calafrax

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by calafrax 9y ago
Sure you do. Two mediocre programmers working as a pair might get 100k each. One elite programmer can clear 7 figures easily. The elite programmer will also have much more control over the IP they create and be able to negotiate much more s
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by calafrax 9y ago
pair programming is an anti-process. its only purpose is to control employees, limit individual productivity, and drive down wages.
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by calafrax 9y ago
this is a typical argument for why lower productivity is actually better. i don't think that being high productivity prevents you from writing unit tests or doing tdd. you just do tdd with higher productivity.
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by calafrax 9y ago
> I think we have to have a conversation over what part of the infrastructure stack is right to police content how about no part of it? if the founders of the united states were able to create the world's most powerful nation withou
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by calafrax 9y ago
when wealth and income disparity are at an all time high then for the ruling class paralysis is the best policy. the only voice that matters is the voice of wall street and the voice of the corporate elite. as long as politically irrelevant
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by calafrax 9y ago
i am not sure what that article is supposed to prove. it doesn't contain any study results on the accuracy of meteorological predictions. I don't have the data handy but to the best of my recollection weather forecasting for high&
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by calafrax 9y ago
don't forget that producing all this content costs 10's of billions per year so someone has to pay for it. both the cost of production and the amount produced keeps increasing so prices need to go up to.
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by calafrax 9y ago
i am not sure that it is directly tied to monopoly. paying for a subscription reduces friction for watching individual shows/channels so it increased total viewership and total consumption. every pay point you add adds more friction so
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by calafrax 9y ago
word. unlicensed content delivery platforms still vastly superior in terms of quality and depth of content after over a decade and billions spent by netflix, hulu, etc. if you really want people to pay for a product you should offer better
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by calafrax 9y ago
is that a joke? weather predictions are notoriously unreliable even though they are given with extreme granularity. that aside you are missing a larger point. if you predict the future based on past data all you are saying is "the futu
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by calafrax 9y ago
the statue of liberty would be a great investment if the government was planning to tear it down and sell it for scrap and you could buy it cheap before the word got out.
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by calafrax 9y ago
It is an unfortunate misconception that statistical probability can be used to predict the future. Any time you extend a statistical model temporally it immediately becomes mathematically invalid since probabilistic statistics are only vali
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by calafrax 9y ago
economics: as market share for electric cars grows demand for gasoline goes down and the price for gasoline (already low) goes down thus exacerbating the already large gap in cost between electric and gas. electric will always be a victim o
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by calafrax 9y ago
5.3% is not incredibly low for a corporation borrowing 1.8 billion. it is pretty high which is why investors are jumping on it. This adds $95 million in interest expense per year which is pretty substantial.
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by calafrax 9y ago
careful with the libel there. that would be allegedly defrauded. the case was settled and it is highly unlikely that the plaintiffs would have succeeded at trial.
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by calafrax 9y ago
tl;dr group of founders at epinions gets conned by the ceo, their partner - and they sue that guy (who has a dubious reputation on many counts) as well as everyone who touched the deal including benchmark. they got a settlement. they probab
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by calafrax 9y ago
The price crashes to 0.10 cents ... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-30/the-45-mi... ... and that was only 12.5 million. and then coinbase paid people who lost money out of their own capital. l
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by calafrax 9y ago
that assumes that the majority of founders would view what benchmark is doing as negative. to me it looks like good business.
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by calafrax 9y ago
nervous about working with competent investors who aren't complete marks? somehow I doubt benchmark will have difficulty finding people to take their money.
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by calafrax 9y ago
"Benchmark's investment of $27M is worth $8.4 billion today" "We have investors ready to acquire these shares" So they have 8.4 billion in new funding lined up? Somehow I doubt it.
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by calafrax 9y ago
exactly. the focus on identity as a wedge issue is a cynical diversion from focusing on wealth as a wedge issue.
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by calafrax 9y ago
yes, people have a right to discuss politics. discussing politics is the foundation of civil society. the inability of people to do it without freaking out is why we have uncivil society.
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by calafrax 9y ago
firing people because they have to audacity to question whether or not mandatory micro-aggression awareness training is a productive use of their time may be more of an HR nightmare than you expect.
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by calafrax 9y ago
yes it is actually. if your function has a logical branch then it is doing more than one thing. if your function has a logical branch within a logical branch then it is doing exponentially more things and this complexity continues to grow e
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by calafrax 9y ago
This discussion is predicated on the concept that function size is calculated by the number of lines which is completely wrong. function size (function complexity actually) is measured primarily by indent levels not length and when there ar
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by calafrax 9y ago
i have never seen this behavior, so it isn't that common, and even if it were it would still be illegal unless it is something that has been agreed to contractually.
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by calafrax 9y ago
I don't think this is just one party. Kalanick has rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. The only reason he has been around for so long is because people have been waiting to use him as the fall guy for all of Uber's misconduct. A
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by calafrax 9y ago
well, no problem then. just stealing your employer's property to use to use for extortion. what a nothingburger.
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by calafrax 9y ago
yep. all of those qos and traffic shaping features on routers don't actually do anything. that is why it should be illegal for public isps to use them. makes sense.
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by calafrax 9y ago
those are quotes from the article and the paper it references

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