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amygdyl
9y ago
Wouldn't a good analogy rather have the effect of rationalising what's already ridiculous?
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As absurdum, so that they could advertise the home being more efficient, faster to heat and less wasteful of the lucky phenomenon peculiar to their furnace design for running beyond the specification so instead of overheating one room, or e
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So far I'm alone to have thought contemporaneously this"don't be evil" gimmick was the most insulting piece of platitudinous double speak that the only possible positive spin I could attach was of two naive young boys he
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9y ago
I have once gone so far as to write a preliminary claim for defamation and libel, and put the brief to clerks for barristers to indicate interest and availability. My issue was swiftly resolved, but I felt the cold chill as replies came rev
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9y ago
I wish I could remember details, but a cofounder or single digit employee of a acquisition Equifax made, elected to forgo their earn out, because they were opposed to working in any capacity for Equifax. I think that they were somehow bul
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I also have a feeling that something else is going on. Did you also notice that such a wild claim was made in a busy HN discussion, and the response was not a barrage of down votes and the universality of scorn often reserved for gross inac
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9y ago
I parsed and reparsed just like you and I stalled again, while I imagined the sentence again as "throw up", trying to make a quick fix. OP has picked a tricky one..
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I started to read psychiatry journals to investigate. You can learn a lot about your unknown behaviour... Or at the least get some convincing platitudes to excuse your faults. I made a mistake in being so thrilled to unravel some bloody obv
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You spend your life having the idea reinforced that the fact that you can perform better than others gives you a advantage that is quickly exaggerated to mean that you think you can overcome hindsight deficit and common but expensive errors
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9y ago
Cant we see a way to backhaul radio telescope data from very remote locations, in the same way that Cloudflare is using asymmetric website traffic patterns? Is there any potential for collecting radio data inexpensively, I mean can we subst
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I felt that the presenter is a very rare example of a engineer who felt that his expression and purpose was attractive to his imagined audience. Without diversion via the questions embedded in the profession and the perception and self pe
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9y ago
Cannot the no bid nature itself be construed to be in breach of fiduciary public duty just by virtue of absence of comparisons? A formative experience was consulting on a "public - private" NHS tender, but total absence of the pro
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9y ago
I think a classic reason for ever expanding head count, and in ZIRP era economy, valuations, is because management tries to end run failures of immediate objectives and keep trying more elaborate end runs. Yes, UberCab will be a fine multi
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9y ago
I have to just say that I can't think of anything else except that advertising sales just does not scale. You may point to Google. But they are what in UK financial regulation speak, is called a Systematic Internaliser. They operate a
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9y ago
[From] "the same couple as is best known through the biographical 1950 film and book Cheaper by the Dozen." [Time and Motion Study..] .. is a major part of scientific management" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik
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See Matrix Management, for reporting : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_management It's obvious that the task has to be able to be subdivided suitably, but not enough is said about Matrix Management, especia
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No. I have been a serious F1 fan for closing on four decades and I must implore you and anybody else who might be tempted to discount to present values the hope that you express, to consider just how far motorsports* the physical environmen
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If budget could be made from only the top thousand professional organisations in the western hemisphere, channeled via branding distribution of the existing browsers, with the vertical profession sharing search meta data among themselves in
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I picked on the a Royal Charter professional body for my example, because ascent to the ranks of the association is a distinction in any engineering career. I chose my example to convey the substance of a most respected voice in a professio
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Yes, but I'm a advertising professional trading advertising positions in the industry association magazines, and I am very aware of the untapped potential interest in providing assistance to the organisation members. I spoke above abou
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I venture a promotional acronym : Google, Apple, Microsoft and Unaligned Technologists. G.A.M.U.T.
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I cannot help but think that the answer lies in requiring licensing of the major browser brands to special interest groups. There will be no loss of trademark aspect, in law or effect, would Chrome be available in the edition provided by th
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9y ago
Wilmott may be your best bet https://forum.wilmott.com
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Can someone enlighten me to a better appreciation of the moderation of my above comment? I don't understand, unless maybe I was gushing somewhat. I do that. I'm female. And despite decades writing programs mainly for my personal r
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Thanks for all your help with suggestions everyone! I'm more inclined to use Apache Lucene. Both because of the abundance of people doing similar extraction from comparable data stores, but also because Lucene is a part of the Hitachi
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That sounds like a excellent opportunity for corporate IT departments to make a good haul of PR and general kudos, for making a effort to release their archived caches, wherever they may be stored due to data retention policies. I have a hu
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It is so indistinguishable from how street junkies fight to continue one another when one has made a mark, the realisation of this clarified the matter for me finally. I was made homeless result of a fraud and got to be robbed and conned pl
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I wish I could recall the source, one of the dozens of histories that I read published almost contemporaneously with the collapse of the Soviet Union, but the paraphrase was "If for one day our people were once to cease stealing from o
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Of course, because arguments about the technical detail would undermine both parties interests.
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For that matter bitcoin is not exactly a fast cheap transaction system, is it? This is how I explained to myself why I found it so hard to first get a understanding of what it was about : nobody wanted to say what it is.
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