Hokusai

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by Hokusai 7y ago
> This is a meme phrase; losses absolutely do happen before you sell your assets. It is not a meme, is how accounting works, is how governments tax. If you look at your own example, some people though that they had made a lot of profit w
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> The equity holders are eating the losses; have you seen the stock market? This is a misconception. Loss or profit only happens when you sell your assets. Until then it is just economic potential. The trend of not paying dividends is at
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by Hokusai 7y ago
> Once you have established yourself as a viable product, found your fit, and have paying customers, "break things" becomes a path to poor service. Yes. I have seen this too many times. People are creatures of habit. I have see
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by Hokusai 7y ago
> The 1% rule is often misunderstood to apply to the Internet in general, but it applies more specifically to any given Internet community. ... only 23% of the population (rather than 90 percent) could properly be classified as lurkers,
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by Hokusai 7y ago
> Am I the only one finding the experiment's design questionable, especially for such radical conclusions? The conclusions are not radical, they actually fit quite well with the already establish knowledge of other coronaviruses. T
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by Hokusai 7y ago
> As part of their experiments, the researchers compared the stability of SARS-CoV-2 to that of SARS-CoV-1 under the same experimental circumstances and found similar results. I love science for this. Instead of just guessing that they a
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by Hokusai 7y ago
Other way of looking at it is that google is the new Microsoft and play the Embrace, extend, and extinguish game. You are attacking the post ad hominem. But, your comment does not change the validity original argument. I’m interested in kno
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by Hokusai 7y ago
> Things change when tens or hundreds of millions of lives are on the line. Is it Ok when it’s just tens of thousands, thousands, hundreds? At which number it becomes acceptable to abuse patents to sell overpriced medicines for the sick?
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> Why are we so quick to hate on Amazon, who actually deliver things that we're going to need? Because Amazon is using desperate people to sign abusive contracts and then make them work risking their lives and loved ones to increase
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by Hokusai 7y ago
> Workers at Amazon's UK warehouses are being told to work overtime to tackle huge demand due to the coronavirus pandemic, despite government calls to restrict social contact. Amazon should be held responsible for all the damage tha
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by Hokusai 7y ago
GDPR is a good example on how treating information carefully is important. Facebook, YouTube, etc spreading of missinformation is something that needs to be fixed for democracy to survive. Apps like Uber that do not recognize its own employ
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by Hokusai 7y ago
I also got problems with Safari Books Online around lunch time. But our Microsoft Teams meeting in the morning worked pretty well. Even that everyone was calling from home. (That is 10 connections while usually is just one meeting room and
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by Hokusai 7y ago
> hundreds of ill-defined processing purposes, and unknown legal bases I have worked in regulated markets for quite a long time. I can understand that many companies do not understand what it means to be compliant. For many years the tec
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> We’re also removing COVID-19 misinformation on YouTube Google is way more effective removing the monetization of a video because there is 2 seconds that sound like a copyrighted song than anything else. Because it is not a problem of r
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by Hokusai 7y ago
> I would like to see if Gov officials apply the same 'herd immunity' tactic to themselves and their relatives as well. The problem is not getting the virus. But, if everybody gets it at the same time. That will make hospitals
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by Hokusai 7y ago
> You can read that between the lines of the comments. Yes. I see the veiled racist comments, the completely anecdotic evidence, the sofa-experts disregarding the article findings... It is tiresome the coordinated attacks against progres
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by Hokusai 7y ago
> about 10°C higher than today That is astonishing. Imaging how much energy takes to warm your home 10°C, how much more will take warm a museum or a stadium. Now apply that to the entire planet. Storms in the Cretaceous were probably no
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by Hokusai 7y ago
> But our social and media users are a group marked by narrow and limited digital media use and a lack of data literacy. They are likely to come from some of the poorest households in the country. I see this when I open Youtube in a priv
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by Hokusai 7y ago
> This doesn't really seem to make sense. The US already has confirmed community transmission and the suspected case rate is higher in the US the UK. Also why now? Why not 2 days ago? It makes a lot of sense, if you just disregard
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by Hokusai 7y ago
> Livestock production is far more efficient use of land than agriculture to feed vegans which requires far more land to feed the human population far less efficiently. We can use low quality land for livestock grazing or feed. Something
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by Hokusai 7y ago
> Because technology progresses faster than laws and by the time the laws catch up there are already powerful corporations established based on the lack of those laws. I see another aspect of this. Societies have allowed tech companies
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> Sometimes there’s a technology that solves a problem really well in your particular project, but which is really hard to understand or learn. I have seen this problem too many times. Some team find a framework/language combination
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by Hokusai 7y ago
I evaluated Visual Basic as an alternative to Borland C++ to develop Windows programs. It was just not there. Borland C++ allowed easy GUI design and was easy integrated with Windows APIs for any low-level needs. Several years later the jum
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by Hokusai 7y ago
> While C-3PO and WALL-E might be good at processing algorithms, they can never replace living, breathing, thinking humans entirely in the workplace. I always read that "never" as "in the next 50 years". Never say nev
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> I don't buy into what seems like an all or nothing theory here that the only driver is money or some vague "money". I completely agree with that. Right now the system is less than ideal. But, there is many people willin
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by Hokusai 7y ago
The public if largely mislead on the risk of epidemics, flooding, etc. Democracy needs education to run smoothly. There is many studies that show that the government aligns strongly with big money. Just look at the state of health care as a
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by Hokusai 7y ago
> Our society is so focused on productivity that we forget that the foundation for improved productivity is sleep, exercise and diet. I have seen more focus on getting people busy than actual productivity. The video games industry is a g
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by Hokusai 7y ago
I agree with the main point of the article, but I think that it misses the bigger picture. > The computer can’t think I completely agree that our current software cannot think, at least in a complex way like humans do. But, our computers
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by Hokusai 7y ago
> I am saying that people can be a bit lazy about their mind. Blaming the victims will not solve the problem. This is systemic problem and only broad changes in the system can fix it. I think that it helps if you realize that 1) People d
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by Hokusai 7y ago
In our office, in Europe, it is mandatory to work from home for 2 weeks after traveling to any area affected by the virus (whatever it is a personal or job related trip). I do not think that USA work culture is compatible with this measure.

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