R_haterade

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by R_haterade 9y ago
Bezos' plan was always to have a mouthpiece to spout propaganda. Why else invest in a dying medium? Same with Carlos Slim and the NYT. This isn't rocket surgery.
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by R_haterade 9y ago
I ain't even mad. Life is about finding out exactly how much you can get away with.
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by R_haterade 9y ago
That this sort of knowledge is often uninteresting to non-technical types. I'm pretty jaded at this point.
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by R_haterade 9y ago
If it did, that would be bezo's plan in buying the paper backfiring spectacularly.
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by R_haterade 9y ago
Agreed. I think it's simple common courtesy that the person extending the invite picks up the check.
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by R_haterade 9y ago
You're referring to the square root of the second moment about the mean. The short answer is yes, it's always useful, provided you have an estimator. Check out Chebyshev's inequality. Just don't start talking about it t
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by R_haterade 9y ago
This was something I've really needed to hear. Thank you, and good luck to you and your sons!
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by R_haterade 9y ago
It could out me. I'd like to hang on to my job, and we're not allowed to be critical of IBM.
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by R_haterade 9y ago
Old saying: "Life is hard, even harder if you're stupid." We were too stupid to catch on that everybody else is lying.
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by R_haterade 9y ago
Also, containerization. Oh wait, that was 2016, too.
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by R_haterade 9y ago
Lol. You don't understand. It's a fantastic way to seem like you're doing something innovative when you're not really doing anything at all. The good ones use it as a smoke screen to cover for doing things that need to
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by R_haterade 9y ago
I recently sat through a sales pitch for a piece of IBM software that has an intensely focused (and better) competitor. IBM's sales pitch was that 1) this particular piece of software was "central to IBM's [market niche] stra
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by R_haterade 9y ago
When I took world history at university, one of the biggest points taken from the bronze age section was that there hadn't been any hard evidence discovered to support an exodus of Israelites from Egypt to Palestine (Canaan), and that
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by R_haterade 9y ago
I don't think bro-culture is something anyone aspires to. I had a great experience working for a company that often is criticized as a "boys club", but I consider what I experienced there to be Man-Culture, not bro-culture,
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by R_haterade 9y ago
Oh sweet summerchild.
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by R_haterade 9y ago
Excellent point--the pressure still came from religious dietary restrictions, but nabisco felt it from people who wanted to be in compliance with those.
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by R_haterade 9y ago
This is about selling ice cream, though. Most of which had HFCS in it, especially in '97.
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by R_haterade 9y ago
Why do you assume I live in an urban area where those are options?
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by R_haterade 9y ago
Absolutely agreed that not everyone's concern is cost. I don't live an affluent area, however. I'm lucky to have a job with benefits, if that tells you anything. I can't imagine my neighbors caring too much.
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by R_haterade 9y ago
Absolutely agreed with all of this, and well done on the analysis--you backed out my back-of-the-envelope numbers. Gas has been ~$2 where I live for a very long time, and you're right, I'm closer to 5 than 10k miles, and much of i
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by R_haterade 9y ago
>IF you can deal with a 90 mile range. That's the big killer. But as a second car or for some people, it's kind of amazing. But what about my life in wide open spaces...
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by R_haterade 9y ago
Selling to jews and (probably moreso) Muslims. When you can't sell your HFCS confection to 25% of the world's population, you start to think about these things. Edit: confabulation->confection
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by R_haterade 9y ago
Yup. This was back when it wasn't, though, back when fat was evil and we had to completely eliminate it from our diets. Lard tastes better too. You ever had pie crust that was made with lard instead of vegetable shortening? Makes you
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by R_haterade 9y ago
Nail on the head. When your concern is cost, electric vehicles just don't make sense. I drive 5-10 thousands miles a year, and at $2/gallon gas, I'm looking at a total expense of 4-500 dollars per year. To illustrate, I rec
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by R_haterade 9y ago
Seconded. Who'd thunk a comic with a bro-schtick would end up hosting such a thought-provoking podcast?
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by R_haterade 9y ago
Oh god that's just disgraceful.
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by R_haterade 9y ago
So when do I get to start wearing my overalls to my coding job?
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by R_haterade 9y ago
Shhhh. You're not supposed to talk about Saudi and Israel bleeding us dry. What are you, an antisemite conspiracy theorist?
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by R_haterade 9y ago
Definitely true, and the lack of distinction drives me insane sometimes. However, describe this distinction to the average executive and tell us how it goes. :-)
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by R_haterade 9y ago
+1 for Mike Trick. The man is one of the best ambassadors the OR community has right now.

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