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His dayjob involves building awesome bespoke electronics, and his vlog has teardowns of heaps of really unique items.
Clive/Dave/Mike make up the entirety of my YouTube electronics subscriptions.
A common theme in the counter-argument is that developers should be aiming to get Babel to some "ideal state" which is neither zero-config or full-config.
I'm not ES/Babel expert, but I think that's a reasonable point.
HOWEVER, I strongly feel that it is easier to get to this "ideal state" if you start with a most-uses-cases config. It's always easier to optimise from something that works, instead of trying to optimise from a broken state in the way that Babel now ships.
The problem here is that it was done without permission.
The OP is claiming that the impersonation without permission is a crime, and that it is impossible to waive the crime-ness of it through a contract.
My spidey-sense is telling me that its very little.
Eh? Firstly, people are never offline these days. Secondly, Facebook Messenger (and SMS and Email).
1st reaction: Horrified that you are still using VSS.
2nd reaction: Was that if it does what you need it to, well, then, who am I to judge? It doesn't matter whether the tool was created yesterday or 20 years ago.
3rd reaction: Does it really do what you need it to do? I would guess that maybe svn/git has some simple featured that would significantly improve your life.
4th reaction: Wasn't VSS known as being super buggy? Is it just luck that you've escaped failure in 20 years?
Considering that the lambda function was pretty easy to write, free to run, and very portable: why would an Appengine app be better?
They care about a company's growth, not its profit.
They'd rather get $1M/annum from an unprofitable VC-backed company than $100k/annum from a profitable bootstrap.
The insight obtained from from comparing the computer-like rationality to what would happen in the real world is truly fascinating to me.
Also, your example of Bob negotiating fits in very well with the theoretical computer-like rationality. Alice's offer of 1c is equivalent to an offer of 0c nominal in the hypothetical case.
The real-life 40% is more a commentary of utility of money as opposed to decision making. I think that you're conflating concepts.
I paid $100k, the provider took the $100k and spent $60k. This means they declare $40k income.
The company pays $12k tax.
The Goverment gives $55k to my hypothetical company.
How many man-hours am I going to spend fracking around Rocket Chat, Mattermost, and Sandstorm?
I think I'd much prefer just paying Slack to worry about that for my hypothetical new business with 10 employees. 6.67 * 10 * 12 = $800/annum.
Peanuts. Especially compared to the value of my time or my employees time.
Only two "far"s? That's a significant understatement :P
zipppy says "what if AR was delayed 15ms to make it equiv. to VR".
Zipppy's intent was to make AR compete with VR, not HVS.
You're making very ambitious assumptions that the tax raid is related to the rules that were drafted 12 months ago.
I'd bet significant sums of money that he isn't in trouble for creating bitcoin. Its more likely to be some other action he has done, possibly with bitcoin.
The "We create tax refunds" part of your homepage says that a company can get a tax refund even if there is no sales.
Does this mean that if I establish a company tomorrow, invest $100k of capital, and spent $100k of capital on R&D, then the ATO will give my company $45k?
FYI I don't think its right to say "forget means, medians, percentiles, etc." They are hugely useful.
You just have to note that they aren't everything. As you've noted, only the raw data is everything.
What I mean by that is I literally have data stored in memory, and I want to deal with it in arbitrary groups of bits.
Sometimes 1 bit, sometimes 7 bits, rarely 13 bits.
My Google's haven't turned up much precedent.
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Lending to getScale is vastly different to lending to IBM.
Therefore the debt/equity argument and balance is vastly difference.
Honestly? That statement seems a tad simplistic to me. Especially in the context of startups.
Of course, my point was simply that there IS an EU rule, and therefore it makes sense to simply have an 'eu' mode that acts upon the rule even if it doesn't cover all EU plates.
Not necessarily. The word "margin" is very ambiguous because it could relate to many different types of margins.
In this case I think its safe to assume that "margin" meant the difference between the customer's price and the direct cost of supplying that particular unit of product, ignoring overheads.
I would say: When dealing with numbers that span orders of magnitude, and the result is very sensitivity to those numbers, you need to obtain more information in order to make a better estimate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of...
Maybe not all countries adopt the EU standard, but it makes sense that there is an "eu" mode.
The sensitivity of LTV/CAC to the assumed CAC is supremely important here.
For example, he lists ZocDoc's CAC as in the range $1k to $10k.
If it's $1k then their LTV/CAC = 4.8 (wow good!)
If it's $10k then their LTV/CAC = 0.48 (wow horrid!)
The author chose $3k, seemingly arbitrarily.
There's nothing wrong with arbitrary assumptions in general, but in this case a lot more scrutiny is needed before we judge if its a unicorn or donkey.
"I'm sorry sir, it has to be a fixed address."
Also taxi companies aren't set up to accept payment over a telephone call. So they'd have to trust the recipient to pay.
The reason that these terminology and units were used by OP was because at a fixed voltage it is common for engineers to think about current instead of watts... even when their aiming to reduce power.
I'm not sure of the exact reason for this, but I suspect that it's because:
a) Measuring current is a more fundamental function of instruments. Quite a lot don't even measure power. So talking about current instead of power, even when you're aim is to reduce power, makes for a smoother process from a practical sense.
b) Batteries are usually measured in mAh. At lower power/currents you're usually using a linear regulator and therefore dividing mAh by mA is a very important measure. So you often keep everything in mA.