spfzero

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by spfzero 2y ago
Maybe he's anticipating making a quick getaway?
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by spfzero 3y ago
It's not the investment thesis, it's a thought experiment to test market efficiency. It's a test to see whether markets are always efficient, and to me demonstrates that they are not, and that value investing might be an inte
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by spfzero 3y ago
Sure which is why I said "unlikely", rather than "unheard of".
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by spfzero 3y ago
Test requirements often arise after system design is complete. Engineers need time to examine the system, theorize failure modes, and design the tests. Also time to test the system, find some unexpected failure mode, and then design yet mor
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by spfzero 3y ago
This was a test fixture so probably banana leads.
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by spfzero 3y ago
That stood out to me as well when I read the article.
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by spfzero 3y ago
As a counter-argument, you usually need to read a lot into the reported numbers, for example read the 10K notes for multiple years in the past. That's the only way to know that the 3B in assets showing up on the balance sheet for &quot
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by spfzero 3y ago
Yes. Building something complicated requires formal education plus years of experience attempting to build the complicated thing.
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by spfzero 3y ago
Some endeavors require historical knowledge, aircraft engineering being one of them. If you break the chain, you lose it; policies that were developed over decades are discarded. "Why do we need to do it this way, this other way is fas
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by spfzero 3y ago
It's fun for them and they don't have the expectation that it will make money. And probably it doesn't, and that's fine, move on to the next thing. But once in a while, maybe it resonates with a greater need.
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by spfzero 3y ago
But it's your chance. It may or may not become a business model. That's the risk. You take a risk to get a chance to make a profit. It's impossible to come up with a business model that does not depend on chance.
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by spfzero 3y ago
> we can't adequately absorb the intellectual capacity of the population Think that's been true for a long time, yank any early 20th-century factory worker out of their job, you'll find a human intellect not being fully ut
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by spfzero 3y ago
It wasn't like programmers were less creative or productive than they are now. The languages were fully capable of doing anything on a server you could do now. It was mostly C. Programmers were creative and smart, just like now, and co
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by spfzero 3y ago
Its hard to imagine so many people could have known about this for so long, yet it remained secret. I expect you could keep something like an assassination secret since everyone who knows about it is probably in some way complicit. Wouldn&#
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by spfzero 3y ago
One thing that might be a problem here, is the ongoing oversupply of advanced degrees. This creates a ready supply of replacement faculty whenever needed. As science faculty leave the university, the university has the option of easily repl
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by spfzero 3y ago
This seems to happen over and over: something that is working fine is changed. Not to make it better, but in hopes of business growth. Half the time it backfires, the other half there are some mostly middling improvements to the business. T
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by spfzero 3y ago
We should assume that what someone says is unrelated to what they meant? That's an interesting viewpoint. I have to guess at your meaning since I can't fixate on what you're saying, but I think you mean that language is meani
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by spfzero 3y ago
The parent's first sentence may have been sarcastic.
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by spfzero 3y ago
One thing is that the CS curriculum at better schools is not "job-skill" focused. At least in the early years it is fundamental theory of computing and languages. How to solve problems with numerical methods and algorithms. OS and
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by spfzero 4y ago
Exactly, came her to say this. It obviously can't be linear, its just the slope at a point, but that didn't stop the headline writer. For "every" 10%, really? I'm pretty certain that for even just the next adjacent
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by spfzero 4y ago
Pop-up ads over your fuel gauge. Monetized!
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by spfzero 4y ago
I agree with you directionally, it's a problem that VRBO et. al. should solve, perhaps in their search algorithm and UI. For instance, the fee-range search should include the hidden flat fees averaged over the number of nights, in the
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by spfzero 4y ago
Bill Lear is quoted as having described his creative process similarly. Can't find a reference to it now but I read it decades ago and never forgot it.
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by spfzero 4y ago
>>The entire point is to make the customer do enough work before you show them the actual price, that they just give up and deal with it. I think a big part of the point is to compete on search (aggregate search like travel sites espe
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by spfzero 4y ago
Sometimes hard to predict whether something that works well for you would, or would not, work well for others, and whether others could, or could not use it.
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by spfzero 4y ago
Totally agree with you.
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by spfzero 4y ago
This for sure. "I didn't understand the first 5 explanations but I did understand the sixth one, so that's the best one." Needs to be said that without the first 5, the sixth probably wouldn't have caught.
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by spfzero 4y ago
I like this explanation. It would be good to include a little bit about why we even care to do frequency-domain analysis, and what a "transform" is.
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by spfzero 4y ago
A pure sine wave has only one frequency, that's why it is analogous to a "pure tone". It's not a circular definition; they key part is the "pure", which means no dilution by other frequencies, which admittedly
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by spfzero 4y ago
If they are free and open source can you use the github distribution feature the OA mentioned?

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