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by xyzzy21 4y ago
YMMV My professional relationships formed AFTER college are far stronger. I honestly don't hang or communicate with anyone I knew in college. I've tried but we simply don't have enough in common - I felt like I was doing all
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by xyzzy21 4y ago
I'd also say that the strategic problem space is seldom located where the tactical problems space is that "solves" the strategic problem. And we can not know where or how far away the latter is. You see this a lot when you
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by xyzzy21 4y ago
It would also be nice to remove the "magically thinking" around machine learning. It's mathematically related to all prior signal processing techniques (mostly a proper superset) but it also have fundamental limits that no o
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by xyzzy21 4y ago
The Green Revolution of the 1960s proved that we could - that Malthusian claims were BS. What we have now is those same Malthusians actively sabotaging the roots of the Green Revolution by shutting down energy and means of production. Tec
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by xyzzy21 4y ago
A natural result of women's demand for 6-6-6
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by xyzzy21 4y ago
Honestly if this is a problem, you haven't designed/structured the product design or marketing well enough. You should be focusing on pitching the economics rather than the technical implementation. And then you want is to have a
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by xyzzy21 4y ago
A lot of the problem starts with the fact that most hospitals in the USA were taken over and are now owned by "Private Equity". If you know ANYTHING about finance, that should send shivers up your back and also make you realize wh
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by xyzzy21 4y ago
Absolutely true. I worked and lived in the SF Bay Area for nearly 30 years and I grew up in Marin. I left in 2016 and now own land in a rural area back East. I'm building my dream/retirement/Jeff Tracey Thunderbirds house a
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by xyzzy21 4y ago
Except if you consider the "entropy" of doing that, you have an enormous amount of energy inputs required.
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by xyzzy21 4y ago
It's far safer than keeping it on dry land or burying it. Just look up the amount of water in the Pacific and then divide into the amount of waste water being discussed - the ratio is insanely tiny and nearly unmeasurable. The biologi
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by xyzzy21 4y ago
As someone who lived through "64K should be plenty" and often used computers with little more than 4K RAM, I absolutely agree. This is one of the major "bloatware" features of modern computers which could extend Moore&#
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by xyzzy21 4y ago
For some things it's definitely possible. For "basic editing/writing" it's plenty good enough for Linux applications that aren't super compute hogs. Which is actually most things that everyday people use comp
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by xyzzy21 4y ago
Fun Fact: Germany and Austria have agreed to pay for Russian gas/oil in Rubles. And apparently, at least Poland, is now buying gas and oil from Germany (obviously now at a premium due to two transactions instead of one).
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by xyzzy21 4y ago
The article premise is the purest of false dichotomy. Profits and Free Speech are not opposite cause and effect - how did American manage 250 years to archieve both together???
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by xyzzy21 4y ago
This is a legal problem - allowing broadcast advertisements to the general public for pharma products is where the problem started. Before that, pharma had to advertise in targeting media directly addressing the medical profession only, e.
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by xyzzy21 4y ago
Or Covid vaccine.
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by xyzzy21 4y ago
Could it be that since humans are social primates, online simply can never work as well as face-to-face. I work in sales and direct face-to-face sales ALWAYS has better close rates, happier customers, etc. than indirect sales through phone
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by xyzzy21 4y ago
Human men already do this as well - it's how you get single mothers.
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by xyzzy21 4y ago
Just as the board and executives has fiduciary obligations to shareholders, employee option holders fall into that population as well. There are legal incentives/threats against not handling it fairly. The rule of law is a good thing.
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by xyzzy21 4y ago
When I was young I loved magazines like Popular Electronics. After getting my EE, I looked back at those magazines in my collection I immediately thought "That's so wrong!" or "That omits so/too much" or "
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by xyzzy21 4y ago
Fun fact: OLEDs have radically shorter lifespans "in the field" than LED or LCD. According to a paper from Samsung at IEEE IRPS three years ago, the best OLED screens only have about 2 years (600 hours) best case continuous use bu
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by xyzzy21 4y ago
Actually CRTs and vacuum tubes in general are the "far more complex" manufacturing process compared to semiconductor. It's sounds wrong but just watch the following video about Mullard vacuum tube (valve) manufacturing in th
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by xyzzy21 4y ago
With current supply chains and infrastructure, yes, flat panels in general are easier. OLED are still somewhat specialized so most come from JP or KR companies (with factories in JP, KR or CN). My current employer (based in Taiwan) makes a
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by xyzzy21 4y ago
I have a TON of old HP LaserJet printouts from the 1980s and 1990s have have done this - if you have them stacked in a box, you find them stuck together and pulling them apart takes the print off with one or the other sheet. I haven't
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by xyzzy21 4y ago
And then you add this to the universal surgical risk of abdominal fistulas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKMBWOBbyws You seriously want to ponder whether you should get any surgery at all...
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by xyzzy21 4y ago
Issue: NVM endurance limits.
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by xyzzy21 4y ago
If those who already own stock in the 49% sell, then someone else can buy up to 49% even if the 51% holder never sells. The amount of ownership can change for one already owning 51% if the amount of stock issued changes - that changes the d
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by xyzzy21 4y ago
The legality of a poison pill is defined by case law of of Unocal vs. Mesa Petroleum. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unocal_Corp._v._Mesa_Petroleum... . Basically a company can ONLY create a poison pill IF and ONLY IF: *
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by xyzzy21 4y ago
Pfizer no longer have trust. For anything. Just read the documents they were forced to release this year (rather than 75 years in the future) - you figure out pretty quick why they wanted it covered up for 75 years. It's horrific.
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by xyzzy21 4y ago
Simple. 1. Russian anticipated the sanctions - this isn't the first time - so Russian had some plans in place. They've been dumping US Fed Treasuries and hoarding gold. That's part of removing USD dependence. 2. Russian has

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