sbeller

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by sbeller 4y ago
Per PR description: > Removed warrant canary (we still have never received a NSL or FISA order, but we are removing this language now to avoid a future situation where we receive one but are not permitted to remove the statement from our
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by sbeller 5y ago
crypto
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by sbeller 5y ago
Have you seen the rents in new Zealand? They did not crater as much as in SF. ;-)
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by sbeller 5y ago
> - allowing true ownership of assets What is ownership and how is it true? This is philosophically on the deep end, as the evil powers can seize your wallet just as easily and you may have no (legal) recourse, https://xkcd.co
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by sbeller 5y ago
> I don't know anything about 401(k)s but do they really operate on some foundational condition of less-profitable investments and higher fees? The (HR person of the) employer chooses what to allow in a 401k. Normally you have a doz
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by sbeller 5y ago
> October 16, 2013 In 2013 150k seemed a lot IIRC as the economy was in shambles and all those paid with these sweet RSUs and ISOs weren't having it.
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by sbeller 5y ago
cash it the most important thing that should not be done JIT. ;-)
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by sbeller 5y ago
> but hardware startups seem to be few and far back then I used to watch all the videos of https://millcomputing.com/docs/belt/ as that seemed promising, but they seem to be stuck in the hardware production and
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by sbeller 5y ago
They try such a thing in Germany by having different rates of VAT (~sales tax) for different products. Basics (such as food) being on the lower rate, and luxury items on the higher end. Not sure if it actually works well or is overly comple
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by sbeller 5y ago
Look at it the other way round: they could reduce losses from 6% to 4%, which lead further savings in needing less cooling tech.
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by sbeller 5y ago
> "profile" Things like whether you have dogs, kids, are a smoker. Or other things that you're not supposed to discriminate by according to law (looks "foreign", doesn't speak German or with a strong accent)
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by sbeller 5y ago
Traditional plants to manufacture aluminium do not work on-demand though. If they are not shut down orderly, you can rebuild the whole plant essentially. So there will be some innovation needed to shutdown (and boot up) these plants quickly
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by sbeller 6y ago
handing out your login credentials is like giving a blanko check with your signature on it already. > What bank in the U.S. wont reverse fraudulent ACH debits? If you admit to handing out signed blank checks, I would hope that most if n
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by sbeller 6y ago
20% pay cut (pre-tax, after tax it is less due to progressive taxation) for 50% more weekend is superb IMHO.
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by sbeller 6y ago
> (in fact, it extracts that value from non-HFT traders, so even those are shafted here). in return HFT provides liquidity (and by that smaller spreads) to the market, I would think. If you ever bought or sold a stock with a market order
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by sbeller 6y ago
> USA's highest tax state? That is another myth that is floating around the US. CA actually has progressive tax brackets (i.e. the rate changes quite a bit from bracket to bracket) and only few get into the top state brackets, where
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by sbeller 6y ago
> I've personally seen several people be priced out of an area due to this. Ask a Californian about prop 13 ;-)
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by sbeller 6y ago
Great read. (resident in San Mateo County here) I personally think the whole country should focus more on the greater good for everyone by culling the virus instead of doing this open-nd-close back and forth juggling, as to optimize for the
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by sbeller 6y ago
exactly. How would that work in an electronic setting?
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by sbeller 6y ago
They tried something like that in Germany, but they got it wrong in the details: Once you elect to communicate via this government blessed email, you are basically forced to check that email everyday notwithstanding your ability (e.g. when
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by sbeller 6y ago
Most electric vehicles I know recuperate the power instead of braking. There are reports of rusty brake pads, even. Besides, this is about tires, which may be worn down more by electric vehicles (as they have more wroooom, or rather they do
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by sbeller 6y ago
> In theory, naval propulsion is more amenable to electrification than aviation, but that'll be tricky to do economically; that is another area that petroleum could have a long useful life in. Over the last couple years / deca
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by sbeller 6y ago
Just an exponential function showing its true colors, not sure what is alarming here. /s
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by sbeller 6y ago
> In a hypothetically free market world, they would be dumping their disposable income in stocks sold over the counter in convenience stores, I would not be so sure about that. The poor (who buy lottery tickets) have a lot less ability t
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by sbeller 6y ago
Having worked at Google until 2019, I do not recall their stock being available in the 401k, nor any direct stocks there. All things available were the boring broad Vanguard funds.
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by sbeller 6y ago
How did you come to the estimate of 25%? Because that difference in distance is the actual reason. The geostationary satellites used for your internet in 2009 are at ~2.5 of the earth diameter above ground (35k km, ca 1.5 earth circumferenc
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by sbeller 6y ago
> Perhaps they'd say those are the simplest, purest instantiation of a frequency. Actually I thought it is the other way round: A frequency is defined as a sine basically, it has an * amplitude * frequency * phase shift The phase sh
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by sbeller 6y ago
> places don't re-think their strategy for decades because it is hard to measure the effectiveness. How many terrorist attacks and domestic incidents are there (assuming in good faith those are the only things to be prevented) ? I w