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by abpavel 10y ago
"Much fintech 'disruption'..." revolves around eliminating slack and incompetence of the low grade employees. Once you've tried services of an average investment banker, and paid 1% entry fee,1% exit fee, and 1% ann
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by abpavel 10y ago
+1, howewer I do recall countless "works best with minimum 800x600 resolution and Internet Explorer" disclaimers.
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NuTonomy signed driverless taxi deal with Singapore(bbc.com)
1 points by abpavel 10y ago|0 comments
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by abpavel 10y ago
With "stay home" plan, the only thing "decisive and ovewhelming" is going to be the enemy's strike., when it's too late. Today politics are global, requiring constant control and supervision. From East Chinese
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by abpavel 10y ago
You mean /etc/network/interfaces? I can set tx queue length of eth0 to 300 packets: echo 300 > /sys/class/net/eth0/tx_queue_len Or change frame forwarding behavior from switch to hub: cat 0x65535 &
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by abpavel 10y ago
Network interface: /sys/class/net/<name> Process: /proc/<id>/ IPv4 Route: /proc/net/route User account: /etc/passwd
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by abpavel 10y ago
> It is a problem of using files. In UNIX, everything is a file
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by abpavel 10y ago
So, I can kill anyone and claim they were an addict? Who is going to prove me otherwise? It's dissapointing that people see this as something to do with drugs, while in reality it's just a green light for a killing frenzy.
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by abpavel 10y ago
The key to scaling video content is automatic production, like Wochit, not shortened duration, like Vine.
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by abpavel 10y ago
Network delay variance over distances is much greater than the timescales at which HFTs function. That's why HFT equipment is always so close to the exchange itself.
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by abpavel 10y ago
I think these two paragraphs nicely frame theme of the problem: <i>Politicians, he added, have propagated the myth that foreigners commit crimes at a higher rate than Japanese and have suggested that more immigrants could make the cou
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by abpavel 10y ago
*Current market valuation. I think it's an important differentiation. The underlying dynamics of the two companies are quite different, and I'm not sure their "worth" can be directly compared. One is worth a lot to the g
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by abpavel 10y ago
In other news: 1. Time Gravitates! Physicists discover stable wormhole configuration by accounting the effect of gravity on time! and then 2. First wormhole to another universe successfully created! The final experimental proof of multiver
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by abpavel 10y ago
Whoa, haven't thought of that. Pride and honor are very distant in my spectrum of understanding. One is internal integrity, and the other is a form of social Google page rank.
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by abpavel 10y ago
Because once you're corrupt, there is no honor.
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by abpavel 10y ago
> Exxon is only one foreign company It's starting to sound like you're one of the bond holders or securities tied to the bonds. Exxon is consistently in the top 10 on F500, and was an absolutely critical part of bloodline. Nati
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by abpavel 10y ago
$700/hr for dinner, parties, and fun? Sounds like a taunt...
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by abpavel 10y ago
Imagine you have two java apps on your pc. You want one to have full network access, but restrict the second one. Well, you can't, because application firewall sees both java apps as java.exe
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by abpavel 10y ago
>Your comment and others like it are the reason people don't change the world from the city you're living in, by creating a startup from scratch, but go and move to Silicon Valley to do it SV has advantages for startups, yes, b
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by abpavel 10y ago
I've personally heard Tim Draper blaming regulation for her downfall. So in the eyes of SV giants, it's us and the government who are delusional, and we should let her do her thing.
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by abpavel 10y ago
Democracy is when "all the people...involved in making decisions about its affairs, typically by voting". All people vote in Belarus and Russia. Are those democratic countries? 108% of the Crimea population voted to be annexed. Is
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by abpavel 10y ago
UK Poll results: 1. British people should be free to live and work anywhere in the EU: [Agree: 52%, Disagree: 26%] 2. All citizens of EU should have the right to live and work in the UK: [Agree: 36%, Disagree: 46%] I don't think anyone
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by abpavel 10y ago
"Correctly guessed that my mother died of cancer"... Knew when someone had "unjust pride"... Well, take WHO statistics, and use most probable case. Do it in the group, and as you tell people stuff, monitor others for fac
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by abpavel 10y ago
"Commands uploaded in the days before will automatically ensure that the transmitter as well as all attitude and orbit control units and instruments are switched off upon impact, to fulfill spacecraft disposal requirements." Is th
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by abpavel 10y ago
Because if you're good, today 40hr is not considered the norm. 9 to 5 is coasting.
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by abpavel 10y ago
DoS is a threat from identifiable source, like Russia. DDoS looks just like normal users, like terrorist sleeping cells.
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by abpavel 10y ago
Used Microsoft/Google/Fastmail in parallel for my company for 6 months. Fastmail won.
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by abpavel 10y ago
As an avid fastmail user I did notice slight loading delays, but I attributed them to my wifi/iphone. I mean... It's mail, not live SCADA telemetry...
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by abpavel 10y ago
That mandate of the EU is, and always was, to prevent WW3. That is its raison d'être, and all decisions branch out from not wanting to repeat past mistakes, and end up like Serbia/Croatia in 1996. You can point out Swiss all you w
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A.I. downs expert human fighter pilot in dogfights(popsci.com)
6 points by abpavel 10y ago|1 comments

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