kenneth

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by kenneth 1mo ago
It's endlessly annoying to me that the em-dash has become the canary in the coalmine of AI writing because I've always used them extremely liberally in my writing. Honestly, this might sound elitist, but I suspect it's becaus
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by kenneth 2mo ago
Are we thinking of a situation a few years back with a certain type of research into bat viruses?
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by kenneth 2y ago
What I think is shocking is that 99% of the software engineering world these days would have zero ability to comprehend this explanation. In my opinion, you could not be a real programmer without the ability to understand what your program
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by kenneth 2y ago
What you're describing doesn't exist in Switzerland, which you could tell by doing a quick Google Maps view. Nothing in Switzerland is cheap, least of all land. Practically nothing in Switzerland is flat either. What little flat l
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by kenneth 2y ago
With a dish that can be oriented to always face the sun, there should never be any shadows
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by kenneth 2y ago
Is it really that hard to type the word "accessibility" that we need to come up with a silly shorthand version of it?
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by kenneth 3y ago
As a seed VC, I still see a majority of Excel cap tables over Carta. (Pulley / Shareworks is even rarer).
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by kenneth 3y ago
Why does he bother with apostrophes then…
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by kenneth 3y ago
There are various precious metal trading companies that will buy the bullion from you at close to spot if it's kept in its original assay and has documentation. If not in assay, they will have to test its purity and potentially remelt
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by kenneth 3y ago
I used to buy gold bullion as a sneaky way to get credit card points on the cheap (and then use them for first class flights around the world). You could usually do the trade profitably and quickly and quite safely with insured shipping via
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by kenneth 3y ago
So I'm basically reading this as putting blame for Iran's reprehensible regime and its crackdown on its citizen yearning for freedom on Britain and the US. No… let's stop with this rewriting of history. The only party to blam
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by kenneth 3y ago
While they use the same script, they are not interchangable. A person from Taiwan would recognize characters in a HK or Japanese newspaper but would not necessarily understands it. A good half would only make sense to someone who speaks Can
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by kenneth 3y ago
A steak and a piece of fish requires no other ingredients other than salt to be delicious. Many veggies can be delicious with just some heat + salt; though adding a few spices certainly helps. I'd much rather eat a perfectly cooked ski
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by kenneth 3y ago
TSA is not required for intra-state travel in the USA. Many rural airports that don't have out of state connections (e.g. most of Alaska) lack TSA.
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Bad UI Battles(twitter.com)
2 points by kenneth 3y ago|1 comments
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by kenneth 3y ago
Insolvent has a precise meaning in accounting. FRB was not insolvent. The book value of their bond and loan portfolio was accounted as held-to-maturity keeping it at cost value and not market value. As long as they could hold to maturity th
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by kenneth 3y ago
The FDIC killed a bank that was absolutely fine. For the 3rd time in 2 months. FRB was solvent and had plenty of liquidity if the FDIC didn't force kill it. The FDIC just wanted to flex its muscle because it didn't like the situat
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by kenneth 3y ago
This is the fault of of one person: Jerome Powell. That man has done more damage to the US and the world than any of the biggest calamities that come to mind (9/11, Katrina, Trump/Biden/Fauci depending on your politics). The
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by kenneth 3y ago
I'm fully for that. I'm fully remote now and based in Asia (between HK and Taiwan). I much prefer tech to be decentralized. But if the hub is going to stay in the US and somewhat centralized, almost anything would be better than S
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by kenneth 3y ago
Tech founders don't get stabbed in Zurich. In fact, basically nobody gets stabbed in Zurich. They do in SF. In contrast, 6.5% of the population in SF is the victim of crime every year.
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by kenneth 3y ago
The DA should focus on prosecuting the criminals, not the police. I don't think the police are the ones ruining SF at the moment.
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by kenneth 3y ago
I find it shocking that anyone still chooses to live in this broken city. I left >4 years ago and am never coming back. It's unfixable. Let's move the tech industry somewhere that isn't rotten to the core.
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by kenneth 3y ago
He's lost his ambassadorship (at the request of the US govt) recently. It was quite obvious that pressuring Grenada to drop their protection was the precursor to filing charges.
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by kenneth 4y ago
When I first got Disney+ because an ex-girlfriend wanted to watch Wanda, the app was misconfigured to have the audio description turned on. It's a pretty weird show, so it took me 3 episodes of being confused by the weirdness of the sh
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by kenneth 4y ago
Unlike the author, I do not applaud the artificial limiting if supply. I find it incredibly annoying that it's become impossible to find Chartreuse and that the prices are skyrocketing. It's such a key and irreplaceable ingredient
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by kenneth 4y ago
Following the rules didn't help them. The rule was no templating tools that generate code. They didn't use that. It simply seems like they had to deal with a school official who was too dumb to know what GitHub was and too egotist
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by kenneth 4y ago
1x brighter is an oxymoron, it cannot be 1x as bright and also be described as bright er . 1x as bright means same brightness. #x implies multiplication (from the mathematical notation of multiplication, ×, which looks like the letter X). 1
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by kenneth 4y ago
It's not confusing or ambiguous, it's just incorrect. 125% increase means 2.25x multiple. There is no ambiguity whatsoever. It never means 1.25x. The fact that the article seems to use it to mean a 25% increase just highlights tha
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by kenneth 4y ago
We don't know much since there's not any details, but in theory at least you're supposed to see less ads on Twitter's premium tier. I figured there's a possibility that a similar policy is in place here. Maybe I&#x2
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by kenneth 4y ago
This is excellent news! I can't wait to sign up. As a VC and someone who's invested in some companies involved in crypto, even though I keep a rather low profile, I constantly have to deal with impersonators on my Facebook and Ins

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