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Dave was a friend. He was one of the most intellectually curious people I knew. Gone way too soon.

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The biggest advantage fountain pens have is physics.

Ink flow in a fountain pen is via capillary action (touch nib to paper, ink flows), as opposed to a ballpoint pen where you have to apply a small constant amount of downward force for the ball to have enough friction against the paper for the ball to roll. This might not seem like a big deal, but if you're writing a lot, it means that your wrist & hand will get much more fatigued with a ballpoint over time.

Put another way, ballpoints have absolute advantage over fountain pens, except for "sitting down and writing a lot."

It sounds like you missed the point of what parent was trying to say. As one of those people who was in the exact situation the parent mentioned, your concise and incrementally more correct explanation wouldn't have helped me when I had the same question.

Quite possibly because they don't want to do any of the things you listed in your first paragraph.

UPDATE: Also, sir, this is an Arby's.

Not unrelated: The House of Saud is losing a lot of money on the Credit Suisse rescue/buyout.

"The law doesn't have this exact word in it and therefore none of the observed effects of the law actually exist." is not the airtight defense you may think it is.

in the opinion of many adults.

How many?

So.... let's say that was even possible, and you did that.

You pay: $20,000 in $some_coin (ignoring gas fees for the moment) 1/100 of annual royalties is $1,142, taxable at your marginal rate (say 20%), so $913 free-and-clear.

Even without doing discounted cash-flow magic, that gets you to an annual 4.5% annual rate of return. Not great, not terrible.

BUT, you're doing this all in NFT-land, which means either you hold it (in a cold wallet, ready to be shown once the next royalty agency asks who owns this stuff), some other entity holds it (and you trust them and pay their fees), and no one has stolen your metaphorical apes over the next 21 years, which is just what it would take to make back the investment. Also, making the double-bank-shot bet that courts will recognize NFTs as proof of ownership, and that the NFT itself does not become taxable property, as a security.

Short of some kind of presumably inherent joy in interacting with a smart contract, I'm really not sure what you intend to gain, here.

Looking at most of the auctions, this looks like: "these are the deals that don't make the hurdle rate of the typical buyers, so let's make some money selling them to the dentists who like the idea of owning a song and won't look too hard at the return."

I'd love to be wrong, but I'm not seeing a good alternate explanation.

That's the free space on the "edgy word salad" bingo card. You're going to have to write out a few more of those phrases to actually win the crappy clock-radio.

The telemetry is concerning, but I'm much more concerned about whoever else decides to use your telemetry hooks to exfiltrate data.

I'm 100% on board with trying out a new terminal that is fast and has features, but there's an implicit expectation of the simplicity of the communication channel, and... this is not it.

Just to put some numbers around that...

Density of ice at 0 degC is 0.92 kg/L. So, 1 kg of ice =~ 1087 cubic centimeters of space, or a cube ~4.25 inches on a side.

Rounding that down to 4 inches for the moment, you get 27 of those per cubic foot, or (260 Wh * 27) = 7.02 kWh, and then round that down to give the extra quarter-inch back, you get ~6.5 kWh/ft3 theoretical capacity.

A typical household in the US uses 10,715 kWh/year[0], so (10715/6.5) = 1648.46 ft3 for a household's worth of freeze-thaw battery storage, or a cube 11.81 feet on a side.

Yes, of course it's more complicated than that, but the scale is pretty interesting.

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With that kind of attitude, how are you going to get more people to come in and provide you with exit liquidity?

A key differentiator is that airline seats are a perishable good.

That is, an empty seat has value until the plane takes off, at which point the value goes to zero. On the flip side, a traveler has an opportunity to be in that seat until the plane takes off, at which point its value is zero. People tend to understand that those values continuously vary with time, and so the price will vary with time.

To contrast, books (in specific) and consumer durables (in general) are not perishable goods. The notable exceptions tend to be time-based; try getting chocolates in the heart-shaped box right before Valentine's Day in the US... and then the day after. Since the value of the book doesn't continuously vary with time over the short-run, people don't expect that the price will vary.

My preferred method is overly broad rhetorical questions that add nothing to the conversation. Also, spatula.

Yours?

Sure, but the ability to do so is separate from whether it's a good idea or not.

How does Timescale handle lookup tables?

That is, "I have this seldomly-updated list of ~10000 things, and I'm going to need to join it against my time-series data."

With other time-series databases I've dealt with, it's an afterthought at best and the answer is typically "Enrich the data via flink/benthos/etc. on import and avoid using any kind of join."

Does Timescale's use of PostgreSQL circumvent this issue, both in terms of storage of lookup tables, and performance on join?

You only have to go back 19 years for the Zakim bridge in Boston.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_P._Zakim_Bunker_Hill_M...

I've found you can determine a company's values based on who gets more resources: e.g. raises, promotions, etc.

Similarly, a company's anti-values could be discovered by who gets less; e.g. passed over for promotion, given a 'window seat', laid off, etc.

As far as I know, there is still a configuration I wrote at a previous employer where I left the remark:

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  -- STOP. YES, YOU.
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  -- THIS CODE IS A PROOF OF CONCEPT THAT DOES HORRIBLE THINGS TO THE PLATFORM.
  -- THE FACT THAT IT WORKS AT ALL IS VERY VERY BAD.
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  -- DO NOT RUN THIS IN PRODUCTION. IF YOU DO, I WILL KNOW, AND I WILL FIND YOU. 
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Making an assertion and sticking a question mark at the end isn't questioning anything.

Twitter is a platform that offers a product. Your attention is the product.

The part of Twitter required to maintain a decent stock of product has not needed to change outwardly, because it hasn't had to. There hasn't been a new version of human in a very long time. But even then, anything that creates more product (drives more engagement) means more revenue opportunity for the 90% of the platform you will never touch.

The parts of the product that theoretically make revenue for Twitter have changed significantly over time. Analytics, ad intake/spend, promotion for influencers/brands/etc.

The typical big-casino rake isn't that large. From memory (it has been 2 years since I've physically been in a poker room), the typical rake at a full 9-player table at the Encore (Everett, MA, USA) worked out to ~$12-15/hour per person.

For a professional dealer, good chips, and a continuous flow of players, that seems like a pretty fair price to pay.

You cited a page that doesn't split it out by White Republicans or White Democrats, which is a distinction that you quoted in your comment.

Wear protection when grinding axes.

What bigger issue were you thinking of? The odds will be good that whatever you come up with, there will be a "bigger" one that you're not thinking of.

It's turtles all the way down. Choose your turtle carefully.

Measured in decades.

I still remember being in my AI class and having the teacher say "This course is taught in LISP. We'll be spending one class on the peculiarities of our system, but otherwise you're on your own. If you don't learn it, you'll fail."

They did eventually realize that teaching some of the basics would actually make for more successful students, and better alumni donations.

In the end, the CS Dept. started offering these things as zero-credit courses as a way to square the circle.

When James O' Keefe tries to run a fake witness scam on the Washington Post, and the newspaper successfully detects it, the community responds with "Well played!"

When a university submits intentionally buggy patches to the Linux Kernel, and the maintainers successfully detect it, the community responds with "That was an incredibly scummy thing to do."

I sense a teachable moment, here.