thinkski

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by thinkski 2y ago
Why not work to become a billionaire, then donate your wealth? Or begin donating your earnings today? I would guess most people on Hacker News are in the upper decile of wealth globally — there are still billions of people living poverty. F
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by thinkski 2y ago
Warren Buffett. Berkshire Hathaway has over $300B in cash reserves, Buffett owns 15% of Berkshire and directs investments — he chose to park all that value in cash reserves, roughly $50B of that is his share.
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by thinkski 2y ago
I’ve used first@last.name for the last 10 years or so. There have been probably a half dozen web forms where a regex expected 2-3 characters and I input an old gmail account that forwards to this address. Over the phone, the first@last part
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by thinkski 2y ago
You earn gross income with your labor, on which you pay tax. The net is used to pay Jiffy Lube, which pays employer taxes on the mechanic’s labor, and passes that cost onto you, the customer. If you do your own labor for yourself, pay neith
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by thinkski 2y ago
Another benefit — no one can tax your own labor for yourself. 100% of your effort goes towards your own gain.
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by thinkski 2y ago
I think there’s a common misunderstanding that with IPv6 anyone can connect to anyone else. That’s not true. My laptop has an IPv6 address, as does the router that routes its traffic. There’s no NAT, that’s true, but there’s still a firewal
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by thinkski 2y ago
I suspect one is masking that a call center is in a low wage country, e.g. make customer in U.S. believe they’re talking to someone in U.S. while paying a fraction of the U.S. wage.
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by thinkski 2y ago
We’re not Mormon. And it’s come from her — in fact, I’m somewhat uneasy about it as finances will get tight.
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by thinkski 2y ago
It’s interesting, the grass is perhaps greener on the other side. My wife is planning on staying home with the kids when we have our second, and there’s a part of me that envy’s that freedom from worry on having to provide, being able to sp
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by thinkski 3y ago
Company has recurring expenses to keep your cloud-connected device running. They need recurring revenue to cover those costs. Depending on one-time revenue from the sale of new devices to cover the recurring expenses of existing devices is
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by thinkski 3y ago
Organized by an employer, capital, and management. The orchestration, decision making, done well, is the difference between a highly valuable well functioning company, and dysfunctional paralysis. There are now multiple examples in history
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by thinkski 3y ago
And the answer to that is totalitarian control on wealth accumulation?
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by thinkski 3y ago
Sounds like either NACKs are not getting through to indicate a need to retransmit, or should use a forward error correction (fec) extension.
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by thinkski 3y ago
This has been addressed with mDNS host candidates in lieu of local IP host candidates.
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by thinkski 3y ago
So that various sets of ideas can be tried as experiments. Also, so that groups of people with different values and ideas can live in their own worlds and not have to reach consensus on everything. I believe a lot of the division in the cou
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by thinkski 3y ago
As a DIYer, I like this. But why does this need legislation? If enough DIYers want this, wouldn’t they vote with their dollars and not buy unrepairable products?
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by thinkski 3y ago
From the article: “To get a TRULY random number sequence, you'd need to rely upon some truly random phenomenon, like the decay of a radioactive isotope.” How is the true randomness of a physical phenomenon proved? Perhaps naively, I im
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by thinkski 3y ago
The metrics for websites are flawed. For instance, time-on-site. If a user spends more time on a site before clicking back, maybe that site is more useful. Or maybe that site has made it purposely difficult to find the key information, such
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by thinkski 4y ago
The main benefit I’ve seen with more experience is being able to find better solutions to complex problems more quickly. Essentially, knowing the right way to do things up front rather than figuring it out as you go. Often there are many de
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by thinkski 4y ago
Spot on. I’ve found the same — used to be I could get things I couldn’t get elsewhere or could get things for a lower price. Now there’s so much junk.
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by thinkski 4y ago
When there’s a mismatch between capacity and load, price increases bring the two back into balance (incentivizing additional capacity and reducing load). But if price increases are not permitted, keeping water cheaper than it should be, the
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by thinkski 4y ago
Very cool. Out of curiosity, why is the H.265 size slightly more than the H.264 size? How does the compute complexity for encoding and decoding compare with those two codecs?
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by thinkski 4y ago
Seems like with LCEVC you still need to decode your encoded frame and compute a difference between the original input to the encoder, at say 30 fps. Many embedded system-on-chips that do H.264/H.265 encoding (eg IP cameras) are not abl
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by thinkski 5y ago
For me, online dating worked out, but it took a long time, was a bumpy road. I found that having a great group of friends also helped me. After college I moved to a new city and a corporate job with a skewed gender ratio, which made it toug
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by thinkski 5y ago
The license plainly states the software might not work and comes with no guarantees of it not breaking things: THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE W
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by thinkski 5y ago
There’s a continuous tension between capacity and load. We’ve been fortunate that technology (and untapped resources) have largely placed capacity above load for much of our lifetimes. Spare capacity tends to be followed by an increase in l
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by thinkski 5y ago
In embedded systems, space can be a premium (e.g. a recent project has 75MB for a rootfs). With C++, need to link to libstdc++ and libc, with C only need libc. I find a number of developers reach for C++ because they aren’t comfortable with
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by thinkski 5y ago
What is the origin of genuine choice?
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by thinkski 5y ago
Unfortunate that the truck was at an angle — much of radar likely bounced off to the right rather than returning back. The color of the truck provided little contrast, probably wasn’t resolved by the sensor, which has a dynamic range of 115
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by thinkski 5y ago
Does make me wonder what we’re building today that will last. I suppose the engineers who worked on Voyager or Pathfinder have the best shot of having built something enduring.

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