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by HillRat 11y ago
Unfortunately, that doesn't change the fact that customers want estimates, and the more complex the project the more they need it for budgeting and scheduling purposes. In the end, you have a few options for estimating: 1. Estimate the
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by HillRat 11y ago
Surprisingly enough, the relevant State guidance does say that the US will not prevent an individual from renouncing his or her citizenship even if they do not have another allegiance, though it recommends the consular official specifically
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by HillRat 11y ago
Abstract: Teehan+Lax was a design firm, like Frog, IDEO or Fjord; T+L had an internal R&D department, like Frog, IDEO or Fjord; T+L is out of business, unlike Frog, IDEO or Fjord.
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Can't we all just agree? Ten papers on consensus(blog.acolyer.org)
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by HillRat 11y ago
I do wish the author didn't continually repeat that "rusty pipes" were the causative factor in the Flint crisis, as it was the exposure of lead pipes to highly corrosive river water that was the primary concern. Having said t
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by HillRat 11y ago
Yep; the other irony was that his prosecutor was O. John Rogge, one of the great liberal crusading attorneys of the day, who insisted on bringin charges in order to drag militant racism into the light of day. So Dennis, spurred by his hatre
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by HillRat 11y ago
I would bet a barrel of reichmarks that these were real people. In fact, I'm absolutely certain that "Mr. C" is the "saturnine" Lawrence Dennis, a former State Department diplomat and Wall Street advisor considered
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by HillRat 11y ago
Unfortunately, it also hasn't been shown to be effective in repairing or preventing the effects of subacute toxicity, so even if the state were willing to pay for it, chelation wouldn't be a cure. An entire generation has been cri
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by HillRat 11y ago
Watson will agree with whatever training corpus you feed into it, so like most candidates it can't tell you anything new or novel. However, unlike actual political candidates, Watson would be able to directly answer questions. The prob
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by HillRat 11y ago
On the bright side, you're in a better place now! I'm looking forward to seeing what you're doing at Hound.
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by HillRat 11y ago
In my experience, there's only one rule to surviving an acquisition: find political cover immediately . Upon acquisition, you and your team are an alien entity embedded in BigCo's immune system of political networks and operating
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by HillRat 11y ago
It's a term of art in development economics. Norway is an interesting case because it had a developed economy before petroleum exploitation, but even so a lot of Norwegian policies depend on having a large fiscal buffer based on resour
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by HillRat 11y ago
It's a honking great running watch, not a "watch watch," so the statement would be something like "My GOD I'm too busy being incredibly fit to even remove my workout equipment! Look at how low my resting heart rate
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by HillRat 11y ago
And even having a retirement was a mid-century innovation that garnered its share of opposition. America has always made the political and economic tradeoffs to maximize employment, but politically it seems difficult to sustain a system t
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by HillRat 11y ago
This is a bit off-topic, but just to be clear, Target is considered generally politically-progressive for a major, publicly-traded retailer, while the direct descendent of its founder is the current, very liberal, governor of Minnesota. Hav
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by HillRat 11y ago
Love the use of Prolog, hate the mirror-world EULA. If they haven't updated the license from the last time I looked, it's a non-starter for any reasonably-sized commercial entity with contract controls; there's no way in hell
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by HillRat 11y ago
Interestingly, you've basically described compulsory licensing under Doha.
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by HillRat 11y ago
Also, isn't Hystrix a good example of defensive programming in a services environment? Seems to work well for Netflix.
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by HillRat 11y ago
One has to wonder if maybe all those laid-off STEs and SDETs were actually adding value after all....
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by HillRat 11y ago
Actually, I don't remember that particular insight in TID ; what you describe is what I personally call "the Blockbuster effect" -- the idea that a company can quite rationally refuse to adopt a disruptive innovation because
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by HillRat 11y ago
Misleading headline; MSFT simply isn't going to continue any development on previous releases and won't support their use on new hardware platforms. Doesn't mean they won't stop working, just that Redmond won't do a
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by HillRat 11y ago
It was social liberalism masking a particularly virulent and corrupt regime under the Shah. The greatest mistake the West made in dealing with modern Iran was to support the coup against Mossadeqh; it ushered in a period of political oppres
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by HillRat 11y ago
FIs are very interested in Bitcoin, except for the Bitcoin part, which leads to lots of talk about trying to use blockchains for various unconvincing purposes. The problem is that btc isn't suitable for large financial products, beca
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The man who studies the spread of ignorance(bbc.com)
5 points by HillRat 11y ago|1 comments
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by HillRat 11y ago
The hamburger menu doesn't have context... This, yes. The 'pause' button has a single, unambiguous meaning: 'pause the current action.' The hamburger menu means 'display in some fashion an unknown number of t
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by HillRat 11y ago
It seems like only allowing a zero-dollar invoice after two parties have conducted another non-zero legitimate transaction might be a solution.
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by HillRat 11y ago
At least in major Southern cities, the problem was often "the blacks." Highway locations were often chosen to cut off less-desirable neighborhoods from city centers and more upscale residential neighborhoods. (I-30 in Dallas and t
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by HillRat 11y ago
Off by a factor of 10. And I thought $2b was a significant cost for moving a freeway....
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Almost all US central heat and air systems are "forced air" -- gas or electric heaters (furnaces) that blow conditioned air through ducting. Boiler-radiator systems wouldn't work with the standard US thermostat, not least bec
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by HillRat 11y ago
My take is that corporate HQs are the equivalent of a major league sports team (though orders of magnitude better for the economy than another stadium). You get a relatively small number of employees and some prestige, but not a lot of seco

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