nerfhammer

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by nerfhammer 4y ago
no hits on google; it appears to be original
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by nerfhammer 4y ago
At some point I realized his "solution" to philosophical problems was always to get really vague and hand-wavey
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by nerfhammer 4y ago
if broadcom were supplying at below cost as a marketing expenditure it would explain a bunch of things such as why raspberry pi doesn't allow bulk sales but would give them away with magazines
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by nerfhammer 4y ago
why not make an additional eye a diacritic mark so you can just add an arbitrary number of eyes
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by nerfhammer 4y ago
Sure but the early employees whose value he disproportionately captured still mostly became very rich and aren't in much position to complain
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by nerfhammer 4y ago
FYI, jwz hates HN for whatever reason and redirects HN referers to shock sites
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by nerfhammer 4y ago
That's being unfair to him, there is tremendous local market for millionaire homeowners that still want to think of themselves as socialist revolutionaries as long as the value of their home never ever drops, and he is merely filling t
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by nerfhammer 4y ago
you obviously should have hired the services of a "permit expediter" which is totally not a legal form of bribery
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by nerfhammer 4y ago
the alternative is the system we're evolving to where the landless class will owe the landowning class most of their productivity, forever
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by nerfhammer 4y ago
I've always wanted a way to extract just the kick drums in realtime but I don't understand this field well enough to understand whether it would be remotely possible or not.
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by nerfhammer 4y ago
minutephysics has a nice video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAdanPfQdCA
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by nerfhammer 4y ago
> intense Bay Area winds the Bay area has intense winds?
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by nerfhammer 4y ago
quasi-python is a lot easier for beginners than quasi-C imo
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by nerfhammer 4y ago
key word = "labor mobility"
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by nerfhammer 4y ago
On the contrary, labor mobility has declined precipitously since WWII, and this is a bad thing because it means people can't move to where there is a better job for them
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by nerfhammer 4y ago
app dot net
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by nerfhammer 4y ago
I have a feeling facebook's real name policy is because it's somehow better for ad profiling
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by nerfhammer 4y ago
only a tiny, tiny percent of users achieve "minor social media stardom". solving their problems actually doesn't strictly relate to the experience of the vast majority of users.
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by nerfhammer 5y ago
it's a distinct system in which they have to give a substantial share of their take to the supreme leader, and that leader sort of dictates the lines of their territory and doesn't allow them to engage in politics, and all of this
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by nerfhammer 5y ago
And if you don't have the appetite for a whole book yet, the wikipedia article on the subject is quite well done https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Trans-Antarctic_Exped...
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by nerfhammer 5y ago
It's similar to the compression techniques you might use in column store
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by nerfhammer 5y ago
It's one of the most expensive objects period
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by nerfhammer 5y ago
It's actually mylar that they're made of. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BoPET
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by nerfhammer 5y ago
Doesn't this depend on how much cross-immunity it provides?
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by nerfhammer 5y ago
I always wondered if broadcom was subsidizing RPi as a form of advertisement
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by nerfhammer 5y ago
Obviously the solution should be to use muppets instead of people. Much more fun.
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by nerfhammer 5y ago
The point is the amount of compensation you could give to workers from reducing CEO pay is insignificant when you divide it by the number of workers, even if you imagine an unrealistically extreme reduction in CEO pay.
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by nerfhammer 5y ago
If you set the CEO pay to zero and gave it to all the workers it would amount to a microscopic raise, and presumably wouldn't make the company any better run. CEO salary / number of workers / number of working hours in a year
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by nerfhammer 5y ago
Would the Fed actually have the authority to even do that, regulate what securities Congress members are allowed to hold?
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by nerfhammer 5y ago
there are png optimizer programs, e.g. optipng

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