damoncali

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by damoncali 11y ago
An oversimplification: Interest rates are going up over the long run in an effort to keep inflation from getting out of hand (very generally, asset prices go down when interest rates go up). The risk is that it will worsen unemployment befo
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by damoncali 11y ago
Pretty sure nobody would enjoy a 5g return to earth...
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by damoncali 11y ago
Pretty much. For me, I think bootstrap comes out ahead even the projects that wanted to tweak everything. It gets a little messy, but not as messy as building from scratch. Projects that allow you to work within bootstrap's limitations
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by damoncali 11y ago
Square only offers an advance based upon your cash flow history. There is still risk, but they recoup their loan at a pretty good pace which makes the implied interest rate very high. But- it can be a good deal for the vendor anyhow because
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by damoncali 11y ago
Democrats and Republicans are more similar than different. They both represent the financial elite to the detriment of those with less power. Sure, they may trade off from year to year on issues of little relevance (which party did Andrew J
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by damoncali 11y ago
You don't need to be so literal. When you look at honeycomb, for example, the manufacturers provide strength data in much the same way you'd see it for a solid metal. When you model it with finite element software, you treat it as
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by damoncali 11y ago
Just by looking at it, I doubt there is enough shear strength to make it a useful sandwich panel web. Then again, I've been wrong before. But metallic/composite honeycomb is pretty well optimized stuff as it is.
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by damoncali 11y ago
Pretty cool. Returned some gibberish, and some solid sparks for topics. I wonder if you could tweak it to rank the relevance somehow. Maybe have users train it by clicking/removing crappy results, or some such. Not really my specialty
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by damoncali 11y ago
I left because of all the down time. It was crushing. They didn't even try to make busy work - they just pretended everything was fine.
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by damoncali 11y ago
I don't know who James Hansen is. The above is how I think NASA should operate, not how it actually does. I think NASA gets easily distracted by science, when it should be an engineering organization devoted to space and flight (mo
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by damoncali 11y ago
How long have you been there? I've been gone for over a decade, so I'm curious if you can confirm a suspicion I've had recently - that NASA has a bit of Silicon Valley envy and are trying to emulate the tech startup world in
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by damoncali 11y ago
I would take it a step further. I used to work at NASA, and I never even thought about a patent. Not sure if we could have even gotten them, but the idea couldn't have been further from my mind. To me, and what I would guess were most
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by damoncali 11y ago
I might take for granted that I have an MBA, and worked quite a bit in other fields before I started freelancing. Might be entirely different for a younger person just starting out.
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by damoncali 11y ago
I've been at this a while ;) But I think even new freelancers need to just trust their gut. If it sounds flakey, it generally is.
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by damoncali 11y ago
I hadn't really thought about it, but yes, I generally know right away. I sometimes need a little time to assess the project's scope or technical detail, but personality wise, I know almost instantly if the client is going to be a
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by damoncali 11y ago
Agreed. I meant that when you operate outside of the law, there is no legal recourse, and therefore you might have to resort to violence.
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by damoncali 11y ago
Criminal businesses must by necessity adopt some of the work of governments because they are outside the scope of what the actual government does provide. You can't take your rival drug dealer to court over a dispute. You have to settl
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by damoncali 11y ago
Two things: 1. When I talk to someone about a new project, I do it in person or on the phone, not email. This is important. 2. The first call is always to see if the work would be a good fit, and I'm clear about that. If the client or
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by damoncali 11y ago
You're assuming one will be built before the patent expires.
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by damoncali 11y ago
I think the point the parent is getting at is that nothing about business guarantees constant, compounding growth. It's not just mathematics, it's population growth, productivity, capital distribution, etc. - lots of stuff that we
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by damoncali 11y ago
The approach was more novel when he first started beating this drum well over a decade ago. You have to compare it to 1999-era corporate powerpoint practices. We've come a long way in terms of expectations of the medium.
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by damoncali 11y ago
It's all relative. Compared to Dresden, small guided missiles are positively humane. Heck, the hammer that was dropped on Fallujah makes a drone look meek. War is by design very ugly.
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by damoncali 11y ago
Inconel has been around for decades. It's just a nickel alloy. Nothing terribly special about that.
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by damoncali 11y ago
You can replace nothing with this, though, which is what most people have access to. I don't think anyone expects these to spit out Kubrick films. But I bet it records better than I do.
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by damoncali 11y ago
As a parent it would be a very welcome thing to be able to watch something your kids are doing and record it at the same time without sacrificing the quality of either experience.
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by damoncali 11y ago
Am I the only one who thinks elm is an email client? I must be getting old.
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by damoncali 11y ago
Also, look what happened to Slicehost after acquisition. Rackspace woke up, realized Slicehost customers are cheap, and drove them off by raising prices.
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by damoncali 11y ago
I don't read him regularly, but I read it as him downplaying index funds as some sort of arbitrary, socially derived benchmark, which just isn't the case. He glosses over - he surely knows this given his background - all the effic
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by damoncali 11y ago
It's not too hard to find some pretty far out folks from all walks of life where I went to school (CU Boulder). I heard the same thing and more from the students there, and that was 20 years ago. I got a chuckle out of it at the time,
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by damoncali 11y ago
Since 2010 or so, I've had to monkey with code to get it to run in Safari (desktop and mobile) more than I've had to mess with it to work in IE. My, how times change. So yeah, the problem is Safari. Thinking it will go away becaus

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