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>Why Apple maintains a cash reserve?

Because the company would have gone bankrupt in the late 90s had Microsoft not given them a loan (and it's likely the only reason MS did so was because they were facing monopoly scrutiny). Jobs swore that would never happen again and made sure everyone on his executive staff and board of directors was on the same page.

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-steve-jobs-took-apple-fr...
> since they are literally trying to keep a Ponzi scheme going at the expense of younger people and new collectors.

It's not technically a Ponzi scheme since (from what I've seen) the comics are (at least nominally) presented as something you would want to own for the sake of owning them, rather than solely as a investment vehicle. Compare houses, which exist for the purpose of living in, while property appreciation is (supposed to be) at best a nice side effect. (Although unlike housing, there's no strong reason to apply felony penalties to using comic books as a investment vehicle.)
I'm a team lead. I have enough interactions with people. There are phases of one meeting after another (video conf) or maybe a half hour in between here and there in which there's communication on various channels and topics in slack.

There are also phases of not having that interaction and I might be checking how a particular piece of code works right now e.g. while triaging a bug that came in or I might be creating or reviewing a document, such as a flow chart, architectural diagram etc. Or coding something of various different degrees of difficulty.

During none of these would I want any radio (or other kind of) noise. Not even the deep thinking and not interacting with people phases. I am also introverted so I like these phases. They recharge me.

At some point the kids come home and I'll have noise again and by that time I want to be finished with work.
Wow, that is weird! What's your favorite book or resource to learn more about the brain? I've looked at the deep end of neuroscience Wiki and it is super overwhelming.
A 6 year old bug, that depends on a 5 year old bug.

I won't hold my breath!
And they were a fraction of a second younger than if they’s stayed on the ground, thanks to relativity.
> the supplier, who has absolutely no knowledge of your inventory needs.

that would seem to assume a not close relationship with said supplier...

...doesnt jit work better if you have good relationships with them and they know well what your expectations are and can adjust accordingly?
From my time in manufacturing I can also say there is a cult of 'lean development'/'Toyota Production System' almost always done wrong and removing any backup buffers for long lead time parts.

The fact that my home state billed us an Inventory tax on items we had on the shelf further pushed the business to keep inventory as slim as possible.
Because the systems under study are not isolated external systems that follow well-order rules like a laboratory science. Prediction of human systems is like prediction of weather systems one week ahead: there are ways to model and improve methods for such a task, but our predictive success will continue to be just a little bit better than playing slots.

It would be folly and vain to misunderstand the difficulty of the problem at hand in an effort to signal that one is confident and optimistic. Social science from a century+ ago suffered a lot from folks with that frame of mind, sometimes ending in utter disaster.
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Do you think we can compare states in the US that aren't touching?
Thunderbolt 3/4 max out at 40Gbps of bandwidth.

PCIe 4.0 x16 (16 lanes) has a bandwidth of 32GB/s, which is 256Gbps.

So external GPUs are always going to be inferior. Also, an external case incurs a lot of extra unavoidable costs. Essentially you have a mini-PC case, a TB to PCI-e bridge, a PCI-e interface and mount and possibly cooling as well.

It's a nice idea and has some applications but on-chip GPUs as part of a fully-integrated SoC just makes way more sense for almost everybody.
LSD is probably even more naughty. As far as I'm aware it's not a trivial synthesis by any means, so exactly where the supply comes from is probably a fascinating story never to be fully told. Buddhist Walter White's around the world, perhaps.
I agree that smaller brain does not mean dumber. This is a very simplistic idea of what brains are for. Whales have huge brains, but I would guess that has more to do with their size.

I don't understand what you mean by "generalist" vs "specialist". I think intelligence is related to why, for example, human beings lack armor, fur, and all sorts of specialized features, functions, and excellences that other species have. Human intelligence can dream up an indefinite if not infinite number of functions which are "offloaded" to technology. We wear clothing and can adjust it depending on the climate which allow us to adapt to environments more than any other species. We have optical instruments which can extend our vision beyond that of any other species depending on need. We have all sorts of communication instruments which allow us a greater range of communication than any other species. We can harvest food in ways that put all other species to shame. We can outrun, fly, and swim any other animal. I could go on. Any capacity other species have we can (at least in principle) exceed with the help of technology, all thanks to human intelligence.

Assuming selection as an explanatory model, I don't see why we should expect to see that basic feature going away. Even with greater specialization in one direction or another, you still need much of that basic underlying generality.
Our lives in this backwater rock are short, and our acts meaningless in a universal scale. Leaving or staying in the rat race are equally valid life choices.
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The Fractal Node 304 is an ITX case which handles that use-case pretty well. It's the smallest ITX case I know of which can fit 6 full-size 3.5" drives.
And yet if you scroll just a bit further down you'll see a graph that shows significantly fewer cases in, say, counties with more than 60% fully vaccinated, compared to say, counties with 5-50%.

Almost like there's this spot where, once you have enough people vaccinated, the virus can no longer spread.

Hmm. Wonder why that could be. Certainly it couldn't possibly be exactly what experts have been telling us for the past century.
The article argues community living, ie domestication hypothesis.

Kind of hard to argue when we can today offload brain power used for memorization with a simple google search
Imposter syndrome you say? I scrolled all the way to the bottom of page hoping to see a solution written in a language I actually understand and not pretend to understand.
At that point we are writing firmware for the display
I feel like the last bit isn't exactly right. Their compensation is still more competitive compared to Microsoft. On the tech side, they are also innovating as a breakout new producer compared to the incumbents.
It would make sense if the word was vaccinepassport. English doesn't lend itself that well to compound words though, like Norwegian or German.
tl;dr - no
They do halt the spread. See also: polio, smallpox.

They have not halted the spread because of vaccine misinformation like this very video which you are defending.
OK, I get it. Thanks.

[Edit] Hang on - so why can't you use epicycles to draw the actual orbits of planets? (modulo the n-body problem) If epicyles is equivalent to fourier, and can model any "ordinary" function, then I'm surprised someone hansn't made an epicycle model that's equivalent to the Newtonian model.

Just wondering.
Really motivates you to point the obvious ideas out to as many people/companies as you can find before they can think of said obvious ideas themselves (if you somehow have one of these “no brainer” patents)
This is how I roll, too. But every firmware update is a gamble. The latest update I did - last month - set the TV to regularly nag me on start-up about enabling “AI Recommendation” services, along with a couple of other new UX niggles.

I have loved this TV (C9), but I can see what LG is doing and I do not like it at all. I was planning on getting a CX 48” for my desktop monitor but decided against it after this experience.
I got a Quest 2 set a few months ago to try it out. I can only spend 15 minutes in it at most before I feel like my eyes are being fried. However, ahem, a friend told me that VR porno is pretty amazing.
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Unless that noise is a person chewing gum with their mouth open and blowing/popping bubbles all day long. I'm looking at you, Lisa.

Or chronic sniffles, Alan.

Or excessively loud talking to customers while walking around your cube, Justin.
Keep an eye out if you purchased Sudafed PE or Sudafed original. PE is a new product that has old fashion Acetaminophen and is sold just like any other painkiller since that's all it is. It doesn't work well at all compared to the pseudoephedrine found in the behind the counter product.
https://darrellmann.com/dodo-lean/ seems relevant.
This is correct. In the motivating example, it would have to scan the entire list of pointers to see whether it finds a NULL link before it overflows the size counter or not.
"virtual experiences" sounds a lot like Roblox. Unless they acquire Roblox I can't imagine them doing "virtual experiences". So far they failed with anything other than selling ads. Messenger is so bad, that even the notification sound can't be changed. Marketplace is so bad that filtering barely works, seller reviews almost nonexistent, alerts working randomly. Facebook post reporting is terrible, they helps escalate conflicts, spread disinformation. Whatsapp and Instagram are just their "assets" they hold without innovations. I wish they never acquired Oculus. I hate Facebook so much! They are like an insect, making people lives worse and sucking blood while doing so.
Way more on the TSA’s side after reading the patent for sure. Amazed that the U.S. patent systems enables stuff like this.
> the outside world sees my router's IP and that's it.

At some point, that will go away due to CGNAT. A lot of people have to share their public IPv4 address these days, which means no inbound port forwarding, and potentially getting banned from services if their "neighbors" misbehave.

On the other hand, CGNAT does improve privacy to some extent.
Good catch. It seems like they implemented binary search, but not the jump tables yet.
Thank you. I don't mind reading propaganda -- people can advocate for their cause.
You're thinking of

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
If they're separated by 500 miles of ocean, no.
Never say no, but rarely yes
Paradigms are last century. We've shifted to something new.
The real question is if you can use some for formatting numbers.
Well what are you going to do walk into an interview and point out that the same people writing the bugs are the same people coding the buggy tests that are supposed to solve the buggy code?
> the dollar bills under Tim Cook's mattress
That gave me a chuckle just imagining it :)
I don't want any company to own it. I want it to be open technology that somehow exists completely independently of companies and governments. If a company must own it, I certainly don't want it to be an advertising company, least of all Facebook.
Much the same is true of picture sources (though I’d guess—without having checked—that browsers are more likely to start downloading images before realising they are display:none than they are videos). The theory behind <source> is that all of the offered sources are equivalent in some way, which for audio and video would strongly imply temporal equivalence, meaning that if the media query match changes, it should swap the source and continue where you’re up to. This, incidentally, is where DASH/HLS would be really helpful, to make it easier to transition from one source to another with no pause.

Whereas if you do two videos and hide the one that doesn’t match, and you have a computer that switches to dark mode at sunset or based on ambient light, your video is going to stop playing and you’ll lose your place as soon as it switches from dark to light or light to dark.
Well, you might look for data on how many patients discontinue any sort of treatment for starters. "Patient compliance" would be a starter for such a search.

I get the impression that you have an "attachment" style relationship with your doctors, I don't mean that as an insult, I think that leads you to think that other people are interacting with them like you are, and would not possibly discontinue their long term interactions with the doctor even after deciding to go off drugs. Obviously not everyone is like you.
You'd be surprised what kind of hardware you can put in an ITX case. You can, with some effort, build a water-cooled PC with a 5950x and a n RTX 3090 in under 15 liters of volume.
Problem: taking massive amounts of loperamide to get an opiate effect is a myth.

A decade or so ago I was reading a drug forum where an addict-chemist reported that acylating loperamide extracted from OTC pills allowed it to pass the blood brain barrier and deliver a true opiate high. His only reported test subject was himself, so I don't know if it was a genuine effect or not. And I haven't kept up with drug forums in recent years to see if this idea/technique spread. If so, it could explain the pill quantity restrictions; pseudoephedrine went through many years of changes in packaging/formulation as manufacturers tried to keep their products OTC while placating governments that didn't want those pills used as illicit drug precursors.
Old FDA data.

Here's the latest: https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2021/02...

> 12.3 Pharmacokinetics

> Metabolism
Lisdexamfetamine is converted to dextroamphetamine and l-lysine primarily in blood due to the
hydrolytic activity of red blood cells after oral administration of lisdexamfetamine dimesylate.
In vitro data demonstrated that red blood cells have a high capacity for metabolism of
lisdexamfetamine; substantial hydrolysis occurred even at low hematocrit levels (33% of
normal). Lisdexamfetamine is not metabolized by cytochrome P450 enzymes.

EDIT: A better one: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4257105/
Unsolicited advice: you need to learn empathy.

It is a core life skill, and based (admittedly entirely) on your posting history here, you lack it completely.
Seems like he wasn't a "lowly country rector" since he had a masters degree from Cambridge, was a member of the Royal Society and had many other scientific accomplishments. The rectorship was apparently just a perk that came with being a successful scientist.

I wish bloggers wouldn't try to create a false impression of things like that. It's disinformation - intended to mislead the reader.
Not only is it not remotely true that children can't think critically or research something; not only is that irrelevant to whether or not it's taught to children; it's a mighty heavy assumption to say that people's brains have matured enough for anything when they're in college.
> Why would anyone be passionate about any specific corporation?

Corporations are made of people, many of whom have a moral compass, and operate by that moral compass. If you believe in the mission of a company, the company is filled with people who also believe in that mission, and you're making real progress on that mission...then why wouldn't you be passionate?

Sure, you could be "exploited", but many people don't really care whether or not they're being exploited, if they're being treated well and doing meaningful work with people they like -- even more so if they're working towards a goal that can only be accomplished by a larger organization.
This is excellent advice. Shit makes my blood boil, too. I do this for my LG TV but have had a hard time getting a definitive list of domains to add to my blocklist. Does anyone have a lead on this?
Yes, this is extreme and way beyond my C capabilities at any point in time.
I was making a general point which I do believe is valid.
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I think it's odd that acronyms or any multi-word "word" (if you can logically call it that) gets an entry into the dictionary, which I thought was to define individual words.
Good question. I tested it. 5 minutes to read it for me. Was expecting longer than the 10 but I was in "fast mode" where I selectively skipped placenames, small details I know I'd never retain without masses of unwarranted effort. I read fiction slowly, but when browsing for information I plough through texts. Do you skim read ever?

Retention-wise it still feels like I could tell you a rough outline of the article. It might help I'm a radio amateur/ham so have a strong interest in the subject anyway. Let me see, it was something like this, you'll have to take my word I'm not switching tabs (too fiddly on mobile anyway);

- invention of radio

- mass enthusiasm

- mass hysteria

- mass education (Wisconsin? I'm not American so my mental map of midwest is weak - Ohio though)

- rebroadcasts via larger station for wider reach

- I'm blanking on the outro, but now at least I know radio education was a thing over large tracts of land in the US and Australia too, but isn't this how China and Korea are making superstar teachers online now?

If the "final event" ever comes, I'll maybe find a way to keep powering the radios to entertain and educate the willing.

You're not slow, you're probably just taking it too seriously :)
I never heard of them before. The link was behind a paywall. But the company seems to be thriving:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyence
Sounds like eugenics. Heh, no thanks.

Also "better" and "worse" only mean something relative to an end. I do not deny ends (I take human nature to be teleological, for example), but many "evolutionists" (i.e., those who accept a basically materialistic worldview) do deny the reality of ends (and are wholly incapable of accounting for them even if reduced to mental phenomena by virtue of having painted themselves into a metaphysical corner).
I’d happily pay a several hundred dollar premium for an ad-free, analytics-free OLED option from LG.
My response was an intentionally flippant statement, and very self-aware as a "first impression" type thing. I don't actually hate Facebook, or their new name (but I don't think it's very good).

Sorry that went over your head, I didn't mean to trigger a lecture.
Huh, I’ve been waiting for years for someone to do something like that. Even if they’ve gone for softer/“calmer” sounds (effectively reducing the contrast) rather than dark and ominous!
>Remember the Snapchat Spectacles? They still sell them but I don't think they were ever popular. Google glass? Popular, but discontinued. Apple's ARKit? Definitely much less adoption than their commercials would have led you to expect.

This is all pretty inaccurate. Glass wasn't even a VR/AR headset. The released Spectacles were just cameras. They're releasing a new Spectacles devkit that's actually an AR headset soon. Snap filters are still very popular and ARKit is also quite popular although it hasn't really hit a killer business case.
>"GM and the rest of Detroit got their rear ends handed to them because they'd underinvested in fuel-efficient engine designs (the lost 70s) and grown lazy in reliability."

You're leaving out some pressures which caused Detroit to be un-competitive in the small car space, including high labor costs.
That's where collateral comes in. I guess the credit card analogy only works in the likening it to cash aspect. For the other aspects a mortgage might be a better analogy.

The little guy had cash in hand for maybe 24 hours (and even then probably just a certified check). Maybe a little later, say 10 years in they get a home equity line of credit and the bank takes back the previously paid off part of the house as collateral again.

I don't doubt repossession of the little guy's house is easier and happens more often than a Bezos loosing his collateral :) and for every Bezos there are probably quite a few small and medium business owners that put their businesses as collateral to get that line of credit and that did get repossessed.
Yes, that’s the one I was thinking about.
Is this designed to work together with Evil mode? The keybindings look to be Vim based.
I haven't gotten a spam call in years that wasn't from a spoofed number.

Pick it up, and it's "We've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty"

Miss it and call back later, because it's a local area code? You get some very confused, usually elderly, person who wants to know why you called them.
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Cool, we're now one step away from the internet becoming karenville just like everything else the intelligence community starts putting its dick in.
> a net cash neutral position over time

It's debt to cash-in hand ratio. Apple currently, as of March 2021, had US$120.2B of debt [1]. So, if they have $120.2B of cash, then it neutralizes their balance sheet. And, that's what the net cash neutral position is.

[1] - https://simplywall.st/stocks/us/tech/nasdaq-aapl/apple/news/...

Edit - I missed adding liabilities. But, it will complicate the above terminology, a bit more. Although, I hope you got the idea.
“There's no way to match dull people against each other to see who discovers gravity first.”

Cracked me up. Visions of minor league math competitions, etc.
And to open up those incoming connections on IPv6, we'll invent some other variant of UPnP so users don't have to manually go punch holes into their firewall to allow peer to peer connections.

IPv6 doesn't solve the problem of everything in the internal network being unable to accept incoming connections. With a NAT you need to set up port forwarding. With IPv6 you need to punch a hole into your firewall. Either way, home users will not be doing it by hand... we'll invent some protocol to do it and that protocol will have security issues.
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You mean how S&P 500 was up 35% compared to the start of the pandemic? That's more of a reflection of the stock market getting inflated 35%, than the constituent companies getting 35% better.
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Imagine if Apple started making their chips available for use on server platforms, with that power efficiency.
He's talking about risk, thats all. "obsession with "Return on Equity."" is just high risk tolerance in CEOs. He states that Founders are more conservative than hired CEOs, which seems like an excessive generalization.

He clearly misunderstands the relationship between accounting and pricing goods. Companies price goods to maximize profits.

I doubt companies routinely try to pay extra taxes to make their accounting books look better. Companies still try to pay as little tax as they can. Maybe they do it when they hit an IPO to get a better initial prices but usually more goes into valuation of a company than their GAAP accounting sheet.

The only good point he almost touches on is determining who should bear the risk on a 100 year flood event, the company or the consumer. With JIT, the consumer bears more risk in the supply chain. It's not seen if this is actually a bad thing.

Lastly, his whole shtick seems to be centered around being against the billionaires tax. Sorry Ryan Petersen, Founders don't provide extra stability to the supply chain because they are more conservative.