christocracy

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by christocracy 5y ago
Transistors are an implementation of QM. Without transistors…
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by christocracy 5y ago
It also benefits from capital appreciation. As for breaking even, the security is highly liquid and can be sold at any time to recover one’s capital.
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by christocracy 5y ago
>You might be surprised how much of modern tech was developed by racists and other bad apples William Shockley, co-inventor of the transistor. See section “Views on Race and Eugenics”. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by christocracy 5y ago
Ok, and how about no more cap gains exclusion on selling primary residence and no more writing off mortgage interest (USA)?
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by christocracy 6y ago
Seatbelts weren’t a thing in the first cars. People weren’t thinking long-term about how fast these things might one day go.
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by christocracy 6y ago
Tim Hortons in Canada is being probed for using Radar Labs in their mobile app. "Tim Hortons' parent company, Toronto-based Restaurant Brands partners with Radar Labs, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based company , which provides location-based
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by christocracy 6y ago
He’s great. I used his Money (for managing money values as cents in the db), Liquid and DelayedJob in a bunch of projects. Now I run my own Shopify store, selling my software.
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by christocracy 6y ago
> except by mistake No small threat; plenty of room for those, according to Daniel Ellsberg’s book ”The Doomsday Machine” . https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-doomsday-machine-978160819...
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by christocracy 6y ago
No kidding. I’m a 48 year old programmer. If today were 1939, y2k was the end of ww1, when I was a 28 year old programmer.
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by christocracy 6y ago
> one of the most unstable times in history I can think of far more unstable times in history than the times we’re living in now, recent examples being WW1 & 2, nuclear threat during the Cold War.
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by christocracy 6y ago
Isn’t it Cytoplasm ? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytoplasm
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by christocracy 6y ago
> so no clue if they actually use location services The iOS app doesn’t request Location permission.
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by christocracy 6y ago
I wire-transfer tens-of-thousands of USD / month from my bank to my wealth-management company for perfectly valid reasons (e-commerce revenue), primarily to exchange to CAD (far better rate than bank) for funding payroll and/or pu
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by christocracy 6y ago
And if you miss the small handful of up days while dormant in cash, your portfolio lags.
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by christocracy 6y ago
I remember that comment. I’ve quoted that story a number of times.
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by christocracy 7y ago
I’m 48 and I rent a nice place at $2100/month. All my loot is invested in balanced 60/40. 0 debt. Absolutely, if you’ve won the house lottery, cash out now, invest and rent a nice place.
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by christocracy 7y ago
But the “olds” are using it.
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by christocracy 7y ago
I’m 48 with childhood story similar to the author. I do like TikTok for some reason.
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by christocracy 7y ago
It doesn’t make sense to pay off the mortgage when money is essentially free, where interest rate is lower than inflation. I believe it does make sense to invest what you can now in a balanced and diversified 60/40 portfolio. The curr
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by christocracy 7y ago
For the best Canadian financial advice, including variable vs fixed mortgage and investment strategies, read http://greaterfool.ca daily.
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by christocracy 7y ago
The invention of the transistor was stunted by ~5 years because of ww2, when Shockley, Bardeen and Brattain were redirected to war projects, such as bomb sights, magnetic detection of submarines and radar. https://www.nobelpriz
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by christocracy 7y ago
While I stewed after the dotcom crash during early 2000s, I had a short 2-year gig working as a headend tech for a small cable company. It’s not about demand, it’s about climbing poles and rolling bucket-truck crews to replace filters and o
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by christocracy 7y ago
Over 5 years ago, I created a background-geolocation plugin for Cordova. I later ported it to React Native and now flutter. It’s not every plugin that could be monetized. Geolocation, especially in the terminated state, is a special case
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by christocracy 7y ago
Build an app. There are many things in the plugin api that you don’t interact with in the app. The plugin api is the bridge between the front-end and native iOS / Android apis.
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by christocracy 7y ago
I’m a professional plugin developer. I make plugins for Cordova, React Native and Flutter. Flutter is my favorite. You should do a hello world at least.
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by christocracy 7y ago
I see what you did there ;)
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by christocracy 7y ago
And those large corps are providing jobs to those employees nurtured by the state, being paid taxable income.
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by christocracy 7y ago
Better luck next time.
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by christocracy 7y ago
My wife knits. Yes, it’s like coding: it has a language, there are algorithms, instruction-sets and tools. And sometimes bugs you have to back-step to correct.
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by christocracy 7y ago
And what do you think those plugins implementing the native sensors or CLLocationManager / FusedLocationProviderClient is written with? Obj-c/Swift and Java/Kotlin.

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