athinggoingon

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by athinggoingon 2y ago
I use org-mode for note taking and personal knowledge base . In my notes.org file, I collect all kind of snippets, knowledge, ideas, how-tos, and such stuff. Outlines make it possible to hide parts of the text in the buffer. A headline sta
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by athinggoingon 2y ago
https://archive.is/ttyjH
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CrowdStrike's Financial Reporting Comes Under Scrutiny(wsj.com)
5 points by athinggoingon 2y ago|1 comments
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Anduril uses embedded Haskell in their stack(discourse.haskell.org)
3 points by athinggoingon 2y ago|0 comments
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Arthur C. Clarke predicted the WFH phenomenon back in 1974 [video](youtube.com)
5 points by athinggoingon 2y ago|1 comments
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by athinggoingon 3y ago
China's debt-to-GDP ratio is higher than the US and stands at around 280%: https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/chinas-growth-is-burie... Also, China's "innovation" is mostly built on IP theft.
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by athinggoingon 3y ago
Try 600 million. It's supposed to shrink by half.
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by athinggoingon 3y ago
Companies that provide store fronts that law abiding customers living in those neighborhoods can't live without.
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by athinggoingon 3y ago
Do you expect these corporate announcements to contain anything but PR and euphemisms?
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by athinggoingon 3y ago
As a middle easterner who has lived all over the world, you sound like someone who has never traveled outside of your cocoon of a bubble.
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by athinggoingon 3y ago
Once tech companies can no longer cover negative cash flow with "funding", persistent tech unemployment will be reality.
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by athinggoingon 4y ago
Wouldn't that fit the second criteria since many first generation immigrants don't have the requisite language skills to compete with the native population for middle class jobs.
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The Six Mistakes Executives Make in Risk Management(hbr.org)
1 points by athinggoingon 4y ago|0 comments
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by athinggoingon 4y ago
Except that's what the Fed is trying to correct. Inflation is caused when the money supply in an economy grows at faster rate than the economy's ability to produce goods and services.
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by athinggoingon 4y ago
> The government finances its operations by issuing T-bills. If nobody is willing to buy T-bills, the government can't get cash to pay government employees, including the FBI, CIA, military, etc. If nobody is willing to buy T-bills,
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by athinggoingon 4y ago
>> They’ll run out of money in 2-3 years if it’s not working. No. They won't run out of money in 2-3 years, they IPO. Or at least, they did in a zero-interest rate environment. "VCs pay the angels. PE pays the VCs. IBs pay t
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There is no longer an option to watch “All” videos on YouTube(old.reddit.com)
1 points by athinggoingon 4y ago|1 comments
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by athinggoingon 4y ago
I didn't interpret the parent comment's reference to "automation and robotics" to include "industrialization and specialization". Sounds like a bunch of brogrammers coding up useless growth tech, funded by clue
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by athinggoingon 4y ago
How exactly is "automation and robotics" taking the burden from our shoulders? I live in a single family house. I still need to hire plumbers, electricians, handy men to paint my house, etc. I still need to hover over a porcelain
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by athinggoingon 4y ago
Her review of Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco https://web.archive.org/web/20221113051430/https://www.goodr... My very uninformed impression of how companies work is something like: - ther
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by athinggoingon 4y ago
She is one of the devils in nerd's clothing: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2022/11/12/the-devil... She was an advocate of effective altruism who seems to be part of a conspiracy to ha
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Caroline Ellison (Alameda Research CEO) Deleted Her Goodreads Account(web.archive.org)
14 points by athinggoingon 4y ago|13 comments
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by athinggoingon 4y ago
You're thinking about the Basij: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basij
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by athinggoingon 4y ago
The absolute worst is iCIMS. It's probably used as an obedience/submissiveness test by the recruiters. If you make it through the application process you've shown that you're desperate enough for this job.
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by athinggoingon 4y ago
Listen/read the latest econtalk episode to learn why Stable coins are supper popular at places like Argentina: https://www.econtalk.org/devon-zuegel-on-inflation-argentina... Basically, the reason is that the Governmen
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Product Opportunity Assessment (POA)(svpg.com)
1 points by athinggoingon 4y ago|0 comments
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Founder bought a lottery ticket for everyone of his employees(old.reddit.com)
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by athinggoingon 4y ago
Whataboutism or whataboutery (as in "what about…?") denotes in a pejorative sense a procedure in which a critical question or argument is not answered or discussed, but retorted with a critical counter-question which expresses a c
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Online, “run philosophy” has become a coded way of talking about emigrating(theguardian.com)
22 points by athinggoingon 4y ago|11 comments
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ARK’s Expected Value For Zoom In 2026: $1,500 Per Share(github.com)
2 points by athinggoingon 4y ago|0 comments

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