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by Thriptic 8y ago
It's more complicated than that. You can bet many wealthy people DO care about these things (in fact, I know some who do); however, if they stand up against them then they riak preferential targetting far more than the average citizen
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Software development infrastructure in a box plus strong training materials / guidance for scientists. Increasing numbers of scientists are writing code without any formal CS training, and the outputs are predictably awful and unreliab
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> Helping patients select the right doctor. Currently most people use Yelp or through referrals. The problem is that Yelp has little correlation to quality of care. It's very difficult for patients to evaluate a doctor - usually wha
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It certainly works for Amazon
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I hadn't thought about it like that, but there is truth to this. Even many third party online dating services (CMB for example) explicitly require Facebook accounts currently.
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"Come see our river which catches on fire. It's so polluted that all our fish have AIDS." For those unfamiliar, the Cuyahoga river which flows through Ohio was so polluted at various points that it caught on fire 10+ times. T
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To your point, scheduling becomes a principle constraint at a certain point in the hierarchy depending on org structure. It can take MONTHS for 5-10 busy people to find common availability in their schedules to conduct a meeting. If follow
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I would legitimately buy this to subtly troll my friends and wait to see how long it took them to figure out that I was just posting stock photos over and over.
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The "I'm an influencer" package
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> Big pharma currently doesn't want to cure medical conditions, it wants to sell drugs continuously. (See also: lack of development of new antibiotics, huge over-investment in anti-depressants, etc.) I'm so tied of hearing this
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I think the author means to say comraderie requires a common enemy, which is a very different statement and one that I would say is true.
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I was not familiar with Packer. This looks great, thanks for sharing!
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Most dating apps filter by it too. If you are in the professional class, you will tend to be matched with other people in the professional class.
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Yes, basically. Cancer is at heart localized evolution, and there are many, many pathways which can provide survival or reproductive advantages to cells or tissue if they become dysfunctional.
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Or touch a bridge for that matter
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I don't think it takes a particularly high amount or sophistication to google "ico", see that most of them are scams, and stay away. People shouldn't invest in things they don't understand.
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Really? Because then I would just take on young healthy patients and refuse to take on sick ones.
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by Thriptic 9y ago
If you can't afford to pay enough to retain labor, you need to charge more for your products or give labor equity. If you can't make money doing this (ROI not good enough if equity is diluted or people won't pay more for what
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by Thriptic 9y ago
It's not a platform issue, it's a monetization issue. Somehow social networks have to make money, and that either involves charging users which pisses people off, or relying on the fact that people don't properly value their
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What I'm asking is what parameter are they changing to look at the hottest people.
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mind elaborating?
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Interesting, so everything works on the xps 15 w/ Ubuntu 17.10? I want to pull the trigger on buying one but I am concerned about the Linux support. Also, do you know if the new XPS 15 support a two hard drive configuration?
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I have a surface pro 4 and I really love it; however, it doesn't support Linux well. Ubuntu will not recognize the type cover or (iirc) the touch screen. Currently I develop in a VM or with vagrant.
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Yea it's a new addition
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Wasn't most of Kendall warehouses prior to the original felling of buildings 10-15 years ago? That was a bit before my time but it's the narrative I've heard. The newer buildings put up in the last 5 years or so exclusively r
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Yet another data point showing why we need more housing and better public transportation in coastal cities. Boston's immediately adjacent suburbs like Cambridge and Somerville are filled with crappy run down houses converted to apartme
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Done to save face. Dropping her would reflect poorly on the lab as it's basically admitting failure to properly vet candidates and/or mentor. She also had industry political connections which made booting her difficult for economi
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I have one in the context of an academic lab. I was in the process of refactoring a project a coworker had left behind which was basically spaghetti code. Our lab had a collaboration with another lab, and that lab offered to extend the func
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It's more complicated than that, but I have had multiple smokers espouse to me that it is more difficult to regulate consumption with a vape than with traditional cigarettes. I'm not sure what the new vapes can do, but old vapes d
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It's funny you would mention that because I also got annoyed by this and submitted a feature request for https. This is the response I received: Hello, Thanks for writing into us regarding https on MyFitnessPal. We have technical and o

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