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by alpos 8y ago
My understanding is that they own some properties and rent others on long term contracts. Therefore, WeWork lives off the arbitrage between long term and short term obligations so it's basically a REIT. Most REITs are highly leveraged
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by alpos 8y ago
There's a gambler's case to be made for almost any new debt issue. It's really just a matter of sorting out where the notes one is considering are in the pecking order and estimating the probability of the issuer going bankru
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by alpos 8y ago
I know that feel :) It's just as bad in any discussion of graphics techniques, operating system features, and again in security approaches/features. Migrating to devops and security spaces has been like a conceptual "Groundho
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by alpos 8y ago
> it's something you don't find much these days This is approach is available with all of the JVM languages too. Putting that with what others have noted about the CLR, C, and LISP implementations, this may be more common than
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by alpos 8y ago
>programmers with little experience in a domain...write software to solve problems in that domain and iterate...Disruption! I don't think that will change much until the overwhelming demand for more software is mostly met with a suf
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by alpos 8y ago
>In choosing between learning Haskell or learning 3d programming... This is a false dichotomy: https://wiki.haskell.org/Game_Development As the linked response from Rich Hickey pointed out, you can do anything in any (Tu
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by alpos 8y ago
Microservices + Chat Ops
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by alpos 8y ago
Neat! I didn't know you found a way to revenue share with users. "Make money off of your own browsing", that's a really cool hook. Have you all considered an option to have Brave mine coins and split those proceeds? Tha
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by alpos 8y ago
>we need to continually to develop novel ones That hits pretty close to what I think I am seeing here. There are a few assumptions built in to Eroom's "law" which I think we have learned to avoid when looking at Moore&#x27
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by alpos 8y ago
I agree on all points. I merely wish to point out that the proper term for these is "strong trends" not "scientific law". Scientific laws typically do support a tendency or trend in effect but the accurate description of
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by alpos 8y ago
Salon.com's new experiment is a great example. https://www.tweaktown.com/news/60862/salon-offers-users-cryp... It's brilliant, most people probably won't care about the extra workload as long as it
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by alpos 9y ago
I get it, just trying to provide ammunition for you. :D The reality may be that there is a decent amount of brain power to go around but I can easily agree that any brain power spent of ads would have been better used if such a money printe
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by alpos 9y ago
Good catch, I had to correct that bit upon re-reading. What I am truly aiming at is the quality of universality (applicability throughout time and space) that these observations lack. With gravity we see a principle which, when mathematical
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by alpos 9y ago
As much as I'd like to avoid criticizing "moore's law", this is a good example of why we shouldn't be using the term unless the effect described is a properly scientific description of a universal truth. Both of the
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by alpos 9y ago
Possibly irrelevant correlation: This is pattern is also observed in graphics techniques and programming styles. Yet, the incremental quantitative advances continue to accumulate to become qualitative differences.
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by alpos 9y ago
Surely you do not assume that Tesla had done no testing at all before selling these things. I forewent commenting on their pre-market testing because I assumed that flokie already knew that the cars and ML models they use had been extensive
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by alpos 9y ago
I agree that it is a psychological difference but our behavior as a society suggests a recognition that the machine and it's makers have a role in whether or not people die in cars. This is why we demand safer cars and sue car makers w
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by alpos 9y ago
Cancer research needs brain power. Of course, brain power costs money. However, funding cancer brain power by transferring brain power out of cancer seems like a broken window fallacy.
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by alpos 9y ago
I think the part they miss has been the ease with which people can establish awareness of the major market players once they have a need. If anything ads are more useful for small/new companies than the big ones that currently drive al
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by alpos 9y ago
All laws are problematic like this. That is why we have courts, judges, and juries to sort of specific applications. However, for the purpose of establishing a rule, this really is straight forward if we don't mince words. The author o
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by alpos 9y ago
I think of it this way: Most car manufacturers are releasing their products on the public year after year, knowing full well that a decent percentage of people that drive away from the dealership will be killed by the thing they just bough
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by alpos 9y ago
How should one deploy such a product at all? Actual usage is really the only way anyone will know if the models are trained appropriately to handle most/all situations they will encounter in the real world.
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by alpos 9y ago
This seems like you are being argumentative for no good reason. You may have misread the above post. It seems to me that jacobolus was not defending vaping but merely wondering if we're all being a bit over-reactive at this point. That
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by alpos 9y ago
An "infection" in this case would be the execution of some other person's code on my computer. Browsers have been designed specifically to do this since Javascript was invented. The only difference between malware and "
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by alpos 9y ago
I think the point would not be to crash the market. The point would be to use the unregulated market to harvest money from people who don't know better. This happens all the time even in well regulated markets. Whether it's tric
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by alpos 9y ago
They spent a year and a half on this fairly obvious thing only to conclude nothing new here and offer no useful advice beyond common best practices. Are they going to waste the next year on how Twitter, Facebook, etc. can be used by crimina
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by alpos 9y ago
Not really feeling sold on this. It's called "Mastering PostgreSQL" but the site reads like it's trying to convince beginner programmers that SQL iteself is useful. Even the case made here: http://tapoueh.org&
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by alpos 9y ago
Best not to sneak an email collection scheme in on people even if it really is only for your newsletter. Most people have more than enough spam in their inbox already, if someone wants to get updates it's very easy for them to just cli
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by alpos 9y ago
Universities, like most other schools in general, maintain huge block-lists and heuristic filters for things like piracy, porn, malware, and anything else they deem to be unacceptable uses of their networks. On top of the network censorship
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by alpos 9y ago
Actually, the more I think about this, the more it seems like this could be a good open-source project. The idea would be to translate everything on Sci-Hub from PDF to MediaWiki and convert all of the references to links. That could be tou

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