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Maybe he's anticipating making a quick getaway?

It's not the investment thesis, it's a thought experiment to test market efficiency. It's a test to see whether markets are always efficient, and to me demonstrates that they are n…

Sure which is why I said "unlikely", rather than "unheard of".

Test requirements often arise after system design is complete. Engineers need time to examine the system, theorize failure modes, and design the tests. Also time to test the system…

This was a test fixture so probably banana leads.

That stood out to me as well when I read the article.

As a counter-argument, you usually need to read a lot into the reported numbers, for example read the 10K notes for multiple years in the past. That's the only way to know that the…

Yes. Building something complicated requires formal education plus years of experience attempting to build the complicated thing.

Some endeavors require historical knowledge, aircraft engineering being one of them. If you break the chain, you lose it; policies that were developed over decades are discarded. "…

It's fun for them and they don't have the expectation that it will make money. And probably it doesn't, and that's fine, move on to the next thing. But once in a while, maybe it re…

But it's your chance. It may or may not become a business model. That's the risk. You take a risk to get a chance to make a profit. It's impossible to come up with a business model…

> we can't adequately absorb the intellectual capacity of the population Think that's been true for a long time, yank any early 20th-century factory worker out of their job, you'll…

It wasn't like programmers were less creative or productive than they are now. The languages were fully capable of doing anything on a server you could do now. It was mostly C. Pro…

Its hard to imagine so many people could have known about this for so long, yet it remained secret. I expect you could keep something like an assassination secret since everyone wh…

One thing that might be a problem here, is the ongoing oversupply of advanced degrees. This creates a ready supply of replacement faculty whenever needed. As science faculty leave …

This seems to happen over and over: something that is working fine is changed. Not to make it better, but in hopes of business growth. Half the time it backfires, the other half th…

We should assume that what someone says is unrelated to what they meant? That's an interesting viewpoint. I have to guess at your meaning since I can't fixate on what you're saying…

The parent's first sentence may have been sarcastic.

One thing is that the CS curriculum at better schools is not "job-skill" focused. At least in the early years it is fundamental theory of computing and languages. How to solve prob…

Exactly, came her to say this. It obviously can't be linear, its just the slope at a point, but that didn't stop the headline writer. For "every" 10%, really? I'm pretty certain th…

Pop-up ads over your fuel gauge. Monetized!

I agree with you directionally, it's a problem that VRBO et. al. should solve, perhaps in their search algorithm and UI. For instance, the fee-range search should include the hidde…

Bill Lear is quoted as having described his creative process similarly. Can't find a reference to it now but I read it decades ago and never forgot it.

>>The entire point is to make the customer do enough work before you show them the actual price, that they just give up and deal with it. I think a big part of the point is to comp…

Sometimes hard to predict whether something that works well for you would, or would not, work well for others, and whether others could, or could not use it.