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alvar0··on Ask HN: How do you stay disciplined in the long run?
You need to figure out why you and your project only get to 25-50% completion. Address the issues on your side and pick projects you're more likely to finish. The biggest motivator is doing something you like. The biggest "demotivation" nowadays is being young and used to constant rewards for doing tiny tasks (or nothing at all)- of course you'll find hard work with no reward over a long time horizon impossible to do.
alvar0··on V100 Server On-Prem vs. AWS P3 Instance Cost Comparison
>Hardware can be capitalized, which means you can push it to the balance sheet (for tax or valuation purposes) Can you say a little more about this? Not sure what you're getting at.

I think he means this: that hardware goes to your balance sheet, then it depreciates by a certain amount over those 3 years and that loss may be tax-deductible.

alvar0··on Google Edge TPU Devices
75 / 150 usd. usb module / full soc board
alvar0··on Google Edge TPU Devices
What kind of performance can we expect, for example compared to the intel ncs2?
alvar0··on U.S. Changes Visa Process for High-Skilled Workers
Moreover, it's the top few % that make a difference between countries. That's what we should be looking at, not the averaged mediocrity.
alvar0··on Firefox 64 Released
You can use firefox ESR until it too gets phased out: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/
alvar0··on Ask HN: Dontrecruit.me – A website to collect stories about bad recruiters
That's the excuse they provide every time. Their actual intention is to low-ball as much as they can.
alvar0··on The poetry and brief life of a Foxconn worker
He tried, and went back only when he had no other option
alvar0··on Behind the Messy, Expensive Split Between Facebook and WhatsApp’s Founders
Exactly. Even if you don't want it for yourself you could at least milk Facebook for some good purpose. But as I said in an earlier comment, there must have been some negotiation between them and FB
alvar0··on Behind the Messy, Expensive Split Between Facebook and WhatsApp’s Founders
I would guess there was some negotiation we don't know about, and that's why they're giving up some money.
alvar0··on Behind the Messy, Expensive Split Between Facebook and WhatsApp’s Founders
I'd rather be surprised at how many people comment without reading the article first.
alvar0··on HoweyCoins – An educational tool to alert investors to possible fraud
savvy investors wouldn't touch an ICO with a ten foot pole...
alvar0··on Magnasanti: Large and Terrifying SimCity (2010)
China's big cities today are on their way to becoming just like that. Police presence and surveillance cameras, workers that don't move much past their neighborhood, good public transit, pollution, propaganda.
alvar0··on When Rome Fell, the Chief Culprits Were Climate and Disease. Sound Familiar?
And currency debasement: https://www.goldbroker.com/media/image/cms/media/images/silv...

Too familiar

alvar0··on When Rome Fell, the Chief Culprits Were Climate and Disease. Sound Familiar?
Sounds ridiculous actually. We are Rome indeed but the similarities are not exactly climate and disease...