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by Pyxl101 11y ago
I had no idea that fire control computers in airplanes were so sophisticated in the 1940s. Truly amazing! I don't know what I thought, but I guess I assumed that air battles back then relied primarily on line-of-sight and tracers to co
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
So how do you handle the situation if a Korean manager is wrong about something? That culture sounds like it would be extremely damaging to conductive effective business.
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Exactly - what shortcuts are they alleged to take?
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McDonalds provides value. They provide clean, safe, consistent food that I can rely on if I'm hungry and don't have other options I prefer anywhere in the world. I think people also underestimate the quality and precision of McD c
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
Climbing the tether will change the center of mass and also increase the rate of rotation. It's going to be complicated.
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
Could we speed the Internet up with more generic caching? I'd theorize that a decent percentage of all Internet traffic to residential ISPs is made up of HTTP requests for highly cacheable resources. However, it seems like the mythical
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
Cloudflare has written about running into challenges regarding net neutrality too: https://blog.cloudflare.com/net-neutrality/ Their article about the relative cost of bandwidth around the world made the rounds on Hack
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Frequently it seems as though statements by neutrality advocates mention "providers" without naming any. Who are the providers that misbehave, and what are they doing? Can we see a graph of their traffic and a depiction of the mis
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No one would deny that there are substantial physical differences between men and women, not just in form but in function, such as athletic performance. Men hold the majority of individual performance world records, consistent with stereoty
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This is a submarine, then http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html Do publications like Vice disclose whether articles like these are paid/sponsored or organic if you ask them? Vice seems to claim that they value transpare
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
Yes - presumably the goal is to reduce the dissolved oxygen levels low enough to halt or significantly slow whatever decay process affects the taste.
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What was the problem with 10/20/30/40 grants and what kind of vesting schedule is used instead?
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Yes but what if you store it after removing the oxygen? And just the oxygen. It might last a lot longer. Then put it back at the end and taste it. Industrial companies have a lot of resources and techniques available to them that the typica
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
The visitor pattern essentially gives you pattern matching for your example. It can even give you destructuring pattern matching, if you wish. With a fixed hierarchy, each visit method handles one concrete case, and its signature can destru
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FYI, you've written "your" in recent comments when you meant to write "you're". > I would think your not saying that [...] I get that your trying to use it to support the next sentence [...] I offer this fee
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You're right, that table was inaccurate. I've corrected it to use your numbers. That's more consistent with the other data I was reviewing, which suggested that most homicide was intra-racial rather than inter-racial. "F
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Other data support these ratios. For example, in surveys of crime victims such as the National Crime Victimization Survey, the race reported by victims of their attacker reflects the proportion of conviction rates: "The UCR and NVCS sh
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Because (at least in part) they commit crime at far higher rates per capita. Black men commit about half of all murders in the USA, despite being about 13% of the population. The statistics are similar for many other crimes. 39% of people a
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Bingo. Let's say that I wanted to argue that -- just for the sake of argument, not necessarily as a true belief -- that discrimination is not a significant problem in tech hiring with respect to diversity, and that the key problem is t
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I do this too. I found it almost impossible to post on my account under my own name, on any topic about psychology, politics, economics, or diversity because I am too afraid of what I've said being taken out of context later, or used a
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
That sentence almost sounds like a garden path sentence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_path_sentence
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There is already a huge market for modern, high end mobile phones that passively record the environment constantly, in order to wake up and respond when their user says "Hey Siri" / "Ok Google" / "Hey Cort
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> Indeed one of the reasons Echo wasn't a huge success is privacy invasion Most modern phones passively listen to your voice too, and people carry those with them everywhere . They are present in the most intimate situations, rathe
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That's true. Wired devices have the power to listen passively indefinitely and to record as much as they want. As I updated my post to mention, Google apparently added Google Voice search to Chrome at one point. With wired devices, I&#
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"Ok Google" on Android, Siri, and listen all the time too, don't they? That's presumably how I can wake up my phone from a state where the screen is locked and powered off by saying "Hey Siri" / "Ok G
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If that's true, then no one has and no one will choose to use the service in meaningful numbers, and it won't be a "problem". People who want to can use it, and people who don't want to can use something else.
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
Is there a way to bet that something will grow more slowly than normal? S&p 500 has been growing about 10% per year. How would I "short" it and bet that it will grow 5%? Can such a position be constructed?
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I've always wondered why finance continues to run on a monthly cycle. Why isn't that kind of tracking more continuous? It seems to introduce artificial and harmful effects, like people trying to "game their numbers" at t
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If those social media accounts function as an expedited way to get customer service, then people are indeed interested in engaging with them. That seems to be one of the popular uses of Twitter for brands these days: a way to escalate compl
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Yes. It's not an especially exotic level of performance. Especially if you're talking about applications that handle traffic from other machines, as opposed to humans. As websites go, Stack Overflow is of reasonable size, but as

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