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Ask HN: Is it the right time to get into data science?
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But regulations, inspections, codes and permits are all government-run systems. As a result, at least in principle in a democracy, citizens (including companies) can request to learn why those systems rejected them. Otherwise they can tak
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Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States. It didn't help Mexico that they were being heavily exploited by American business interests, to the point where the American ambassador helped having President Madero kill
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Do they have a requirement for bridge/tunnel heights? I recall an American trucker telling me that such a requirement did not exist in the US, but he could have been mistaken.
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The maximum standard height for a vehicle is 4 metres in Europe. All E-routes in Europe require that bridges and tunnels can clear at least 4 metres, otherwise they cannot get designated with the E-route. Is there a similar concept of saf
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I too wish I could relief myself of any responsibility, and levy the blame entirely on the corrupt system, that I have little-to-no influence over. But the truth is, the people of any democracy are the true source of power. And if I asked
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You can argue that democracy is merely an empty shell wherein to levy opinions. And in that context, I am talking about liberal capitalist democracies. But the voters themselves are capitalist, or rather don't have a problem with c
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The tragedy of democracies is that it does not really encourage democracies elsewhere. As leaders of a democracy strive for high living standards within their own borders, wages and thus the cost of living goes up. But participants in a d
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Yet, it happens so often, one would think it was OK. Like the Salisbury poisoning, where the victims were referred to as an 'ex-Russian spy', when he was really a 'Russian ex-spy'. Unfortunately, there are cases, where
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I lost my password to go through the same process a few years ago, so I can confirm that yes, they do ask you for a lot of personal information. I did not get an email asking for it, I went to Skype's website to find support. Fortunat
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Kind of embarrassing that I confused Trojans with Greeks for a brief moment there. Since the Roman legend of descending from Trojans is about making them distinct from the Greeks, yet having a prestigious origin story. Not sure whether it
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While a statement in the brief that certainly leaves a lot of details omitted, you are of course correct; as the main gist is the same as yours; their cultural production was pitiful. Romans admired the Greeks when it came to culture, and
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Edward Gibbon does not concern himself much with the republican era, when the secessio plebis occurred. As his title foretells, he concerns himself mostly with the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (not its rise). Thus he begins afte
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Roman culture was initially just Greek culture, and Greek culture would remain a heavy influence on Rome throughout its existence. Hence why we refer to it as Greco-Roman in a historical context. These "general strikes" are but o
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I believe it is because NORD-5 appears to be the first 32-bit minicomputer, built by Norsk Data in 1972.
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Germany turned on a dime, and is going to use the Google/Apple solution. Denmark is about to turn on the same dime, as our solution mirrored the Norwegian solution, but had the same iOS problems (I only read that the government was st
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Even with PHP7, PHP still feels like it is playing catch up. There is nothing new or revolutionary in PHP7, just adopting features present in other major languages. Adopting as other newer languages like Go and Rust seems to be moving bey
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Wouldn't one just use coalesce()? e.g. coalesce(Field, 1) = 1?
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Which is why the article about GTA4, for instance, specifically mentions it is written in British English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Grand_Theft_Auto_IV
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I should have mentioned, that later after they got tired with reading Plato and Aristotle again, Cynicism, Scepticism, Epicureanism and Stoicism all saw new light, but usually they were more combined into general useful advice on living a g
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The problems with Cynicism, Scepticism, Epicureanism and Stoicism is that they don't really adhear to the notion of 'everything in moderation'. The logical extremes either can lead to some genuinely useless approaches to lif
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A better example would probably be "ij" in Dutch. That's definitely considered a single letter, as words starting with ij in Dutch are capitalised IJ. Though there are glyphs for Ĳ /ĳ already in unicode.
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Is it Hacker News that re-edits the headlines? At first I thought the headline meant "attack Matrix", i.e. matrix.org, for the purpose of helping Kubernetes. Like a call to arms. But then it made little sense to me that the ori
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> Because in the initial days, the CDC had a valid point. The W.H.O/Chinese test wasn't that reliable (at the time) and it wasn't unreasonable for the US to make their own. It wasn't until week after week went by, wit
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To clarify. The WHO did not offer the US tests. The Politico article just says that the US was not on the list of countries it offered tests. It never offers the US tests, because it has national labs that can make their own tests. The
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If the UK is following Denmark here, that will be announced in 4-5 days. Here full time employees get 75%, part time 90%. Self-employed get 75%, while those particularly hard hit get 100% compensation on regular bills (in addition to the
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Hence why I also mentioned buses and S-trains, which are not automated, and requires drivers. But they pulled in people, and then as the decline in passengers occurred, they starting reducing the number of vehicles in service. While our ho
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In Copenhagen, the metro took the reverse action, running more trains, even outside rush hours (basically all their trains all the time). Well, that happened two weeks ago, and now no one is actually taking the metro, so maybe they have cu
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I am starting to think that only the partly/fully state-owned airlines will make it out alive.
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Labour/scale, indeed. The facilities where these things are usually produced have the capacity to make sure they are sterile. Hospitals cannot sterilise items to the same scale. You just need to be careless once for it to be a proble

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