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... [P]eople are usually more or less capable at a given task...

True. But few if any “jobs” held by knowledge workers are just a single, repetitive task, over and over, like Demming was observing when he studied productivity on assembly lines. So while you may find a team has variation among members when looking at a single skill, as a manager it’s really hard to pin down the success of the team to one thing done by one person. In fact, from a management point of view, “success” is often “we got the job done” and not “everything was done perfectly”, so a team member who does one or two things really well is treated more or less like an outlier, and their work averages out.[1] Unless...

Unless the manager has unwittingly pitted the members of the team against each other, in order to find the “top performer”! This will reduce productivity of the team overall as they waste time defending against each other. A net loss overall.

Don’t get me wrong, there are times when competition is healthy, but quite often it’s applied as a kind of micro-optimization that doesn’t really benefit the organization overall. (Many orgs have enough money to allow this nonsense, unfortunately.)

[1] Try and write a job description for someone on your team, and you’ll quickly realize how complicated it is to even know what skills are key, which are nice to have, etc.
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Question,

So do you happen to know if the troll needs to prove that the company violated a claim, or does the company need to prove that it DID NOT violate the claim?
No one trusts their landlord or the software vendors they choose with a direct connection to their bank account. That's just asking for a cascade of overdraft fees.
According to the home page (linked down thread edited: linked by you!) it is fully diy. They gave a bill of materials, construction directions, etc, but you source and build it all yourself. They list an estimated cost of 7000 usd/eur depending on location.
Yes - the mosquitos may one day not be effective in protecting the rainforest.

You are saying we should make that happen as soon as possible.

Killing the mosquitos is not exclusive with working to save the forest only if you have another way to save the forest.

Nothing has been able to prevent the illegal logging except mosquitoes. What is your suggestion?
This piece from a long-ago Oscars introduced me to her. https://www.salon.com/2002/03/25/oscars_2002/ She can be very funny but it's not entirely surprising that some people take offense.
You don’t, because it is good for all if there are those willing to test these things for the rest of humanity.
We have "rewards" on our credit cards. Rewards aren't free, so they increase the fees.

>For banks, the $91.2 billion in fees they earn on credit-card portfolios is now more than the interest they charge on the loans.

The fees are ridiculous. Profit margins at restaurants are often 3-5% (per Google). There is still a cost to handling cash, but if cash cost ~1% all-in, their profits would go up 20-30%, just like that, assuming consumption stayed the same.

Fast food venues didn't accept credit cards for a long time, but eventually found people spent more paying with a card than cash. A $300 TV and a $5 hamburger "feel" exactly the same with cards, which certainly doesn't help consumerism in the US.

As an example, when I pay my property taxes, I can either pay by sending a check in the mail, doing an electronic check (ACH transfer that takes 2-3 business days to clear) and paying $0.25, or pay a 2% transaction fee. Stamps are $0.50, eventually I'll need to reorder checks (at a cost), so I do the ACH transfer.
Actually not a bad suggestion, except that land mines are much easier to defeat than mosquitos.
I'm personally fascinated by the album format.

I own a jillion digital songs that I listen to in batches, shuffling them, creating playlists. Sometimes I'll listen to literally every song I own on shuffle; sometimes I'll listen to one song on loop for hours.

A good album presents a playlist arrangement by the artist. I could just listen to the digital copies in order, but I'm more likely to jump around and skip songs when given the option. The constraints of the vinyl format makes it more likely I'll listen the whole way through, at most selecting whether to listen to both A and B sides.

Unsurprisingly, I only own a few records, of artists and albums I particularly like. Otherwise I just pick and choose individual songs from a digital marketplace.
Debt can be useful to quickly get capital to grow a business. The problem is that everyone is competing to grow their business faster and so the amount of debt steadily climbs faster and faster than being able to pay the interest. New businesses who gather debt in a more controlled way will look like they aren't growing as fast (if loans were the primary source of funding) and they are quickly left for the companies that grow fast. Luckily, VCs take responsibility with their investments and make it possible for a new business to not need to go into crazy amounts of debt.

Eventually, so much debt will be accumulated that companies will not be able to pay off the interest and the bubble pops. If everyone is always in debt, there will always be a periodic crash.
Debt is not dumb. Managing your debt in a bad way is dumb.

You may want to see the following illustration by Ray Dalio about how debt complements the economy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHe0bXAIuk0
This doesn't make any sense. You haven't explained how CD is "terrible"; you just made some comparison to an obsolete digital camera. You put the CD in, press play, and a nearly perfect representation of the source signal with enormous dynamic range and clarity comes out of your DAC. How is this like a 20 year-old digital camera?
Nope, since 2017 the law has been that bank transfers anywhere within the EU are free.

https://brussels-express.eu/bank-transfers-will-immediate-fr...
Doesn't The Economist change spellings between British and American editions? For example: "color"--American and "colour"--British?
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Thus indicating the time: time for lunch.
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You still see people using cheques in France, I didn't bother getting any with my bank account.
I buy both. For the most part, it's nostalgia, not sound quality. In fact, if sound quality is the goal, CDs or losslessly compressed audio files are preferable. Virtually everything is mixed and mastered in digital now, so any notion of the "warmth of analog" is mostly horseshit.

But some of us have a soft spot for physical collections of things. I have around 500 CDs and 200 records (and 1000-ish books). Vinyl is prettier than a CD. They're big, there's a bit of a ritual to putting one one. They're nice to throw on when friends are over. I didn't even grow up with records: I was from the cassette and CD generation. I didn't start acquiring records until I inherited my dad's and started buying techno records.

Some people will spout some post hoc rationalizations about the sound of vinyl, but objectively, they're wrong. It's mostly just that we like collecting the things and that more often than not these days when you buy the vinyl you get a download code for the digital version, so you get the best of both worlds.
This might be a stupid question, but do you have to pay a fee for transferring money from one bank to another bank when both banks are located in the US?
It seems hard if not impossible to prevent illegal use of profile pictures. If a web browser can access them, collecting them can be automated. Even if they are only accessible through an app on iOS or Android, you could still, on a device with root access, capture the API calls and reverse engineer how to get those pictures.
So we might just assume any intelligence service already has that. The only protection against a more widespread development of those products would be legal I think.
Interesting. I wonder how that compares to buying one for $7000?
It's not a "direct connection" in the sense that the other end has any control. The typical way to set this up is that you create a repeating payment to (say) pay your rent electronically on the same day every month, and you can stop or alter the payment at any time.
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Recently, I have been able to find an republish (on my personal site) some of the pages of the mini site I created in 1997: https://bussolon.it/archivio/1997/
> The company is just an entity that needs to follow the set of guidelines set by people living in that society.

Those guidelines are the laws. We elect congress and a president who passes laws, and what those are comes back to us.

Within those laws, we have capitalism. If company A goes beyond that, and company B doesn't, guess who survives?

Pressuring an employer to act outside of those bounds isn't helpful. What is helpful is realigning incentive structures at a system level. Radical proposals -- like eliminating NDAs, mandating open source for firmware, right-to-repair, and so on -- feel oppressive when one looks through the lens of private right to contract. When one looks at a systemic level, they result in much greater freedom for everyone.

Most executives would like to be good, but they're between a rock and a hard place, and walk a thin line. Laws are what determine where that line is.
That was surprising to me as well. Then again, if there is a per transaction fee multiplied by the amount of credit card transactions per day, I could see where those add up quick. A cursory search online stated over 100 billion transactions annually. So I could see where the fees are making more money than interest.
The 7000 price point is an interesting middle ground. That is past the hobbyist range and into small industrial cutter range. So trading works out of the box and a warrantee for bed size and wattage
The problem with laser modules is that they're expensive, fragile, fussy and consume a metric ton of energy.

I saw some 150W+ CO2 tubes drop-shipped directly from the manufacturer on AliExpress available with and without power supplies. These are water cooled so you'll need a very clean water cooling setup too.

http://www.recilaser.com/en/index.php?m=&c=Index&a=lists&cat...

It's doable, but careful engineering principles have to be applied. Also, Class 4 lasers in the US require a lock and a very simple, contactor-based, big red emergency stop power kill switch would be a good idea too. Industrial emergency buttons can be found on AliExpress, eBay and AliBaba. Anyone with common sense will slap some biggun "Class 4 laser in operation" lights with some andons at all possible entrances and tie it in to the unit operating. Might be good to have some proven tested safety gargles to protect yer peepers and wear welding gloves/neck/chaps when nearby during operation.

I figure a small budget gantry and system maybe had for $2500 US (with lots of scrimping and repurposing) or a nicer one for $4000-9000. A vacuum table, indexing (calibration/zeroing) system and 60° tilt table for floorspace compactness might help too.
> I'm equally perplexed as to why people always seem to think a big downturn is right around the corner.

There will be a downturn, sooner or later. Predict it every year and eventually you go down as the person who predicted the downturn.
While this demonstrates the capabilities of easily accessible ML software, it also shows the power held by large corporations and governments who have bulk access to this kind of data (images from social media, crawling) and how ML makes them able to abuse it. It's really scary to think they know where and when I was photographed or filmed in public (doing whatever) by random people while I don't...
The EU caps interchange fees by law, the US doesn't (except on debit cards). As a result, credit card fees are much higher in the US because they can be. Credit card issuers kickback some of the fees collected from merchants in the form of rewards for using the credit card.
The more I think about it, the better metaphor is: CD is the RED 32K camera from 2025 whose product is video indistinguishable from seeing it with your own eyes, but it came out in 1982 and all the theaters can project it.
"Do not stare into laser beam with remaining eyeball."

Seriously, this sort of project is dangerous. While there's a big fat disclaimer and warning on their home page, the wiki info about exhaust filtration is sketchy at best, and there doesn't seem to be any sort of serious attempt at health and safety guidelines.

Remember: any laser cutter that can actually cut wood can actually cut skin and muscle, cause serious burns, boil your eye in your skull, and creates toxic particulate exhaust.
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it doesn't cost anything but there is risk involved. So nobody takes a cut, but it also isn't "free". This is a fantastic series that explained it really well to me: https://engineering.gusto.com/how-ach-works-a-developer-pers...
The claim is the relevant part, not the abstract. Claim 1 recites:

> A method of remotely accessing and controlling a computer from a mobile device, comprising:

> receiving audio data from the mobile device, at the computer, at an audio command interface;
the audio command interface decodes the audio data into a command;

> the audio command interface selects, from two or more applications, one application the audio command interface decides is the appropriate application to execute at least one process in response to the command, wherein in deciding which application to select the audio command interface uses biometric data;

(This step is likely the basis for any claim of patentability over the prior art. Interestingly, the patent doesn’t use the term “biometric” in the specification. So there might be a written description or enablement problem. Caveat: I’m a lawyer but this is not legal advice, just entertainment.)

> executing with the selected application the at least one process in response to the command;

> generating output data in response to the selected application executing the at least one process;

> and transmitting the output data to the mobile device.
Debt and VC are just sides of the same (multi-sided) coin. The money has to come from somewhere - domestic savings, commercial profit or sovereign wealth.

The unicorn phenomenon is easier to explain this way - if you are already a company that can consume huge amounts of debt (you have a business model, product and route to market and just need to replicate) then you used to have one choice - take on debt. Now, where the returns on money as debt is so low, the money may choose to be VC just to gets return.

As such the only likely way "debt is coming" is if interest rates climb, giving money an alternative to VC.

However what drives global interest rates as very little to do with tech sector (I think).

So - yes huge tech plays are going to become more and more common because software is eating the world and we are basically going to replace all our business has governmental processes with new software ones.

Those will need huge investment - but whether that is debt or VCor something inbetween (looking at you government bonds) - is more likely to be a function of interest rates than anything else.

My prediction - the next YCombinator will take VC sized money and deploy it at bank level scale - small and medium sized companies at non-unicorn stages, because with good software and models it will be feasible to deploy at smaller levels.

Debt may not be coming so soon
And the published fees for large supermarkets are going down. Probably because they have the leverage and could even shape consumer behavior by making them used to some alternative.
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That's a current Volkswagen T-Roc, odo 5000km, that drove me nuts this week. Then, I'm not saying I can shift quicker than that. Instead, I can shift 20s before stepping on the throttle.
Greece is a very different animal altogether and I struggle to see how it will ever recover. I've been to Greece and I'm sorry to say but the same problems are obvious at every step of the socioeconomic ladder.

Italy and Spain are recovering - new businesses are emerging, unemployment in Spain is down by 12% from 26%, Italy is at ~9.5% unemployment.

Comparing several small countries to the US is completely pointless given the difference in population, area, industry , resources and so on...
Unless we're talking about rape which is not how most children are produced, sex is a choice with the predictable potential outcome of children.
As far as I can tell it's more expensive than getting a cheap one from China in that power range. The China ones vary in quality and usually require some hacking but this one you need to assemble from scratch so probably still less time investment.
Reading that whole post just looking forward to the github link.

I was sorely disappointed ️
In the 80s it was also very common for local banks to provide a number that would provide time. It was also common for the sign outside the bank to have a clock attached as well. "At the tone the time will be..."
A lot of folks don’t know that merchants pay more for CNP transactions. Why? Well it’s simple, there is no alternative to cards for an online transaction, the issuers have power. people think it’s due to fraud... there is a lot more fraud with CNP transactions but not nearly enough to account for the 60 bp difference in rates.
Several of my credit cards rebate at 2%, so I’ll use the card for anything that charges a credit card processing fee up to 2%, even more if I can avoid a stamp, envelope, and the time involved mailing it.

I just paid some property taxes with one instead of ACH; keeps all of my accounting in one place in the card, and the payment is immediate instead of waiting for the ACH payment to wind its way through the antiquated Fed plumbing. Anyone who won’t take a CC, I’ll use Plastiq; they cut a check, I pay the CC fee, but it’s still rebated back.
Burning neem-tree [0] leaves is in regular practice in most non-urban Indian neighborhoods, to stave off insects and flies, including mosquitoes. Not sure how effective it is, though.

I must point out that Wikipedia has a page on neem oil and warns of toxicity if consumed raw [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azadirachta_indica

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neem_oil
>creates toxic particulate exhaust.

And that's if you cut the right material on it, some materials will release much much more toxic compounds when burned.
> "I often pray that some rogue scientist will destroy them, earth be damned."

Do you think eliminating mosquitos per se would have dire consequences for the planet, or is it more of a "slippery slope" concern about the idea and potential consequences of deliberate extinction?
I listen to both and one stuff i actually enjoy is the one purpose object. When listening to a record, as the record player can only do one thing, I don't get side-tracked like on a phone or on a tv where you find yourself randomly looking stuff online.

I did realise while browsing in recors shops that, even if i never had access to that much music in my life as nowdays, i never known less about new bands. I haven't found the equivalent in streaming services. In the end, what comes closest online is music blogs.

In term of sounds, i guess it's a question of taste. I do enjoy music both ways so, in the end, that's not what's make a difference for me. I'm not sure i could tell the difference between a vynil and a digital version if it was not from the sound of dust.
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They are essentially colonial dependents of Berlin. Which may have been the point all along.
Related reading recommendation: "The Dead Past" by Isaac Asimov.
It doesn't seem to be very up to date, and the first query I tried returned a phishing website as a first result.
Think of debt as a way to gain market leverage. Leverage is good if you are reasonably certain of the outcome.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20942950
This kinda reminds me how Otto Wichtrle created the first contact lense on a machine build from the Merkur construction set (known as Mechano in the West):

https://cs.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soubor:Merkur_based_apparatu...

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/10/soft-...

Even saw the actual mashine on an exhibition once - cleverly done & powered by a bicycle dynamo. :-)
Find another hobby or passion outside of technology that you also enjoy and pour you energy into that on weekends; you can have productivity, progress, and getting things done there instead. Even leaving the house and going for a walk can be gamified to quantify progress by tools like Fitbit or some other step counting / heart rate monitoring gizmo.
CRTs are definitely superior for display lag (huge for competitive gamers), and also for retro gamers playing titles designed for CRTs' blurriness.
Cool, but none of these services seem to be operational at the moment.

(Which is somewhat strange given that they are supposed to be run mostly in the browser.)
You actually don't even really need the batteries. Israeli utility scale desal is designed to operate in variable mode, in their case they run about 10% capacity during summer days and 100% during summer nights. Their grid peaks are air conditioning dominated which is why that pattern.

It does mean much larger service water tanks as you need to buffer demand but if you have lots of "free" solar power then it may well be worth it.
Finance 101: debt is cheaper than equity. Arguably in today's model it's actually less risky than equity for the founders.
Legos are a magnificent piece of engineering. They really care about the product and they work within extremely rigourous tolerances. Their practical utility is underrated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3oiy9eekzk
Not too much, no. But we will know who is right in just a few weeks, so we’ll see.
Do they need to be so complex? Would it not make as much sense for Intel to be broken up into a large number of individual autonomous entities that then cooperate with each other on their own terms?
All of this information is in the article.
Not to be operated by fuckwits. - sticker AvE.

Go back to your safe space under the covers while other people will use their brains to actually make things and ignore FUD from non-makers reacting out of fear and ignorance that you try to barf uncool Culture of No toxicity into the world. This is why we can't have model rockets, chemistry sets or anything fun because of people like you.
Searching for “vaccine” on Insta shows mostly anti-vax accounts
debt and intellectual property do not mixup since by definition there is nothing to back up the debt (unlike real estate or any other industry outside of software).

The author suggests to backup of the debt with a revenue stream, but those :

1) depend on the churn rate.
2) Are stable only for mature companies. Post product-market fit.
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I knew it was an updated cpu, but what i meant was they keep it going because it is similar enough looking and probably a lot of the parts are the same like the screen and other associated chips within the device.

There is more to a phone than just the cpu.