ChemicalWarfare

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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
>> At some point a significant proportion of the people who have been ridiculing climate change ... will shift their beliefs to accept moderate action to tackle climate change... what makes you so sure of that (assuming by 'clima
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
I'm only familiar with Slack from that list but I'm assuming other IM apps work in a similar fashion in terms of being able to fine-tune the level of notifications you're getting. Also, I'd take Slack convo over someone
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
You can definitely do microservices that way but in reality they tend to be more granular both functionality wise and density-wise. With old skool SOA you'd typically have a monolith app with a bunch of endpoints. With microservices, e
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
>> why aren't we hearing stories about all those possible new jobs ? you tell me :) I'm not 100% sure why the automation narrative has primarily been of the "impending doom" variety. I think just like with the inte
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
>> Is retail adapting to e-commerce ? Or is it mostly a really slow decline ? It's both, really. For some retailers with brick-and-mortar shops online presence is a way to expand their market, for others - internet is slow death.
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
>> movie rentals and newspapers are small industries, with slow change. Ok, fair enough. So then what are those large and fast-paced industries that are under the immediate and severe threat due to automation? I mean for something to
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
I must be missing something here. Unemployment rate right now is barely above 4% despite the significant push for automation in manufacturing, drastic downsizing in retail, accounting, movie rental, newspaper industries etc without that m
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
>> if I refactor my app so it runs faster and hits more customer use cases, but has 1000 fewer lines of code, would you argue that it's a worse app now? That's not apples to apples though. Smaller app == good. City populatio
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
>> Progress is progress no matter how you want to redefine it. but them numbers don't lie either :) if some city has it's population go down by 30% I don't think this qualifies as "renewal" even if a couple of
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
>> Detroit was one of the biggest benefactors of the urban renewal... according to the stats- population wise they went from ~1 mil in 2009 to under 700k in 2016. there are a couple of decent 1x1 mile enclaves there - midtown, greekto
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
right on. they pretty much "own" the word. they went as far as suing starbucks for using "java ..." for one of their ice cream flavors. at least they are not suing Indonesia. not yet anyway :)
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
true. large companies are way less likely to sue or be anal in general than small companies/individuals. also it's way easier to negotiate the "definition of done" with them. typically if all of their requirements are ad
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
not following your logic here. "investing" != "giving it out". "growing economy" != "less inequality".
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
>> That would assume that the other customer location is currently underserved or not served at all. sure. but it's a potential option as opposed to being let go flat out. If Kodak went belly up before that "rags to riches&q
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
The flip side here is if the large company goes belly up - like Kodak did - the "outsourced janitor" might still keep their position at the company they are working for - they will end up working at another customer location.
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
not sure how they managed to convince the investors. as far as the money spent - setting up physical manufacturing of anything, especially at scale is orders of magnitude more expensive than setting up an "IT" shop. here we'
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
With relatively rested players lining up against each other on every down the situation is much different from players chasing each other on the field like they do in AFL. WRs for example have a somewhat similar situation to AFL players sin
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
>> If they'd keep BTC balance, it wouldn't ease up any hurdles That's the thing - they don't want to keep BTC balance which means merchants or their payment processors have to deal with the banks who are very reluc
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
>> Who is buying goods or services using bitcoins? Anyone? That is just because nobody wants to sell something using a mega-volatile "currency", unless they want to speculate... There's some truth to that in terms of me
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
right on. one of the reasons folks who jump ship too often look suspect resume-wise. not always the case but those frequent short gigs look like the person is prone to bailing after the ramp-up honeymoon is over and it's time to get sh
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
apps-wise - Chrome, Atom, IntelliJ and I'm pretty much set :)
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
>> bring two out of three examples which are also completely unrelated as I'm sure you're aware there's no shortage of these for me to quote. literally as we speak: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news&#x
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
two situations I was personally involved with (as in on the same team with these ppl): 1 - reasonably smart dude (probably top tech guy in the team) acting like he was "the hot sh1t", going couple levels above his manager's t
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
+1. When you are genuinely a part of "something big" and trust your leadership to pull through temporary setbacks - the "changing the world" vibe can be the difference between making it and not making it altogether espec
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
The study you're citing is completely irrelevant as we're talking specifically about the crime wave caused by the recent influx of ME refugees into EU. And even though the authorities are doing what they can by hiding the ethnicit
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
>> According to the press of the time.. you saying all these stabbings, shootings, driving of vehicles into the crowd, gang rapes etc etc are made up by the press? speaking of Sacco and Vanzetti - the government didn't do it&#x27
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
don't know how things are where you're at, but around here if a politician was insisting on importing ppl with a track record similar to that of the latest waves of ME migrants in the EU - they won't last anywhere but in a co
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
From my experience it's extremely rare even for large companies to directly deal with ODFIs. Typically there's AT LEAST one intermediary payment processor (like Chase Paymentech) involved in the TX. The downside to this is merchan
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
>> Eastern Europe benefited immensely by European manufacturers relocating there... You're making it sound like these companies outsourced manufacturing to these lower cost countries against their will/interest which is obv
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
sure, you can find a niche (even if rather large) where this would be true and PC ideas are more popular. goes the other way around too though as there are plenty of places where today's PC ideas are frowned upon. the kicker is - the P

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