chrismaeda

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by chrismaeda 1y ago
Seiko SSC819 is a good Speedmaster homage. And it's solar powered so you never need to open the case.
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by chrismaeda 1y ago
The interstate highway system is actually made up of Interstate and Defense Highways. So all the "interstates" in Hawaii are actually Defense Highways that connect Pearl Harbor with other military bases on Oahu. - The H-1 goes f
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by chrismaeda 2y ago
Good question. Quickbooks, Xero, and Wave are all owned by publicly traded companies. (H&R Block owns Wave.)
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by chrismaeda 2y ago
It seems to me that this is the key takeaway for founders: Your accounting stack is 1. accounting software 2. bookkeeping (ie operating the accounting software) 3. cpa / cfo (ie for tax and financial planning) The benefi
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by chrismaeda 2y ago
One of the issues that led to this decision is regulatory overreach. Standard example is the clean air act which regulated air pollution. Years later the EPA decided that green house gases were air pollutants that could be regulated under
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by chrismaeda 3y ago
Weapons mounts will be dealer installed options.
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by chrismaeda 3y ago
Le Select...
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by chrismaeda 3y ago
This is what we had to read in grad school. I remember the sections on how they designed RISC architectures as especially good fun. https://www.elsevier.com/books/computer-architecture/henness...
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by chrismaeda 4y ago
Prolog is cool but has exponential complexity which makes it impractical for real world use. The rete algorithm was supposed to be a solution but has anyone applied rete to a prolog implementation yet?
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by chrismaeda 4y ago
Execution is harder than you think. 1. Ideas alone can get funded, but only when pitched by entrepreneurs who have done it before. e.g. the last idea-stage company I invested in was a new crm company pitched by an entrepreneur who had alre
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by chrismaeda 4y ago
Consider having children.
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by chrismaeda 5y ago
The fall of Rome podcast is also very good. It covers approx. 300-600 AD. https://wondery.com/shows/the-fall-of-rome-podcast/
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by chrismaeda 5y ago
Ontario has a bunch of make-your-own wine companies that work like wine bricks. 1. you buy 5 gallons of grape juice for ~$20 per gallon. 2. yeast is dropped into your grape juice 3. you come to the store to decant your grape juice into wine
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by chrismaeda 5y ago
This is your brain crying out for adderral. You could probably show this paragraph to your doctor and get an ADHD diagnosis... ;-)
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by chrismaeda 5y ago
model
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by chrismaeda 5y ago
Guderian's Achtung-Panzer! is required reading here.
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by chrismaeda 5y ago
I was a grad student at CMU CS in the early 90s. The assholishness on the opinion bb was mostly performative. Imagine a bunch of kids in their 20s field testing opinions that they were not necessarily committed to. The RPP was great for a
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by chrismaeda 5y ago
One answer is accounting rules. In a typical IT shop that supports a business... Spending for "business as usual" (BAU or "opex") activities must be fully expensed in the year that it happens. Spending for capital proje
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by chrismaeda 5y ago
Conbini are great. I'm addicted to the relatively new coffee machines. You get a made-to-order coffee for the price of a vending machine coffee. And now that Suntory owns Jim Beam, you can buy bourbon in every conbini to fortify your
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by chrismaeda 5y ago
Property tax laws cause the empty store fronts. In Ontario (as with most places in North America), commercial property is assessed on its highest and best use (ie potential use), not its current use. So if a parcel has a low-rise buildin
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by chrismaeda 5y ago
I also graduated into the heart of the dot com era (I was a friend's 'plus one' at the Wired Magazine 5th anniversary party). But my brain fixated on the dinnerware. I grew up in driving distance of the Homer Laughlin china f
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by chrismaeda 5y ago
I had an undergraduate research project where I implemented Guy Steeles' Constraint Propagation Language (from his PhD thesis) in *Lisp on the CM-1. I completely forgot about this.
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by chrismaeda 5y ago
Yes, I was thinking to myself that 'sushi-grade salmon' was an oxymoron.
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by chrismaeda 6y ago
My parents live in Hnl and I love the place but have always lived and worked on the mainland. I've heard of the entrepreneurship center at UH and I've come across one angel group. But it seems like a tough place to build a company
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by chrismaeda 7y ago
You're reading too much into it. If you're a Japanese girl, you meet at Hachiko because it's right outside the main exit to the JR Shibuya station and across the street from the Starbucks and the all-important Shibuya 109 sh
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by chrismaeda 7y ago
This is pretty cool. Do you have any info on how you set up all the email infrastructure?
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by chrismaeda 7y ago
And also so they can revise their estimates of your net worth so they know how much to ask for without making it awkward.
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by chrismaeda 7y ago
The original New Yorker article says he was blacklisted after his 2008 felony conviction. I've been told that the CRM software used by university development offices is pretty phenomenal. It was hinted to me that it automatically ann
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by chrismaeda 7y ago
Arrian mentions that veterans were regularly allowed to return home to Macedonia, presumably for good. But no mention of the generals being allowed to leave. His generals were arguably the main beneficiaries of his death. Eg Ptolemy founde
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by chrismaeda 7y ago
When I read Arrian, I remember thinking that if I was one of Alexander's generals I probably would have killed him. After 10 years of war you might want to kick back and enjoy being an Emperor. But apparently all Alexander thought abou

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