Rury

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by Rury 7y ago
tomato-tomato.
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Well if you want my opinion, I don't think they're particularly at fault for others inability to interpret what they meant by that tweet. I find that tweet to be pretty clear, but also nothing noteworthy. Don't see how we&#x2
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I don't think they did anything necessarily wrong with that tweet. Just that it wasn't substantial.
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Which seems obvious. The WHO is just an intermediating body between nations. As so, it's not surprising politics is in play behind the core of the organization...
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>What exactly did they do? I think that was the point. They didn't do anything of real substance, so was it better than doing nothing? To me, it appears equivalent to doing nothing, and that's not better than doing nothing...
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How is what’s mentioned here, not just the old idea of determinism demonstrated or shown from a different perspective? I always thought science was biased toward the assumption that the universe follows basic deterministic rules, and the pu
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Apparently, there are a couple of mega wealthy properties ($2M-$20M) near me made over 20 years ago that have never had anyone live in them ever , as supposedly banks financed them for foreign businessmen but were never repaid the mortgage
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Can someone explain the 'going brrrrr' meme to me? I've seen it used in other contexts but can't quite fully grasp what is meant by it.
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Determinism simply means the nature of things is deterministic, that's all. In other words, that is: given all initial conditions you can determine the exact resulting conditions. Bell coined the term "Superdeterminism" to de
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>If your argument is that DCA is investing a lower amount, and is therefore lower risk That's not what I said, in fact the study does the opposite. >then the answer is that a lump-sum strategy investing the same amount as DCA is
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The study you cite shows this is only true for when there is a positive expected risk premium, hence the evidence only supports cherry picked cases. Additionally, if you read it, the paper admits the DA is inherently less risky than LS,
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>DCA is riskier Actually no. Risk = Reward. DCA is less risky , but lower returns than lump-sum investing. As always, you can cherry pick cases when it underperforms and when it outperforms.
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The only way to ensure escape from a disease is to eradicate or contain it. A vaccine helps tremendously in that regards, but alone doesn't guarantee eradication; as we have flu vaccines since the 1930s, yet the flu still remains among
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Not sure I understand you. From your post, it sounds like you have beef with people who complain about SaaS costs, when many SaaS products are arguably cheap, cover valuable functions like DBAs used to, and allows many companies to get off
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by Rury 7y ago
I'll share my anecdote for when it wasn't. A previous employer of mine had paid 96k a year to use a client software on a per database installation basis (12k per license, 8 database installations across the company worldwide, for
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by Rury 7y ago
Hah, you apparently don't understand what outsourcing is. It's a simple question of make/buy. All your examples are can be either made in house, or outsourced to someone else to make for you. For example, do we make our own E
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I think I'd agree. I find SaaS is just outsourcing, and for whatever reason, management types need to come to understand that outsourcing is not always cheaper. It entirely depends on the circumstances. Most businesses typically see
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by Rury 7y ago
There's itext7 (also for java). Not sure how it compares with other libraries, but it will parse text along with coordinates. You just need to write your own execution strategy to parse how you want. From my experience, it seems to gra
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by Rury 7y ago
Can't similar things be said for node.js and other tech? Electron apps perhaps? What problems did these technologies solve? Mostly I agree with you, but coming from desktop development, I also sometimes feel like javascript and the web
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Looks like results of a GPU company being in bed with a CPU company. Wonder how much this all stems from the AMD's acquisition in ATI in 2006, and what they learned over their years together...
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>I read the article differently. It was much less about geeks being business challenged and much more about geeks being elitist I think the article could have been about anyone being elitist, it just so happens to be about IT teams. Just
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Not sure, they both seem to be saying the same thing to me. I inferred OP essentially saying: business is IT. They're synonymous - and I'd largely agree with this. All businesses deal with managing information, be it storing fin
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Yeah that makes sense, although that would be a selection bias towards most likely cases, not necessarily most severe. Although China's data is most likely to be biased towards most severe...
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>We've seen that the case rate increases dramatically as more tests are administered Is that really true though? The UK has administered some of the most tests at over 7,119 but only 13 confirmed cases. US has done a measly 445 test
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If that's the case, then why don't we see capital always rushing to countries that have the lowest tax rates? Last I checked Japan has lots of capital investment, a large economy, a substantial wealthy class, and yet a high tax ra
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>Reference counting is garbage collection. Sorry you're right, I meant tracing garbage collection. >Same UI issues can happen in reference counting with deeply nested data structures. Only if done poorly. The difference is this i
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I think the OP intended dangerous to mean: likelihood of death if you catch the disease. Of which case, COVID19 is still looking to be ~20x more dangerous to catch than the flu.
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>To see what I'm talking about, just run something extremely lightweight like mspaint, then right click it in your task bar... >I'm looking for a snappy UI. Problems like these I think stems from poor design decisions made a
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Yeah, software gets bigger as more requirements are thrown at it, no matter how it's done. Eventually you just end up with a these balls of crap. Frankly, I think this pattern describes most programming constructs as well. As what&#x27
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All a matter of what you like to do with your time. Myst was a great adventure/puzzle game for its time. Although IMO, Riven and Myst III were better, with Riven being the pinnacle of the series. I would replay these if I were to play

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