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I never ever said that alcohol is nothing to worry about. I just said that the liver heals better than the brain Please refrain from putting word in my mouth (or anyone) in the future. Sample Citation for the MRI : https://academ
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Here you go: https://www.drugabuse.gov/news-events/nida-notes/2016/09/reg...
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Watch the MRI scan of a 35 yo alcoholic and the MRI scan of a 35 yo heavy pot smoker then do the comparison again. The liver can more or less heal itself until it's too late. The brain, not so much.
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The issue I have with your website compared to the 12factor one is how hard it is to grasp/implement your advices. > 12Factor Nbr 3 : Store config in ENV variables. Yep I can do that. In 2 hours I can convert most of my conf in env
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What I love about monolith is coherence and forcing you to do things well from the beginning. Microservice mesh tend to become horrible to maintain after a few years when no one really measure which components will be impacted by a single c
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Which is even scarier. In case of default, discretionary items can be seize and sold to at least repay part of the debt (while decreasing quality of life). 2008 has shown what seizing houses leads to. Now think that there is nothing to seiz
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> It's more like assets are overpriced, so we're not able to buy houses. Do you realise that you can buy assets, and houses, outside of California ? I promise you that it's really really easy to buy a house as a software e
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In 2016 Netflix only offered 31 of the top 250 IMDb movies. Don't know where we are now, but in my country I am surprised when a movie I want to watch is available on Netflix. People do not make money on seeding, they gain internet poi
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The capital markets care about the bottom line, not about internal cost structure. > When you are raising money, the market very much cares about the cost structure.
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I second this. I use sintra for all those sites that are 75% static pages and few dynamic parts here are there and could not be happier. Non optionated means that I can really easily setup the model that I want/need without having any
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The idea is to manage your company so that you generate profits at 2000 customers. At that point you have several options: - Be happy with cash piling up in the bank, and redistribute it to employee/investors/founders. - Lower the
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I don't know about ruby and python but in JS there a significant number of projects that aim at adding a type system on top of the launguage
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When comparing salaries I think in terms of "disposable income / hour". That is: how much $ worked hour you have after you pay taxes, retirement, average rent in the location, medical insurance, basic food, small car and gas.
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It's the compensation some expect, not the one they get. And if they took a student loan based on those calculations, they end up being the subject of the article.
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That's why you usually do not start there. Google might require a degree, but your local hairdresser does not ask for one as long as you can create his website. Then move your way up from there. After several years recruiters will be m
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The VERY worrying part is that those number have started to be recorded in 2012 - just after the previous crisis, when the economy was booming. Current unemployment rates in the US are very very low. When they start going up again the share
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Common, stop it with that. They added skippable quick trailers of other shows you might like when binge watching one show to a very select number of users. They quickly stopped that experiment few weeks ago. Never saw anyone call "feat
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Yep and every concept you introduce is a revolution for the general population. That's the idea.
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Netflix can choose to disable subscribing to it's services through the app. Maybe no one "discovers" netflix through an iOS device, but apparently a lot are starting their subscription through it.
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Just give us the ability to manually whitelist external developers signing keys. That way you can choose to only install apple signed apps (the current situation which would become the default of the new system) or to accept apple signed ap
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Can't they "just" add a cost to each API call ? Wanna know the position of an enemy on the map: 50ms. Target a hero/creep/tower: 75ms.
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Not sure the investor said anything remotely looking like : "Here is nearly $500m, please use this money to install tons of servers in a region that generates a small percentage of your revenues because their infrastructure is subpar.&
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In direct democracy, you vote for what you want to happen. In a prediction market you vote for what you think will happen. The whole point is that a sufficiently large and diverse groupe of people is better at predicting the future using th
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They definitely can produce so much oil. Venezuela produces around 2 million barrels / day and are ranked no1 by proven oil reserve ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_proven_oi... ) . So 1.5 billio
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No it didn't. The foreign debt didn't move an inch. If you needed to sell 1.5 billion oil barrels to repay your foreign debt at $65/barrel, you still need to sell 1.5 billion oil barrel to repay your foreign debt. No change t
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Speaking from europe where healthcare is basically free. Medical care for these patients is extremely expensive. Each surgery costs around 50 to 60 thousand euro and it's not uncommon to get 2 or 3 of those before dying. Add to that th
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> American salaries are 2 to 3 times higher. Cash in hand is 2 to 3 times higher, but compensation is not. You need to include benefits such as company car, extra holidays (europe starts with 20 + unlimited sick days), 13th month (get pa
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Google and Facebook models are pretty simple too: they make stuff people want and companies give them money to put inject their ads in the service.
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Ever heard of the concept of "propaganda" ?
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> That guy was the core of the Python community for over 20 years Exactly. I can't imagine keeping the same job/role for 20 years. Guido even says it : he is tired . He has had the energy, drive and will to steer the python sh
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