crumpets

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by crumpets 7y ago
No, value to the business only sets the ceiling. The floor comes from the labor supply side of the market. (i.e. can the company find qualified people willing to do it at X rate)
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by crumpets 7y ago
>how society decides salaries. It seems pretty arbitrary from my perspective. Society doesn't "decide". It's a decided by the labor market. Nobody wants to pay programmers six figures. It's a myth that we think
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by crumpets 7y ago
No it's not. Actors are meant to pretend to be different people. The CEO isn't supposed to be pretending to be a different person.
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by crumpets 7y ago
No, long before AWS, Amazon intentionally re-invested all of the excess revenue that would be reported as profit back into the business instead (expanding capex and opex).
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by crumpets 7y ago
The number of new cars, new iphones, large houses, and other luxury purchases suggests otherwise.
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by crumpets 7y ago
>No, because at this point the barrier to entry is substantial. Not really. Unless the product has a powerful network effect, people can easily enter. If that weren't the case, starbucks would have run every coffee shop out of busin
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by crumpets 7y ago
>After doing this for a while, you can use these relative effort estimates to project completion dates for new projects. This doesn't work. The problem is that you get periods where the work is relatively easy overall so 5 points en
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by crumpets 7y ago
>absolutely destroyed Bush at Weird. I thought Bush finished out his term.
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by crumpets 7y ago
>They also pay 0.005% tax in Europe, sure it's legal, but is it morally ok? Yes. How would you decide on any other number and justify overpayment to the shareholders? >They certainly benefit from all the European infrastructure a
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by crumpets 7y ago
Not related? Tapping an undersea cable doesn't compromise encrypted traffic. Unless it looks like the NSA gets Apple and Google to put in back-doors, the products are still significantly safer than Huawei which is just an arm of the go
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by crumpets 7y ago
>It’s not an analogy at all Then why are you talking about a garbage company? Your whole comment is building an analogy. >Although I’d like to know which step in my story stops qualifying as one. This is where it stops qualifying: &gt
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by crumpets 7y ago
> Could you find one economist that would say that an unpriced externality is not a subsidy? All of them? >This isn't a tortured analogy, it isn't an unconventional use of the term, these things are economically equivalent.
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by crumpets 7y ago
>I personally appreciate the headline saying "town" in a colloquial sense But that's the problem. It's not a "town" in a colloquial sense for anyone who grew up outside of major metro areas. If 170k is not e
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by crumpets 7y ago
Two things: - data costs for bandwidth costs hasn't gone down at the same rate - A big chunk of an ISP is labor costs, which do not go down over time
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by crumpets 7y ago
There is no difference. Regular debt is also discharged in bankruptcy.
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by crumpets 7y ago
>Thoughts? Don't preempt people that might disagree with you by claiming they are in cognitive dissonance.
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by crumpets 7y ago
People use the word NULL and in all caps as well, in particular in bureaucratic processes like those you would encounter at the DMV. NULL & VOID, etc. It is entirely reasonable that the system would not accept an empty string for the pl
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by crumpets 7y ago
>what I wished existed when I was learning said details. This isn't what 'pedagogical focus' means though. Just writing down the stuff that helped you out very rarely covers what is necessary to help people out in general.
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by crumpets 7y ago
None of this is how this stuff works. >Huge amounts of cheap debt allow companies to buy lots of stock, driving up prices. Companies don't use debt to buy stock. Taking on the debt to do that would depress the stock price the same a
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by crumpets 7y ago
Kubernetes is still quite exotic for 99% of businesses.
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by crumpets 7y ago
Not really. The difference in the land cost is effectively negligible. At this point (and it has been this way for many years), the limit in solar deployments is cost of panels and storage limitations. There are vast chunks of empty land in
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by crumpets 7y ago
No. A decrease in Google's share price doesn't increase Facebook's share price. These companies are mostly in the same boat of being large tech companies with significant amounts of power. It's in all of the employees&#x
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by crumpets 7y ago
Because hottest month on record isn't scientifically interesting? Yes, climate change is happening, no, we didn't forget. The article isn't even about any attempts to do something different to fix it.
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by crumpets 7y ago
> but something that's viewed to be scientific fact. By who? Do you seriously read an HN comment that states something you didn't already know with a citation you don't bother to click and then just go forward assuming it&
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by crumpets 7y ago
>"data" (whatever THAT means) Holy shit. Observable evidence.
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by crumpets 7y ago
Facts still trump everything in all of those categories. You can certainly talk about how those facts can be explained by people's emotional state, historical context, etc., but that doesn't invalidate facts that might demonstrate
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by crumpets 7y ago
No, you're not right. How you render CSS and the page have very little to do with how secure your app is. SQL escaping, session handling, etc all come easily with standard php libraries. So "I didn't bother with any PHP frame
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by crumpets 7y ago
Yeah, unless you have workers, the whole "request is the lifecycle of the app" model of PHP makes it pretty damn hard to get a memory leak.
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by crumpets 7y ago
No? Splitting into multiple companies and keeping shareholders paid isn't turning it off.
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by crumpets 7y ago
OP meant total addressable market (TAM).

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