital, proudly made with no environmental roadblocks in sight. Your kids will never afford a house, but the liberal pol
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by UkrainianJew 4y ago
Unpopular opinion: any reasonable policies and restrictions are always compromises between the 2 polar opposite extremes. For example, killing all humans on Earth would completely stop climate change, but the price is unreasonably high. As
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by UkrainianJew 4y ago
It's not just that. The job of the companies is to make the most money using the legally available means, and the job of the government is to create regulation that makes "good" behavior profitable and imposes heavy penalties
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by UkrainianJew 4y ago
Tesla P/E is at 94, Ford is at 4, so they are overvalued by quite a lot. The interest rates will likely reach 3% by the end of the year, and may need to go all the way to 8% to have a meaningful effect on the inflation. Every measurabl
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by UkrainianJew 4y ago
Well, then as patronizing as it may sound, if you are looking for regular developer job, you should care more about the technology stack (as it affects your resell value for the next job), what big features the company recently delivered (t
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by UkrainianJew 4y ago
Well, if you can properly formulate these questions, distinguish a good answer from a bad one, AND know how to write code, you should be talking to investors (or prospective customers) rather than applying for coding jobs.

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