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Seiko SSC819 is a good Speedmaster homage. And it's solar powered so you never need to open the case.

The interstate highway system is actually made up of Interstate and Defense Highways. So all the "interstates" in Hawaii are actually Defense Highways that connect Pearl Harbor with other military bases on Oahu.

- The H-1 goes from Barbers Point to Pearl Harbor to Diamond Head.

- The H-2 connects Pearl Harbor with Schofield Barracks.

- The H-3 connects Pearl Harbor with MCBH (Marine Corps Base Hawaii) at Kaneohe.

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2년 전discuss

Good question. Quickbooks, Xero, and Wave are all owned by publicly traded companies.

(H&R Block owns Wave.)

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2년 전discuss

It seems to me that this is the key takeaway for founders:

Your accounting stack is

  1. accounting software
  2. bookkeeping  (ie operating the accounting software)
  3. cpa / cfo    (ie for tax and financial planning)

The benefit and problem with "nextgen" solutions like bench, kick, etc is that they provide a proprietary solution for the entire stack. This could be better/faster/cheaper but also comes with risk, as we are seeing in real time.

In contrast, the minimal risk approach is to source your accounting stack from different vendors:

  1. accounting software (eg quickbooks, xero, wave)
  2. bookkeeping   (hire a person or use a service)
  3. cpa / cfo     (hire a person or use a service)

If you use "standard" accounting software, you can change the other layers of your accounting stack at will. The total cost of layers 1 and 2 might be $6k-$8k per year for a company with revenue, which looks more expensive than the nextgen solutions. But the reduced risk and increased flexibility may be worth it.

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2년 전discuss

One of the issues that led to this decision is regulatory overreach. Standard example is the clean air act which regulated air pollution. Years later the EPA decided that green house gases were air pollutants that could be regulated under the act. Then they tried to say that CO2 was a pollutant, and businesses started to fight back hard.

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3년 전discuss

Weapons mounts will be dealer installed options.

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3년 전discuss

Le Select...

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14년 전discuss

I was one of the last Mach people at CMU. The BSD emulation on Mach 3.0 was implemented by stubs that made IPCs to the BSD emulation server, which then made additional Mach API calls to implement the UNIX semantics. This design was generally half as fast as an in-kernel implementation (e.g. Mach 2.5 or a commercial UNIX kernel). In the mid-90's we figured out how to make up the performance gap by refactoring the BSD emulation to put some code in the same address space as each application (ie in the libc .so), which allowed you to avoid the RPC to the emulation server in most cases (eg http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=168639). So I don't think it's fair to say that microkernel implementations of UNIX are inherently slow; instead I would argue that the simpleminded approach to UNIX emulation was the real problem.

None of this technology made it into a mainstream Mach distribution because the band broke up: Rick Rashid and his staff and students went off to work at Microsoft Research. Brian Bershad took over the project and then moved to University of Washington. It was also becoming clear in the mid-90's that the OS didn't really matter much anymore, since the big money was being made in Internet applications. So most of the hackers who might have worked on new operating systems during this time ended up working on application servers and web apps instead.

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