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He's mentioned the effect that Berkshire's brand reputation has on investment returns in his annual reports. It's substantial, but not in the way you theorize.

Basically, Berkshire's reputation for 1.) being financially stable through good times and bad 2.) keeping existing management and place and 3.) being able to allocate capital from cash-rich but growth-poor businesses to growth-rich but cash-poor businesses makes them a "preferred buyer" for many strong private companies that are seeking to get liquidity for themselves or family members but don't want to kiss their baby goodbye forever. That a.) opens up dealflow to Berkshire that would never think of selling to other private equity firms and b.) gives them a good price on the deal, since the owners are not seeking to generate a competitive marketplace of bidders that might drive up the price.

Although Berkshire does invest in regular public companies on the open market, that hasn't driven the majority of their returns in decades. Instead, their modus operandi is usually to buy 80% (there was some tax reason why it was 80%) of highly profitable private businesses, and then use the cash generated by those profits to buy more highly profitable private businesses. They only invest in the public markets when there are no attractive private opportunities available, and in some cases they take formerly public companies (eg. BNSF) private. The subsequent share price matters little with this strategy, because the investments are illiquid and just spin off lots of cash from profits.
I'm really happy to see you post this. Everyone else I've brought it up too just says I'm crazy. I might be crazy but not about the damn flickering/strobe.

Especially when my dog bounces around it looks like she is in a strobe light. I did a couple of videos of it just to "prove" it in some fashion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DddB_0QrV_8
That's much harder to do with governments controlling fiat money.

What about government supported fiat money implemented with blockchain? The best way to implement that would be to preserve as many of the attributes of blockchain as possible. So the government could take coins in their possession out of circulation, or change mining parameters to print more money. Perhaps they could even print money just by signing it. However, they would not be able to make money disappear out of other party's accounts.

And many complaints are not about things Bitcoin actually promises to do. It doesn't promise to make exchanges safe.

Is it really viable not to have safe exchanges?
In IT particularly there's absolutely no reason to go five times a week to a place and sit there coding for 8 hours every day. Surely an Alien would say : Why do you do that to yourselves humans ?
After Scrutiny, Instacart Will End Its Controversial Tipping Policy
I think the author has little idea on what networking is.

The first rule of networking: If you're clearly doing it to further a career, you will fail.

A lot of people criticize it, but "Never Eat Alone" is worth a read.
Reminds me of all of the intro sequences from Better off Ted.
There is more to this sell off than simply Nvidia earnings report. With such a large investment, this is a fairly short duration to sell after, especially considering the gain for Softbank isn't as large as your would expect. Its difficult to speculate on why but losing faith in the long term potential of Nvidia being one of the leaders in compute for machine learnings seems shortsighted at this point.
I have a couple of 2W/80lm ikea bulbs for bedside lighting, and they are room temperature.

I also own some 5W/400lm ikea bulbs for general room lighting and they do run warm, maybe something like 40°C ± 5°C. The fixture/thingy around the bulb is roughly the size of a fist.

The bulbs are pretty new so I can't say anything about the lifespan of the bulbs, but the price is reasonable, they are not the fancy smart bulbs.
Not enough people realize how true that is.

I've worked for companies that made pretty awful products, but they sure knew how to sell 'em.
Ask HN: Cmd line parameters, env variables or config files?
What do you prefer and why?
>Even at a very young age she’d only ever put food stuff in her mouth.

Apparently, I was that was as a baby as well. I handled everything, but only food went into my mouth.
I'm glad this jingoistic talking point is appearing less and less these days. Because I got tired of repeating the following:

If you actually sum up the fines levied by the EU, aggregated by continent, you will find they almost perfectly each region's respective revenue in the EU.

The only exception is that Asia is fined somewhat more than to be expected, and the US less.

This is probably due to the US' strong enforcement catching and/or discouraging behaviour before it gets to the level where the EU would intervene. Conversely, it shows a somewhat less developed corporate culture in some Asian countries.
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So glad to see this comment. It really is a bit rich, isn't it?
Why so? From their site, it looks like they are not really selling a grpah db but a webapp. Lots of application are written in NodeJs.
And Cheers was near the bottom of the ratings its first season. Today low ratings gets you canceled after 6 episodes or fewer.

Good things often take a while to take root. VCs aren't interested in that noise.
Technically LPs, but they're more-often-than-not large, faceless funds only interested in returns and mostly insulated from any blowback so moral considerations don't always concern them.
There is no limit to the amount of capital losses carried over (i.e. harvested) year to year. These must first be applied against any capital gains (no limit AFAIK.) The $3000 limit applies to the annual amount of capital losses that may be written off against other income.

Example, in year 1 you have a $15,000 net capital loss. You write off the maximum $3,000 of this against your other income, carrying over a $12,000 capital loss. In year 2 you have a $10,000 net capital gain, this is offset against your carried over loss leaving $2,000 to write off against your income.
My oven has a high / low switch for the LED lights and I can't have it on low because the strobe/flicker drives me nuts.
its still used very extensively in the surface treatment and sealing of woods. also in steel finishing processes for rust prevention.
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They'll survive it. The pendulum has swung far toward corporations and awards don't tend to be death sentences these days.

What other company has been killed by a lawsuit lately, other than thorough frauds like for-profit colleges?
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Not at all. Feel free to find the MuslimLife equivalent of this article and I'd be betting to wager the OP would say the same about them.

Let's not act like he wasn't spot on, either, though.
Semantically, it’s always a memcpy. In practice, the copy can be elided depending on circumstance. But that’s an optimization, not the semantic.

(And yeah, Copy types are like that too; the only semantic difference between Copy and move is if you can use the old binding.)

Any time! And yeah, the rust forums are probably better but it’s no big deal :)
All the workers (teachers, bus drivers, janitors...) have to pay more for housing or commuting, so yes.
That doesn't make sense. If inflation is causing your expenses to increase, your prices will need to be increased accordingly.

Stuff doesn't naturally get more expensive in constant dollars. In fact, except for labor, and very limited resources, it usually gets cheaper over time.
Possible that the hype around deep learning will dissipate as highly anticipated applications turn out to be more challenging than expected, technologists settle in for a long trek, and investors flee the space in search of easier returns. We've seen this happen before.

The real growth opportunity seems to be with Tegra. If we see a boom in autonomous vehicles and robotics, they're well positioned to profit. But we may not.

It also appears AMD has finally arrived at the correct strategy to challenge NVIDIA's datacenter moat with HIP (basically API compatibility with CUDA modulo trademarks). Does not mean they have mindshare or a desirable product line, but when you have a completely dominant market position that's baked into the stock price you have to consider every threat.

NVIDIA is a great company with great products that will do well regardless, just positing some reasons one might be short the stock apart from Chinese market considerations.
Although that was initially my feelings (when an account steals my content, I would view their account size and get pissed when they had more followers than me) but now I feel equally pissed at every account that steals my content. If it's a legitimate account that's sharing it i'm fine, but if it's an account that only shares other peoples posts, I report and block them. They shouldn't be able to make money from other peoples posts.

Instagram should at least attempt to do something about this issue other than relying on users to report them. All of these accounts have similar patterns on how they operate. They shouldn't be too difficult to find.
Or if the Dad had health insurance* he may be still alive.

*care would imply that someone does, insurance is more accurate
I'm sorry the comment describing how SFUSD had eliminated algebra from middle school [0] has been deleted. Waiting until junior year to split up a class based on math aptitude is probably good for those in the middle, but it's certainly bad for those with higher or lower than average aptitude. As I recall, my pre-algebra and algebra I courses were attended by two classes: 7-8 and 8-9 grades respectively. After that there was no requirement that you take a particular course in a particular year, just that you had passed the prerequisites. This seemed to work very well, since everyone was ready for the material.

[0] https://priceonomics.com/why-did-san-francisco-schools-stop-...
Slimmer frameworks. I went from jQuery to React to Angular to Vue and they keep getting simpler and more user-friendly. I still think the templating system in Vue is a bit clunky but better than alternatives. Expect responsive frameworks to become even more scalable.
Yeah. I've had interviews and I won't say they were formalities. But pretty much every one of those interviews (post first job out of school) were conversations with people I knew reasonably well.
Some jurisdictions (Australia) have input credits that offset tax already paid on dividends. If a company has paid 30% tax on a profit and distributes dividends to shareholders, the individual pays tax on it at their marginal tax rate less the tax already paid by the company (fully franked dividend).

Franking credits minimise the double taxation issue in these instances.
> Why did NO ONE in any meetings when designing this "feature" or process say anything?

I am assuming you are saying PM, designers, backend engineers or others who actually had a hand in building the product should protest this. So you are basically saying engineers and designers should stand up and say no.

I think the focus is on wrong people.

The question should be, why is MBA schools still teaching their students to reduce cost at all cost and increase revenue at all cost. No matter what.

Fine, the engineers build what they build. But someone hires/fires people, and signs checks for certain projects. Someone tells the engineers to build something. And who are these people?

Let's focus the public anger at the right people. It's not the engineers.

It's the graduates of the expensive MBA schools.
>He was rejected from elite universities.

I'm not sure I see a problem. You can get a great education in most non-elite schools. You can do well in undergrad and it makes it easier to go to an elite grad school (it's a much more level playing field to get in there). It's not as if the landscape of education has a sharp cutoff at the elite level.

I know this is going to rub people the wrong way, but your comment reminds me of a documentary I saw where a couple tried to live on food stamps to show how difficult life is (as in that food stamps don't provide for much food).

The couple insisted on buying everything organic.

Yes, that is going to make life difficult!
indexing and search specialized to graph operations is a thing; no experience with those projects, but familiar with some workarounds in Postgres. Basically, the deeper the graph searches, the more the performance drops for relational DBs. This is a seriously studied topic, so refer to research for more details
How many Italian restaurants where you live have expanded into making and selling their own pasta and sauce at retail? If we're talking about the foundation of most of capitalism, surely it would be exhibited there more often than "never."
I own a domain which a lot of people on the Internet like to randomly type in when they are signing up for things. It is ridiculous how many services accepted those fake email addresses over the years and therefor how many accounts I could reset passwords for.
I don’t see how this very pleasant user friendly feature of Gmail is an issue. IIRC, email addresses are not even case insensitive. So foo@example.com isn’t necessarily FOO@example.com.

Websites should be validating email addresses by sending them an email with an (expiring quickly) link and having the user act upon it. Short of that there’s no way for you to know that a user controls a given address.
>You're trying to correct for a language that was designed for scripting, not application software.

Well, that's not true. Are you basing this solely over a lack of a type system?
> The cluster of 7th Fleet incidents (the Antietam grounding and the Fitzgerald and McCain collisions) resulted in at least the dismissal of the 7th Fleet commander, the Task Force 70 commander, and the Destroyer Squadron 15 commander, and the early retirement of the head of Naval Surface Forces.

This is good to hear, thank you! I'm glad that accountability for these kinds of systemic problems doesn't stop at the captain's chair.
Just in: the policy is now being ended: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolineodonovan/after-...

> “Based on your feedback, today we’re launching new measures to more fairly and competitively compensate all our shoppers,” Mehta wrote. “Tips should always be separate from Instacart’s contribution to shopper compensation.”

> Instacart also said it will compensate workers affected by the previously policy. “For example, if a shopper was paid $6 by Instacart, to compensate for our mistake, he or she will receive an additional $4 from Instacart,” Mehta wrote.
They were defrosting leopard seal poo. They found a USB stick
There are many things that could have gone wrong. Maybe they ran out of disk space. Maybe some critical certs expired.
I mean, your second sentence is not even remotely true. You’re implying that the chance of being sued by the EU is near 100% for every profitable business in the EU.
"human understanding" can wrap it self around very complex things. What I see is an endless repetition of: Lets rip out English and use Dutch from now on! Some time later: Laten we stoppen met Nederlands en op Chinees overstappen. Again, some time later: 让我们放弃中文并使用日语！

With the excuse being increased productivity because Japanese is easier to understand.

Assuming this would even be true it is only true if you put in the work.

Think of how many people use to know js and css. If they didn't pay close attention for say 10 years they are out. The effort put into progressing things failed to make things easy to use for them.

Therefore I think the future will be more about creating self explanatory tools.

All of the developer tools part of the OS smoothly working together without blaming the user for failing to live up to configuration challenges.

Make it so that we can put a newbie or a child in front of a highly complex repository and have him figure out how everything works without help.
If you ignore the highly politicized lobbyists, you'll find that expertise is one of the main things lobbyists provide to politicians.

"We know you don't have time to dig deep. Here is a summary of the research, and our recommendations based on it."

Edit: I also once had a fairly cynical view of lobbyists. But then some people I know went to work for lobby groups after they graduated. When I looked into the types of lobby groups they went to, they were fairly impressive. Things like advocating for homeless, advocating for people without health care, etc.
I've got buddies on Instagram that watermark their work and when it gets stolen do you think people are going to look at the watermark and go follow them? It doesn't do anything for the original creator on Instagram.
If you use a disposable email, I guess you should consider the account disposable too?

If you have catch-all service forwarding your email, you as a technically minded person made that choice for your domain and you have to consider the consequences and risks.

Gmail has made this a default for everyone, including 99.999999% of its users who does not know scammers can automatically create aliases for them, so that the 0.0000001% which uses this feature doesn’t have to tick a checkbox first, or pre-register their aliases.

Completely irresponsible and a world of difference.
> When the pendulum swings very-left (as it will, American politics follow a tick-tock partisan pattern) I believe someone (AOC?) will crack down on "contractor" companies...

Definitely.

If economic conservatives and libertarians don't want to see their ideas totally repudiated for a generation or more, they're going to have to work overtime to effectively address problems like these that can be attributed to them, even if it means heterodoxy. Unfortunately, most of what I see are calls for even more of the same, apologia, "there's nothing we can do because shareholder value", or scaremongering about long-repealed regulatory regimes and the communist bloc.
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> My guess is that this isn't really an ethical issue with Instacart, which I view as a very well run company.

I can't agree with that. A well run company doesn't steal $4 from a $5 tip originally given to some poor person making minimum wage.
Citizen's United affirmed that an individual's rights to make political speech isn't lost when that individual forms a corporation for the sole purpose of amplifying that speech.

It's equivalent (this isn't an analogy, it's literally equivalent) to allowing a person to spend money to buy a megaphone to make their speech literally louder than everyone else's. Not everyone can afford a megaphone.
The Friedman doctrine wouldn't advocate against doing this either, because it's not within the bounds of law.
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$3k max to offset other income. There is no limit to offset capital gains.
You have to add a resistor across the cap anyway according to the wiring diagram. I think dfox is probably right that it's a voltage rating thing.
I don't really remember there being much of a misunderstanding of React itself when it was first launched. There was definitely ridicule ("markup and logic in the same file?!"), but the general idea behind the core of it is pretty straightforward. I could be misremembering, it has been several years after all.

And I'm optimistic that hooks will be great and they won't be difficult to teach to React newcomers and more junior team members. But it's not obvious to me yet that it's the case and I'll be careful about how I use the feature going forward

Thanks for all your contributions to the community, though. Not trying to be overly critical of all the hard work — just trying to fully understand use cases, maintainability implications, etc.
Worst Kickstarter Every
So I decided to try to do a Kickstarter to raise money for transcribing a classic math text into Mathml language. I raised a total of $62 out of $6000 that I would need to seriously finish the project.
I didn't market the project, except for a couple of social media posts.
But, more importantly I just don't think people care about seeing old math books transcribed into a modern language.
I learned a lesson, sometimes let the market dictate what projects are worth perusing and which I should not spend time on.
Ditto. I started buying the albums that I used to listen to on YouTube.
Someone signed off on that feature that stole $4 from a $5 tip given to a person making minimum wage.

Was that person an MBA graduate or not?
The author has demonstrated a very amateurish understanding and greatly conflated Bitcoin technology with blockchain technology in general, drawing the reader to make the same poor conclusions as the author.

Just a quick example

> "The second element is the consensus algorithm, which is a way to ensure all the copies of the ledger are the same. This is generally called mining;" - except that is only applicable for (proof of work POW) consensus and does not apply to proof of stake (POS) and delegated proof of stack (DPOS) which several of the top blockchain projects are currently using (even Ethereum is moving to POS). Both of which are far more environmentally friendly and use asset ownership (stake) as the mechanism for consensus, which is much more reliable (in a trust sense).

Gosh there is so much that is conflated here. The article can be completely deconstructed but I just don't have the time. It's unfortunate this is coming from Wired. Tsk. Tsk.
You're welcome! :-)
Your argument is a form of 'this is too complicated for you to understand' .. aka bullshit.

The average joe doesn't need to grok the whole tax code to know it's wrong when one of the most high profile profitable companies doesn't pay any income tax.

That indicates the system is fucked. There isn't a technicality in the universe that will indicate that somehow our perception is wrong.
>fiat money markets are many times more transparent than bitcoin markets.

Absolutely not. USD is purposefully manipulated by an organization that doesn't want their decisions to be known too far in advance. If inflation is about to increase, only a small cabal is supposed to know before the official announcement. For a decision like this to be made in Bitcoin, it would take lengthy discussion to get enough nodes on board. Even segwit caused a fork, the old Bitcoin (BCH now) is still around. Inflation can't be manipulated by a central organization that makes secret plans in advance using special powers. Whether or not that's a desirable quality is up for debate, but to act like the USD market is more transparent is absurd.
Who markets on the basis of LOC?
> I see the next generation of programmers more populated by tech debt creators and less accepting of mentorship

Yep - even as a youngin' I'm seeing this happen rapidly with tech being the new "hotness" that everyone wants to jump on career-wise. With 6mo bootcamps, Udemy, etc people think you can just jump RIGHT into the industry. And they're right - with the wrong interview panel it's easy for a near zero-experience person to get in the door because so many companies are focused on increasing engineer headcount vs focusing on the quality of their teams.

Honestly I've made a _lucrative_ career out of dealing with tech debt that other engineers/teams have left behind due to bludgeoning their way through the process with tools they've only used once.
When anyone will be able to launch their own cryptocurrency, we will have a chance to free ourselves from the coercive influences of debt, venture capital and corporations

That's the goal with my side project https://coinpress.cc
Given the huge uptake on Typescript, I don't think using JS as an example makes sense.

Static typing helps. It doesn't have to be Java-esque. F# & friends have really nice static type systems where you don't need to declare types for most things - they're automatically inferred.
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"Atheists" aren't a group with any kind of institutional power or unified agenda. Unlike, for instance, the Catholic church.