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It's not idiotic to buy something with a 95% chance of failure if the 5% chance has a 1000x return.

I bought at $3 and I started selling at $200. I sold a ton at $1000. Then a little at $5k and the rest at around $15k.

The entire time I held them I thought "the government will either ban or regulate this and they'll probably ban it" and you know what? It doesn't stop you from making money anyway.

Now that's a fun story right? Look at smart 3pt14159. What you don't see is the other 7 things I did with 0 payoff whatsoever. I bought a ton of emoji .ws domains. Why? I dunno, I stupidly thought they'd be the only TLD that would render as emojis. I hindsight, of course not, and once the others came out I reduced the number of domains I controlled. Nobody sees the lost weeks and $$ there, unless I happen to bring it up in a comment like this.

But the core idea behind both of those actions was this: Look for the low probability, high payoff investments. Unless you have $100m+ it's usually worth your time and most people don't have an intuitive grasp of inelastic supply curves and their impact on price.
Strongly agree: banks should handle the risk management, not push it onto consumers, forcing them into mismatching hard currency obligations with soft currency revenues. But this isn't surprising as banks are engines for gouging customers and shareholders by channeling margin into management bonuses.
Most of the other companies are still there though. PowerVR still makes 3D chips, but only for the embedded market (e.g. Android phones). Matrox gave up on 3D and now only makes specialized cards for 8 and 16+ monitor displays (airports, kiosks). IIRC, even Trident switched to embedded graphics.

The thing that bothers me is that if you want a PCI-E card on a consumer system, you only have nVidia/AMD. Intel only does embedded now with none of their offerings on a card (like the only i740). There is no Ryzen 7 with an APU, so if you're building a small developer box, you have to buy a discrete graphics card and can't rely on embedded (unless you want to drop to the Ryzen 5, which was just released with an APU).

There are rumors that Intel might be getting back into this space. If anyone could try to compete with the big two, it's probably them.
Technically, pictures always represent the light emitted or reflected off objects, not the objects themselves (hence photo-graphy, "drawing with light").

However I agree that "Picture of light emitted just by a single trapped atom" would be a more accurate title and yet still incredibly cool.
Similar dynamic at the boxing gym I go to. The owner is a real boxing guy, but he knows the suburban moms and cardio/aerobics classes pay the bills. He's managed to find a good balance, training a few competitive fighters and putting on a few fights a year, but he could be making so much more money doing the whole volume aerobic/kickboxing model. We joke about the Title franchise gyms that have sparring rings for display purposes...but in the end that's what makes reliable money. Gotta respect those that go out of their way to foster unique culture at the expense of "good business", its a rarity these days
I’ll toss in that reddit has one of the better ham radio communities without the nonsense old man drama of other sites..

http://reddit.com/r/amateurradio

73, N3LGA
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You may be interested in "unpleasant design": https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/unpleasant-design-hos...

Personally my feeling is that this is the wrong direction for society to go.
Wasn't that only the Voodoo1/Voodoo2, with the pass through cable? I don't think any other manufacture did that.
Second this one furniture. It's really expensive and a hassle to move furniture or large items by air or sea. Best thing is to sell it and buy it again at the other end.

Read up on minimalism.... you don't need as much as you think you might.
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Courts do not require a literal monopoly before applying rules for single firm conduct; that term is used as shorthand for a firm with significant and durable market power — that is, the long term ability to raise price or exclude competitors. That is how that term is used here: a "monopolist" is a firm with significant and durable market power.

https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...
That's still team first, tbh. Team over your teammate.
Considering you can't use Quantopian, it can't be much worse.

TBH I've never used them, I just remember looking at a platform that was much more tech agnostic, I'm not sure if this was what I looked at, but looked potentially useful.
There's a big difference between supply problems leading to inflation (which has an equilibrium,) and government problems leading to inflation (which has no fundamental limit.) In one case it's best to imagine it as the price of scarce goods rising, in the other it's best to picture it as the value of notes falling. Then, it's clear that one has a bound that the other doesn't.
Yep, but their cards aren't really consumer. They only do expensive specialized card for multi-monitor output (think serving up 8+ screens at a train station).
I love Amigas but seems like their fate was sealed by then. By the release of Doom in 1993 it was over for sure. Their whole shtick was that they had special hardware that let them do things PCs couldn't. Doom proved them wrong.
> Ironically if you draw a Venn diagram (...)

Actually, this turns out to be not true.

https://www.lesserwrong.com/posts/MajyZJrsf8fAywWgY/a-lesswr...

The LW crowd was among the earliest people who were aware of Bitcoin, and utterly failed to exploit it for some reason.
Debating pursuing promotion or lateral move to management
I'm a senior individual contributor working at a remote office of large bay area tech company. My manager is giving me signals he's going to promote me, but he's also been talking about having me transition to management (I already have one person that I oversee for a special project).

The management transition will be more of a lateral move. Pay will stay the same, and I'll most likely have to be in the office more (I work from a home office most of the time). I think if I took the management position I would have to move closer to the remote office, and travel more to the bay area.

If I get the promotion on the technical side, it will be a fairly nice financial windfall, and I don't think much will change for me day to day.

I'm getting older, and after this next tech promotion there's not many rungs left on the technical ladder, and there's not many people at my technical level at the remote office. There seems to be more folks on the senior management end in town here. I get the feeling HQ likes to keep their super senior technical folks closer to their home office, but there's high level managers sprinkled at a number of their larger remote offices.

Anybody else been in this situation? How did it play out, and did you have anything you would do differently?
> If you're allergic to Google offering free services that use your data for advertising

Just as a reminder for everyone (and I appreciate that the parent comment does not directly claim that this is the case), Google claims not scan or read your emails in Gmail to show you ads, nor to sell your information to advertisers.

Source: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6603?hl=en

Just thought I'd point that out before the FUD/tin-foil kicks in too much :)
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> A cafe is not a coworking space

This is, of course your opinion. To me, a cafe is an ideal co-working space. It encourages deep thought, the chance to collide with other smart people in my industry, get out of the house, etc.
Yes - Lithuanian language doesn't include Q, as well as X (not sure why X made it into the font, though).
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I think my first graphics card was a Riva 128. If I'm remembering correctly, the box billed it as a "2D/3D Multimedia Accelerator".
So true! My first (student) job..10 years ago... I landed because of personal recommendation through a friend and yeah, for the rest I built on that. Confirming what you say about politics, all following jobs there was a lot of of it involved rendering the jobs eventually mechanic/boring.

Especially the non-technical people at the places had really unrealistic understandings of IT and DEV in particular to a degree that tech colleagues thought everybody in MGMT must be completely stupid or insane. After having left these places after some time it's just funny.

And yes, for many non-tech people hiring Junior devs is no option in my experience. No idea what these people think, but maybe this is then changing as tech becomes more relevant.. ;)
It is. A lot of providers in the USA prevent people from tethering their phone to their laptop unless they pay an extortion fee.
Oh, thanks everyone.
>Once in a while you find somebody who has been doing real work on the side for years during or before college, and thus has a clue how things work, but that's a diamond in the rough, usually.

Can you define "real work"?
The whole thing sounds to me like a method of forced equality. Everyone had nothing, and everyone had to try their best to participate in the economy in order to get any of the limited supplies that were available. If you didn't work today, you wouldn't have anything of value to buy food today. Only after rebuilding a foundation for a more normal economy could the pressure be decrease. Is this a reasonable way to view it?
> He and HR were like "you should have let us know before it got to this point."

Why is this so common? What kind of brain dead morons are becoming managers?

Why do they even become managers if they don't want to manage. At my firm, it was the same. Some people were automatic fits and managed to do fine. The others were left to fend for themselves. No mentorship, no management, nothing.
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I have.

It was staggering how they had managed to survive for 25+ years. Every person is different.
This will be resolved next year when they replace metrocard with a new system which will allow contactless payments.
I don't want a webpage in my e-mail. HTML e-mails are already abused so much, with fake links, and terrible marketing. And it doesn't help to quit gmail, I am sure this will spread like fire to all other clients.
Wow, thanks for this advice. I think I have a few questions. Let me read more carefully to be sure later.
Right and so now I know that calling inanimate objects such as a whiteboard will invalidate any further knowledge I have to share. I could cure cancer but if I said, it was a bitch of a problem people on this site would go whoaaaaa dude negative 10 karmas for you. Isn't that sad? That's why I think the thumbs down button is a bad idea, just let the best ideas get the most rankings. Get rid of the 5+ year council of poeple that make it insane for others to get anything. I'll posts some good articles, make some insightful comments, and then someone will have a bad day and decide to erase all my good deeds. Thats super fun
What does 'agency' refer to in this subthread?

Agency for what?
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As someone who just designed a tabletop dice game...I totally rolled a bunch of dice. Distribution charts are good for a sanity and balance check, but rolling the dice gives you more of a feel for the game, what you can expect to get with any given roll, and give you a feel for how to manipulate the dice (physically), see how fiddly it can be, how much time it takes for turns, etc.

But you can't replicate that bit with a computer program too well.
I lived abroad for 4 years. When you lose that community of friends and family, it has a significant impact on your support network both from an emotional and practical sense.

Doing simple things like moving house become a lot harder when you have fewer friends to call on to help you. You'll probably end up paying someone to do it.

In terms of being away from family and friends, I found the first two years easy. It was exciting to be in a new country and travel for work. The third and fourth years were harder. Ex-pats say they are often torn between the better quality of life and all the friends and family they have back home.

I moved back after 4 years and I'm loving it :)
Corvallis, OR is just a small (55K) wealthy college town but all our buses are free to everyone all the time.
one of the socialism's PROs. if done right. transport.
Ask HN: Why do software companies hire by committee?
I’m currently interviewing. I go through one or more phone screens, several rounds of interviews, and meet with multiple groups of people. In total, I spend maybe 8-12+ hours interviewing and often hear silence with little feedback. And, usually, the hiring manager places a tiny role.

In contrast to managers and engineers of other disciplines that I know, they’re often hired by one decision maker in a fast-moving process.

So, what gives? Is there research that shows that committee hiring is more effective for software?
Savings are always important because it allows you to be opportunistic with your wealth. Using it when you lose your job is one opportunity. People also use savings to start a business, buy dips, help out family members.
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I was trying the Turkish characters and it surprised me by having İ. Very interestingly, it didn't have ı. Does anyone know an alphabet which has İ but not ı?
House prices are sticky. They easily go up when interest rates fall. But when interest rates rise, housing usually remains stubborn until the cycle collapses.
I wonder what this would do to bikers. Suddenly buying a bike is more expensive than energy consuming public transportation.
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Would you mind sharing some stories about what it was like during that time?
Indeed. Very rarely does an argument change someone's opinion. Smarter people have their views changed by experience. The less smart cling to their beliefs despite experience. Hence the aphorism "consistency is the virtue of a narrow mind." For myself, I've found that a further optimization in terms of mental bandwidth is to avoid even forming a view on matters that I don't really care about. If one doesn't have a view or position on a matter, then there's no temptation to be drawn into time wasting debate.
To those offering up suggestions of "seticoin" and similar ideas, the reason why this hasn't been done is because its prohibitively difficult to build a PoW system using useful work because useful work usually cannot be verified as correct without redoing all of the work. Another problem is that the inherent nature of useful work generally precludes it from being delivered in units of controllable and predictable difficulty.
> While I'm sure there are lots of politically progressive places that are problems, I can't imagine having a community similar to ours without it.

There are a number of traditionalist conservative intentional communities doing much the same things. It's kinda like with homeschoolers: the left-wing & right-wing homeschoolers end up doing many similar things, and are different from the mainstream public-schoolers in similar ways.
Ask HN: Anyone from the Toronto area looking to cofound a venture?
Hey all,

I just moved to the Toronto area and have started a venture full time with some pre-seed funding. Would love to meet for good old networking and possible collaboration opportunities.

Cheers!

Soheil
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There's no valid conclusion if they don't use the strengths of the tested products. They didn't even use indices, for example...
I see an interesting parallel to malpractice liability for physicians. The well known and understood best way to avoid malpractice is not expertise or avoiding mistakes, it's having good beside manners and treating patients with respect. (Expertise and attention to detail are very, very important of course but have less impact on chances to get sued than these other soft factors, according to this advice.)

I've seen doctors miss cancers before and escape unscathed after frank discussions with the patient, while others that do everything technically correct are sued over a hangnail. Not saying missing cancer is "ok as long as your nice", I'm saying that people don't really sue over money, they sue over hurt feelings and seek retribution in monetary form. (There's a big exception to all this in the patients who are opportunistically seeking an opening to sue. They are simply dangerous to have as patients, but are usually quick to move on.)

Finally, the physician who has good bedside manners is also a better witness and more sympathetic to juries.

These can be hard lessons for techies who "aren't doing anything wrong".
Where the heck are these kinds of companies? I've heard jumping for a $10-20k raise (so, roughly 20-30%), but double for a junior? Unless COL influences stuff, I'd be wondering what he did right and knock that off as an outlier.
I recently used RCTEs in a production environment to operate on reasonably large graphs. We eventually moved to an in memory solution built on top of ETS for various reasons, but performance was not a deciding factor (at least as much as you would think); Postgres handled our queries well beyond expectation, even with heavy factoring into functions. It's definitely not slow.

The largest burden was on development and maintenance. Iterating algorithms and queries powered by RCTEs (and functions) on a changing schema is not scaleable (in effort), at least with the traditional migration scripts approach to upgrades and rollbacks. If you do want go this route, you need to change how you ship those functions and queries.

We theorized that shipping them as part of the application and performing necessary migrations behind-the-scenes would have drastically reduced the maintenance burden. We also considered composing queries completely dynamically and fully leveraging our language (Elixir) to provide a toolbag of functions that aren't functions as far as Postgres was concerned. In either case, the hassle of versioning functions and queries would no longer get in the way iteration.
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I don't mean that though. In Greater London (M25) 50% of journeys are by private car. For commuting to and from work transit use is a lot higher, but car usage is still 50% of all journeys.

There are so many areas really badly served in outer london by transit that cars are used a lot.
Is it just me or is it not animating correctly? It loads and I can pan/zoom around the sheet with the crease lines, but it doesn't actually animate the folds. I tried dragging the slider like the instructions say as well as trying interactive mode, but it doesn't do anything.

Still, I can guess what it is supposed to do and this is really neat.
You can't do anything. The future is one where everyone is soulless and dead and life goes on in a mechanical and unfriendly way, for example a cafe of people staring at their laptops.

Your best bet is to leave, because if you stick around and disturb the peace you're likely to find yourself in a bad way.

Seriously tho, people work in cafes to escape the idiotic banter of their offices. Let them have their peace. They're paying you aren't they?
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And if you want much nicer development tools and a database server that has real stored procedures, just use SQL Server.
"...and a whole bunch of other important things."
You forgot to factor in the price of your car, yearly insurance costs, and various maintenance costs.
If I may, what is the timeframe for your algo trades?

If it's short one like say in minutes, then you might want to test it with small amount of real money before going all in. The reason is orders fills are imperfect. So, cost price you had during backtests vs realtime might differ a lot.
Money is not the only cost. If going at 5pm hypothetically takes 1h and 6pm take 5 minutes then people will wait to 6pm until this balances out.

Subway's don't operate as independent businesses. They can't raise fair prices arbitrarily and often receive far more money from the government than from their nominal customers.
I've been saying this for a while, and I think it will lead to the demise of the bootcamps, and is already causing a cascade of unemployment in low-skill indian IT from what I read. The bar is simply getting higher. I think this is a good thing overall. It's also why I care almost exclusively about CS fundamentals in technical interviews, unless we have a very specific need.
As long as the government has the power to tax, it can shrink the supply of currency as much as it wants. There is no such "easy fix" for supply problems.
It's very sad that in today's climate people can't be associated with Louis Farrakhan or Steve Bannon for fear the outraged masses will make the implication to befriend such people means you submit to their particular theories of politics and other belief systems.

It's utterly juvenile and should be condemned by our thinkers and influencers.
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Excession and Player of Games both have sections of the book that take place inside the Culture and show some of their day-to-day lives. They just don’t spend much time there because there’s relatively little interesting conflict to show.
$300 an hour is about 600k/year. In many cases, this is actually probably a good estimate for developer opportunity cost for the company.

My working career is only a couple years old at this point so I'm more junior but in both of those years I can point to contributions that were worth more than 600k to the company. That being said, I personally don't even make a third of that $300/hour. But that's the whole reason a company decides to hire you -- they think you'll make them more money than you'll cost.
I do the same with laptop stickers: https://github.com/mikemaccana/stickers
The goal of agile, as implemented in most shops, is to get things done quickly and to establish a reporting cadence with management.

Nurturing employees, and indeed software quality, is the product of company and team culture.

The development process is concrete (and “SMART”), so that’s what many managers focus on. The cultural aspects are more nebulous, so they are ignored.
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I'm saying that people who currently don't drive cars are likely to use the service a lot more.

People who drive cars are likely to continue driving cars even if it was free.

You get worst of both worlds: loads more demand and no real reduction in driving.

Why not just tax the actual cars instead of losing 5bn/yr of revenue? If the goal is actually to reduce pollution. Stick a €5000/yr tax on bad diesel cars (and maybe transfer that money directly to a EV subsidy fund). They will vanish tomorrow.
I have lots of aliases. Anytime I sign up to anything, create an account on a site or otherwise hand out an email address it'll most likely be an alias. My pattern is basically <top-level domain>@<catch-all inbox>.<mydomain> and this lets me ban an alias quickly if I find it's being misused (i.e. sold or leaked to a third party.) No need to deal with dodgy unsubscribe methods that probably doesn't work any way, that alias is just dead now.

FastMail does this incredibly easy since you can set up an inbox to allow any alias, so you don't have to create them up front. I just type it in and whenever an email comes in it'll be routed properly. Gmail has this too I believe, but only with the + syntax (e.g. myalias+account@gmail.com) but unfortunately too many places have broken email validation routines that doesn't know how to deal with + signs.
That's not actually true. Economics is not zero sum, and neither are markets, provided that they continue to rise commensurate with economic productivity. It remains to be seen if cryptos will retain their high valuations, but presuming that they do, nobody needs to have 'lost' due to your trading activity.