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O’Reilly Media Has Lost Its Soul (2013)(perceptualedge.com)
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A lot of Boeing's current dilemma is the failure of executive management. A commonly written story is that the competent executives at Boeing, who were focused on solid engineering, were pushed aside by the political McDonnell Douglas
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Also told on Page 34 of Ron Insana's Traders Tales: https://books.google.com/books?id=NyeVNsWvJHAC&pg=PA32&lpg=P...
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Exactly, I am not attempting to contradict the article, I'm just providing another opinion related to ER visits during this time.
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The article doesn't address the opinion that my doctor relative expressed: there were a lot of ER visits, not trauma related, that probably didn't need to happen.
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There is also another opinion: that many people go to the ER who don't really need to go there. I had to visit the ER recently. I did not want to go but my doctor insisted. A family member who is also a doctor also insisted I go. The E
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by aluminussoma 7y ago
With the world explored and mapped, it is hard to fathom new cities being built. Nevertheless, that will certainly happen in the future. What will the catalyst be? Will it be nuclear war, which devastates and contaminates an area for decade
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by aluminussoma 7y ago
This brings back so many memories. I graduated with a Comp Sci degree from a well-regarded university. I had friends who graduated a year earlier return to school for a different degree because there was just nothing available with a degree
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There are going to be a lot of fundamentally good businesses going under because they mismanaged their cash flow. There are going to be a lot of promising products cancelled because their companies needed to shift resources back to their ma
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Remdesivir was one of the earliest promising candidates to treat covid-19 since it had promising results - in the lab - against other coronaviruses like SARS and MERS. It did not have results in humans because those viruses went away before
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by aluminussoma 7y ago
In California, unemployment benefits are a form of insurance that is paid by the employees of your previous employer (caveat at end). If the company went bankrupt, I'd assume that the costs are spread out among all the employees of all
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What will the employees, in the US at least, do for health insurance? A pandemic is when you need it. These employees will be strained to pay for COBRA. I fear that we will see revolutions in countries where this is not contained, from eith
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eBay has not added many new features in years. There are problems with the platform, like auction sniping, that they have not addressed. PayPal as well to a similar extent. There are a litany of problems that its users have been complaining
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eBay is a fascinating story for their early impact to the commercial internet. It is also fascinating to see how they've fared: it is still around but now it is being eaten up by competitors like Facebook Marketplace in the US, Mercado
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This is the end of an era. I can only imagine what those board meetings are like. If anything like his product reviews, he asked incisive, aggressive questions. I hope he left because he is satisfied with the job the rest of the board is do
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Also worth reading again is former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz's anecdotes on Apple, Microsoft and Kodak trying to shake down Sun using patents: https://jonathanischwartz.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/good-arti.
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My reaction: Great! Reproducing these keys costs hundreds of dollars and a trip to the dealer. Maybe it can finally be affordable again. I'm less concerned about someone stealing my car. The local police department takes it seriously,
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The education entrepreneur Adam Robinson did his own survey a few decades ago. He found that while children of two immigrants did better on standardized tests than children of two non-immigrant parents, the "best" combination came
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Old timers talked about IBM the way people used to talk about Microsoft in the 90s and Google in the 2000s. The new CEO being someone who's been there his entire working life does not sound like a recipe for success.
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The danger with such unqualified sentiments is that there are many things that can make someone uncomfortable. Let me be more plain: David Drummond is (was) the most famous black male executive in tech. I have heard black men voicing frustr
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I think it is a bad idea to say this about him without providing a concrete example on how he made you uncomfortable. I'm sure I have accidentally made someone uncomfortable before. Does that make me a bad person? I hope not.
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It will be interesting to see what changes these streaming services bring to TV consumption and the Internet in the next decade. Comcast and other providers are losing subscribers to YouTube TV and Hulu. I suspect this will cause internet p
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Yes, which is the whole point of my question: how is this data compiled? Just because it requires effort does not mean it can't be done in an open source way.
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I see that the underlying IP to Geo data is consolidated by MaxMind. Where does MaxMind get this data? I wish this data was open sourced.
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I've heard, but can't confirm, that photos and videos stored on Google are used to train ML models at Google. So I'm surprised that Google would want to charge at all for this service if it's important. Were any other co
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Is activism so pure? The activists I see have nice signs and people protesting during business hours when the rest of us are working. Printing good signs costs money. There is big money behind a lot of activists, just better hidden.
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I would think that Google's first choice was Garmin. In my personal opinion, they have better watch products. It was reported last month that Fitbit engaged Qatalyst for a sale. I wonder who leaked the news to Reuters, which did not me
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This included water weight. My body's water weight during that time, if my scale is to be trusted, was between 52.0-53.0% during that week of interviews. It is consistent with levels before my interviews. I was wearing a HRM tracker fo
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I guarantee you I was hydrated. Maybe over hydrated. I went through about 12 fl oz of water an hour, maybe more (I brought my own water bottle).
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I track my vital metrics religiously. Last week, I interviewed at three companies who have intensive technical interviews (Dropbox, Google, Apple). The morning after the second interview, at Google which was intensive, I was my lowest weigh

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