overdrivetg

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by overdrivetg 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39607630
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by overdrivetg 5y ago
Sounds like you are asking about tech transfer capabilities? As a starting point, here is a good intro article from WIRED that you might find useful: https://www.wired.com/brandlab/2017/02/tech-transfer-lab-ma
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by overdrivetg 6y ago
Yeah, that also struck me as more of arising from an "antagonistic, competitive" culture vs a collaborative/cooperative one. And as Facebook shows, "everyone shouting and whoever gets the loudest wins[1]" definitely
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by overdrivetg 6y ago
This was a cool AlphaPhoenix video doing a large-scale crystal growth simulation that looks amazingly similar: https://youtu.be/06TscuHNvGQ?t=305
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by overdrivetg 6y ago
> I presume one would have recourse under contract for such a foul up? Possibly, but delays in construction are what kill you. You can't really FedEx overnight new structural steel framing components, so now you're blocked unt
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by overdrivetg 6y ago
The name of this index is like clickbait gone awry... Couldn't they have gone for something more like the Perception of Integrity Index since being #1 means "least corrupt"?
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by overdrivetg 6y ago
But again, in practice banks will loan more money more easily to those with a verified identity that has recourse beyond simple "loss of creditworthiness", so those loans will always be more appealing to those who can get them, an
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by overdrivetg 7y ago
sorry for pedantry but you do mean "this will take 20 hours", yes?
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by overdrivetg 7y ago
A fun way to play with people who won't believe you is to say OK then, let's play 10 games @ $10/game: Get 3 cards and pick one to be the prize. Your mathematically-challenged partner gets to put them down each time. You pic
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by overdrivetg 7y ago
Assuming you aren't trying to intentionally throw shade on CA rent control: Rent SUBSIDIES are a hidden redistribution as you discuss. Rent CONTROL forces recent transplants to subsidize longtime residents Ie. gov prevents raising rent
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by overdrivetg 7y ago
Yeah, annoyingly I used to lightly rest my fingers on the brightness/escape function keys, so now every once in a while I won't pay attention and the screen is now either full blast or off >:-[
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by overdrivetg 7y ago
I'm not sure I know too many 2.3 person households that are in a studio apartment, though. Also above we counted adults vs everyone so the numbers are a bit high for the full household - SF turns out to be more like $1200/househo
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by overdrivetg 7y ago
OK, I finally did what I think is the real, updated math: According to [1] from 2018, "Roughly half of the budget consists of self-supporting activities at the City’s Enterprise departments" So that leaves $5.5B in General Fund ta
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by overdrivetg 7y ago
Do you have a source for your "SF collects $2800 per month per household in taxes" number? This Quora answer[1] suggests it's more like $3300/person/yr. The 2010 Census says SF has 345,811 households, or about 2.35
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by overdrivetg 8y ago
My brother actually has a company called OnSightEyes.com which uses a smartphone-powered device to measure prescriptions. Their model is to show up at companies and run diagnostics for their employees which are then covered by insurance. T
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by overdrivetg 8y ago
GrapheneDB (Neo4j) on Heroku here - relatively small scale project so far (1000's of users) but very easy to use, no problems, great support. If your problem space is a graph, using a graph will make your life easy once you get over t
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by overdrivetg 8y ago
Wait - are you claiming that New Jersey is somehow bribing New Mexico for policy concessions? https://www.moneytips.com/is-your-state-a-net-payer-or-a-net...
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by overdrivetg 8y ago
Do you think some kind of bidding or voting on the maximum donation amounts involved would make sense? Ie, cities each vote on what they think a "proper" maximum reward would be, then set it at the average. Relatedly, I'm not
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by overdrivetg 8y ago
But isn't the IRS knocking in a few years better than the IRS knocking THIS year? IANAL (or a CPA), but it seems like a good-faith attempt to invest in an OZ should not incur penalties later. Disclaimer: you are taking about the IRS,
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by overdrivetg 8y ago
Took me a minute as well - I think he means logical OR (vs logical AND, etc) ie IF (A OR B) THEN ...
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by overdrivetg 8y ago
Well... you can still execute the OR essentially via BFS vs DFS... Spend some "cycles" or steps executing one path, then the other, then keep alternating. Eventually you will hit the termination (if it exists). Or essentially, y
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by overdrivetg 8y ago
For some reason I am able to understand single-DA better as: 1. All students are sequentially ranked via lottery 2. You walk down the list, and each student gets their pick of schools with remaining spaces open Side note, but it also seem
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by overdrivetg 9y ago
[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/sec-charges-madoff-auditor-wi...
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by overdrivetg 9y ago
This is the main blocker for me right now for sure.
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by overdrivetg 9y ago
The other stat I think is relevant is that the average car today is 11.5 years old. Or looked at another way, in 11 years, HALF of the cars on the road are the cars that are on the road today. I guess if we cut down the number of cars tot
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by overdrivetg 9y ago
Maybe "credit slander"? Including the added bonus of expanding the set of possible perpetrators.
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by overdrivetg 9y ago
Two big reasons are: 1. Your devs can always go to where the work is - if you divide FE/BE and suddenly you have a feature that needs a lot of BE dev, you can move people from the now-mostly idle FE team rather than try to hire them 2
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by overdrivetg 10y ago
My understanding is that Day 0 is the only important day here (or actually, Day 365 doesn't matter). You pay $10K on Day 0 and you earn no "income", so you do not owe any tax. On Day 900, if your shares are worthless, you ca
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by overdrivetg 10y ago
> That's not an ad, that's genuine interaction. Well... Hopefully :-/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z696bTiP8Ro
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by overdrivetg 10y ago
I actually agree with a lot of what you have to say, and I will offer that this TED talk gives a very interesting perspective on advertising you should try giving a few minutes to: Rory Sutherland: Life lessons from an ad man http:/&

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