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by ablekh 6y ago
Perhaps, people interested in the subject (and in music!) will enjoy creative work and talent of Olga Avigail Mieleszczuk - a singer, accordion player and researcher of Eastern European musical folklore (especially Yiddish and Polish): htt
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by ablekh 6y ago
> Corporations aren't a real thing, they're an abstraction. Sorry, but this is a ridiculous statement. If corporations are an abstraction, how come they are allowed to have and use millions and often billions of real U.S. dol
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No Federal Taxes for Dozens of Big, Profitable Companies(nytimes.com)
31 points by ablekh 6y ago|12 comments
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by ablekh 6y ago
I think your confusion stems from the imperfect wording in the original phrase. What @karpierz meant (and his/her subsequent sentence supports it) is a) that society in this context implies government and b) that money is a legal tende
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by ablekh 6y ago
Interesting insights, thank you for sharing. I will need to think it over as well (and maybe read up on economics) ...
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by ablekh 6y ago
Fair enough, points taken. I appreciate your clarifications and our brief, but nice, discussion. :-) > And so if the good becomes cheaper to produce over time, you'd want to inflate the cost of it to keep it level. I'm a bit co
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by ablekh 6y ago
> If your money starts losing value, do you A) put it under the mattress or B) trade it for things that you can either use now or that retain/grow their value in the future? It depends on the situation. For example, if one lives pay
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by ablekh 6y ago
> The way to break the cycle is to have cash start to lose value, or inflate. Then the interest rates drop, and people start to spend their money. If people's money starts losing value, the last thing they would do is to be concerne
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by ablekh 6y ago
> Resisting acquisition can be very challenging, and takes a lot of energy and time. Not at all. You just have to be a company that is a) private, b) not funded by VC, and c) profitable enough. Then all you have to do is just politely re
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Digital colonialism: the evolution of American empire(roarmag.org)
3 points by ablekh 6y ago|0 comments
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by ablekh 6y ago
Fair enough. Though not too surprising still, considering the original leadership of the company, one of whom (Joel Spolsky) is still on the board of directors. Having said that, the board's 5:4 VC-to-non-VC ratio looks pretty scary to
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by ablekh 6y ago
> Everytime you go to SO, it hits one of these 9 web servers and all data on SO sits on those 2 massive SQL servers. That's pretty amazing. I don't find it amazing at all. Functionality-wise, StackOverflow is a very simple We
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by ablekh 6y ago
Thank you. Fixed my math.
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by ablekh 6y ago
You're right, see my comment above.
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by ablekh 6y ago
You're right. I somehow misinterpreted that part of the comment. Having said that, I doubt that Tesla's Bitcoin investment could be a foundation for its current valuation (as of today, > $660B). The $500K BTC price implies ~10x
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by ablekh 6y ago
I agree with you on major points. Tesla proponents' ignorance of competition (both technical and general / market share) is difficult to comprehend. Re: Bitcoin - I disagree, it is a totally different story, but it's off-topi
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by ablekh 6y ago
> I don't understand why they even attempt to push beyond even basic driver assistance. Well, this is, actually, quite understandable. Tesla and many investors in the company, especially Cathy Wood and her ARK Invest, assume high co
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by ablekh 6y ago
Use of an acronym requires a prior use of a relevant definition (spell out), which is the term. The expression "Fully-assisted Self Driving" is no less incorrect / ambiguous than the original one. Therefore, Tesla would con
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by ablekh 6y ago
I understand it. That is why I have emphasized above ( "in terms of the naming / use of the FSD term, not the actual feature set" ) that, regardless of the small print / legalese / disclaimers / clarifications
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by ablekh 6y ago
I don't understand why Tesla has been and still is allowed to use the term Full Self Driving (FSD) to imply, that is advertise, something that clearly is not and will not be in the near(est) future. Where is FTC, which is supposed to
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by ablekh 6y ago
Various aspects of the stock market or, more generally, financial markets.
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by ablekh 6y ago
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein
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by ablekh 6y ago
Technically, Citus product is open core, not open source. Though open sourcing shard rebalancer is a recent welcome step.
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by ablekh 6y ago
Good for Okta and, potentially, for Auth0. But, most likely, not so good for current Auth0 users and future IdM users. I believe that decreased competition due to industry consolidation is not a good thing. I would rather see Auth0 choosing
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This startup has an intriguing concept for EV battery swaps(arstechnica.com)
1 points by ablekh 6y ago|0 comments
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by ablekh 6y ago
I have seen that part. But it does not mean that the language will be feasible to use outside Microsoft Power Platform.
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by ablekh 6y ago
From the overview document: > Microsoft Power Fx is the low-code language that will be used across the Microsoft Power Platform . The emphasized part above is all you need to know to understand that Microsoft Power Fx is NOT a low-code
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by ablekh 6y ago
I have recalled related post[1] and relevant NH discussion[2] from 2020. Also just ran across another recent related article [3] and its Reddit discussion [4]. [1] https://chris-said.io/2020/06/18/everything-i
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by ablekh 6y ago
I agree with you that information (IMO both coverage and level of detail) should be balanced, for the target audience. However, I think that it does not apply to "why" information exclusively. Rather, this is pretty much a univers
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by ablekh 6y ago
I believe that an optimal architectural document should cover both "why" and "how". Having said that, back when I was writing and modifying such documents at a CMM Level 3 division of a large and well-known tech company

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