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6y ago
Me experience is the exact opposite. As a user: - If I need the service and only intend to use it for a very small project, I love forever free plans. Because I know I can subscribe use your server time and forget my account forever. I of
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6y ago
The problem are not MBA's. The problem is that the incentive of consulting companies are not aligned with the incentive of their clients. Take a big construction project. In the like of the Berlin airport. What do you think is more pro
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6y ago
I am willing to accept those observation and the conclusion might very well hold under a truly independent study made on a wide range of planes and conditions. It does not remove the fact that we should not relay observation about health an
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6y ago
I read it as: Boeing biggest client telling that Boeing planes are safe to operate when Boeing is in deep financial trouble. Credits I give to this study: none.
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6y ago
> the management under Dick were behaving like cowboys Exactly. and that's why they went under. Let's look at all possibilities : - Maybe Dick knew that the management under him was behaving like cowboys, and tried to stop it.
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6y ago
My company has been scraping the apple app store and google play store using private reverse engineered api. We provide a wide range of services around those data which include reviews and ratings historical analysis and so on. I can confir
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6y ago
Exactly, until people need to work together. If I like talking face to face in an office, and you prefer talking via zoom from home: either I have to yield to your preference and setup zoom, or you have to yield to mine and come to the offi
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6y ago
Too take the exact opposite view : Simply put, if my employer told me I needed to setup zoom calls every time I need to talk to someone more than 5 days per month, I would find a new employer. I'm less productive than ever. I'm mo
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6y ago
I am like your colleagues. As humans we have been hardwired to recognize biological males from biological females for million of years. So when I speak to someone wether in person or online, I will use the pronouns associated with their bio
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6y ago
There is only so much "richness" you can share. You can't give 400 million american a nice car, a big house with a view on the ocean, 100% organic food and access to top level healthcare and education. Unless you produce thos
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6y ago
It will be interesting to see how the bike usage will survive post-pandemic. Anecdotal experience in my social circle: Many people bought a bike just to keep active during the pandemic measures. Many justified the "somewhat impulsive&q
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6y ago
> Placebo-controlled trials For surgeries ? We actually cut someone open, then don't fix him, risking all the complications associated with anesthesia, infections and so on ? For drugs it's pretty easy to just give a fake pill
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6y ago
To be fair, the death rate also includes people in terminal condition that ended up catching covid before dying.
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6y ago
>The regulation explicitly forbids annoying banners You have to love how the regulator did not even try to define what they mean by "annoying". Thus making the whole law completely useless. In my book, any single pixel of my li
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6y ago
> races are a social construct, not a biological reality I do agree with you, but then what should anyone care about the distribution of ethnic groups in a medical trial if those ethnic groups have absolutely no impact on the result of t
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6y ago
> There's no excuse for bad testing demographics There never is a "bad testing demographic". The testing demographic can only be "good" or "bad" in relation to the population the vaccine is going to be
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6y ago
> you absolutely imply physical harm What about anyone that would constantly belittle or insult someone else, make fun of him and so on. Isn't that a form a violence ? Even if never comes to anything physical ? You can really do dam
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6y ago
France is now unable to build new nuclear centrals and intents to close 14 of them by 2035 - replaced by gas (mainly) and wind (when possible). Paris also is one of the most congested city in Europe - which this move is actually trying to f
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6y ago
All these numbers are very very low, when you consider that this is essentially how Parisian are supposed to go to and from work, get food, go to school, the dentist and so on. The best RER gets you late around 1 every 20 trip. So once ever
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6y ago
More accurate title : "Guide for american employees of american companies to the IPO in america". Probably very useful for a lot of people, but needs the massive disclaimer that the article does not apply for aniything/anyone
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6y ago
Better cooling. Faster SSD. Faster and more memory.
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Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1053/
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And what was the size/maturity/stage of the company ? Being "CTO" of a 5 person is very different from a 50/500/5000/50000 org. And what was the focus of the company. Being CTO of "Algolia", or
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> No, no, no. It’s got to be one company at a time, one job at a time. Right? Only investors can do that. [that= have a multi-career path] Investors have a single career path: being investors. And you have a diverse portfolio you invest
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Reading the article, it really looks like some New Relic employees want : - To prevent someone from supporting the presidential candidate she believes in. It's event funnier of you consider that the person if not working at NewRelic. -
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My comment is not related to medical studies performed by pharmaceutical companies - which are indeed probably very well covered by legal experts - but by students/professionals working in university hospitals. Think PhD students. The
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What the law says does not really matter. What matters in the perception of what it says. In the case of medicine, all clinical trials need to go through "Ethics committee". And ethics committees overwhelmingly consider that GDPR
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6y ago
At not point am I trying to exploit any system for my side hobby. I am no trying to leave sooner than I was before covid, or have more free time. My colleague, on the other hand, is doing exactly that. He wants to leave sooner - reportedly
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You just proved my point. You are placing yourself in a situation where you get to be the judge of my schedule. If that situation happened, we would not be two equally leveled adults trying to find a solution that is balanced for everyone -
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6y ago
This - I believe - is exactly why those prediction are so misunderstood. Most pollster usually give the expected vote share of each candidate. In this regard, a 60/40 split between two candidates in the polls means that the first candi
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