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by _RPL5_ 5y ago
Here is a list of 200 most popular books sold at Ozon, the biggest on-line retailer in Russia: https://www.ozon.ru/highlight/top-200-knig-po-mneniyu-chitat... Of the Top-12, 6 to 8 are some form of a self-help book: *
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by _RPL5_ 5y ago
Have you? What's your impression?
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by _RPL5_ 5y ago
My pet theory is that it takes more effort with a Russian keyboards to type the smiley face. With English, you do "SHIFT + ;" for the colon and then "SHIFT+0" for the bracket. When I type it, I hold down SHIFT with my ri
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by _RPL5_ 5y ago
>People don’t really have organizations they can go to to advocate their political positions. >[People] need an outlet to push the ideas and causes they care about >I like that people want to express themselves and improve the worl
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by _RPL5_ 6y ago
>I don't want to leave the determination of what constitutes a bad health-related decision to the vote. The answer is to maintain both private and public insurance systems. As is already the case with Medicare. I don't think an
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by _RPL5_ 6y ago
The primary goal of the penitentiary system is to reform criminals and to reintegrate them into society as productive members. A reformed criminal is worth infinitely more than a person who you sent away and who is now contributing zero. We
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by _RPL5_ 6y ago
I find their hypothesis suspect. > According to the researchers, the decrease in the size of game and the need to hunt small, swift animals forced humans to display cunning and boldness—an evolutionary process that demanded increased vol
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by _RPL5_ 6y ago
Thank you for the detailed response. It makes things a lot clearer. I notice that you mention "Machine Learning Engineer" as a separate role. If in the idealized world, data scientists do analytics and train models, and data engin
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by _RPL5_ 6y ago
Thank you for your comments! They are very insightful. To piggyback a bit: Assuming you are a competent data "analyst" who wants to become a data engineer, how would you go about it? Is "go back to school and get a CS degree&
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by _RPL5_ 6y ago
I sure hope so. There were dudes inside Congress waving rebel flags. Trump and friends probably didn't count on that when they were posturing on Twitter. Hopefully, that scares them straight and cools some heads. And not just Trump, bu
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by _RPL5_ 6y ago
To me the DNC leak stood out as more damaging than Facebook ads / twitter bots. That being said, if anyone has an unbiased academic paper that looked in-depth at Russia's Twitter/Facebook shenanigans, please cite. I'd li
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by _RPL5_ 6y ago
I am curious how something like this would have been handled 50, 100, 200 years ago. Let's say you have a newspaper spreading misinformation that is hurting an important social institution. What do you do? Close it down? Sue the editor
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by _RPL5_ 6y ago
You aren't wrong. I got caught up making the comparison between structural biologists and taxi drivers being ran out of business by AI, so I ended up exaggerating the work load that's addressed by AlphaFold. I should been more pre
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by _RPL5_ 6y ago
The industry process will not change. You still need industrial biologists to generate and validate AphaFold structures, interpret the results as part of the bigger picture, and to finally design the drugs. And, then, of course you still ne
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by _RPL5_ 6y ago
Hah, that's true about Bornholm. Now that you mention it, I feel like I've read about it recently, somewhere. Thanks for reminding me.
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by _RPL5_ 6y ago
Your argument is that EU countries will not stand up to the US, because they are afraid of losing American protection. However, in case of Germany you linked evidence that goes directly against your argument: >German Chancellor Angela Me
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by _RPL5_ 6y ago
> I don't see how it could have played out any other way. I suppose we are getting technical here, but at some point someone working for these governments (an actual person with a calculator) has had to sit down and do the math to f
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by _RPL5_ 6y ago
For groups 1 and 2, who gets to decide if a homeless person is to be committed? This seems like a non-trivial question, or am I missing something?
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by _RPL5_ 6y ago
You are getting a lot of critical responses, and I hate to dog pile, but: >Amazon/Google/etc happily pay ten times that salary In the thread, they say Helsinki juniors start out at ~$3k/mo after taxes. In the Bay Area, let
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by _RPL5_ 6y ago
I don't understand what Foxconn's endgame is. Did they really have a good-faith plan to build a mega factory going into this? And then they failed because of befuddling incompetence as the article suggests? Or did they do the whol
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by _RPL5_ 6y ago
The first table in the report says that FB's effective tax rate in 2020 was 4%. The same chart says that in 2019 their effective tax rate was 17%. Can someone with insight explain this discrepancy? Is this some accounting artifact, did
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by _RPL5_ 6y ago
Thank you!
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by _RPL5_ 6y ago
The author makes a point that I relate to. I've been on the receiving end of a couple 'Statistical Learning 101' courses. These courses go roughly as he describes it in his blog post: they first teach you how to multiply two
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by _RPL5_ 6y ago
Here is a source in Russian [0] saying that Apple is asking Telegram to remove messages that de-anonymize Belorussian police members, rather than blocking channels outright. I don't know whether their source is reliable, but here is th
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by _RPL5_ 6y ago
The top comment in this thread (from someone who speaks the language) says that he openly encouraged people to spam meaningless PRs in order to get "free swag." I think the rebuke he is getting is deserved.
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by _RPL5_ 6y ago
When I first heard about Hacktoberfest a few days ago, I thought it was neat. I am relatively new to programming, and as a newbie I got excited that there was an event like this. It prompted me to read about how pull requests work, and to r