Hokusai

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by Hokusai 5y ago
This idea that only creating models is important work is pervasive. I have seen mathematicians, the director of... or vice-president of..., trying to manage complex software problems just focusing on their models, holding all the company po
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> The only thing unique about Apples implemention is that it's client-side. This is just another case of, 'your phone' is not yours. People stores their lives and thoughts in a device that they have no control of. I am not
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> That is the sorry reality of the bazaar Raymond praised in his book: a pile of old festering hacks, endlessly copied and pasted by a clueless generation of IT "professionals" who wouldn't recognize sound IT architecture
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Source: https://ec.europa.eu/environment/topics/waste-and-recycling/... The goal in the EU is to reduce it to 10% in 15 years. The USA landfill was of 50% in 2018. Some more legislation is needed. https:&#x2
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> high performers It could be random and it will still work. You want to pay a few people fairly so the others fight with them for that positions. Workers fighting workers is the goal of this incentives, it had nothing too do with perfor
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Does this means that Russian will stop attacking other countries with Ransomware, or does it only block in one direction?
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That was our problem. We added a git hook to reject new malformed commits. The easier way to not mess more things was to make all the code base compliant.
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> One characteristic of self-organizing processes is random fluctuations that can be amplified by local interactions between agents. It is going to be amazing when we are able to design self organizing organisms and create emergent behav
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I runned a code formatter in our code base. Years later I was still 'blamed' for many things in our code as few files were untouched.
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> Greene found a fifth shot, despite there being no physical evidence at the scene that Simmons had fired. Rochester police had also refused his multiple requests for them to test his hands and clothing for gunshot residue. This is the s
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This exhibition looks amazing. Each time I go to Japan I try to find new exhibits, there are so many times that one can go to the national museum in Tokyo and finding something new (some items rotate, so probably I will go again, thou). I h
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> In May, several French and German social media influencers received a strange proposal. A London-based public relations agency wanted to pay them to promote messages on behalf of a client. A polished three-page document detailed what t
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> the infrastructure for programmable money might have some value And it has, Central Banks are creating their own digital currencies for digital wallets. They aware based on real needs for speed, volume, security, trazability, etc. >
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Looking at the graphics it seems that the start of the pattern is closer to Reaganomics than Facebook for the English speaking world. For German and Spanish started way later, closer to social media. So, maybe in the USA it started early an
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Then they are not doing their job. I have worked with very good product owners and priority is always clear for the team . Also they are able to negotiate time and scope. Sometimes it makes sense to deliver less features to meet deadlines,
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How does Germany manage to export $110.34B to China? Your arguments seem reasonable, but it seems that the ultimate conclusion is that Germany cannot export anything as China would do it cheaper. Does this situation also apply to other coun
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Interesting how bad is the USA image after 2003 invasion of Irak. The West supported USA after 9/11, people felt really sorry for what happened. It felt like a betrayal when all that good will was used to steal oil at the cost of desta
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Oh, yes. It's about having a shared culture more than intelligence or knowledge. I know what I will answer if I wanted the job, that does not mean that it's a good answer, it just means that I have the background to know what are
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> There shouldn't be anyone too senior for this to apply to them, you know. We need to hold each other to account when we're talking through these issues, and simply being incredibly senior, successful, bringing in prizes, mone
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Smart TVs are not made because consumers want them but because to add advertisements to smart apps is a new revenue stream for TV makers. One that continues after the TV has been sold.
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> Podesta will work to advance a variety of the company’s goals in Washington, according to one of the people. He declined to comment. A spokesperson for Huawei also declined to comment. Very transparent for some one that is going to wor
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> I know that games aren’t all stimulating paragons of human social connection, but it feels as if something exciting is happening. There’s more mushing together to arrive at new digital forms that emphasize interaction rather than passi
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Amazon is really good at leveraging its semi monopolistic presence in different markets. Once you are big enough you only need to tweak a few parameters to dominate the market. It's interesting how AWS uses egress to this effect. Your
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The problem is that it is impossible to give a good answer without context. Did it matter a 2% error? There are cost limits? Maybe you don't even need to know the number of ping pong balls but it would be faster to transport them by sh
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No disclosure of any conflict of interests?
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> and it might just work, at least at destabilizing the country It seems the USA has become an expert on that side of politics. Russia is doing something similar. When you are in power, and USA, China and Russia are the big fish, you do
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> Traditional Russian ... values are under active attack from the USA and its allies, as well as from transnational corporations and foreign NGOs,’ ... It defines ‘Russian values’ as ‘life, dignity, rights, freedoms’ as well as ‘high eth
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A million people can invest $20 in high risk/high reward investments similarly to a venture capitalist, meanwhile investing $800 in some less risky investment. Kickstarter exists.
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> This is something that everyone seems to ask for (I know I'd love it), but they haven't implemented it. To me that suggests that they _can't_. Or maybe it is a costly implementation that would not bring any profits. The
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Does Swatting exist in any other country that is not the USA? Because I see two problems here, one is the criminal that make the calls, the other is what it seems a severely lack of training of the Swat teams.

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