throwaway_xx9

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by throwaway_xx9 10y ago
> He's obviously got some super dope scale experience from Netflix. Actually, it's the other way around. He designed and built it, and Netflix learned scale experience from him. Probably the most influential and successful IT m
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by throwaway_xx9 10y ago
1) No, it's not market timing. It's crash timing, and it works great. 2) Buy low, sell high - never goes out of style.
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by throwaway_xx9 10y ago
I think Ben Johnson also ran a 9.69 the same year. Everybody knew it was roids, but even so it indicated that the human body was capable of it. Johnson has a reputation in the gym for squatting as much as powerlifters.
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by throwaway_xx9 10y ago
Those are all features. Line of sight means don't propagate forever. Stepping on somebody else is evident to everybody of a lost transmission. The only real complaints about radio transmissions are that better training is needed, and t
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by throwaway_xx9 10y ago
> It's criminal that that's not mentioned in the caption to the photograph Well ... all satellite images are taken with sensors tuned for a specific frequency range, so essentially B+W, then false-colored for human display. Un
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by throwaway_xx9 10y ago
I don't think 538 gets it even now. Trump is a celebrity who gets free media coverage and people aspire to. So of course he was a serious contender from Day One. The fact that he is not polished for the media is a plus to most people.
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by throwaway_xx9 10y ago
Bali is a similar case. A bunch of rice farmers with vast ancestral lands, some families owning multiple square miles. And when a new town or school is built nearby, they suddenly own 1,000 rental apartments. Dad goes from rice farming to c
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by throwaway_xx9 10y ago
Some factoids about current Manila traffic: 1) Uber has made traffic 30% worse than usual because it's cheaper than taxis, thus more pax 2) Jeepneys are no longer painted with murals because it costs $5,000 extra 3) Traffic is bad in s
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by throwaway_xx9 10y ago
Likely a fan of Downton Abbey, the BBC soap opera, It takes place in pre-WW1 or 2 English country-side. I actually enjoyed it.
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by throwaway_xx9 10y ago
No, actually Java is a bane to the database world. Cassandra doesn't work, and Hadoop is a complete waste of hosts for most companies (hence the move to Spark.)
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by throwaway_xx9 10y ago
All non-trivial NoSQL databases support (or will support) SQL - otherwise programmers can insert data, but end-users can't consume it. No reporting, no revenue. Cassandra has actually deprecated their original data access API in favor
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by throwaway_xx9 10y ago
I read the wikipedia entry. As an IFR-rated pilot, actual measurement of 300' and 3/4 miles is an easy ILS approach. So rather than demonstrating leadership skill, total incompetence was illustrated.
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by throwaway_xx9 10y ago
> we would all have bigger problems to worry about. What, like NSLs and defunding congressional watchdog committees? Oh wait ...
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by throwaway_xx9 10y ago
Semiconductor mfg. is a chemical process, not a digital process. So robots won't help.
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by throwaway_xx9 10y ago
Joel was a former product manager at Microsoft.
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by throwaway_xx9 10y ago
p-values are B.S. unless used by a statistician.
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by throwaway_xx9 10y ago
> Nobody but nobody wants their cabby to be a guide That's not just wrong, but unimaginative.
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by throwaway_xx9 10y ago
Actually, in the USA, USPS records an image of the front and back of all letters. It's illegal to open the envelope, but hey - who knows?
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by throwaway_xx9 10y ago
Nice to see an article that explains common-sense ideas with some effort to collect data. My theory about how the Biggest Loser contestants lose weight - get this - they're not allowed to snack during their all-day workouts.
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by throwaway_xx9 10y ago
He's not "donating 99% of his stock to charity." He's setting up a non-taxable charity vehicle that he controls.
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by throwaway_xx9 10y ago
Brits have an expression, "Safe as houses." It may be that they have a cultural preference for investing in residential real estate.
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by throwaway_xx9 10y ago
> "most people are shocked when I tell people that pilots are required to let the plane auto-land under very bad visibility conditions." As a commercially-rated pilot I would be shocked, too - since few airport runways are cert
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by throwaway_xx9 10y ago
> Working together, ... a network effect ... Startup investors know this Half right ... investors know that staffing the whole startup with founders is cheaper than hiring employees.
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by throwaway_xx9 10y ago
My friend who lives in Manila says $1,000/month for call center manager, $2,000/month for programmer, $3,000/month for eng. manager. Any of those people can afford to buy an iPhone, car and house in a few years, and they use
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by throwaway_xx9 10y ago
> Of course it's hard to empathize with criminals, well, because of their crimes. The accused in the American justice system is allowed a defense. Empathy has nothing to do with that right. Most people who are "criminals"
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by throwaway_xx9 10y ago
Before you lionize a convicted monopolist ... 1) The USA tax code encourages wealthy people to create foundations. The money in the foundation is still controlled by them and has tax benefits. 2) In other countries, wealthy people are taxed
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by throwaway_xx9 10y ago
The Walgreen's angle is much bigger. From what I've read online, they invested $50 million and built out all those in-store clinics based on Theranos. Add in the retail space and construction costs, and you're looking at real
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by throwaway_xx9 10y ago
The Apple/Google/Adobe/et al. non-hire collusion is probably on hold for now due to the govt. investigations. The only good thing I can say about that era was that Google had their ass handed to them by Facebook, which was on
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by throwaway_xx9 10y ago
> It's not something to be appalled about. They aren't trying to be evil overlords. Not so fast. A lot of East Coast companies aggressively enforce contract provisions, EMC being one of the worst. If it's in your contract,
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by throwaway_xx9 10y ago
Some of Van Halen's albums were done at home, in his home recording studio named "5150". I believe the "Beat It" guitar solo was also recorded there. Because there was no legal paperwork with MJ's mgmt., that w

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