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5 years agodiscuss

Transistors are an implementation of QM. Without transistors…

5 years agodiscuss

It also benefits from capital appreciation.

As for breaking even, the security is highly liquid and can be sold at any time to recover one’s capital.

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5 years agodiscuss

>You might be surprised how much of modern tech was developed by racists and other bad apples

William Shockley, co-inventor of the transistor. See section “Views on Race and Eugenics”.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shockley

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5 years agodiscuss

Ok, and how about no more cap gains exclusion on selling primary residence and no more writing off mortgage interest (USA)?

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5 years agodiscuss

Seatbelts weren’t a thing in the first cars. People weren’t thinking long-term about how fast these things might one day go.

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6 years agodiscuss

Tim Hortons in Canada is being probed for using Radar Labs in their mobile app.

"Tim Hortons' parent company, Toronto-based Restaurant Brands partners with Radar Labs, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based company , which provides location-based data analytics, and helps the Tims app to identify when users are near competing fast-food restaurants and coffee shops."

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-privacy-wat...

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6 years agodiscuss

He’s great. I used his Money (for managing money values as cents in the db), Liquid and DelayedJob in a bunch of projects.

Now I run my own Shopify store, selling my software.

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6 years agodiscuss

> except by mistake

No small threat; plenty of room for those, according to Daniel Ellsberg’s book ”The Doomsday Machine”.

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-doomsday-machine-978160819...

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6 years agodiscuss

No kidding. I’m a 48 year old programmer. If today were 1939, y2k was the end of ww1, when I was a 28 year old programmer.

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6 years agodiscuss

> one of the most unstable times in history

I can think of far more unstable times in history than the times we’re living in now, recent examples being WW1 & 2, nuclear threat during the Cold War.