staticcaucasian

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by staticcaucasian 4mo ago
messenger is an absurdly popular app that keeps users in the platform and also increases the intensity of their usage, ultimately leading to more eyeballs, ads and revenue. If you look at it that way, relatively small features, and by assoc
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by staticcaucasian 6mo ago
When it launched we all talked about the serving/inference costs being massive. In hindsight if they had a paywall, it might not have self-imploded so fast, might have stayed aspirational, and they might have a profitable business toda
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by staticcaucasian 1y ago
Volts covers nuclear fairly often. Check the transcript history if you're genuinely interested. It's not a compelling story; solar and wind are _really_ cheap now, and our modeling and software is getting way better at accommodati
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by staticcaucasian 1y ago
Does this actually need to be local? Since the chat bot is open to the public and I assume the course material used for RAG all on this page ( https://canvas.illinois.edu/courses/54315/pages/exam-schedul... ) a
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by staticcaucasian 1y ago
The Partner is the consultant. The 'recent grad' is just extra low-cost apprenticeship for the partner. The customer is (ridiculously over-) paying for the Partner's time and tolerating the apprentices that come along for the
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by staticcaucasian 2y ago
Exactly. This is an apartment complex with some so-so on-site retail situated on a light rail trunk line, just outside of a university and eventually downtown Phoenix. Reduced parking but still accessible to delivery drivers. In most other
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by staticcaucasian 3y ago
The "hired to do nothing" Tech Company meme was almost entirely actually just recruiters: https://www.wsj.com/articles/these-tech-workers-say-they-wer...
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by staticcaucasian 4y ago
Around these parts a lot of the affected laid off were the upper end of that equity range. Expensive long-timers or over-hires who aren't producing at the level they negotiated. I don't feel bad for them.
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by staticcaucasian 4y ago
I just want to say, every one of your bullet points resonated with me - work hurdles, fatherhood, aging parents, societal ugliness. Let me be your clone and perhaps you can be mine - go take the sabbatical.
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by staticcaucasian 5y ago
Because the fixed rate is based on treasurys and the inflation rate is based on inflation, they're essentially locked-in at zero truly real return. Which is not a bad 'floor' position for your portfolio!
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by staticcaucasian 5y ago
No need to assume it's written there clearly: Combining the two rates To get the actual rate of interest (sometimes referred to as the composite or earnings rate) we combine the fixed rate and the inflation rate, using the equation in
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You’re Thinking About Home Heating Wrong(theatlantic.com)
6 points by staticcaucasian 6y ago|1 comments
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by staticcaucasian 6y ago
I think this is making clear how many restaurants were only making margin on the up-sells like beverages. At the high-end it's alcohol and dessert and at the low-end it's soft drinks and packaged snacks. It's extremely often
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by staticcaucasian 6y ago
It brings to mind the early 2000s MTV show Diary, which always led with the tagline "You think you know... but you have no idea" There's probably some German word for it, like Schadenfreude
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by staticcaucasian 7y ago
For less than you might pay for a car, or a year of college, or heck, what you might put into your 401k for the year, you can offset effectively your entire life at $16,000. (80y lifespan * 20T/year typical American emissions * $10&#x2
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by staticcaucasian 7y ago
I meet a lot who are students (eg, nursing). Driving for Uber is their only job, they'll do it as many hours as they can get, approaching FT. But they need the flexibility, they might do it in the short-term when they're between s
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by staticcaucasian 7y ago
Agreed. Burry seems to be getting a lot of responses but almost none of them seem to have actually listened to what he said (or even read the article). There is real risk from the index-matching synthetic techniques that these funds are usi
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by staticcaucasian 7y ago
That's why they say land is an investment and appreciates; houses depreciate. Bet the land in those remote areas is still worth the small value they paid for it while the houses are losing value by the minute.
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by staticcaucasian 7y ago
In a similar vein, I've taken to traveling over the July 4th holiday every year now. For many people, it can be a very long weekend, or is easy to turn into an entire week+ trip. It's not really celebrated outside the US (except f
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by staticcaucasian 8y ago
That's not how that math works, _at all_. Besides, you have an asymmetric opportunity, since you can interview, get an offer, and decline it if you don't like the new option. You don't need to quit before interviewing. In fac
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by staticcaucasian 8y ago
Your answers read exactly like most of the people I know at Microsoft. I think to a certain extent companies with high average tenure produce cultures where people become risk-averse and reinforce these values through statements like your o