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by HillRat 5y ago
Yeah, it’s worth noting that, roughly speaking, advertising supply chains provide 51% of spend to publishers and 7% to agencies, which means the middle of the chain (supply/demand-sides, DSPs, analytics, etc.) consumes 42%, or what GOO
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by HillRat 5y ago
Unfortunately, your specific proposal probably runs afoul of Commerce Clause case law, since it would likely be seen as discriminatory against out-of-state commerce and failing the Southern Pacific test.
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by HillRat 5y ago
I think the slightly longer answer is that the SEC emerged as a way to regulate and moderate the cycles of investment capitalism that dominated the US economy for over a century: the bank insolvencies and speculative bankruptcies of the wes
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Because those legal investments are voluntarily deciding to adhere to a lower level of regulatory scrutiny in exchange for only being able to sell to wealthier and presumably more risk-aware investors.
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by HillRat 5y ago
Y’know, I’d argue that C# may be the worst when it comes to trend-chasing — for better or for worse, the language’s a giant toy box that lets you develop in very expressive, not to say idiosyncratic, ways.
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by HillRat 5y ago
There really isn’t a way to do that — airline operations are based around renting “slots” from airports that give takeoff and landing rights at specified times. Slots are expensive, so you build your operations and maintenance plans around
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by HillRat 5y ago
Not sure why the downvotes, because you’re directionally-correct; exploration shifted to onshore nonconventionals (fracking, tar sands) and more complex conventional offshore wellplans, plus investments in improved recovery from producing w
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by HillRat 5y ago
At some point I suspect that they’re going to be exposed as holding billions of dollars in ultra-high-risk junk Chinese ABCP. Even before the current economic and political climate, that stuff was toxic — you can buy dodgy SCP for about a p
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by HillRat 5y ago
Spolsky’s FogBugz is still out there after a few ownership changes, and is still a hell of a lot less painful to use than Jira.
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by HillRat 5y ago
To be honest, you’re doing the right thing: you should stop and try to figure out where things come from, why they’re there, and what they’re doing. Usually, if you’ve got “magic coupling” from a framework, that’s the part that’s going to
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by HillRat 5y ago
Speaking as a — now former — architect, I’d agree! The best use of my time always turned out to be dealing with scope and feature risk, areas of ambiguity, and governance. Part of this is because very few software projects hinge their succe
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by HillRat 5y ago
Ah, Rogozin. Reliably unreliable in the most inflammatory way possible.
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by HillRat 5y ago
If just South Korea, Germany, and Japan cleaned up their superpolluters, it sounds like that alone would go a long way to reducing emissions.
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by HillRat 5y ago
The study is also highly sensitive to the way drug use disorders are classified by behavioral health professionals, particularly due to the changing criteria of various DSM editions. I’d want to look at the underlying dataset to see if they
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by HillRat 5y ago
Fogbugz really was (is!) an underappreciated product. Jira’s become a necessary evil, but I really wish FB had managed to make a bigger dent in the market.
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by HillRat 5y ago
If I have the market power through mono- or oligopsony to force my vendors to sign fixed-price contracts for variable-scope work, I guarantee you they aren’t getting paid for a lot of that scope, whether that comes out of their bottom line
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by HillRat 5y ago
It seems to me — not that this is my space — that Waymo’s gotten further than anyone else, running a taxi service and recently testing long-haul trucking. Zoox might also get there quickly, but note that Amazon is already losing key personn
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by HillRat 5y ago
Although Dave Clark comes across as an unrequited villain in most Amazon reporting, he’s just a loyal shadow of Bezos’ dictum that Amazon employees at all levels are to unquestioningly serve his machine without thought of compensation. The
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by HillRat 5y ago
Not expecting “alpha chimp” to take off from a marketing perspective, even if a cage full of feces-slinging monkeys is a better analogy for those environments anyway.
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by HillRat 5y ago
In general, you wouldn't expect SPA or hybrid-SPA architectures to have scale coupling between the front-end and backend, because you'll be hitting specific APIs more aggressively than you'll be downloading the SPAs (even in
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by HillRat 5y ago
You probably need to scale the two features — SPA serving and APIs — independently, so you’d deploy them in separate pods. Multi-pod containers should be so tightly coupled that they should always deploy together. If you can insert decoupli
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by HillRat 5y ago
As a potted experiment, it really doesn’t generalize well. Weighting identical candidates except for race/gender/etc. may help uncover obvious forms of discrimination, but doesn’t address the path dependency aspects. For example,
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by HillRat 5y ago
Oh, they talk a lot about the financial benefits — lower income taxes, looser land regulations — it’s just that the personal costs of a lower minimum wage, increased sales taxes, and less educational funding from the state aren’t going to f
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by HillRat 6y ago
I suspect there’s a strong case that universities are violating ADA and state equal-access laws if they’re using proctoring software that unfairly penalizes individuals with glasses, to say nothing of the issues raised by the potential of r
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by HillRat 6y ago
Really, NSA is captive to the law that bureaucracies do exactly what you tell them to do. NSA is budgeted to conduct cyber offense and governmental defense, so private-sector defense is outside the mission; in fact, it conflicts with the
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by HillRat 6y ago
The problem here is that “criticizing ethical biases in a company’s core AI technology” is pretty much what an “ethical AI” group is supposed to do, even if it conflicts with the company’s profit-making imperative. Once Google started drawi
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by HillRat 6y ago
I’ll also say that the most significant risk is probably mistreatment of clots, since most doctors probably wouldn’t go right to non-heparin/warfarin DTIs unless they had reason to suspect HIT or had gotten a CBC back.
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by HillRat 6y ago
Yeah, that “to a degree” is US-centric and, even then, doing a lot of work — in the US, J&J is probably about 1/3 of the total vaccinations when accounting for the prime/boost mRNA protocol, so even here it’s a mess, and we’
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by HillRat 6y ago
Not a doctor, so talk to your hematologist! Ads bind to blood factors (Ad5s to FX, HAdVs to FIX, etc), which facilitates organ uptake and interferes with the coagulation cascade and triggers complement activation. Thrombotic thrombocytopeni
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And we know adenoviruses interfere with the coagulation cascade through FX binding, so it’s well worth taking a pause and taking a closer look into what’s going on. With two well-tolerated and safe mRNA vaccines in the market, we can afford

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