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by andomar 4mo ago
A firm is sold when its owners believe they will get the best price. The selling itself is more of a symptom than a cause.
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by andomar 4mo ago
Yeah, as I understand it, they wanted to optimize for Google search. This meant having "canonical" answers. This killed the site in the long term. In the short term, it worked wonderfully, and the founders made a (well deserved
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by andomar 9mo ago
Garbage was never moderated on StackOverflow, it was always ignored. Moderation was used by the insiders to keep new people out.
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by andomar 9mo ago
StackOverflow was a pub where programmers had fun while learning programming. The product of that fun was valuable. Instead of cultivating the pub, the owners demanded that the visitors be safe, boring and obedient witers of value. This kil
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by andomar 1y ago
Sales of software to a foreign entity count as export.
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by andomar 5y ago
Agreed. In another part the dissent says: "The Copyright Act protects code that operates “in a computer in order to bring about a certain result” both “directly” (implementing code) and “indirectly” (declaring code)." But a progr
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by andomar 5y ago
"Following the letter of the law" means ignoring Congressional intent. It allows the judge to choose one of the many possible readings of a statute. So in effect, "following the letter of the law" enlarges a judge's
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by andomar 6y ago
> The lottery is about giving up something of little value ($1 or $2) for some entertainment and the chance at a truly life-changing situation Wish that were true. Organizers usually take 90% of the money. Just a tiny percentage is paid
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by andomar 6y ago
If you were refused by Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Cloudflare, what alternatives are there?
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by andomar 6y ago
> Not exactly easy to stay in shape when this country tries to pump us all full of corn syrup That's it I think. Advertising has become much more effective over the past 40 years. Humans can simply not resist. There should be adve
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by andomar 6y ago
When I visited Japan over 10 years ago much of what I thought strange has since become normal. The exaggerated fear of criminals, even though Japan is very safe. Very low interest rates and lots of public debt. In the wealthier parts of
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by andomar 6y ago
I've been using unique emails since 2000. It's been fun, for example when I got marketing e-mails for Viagra on the mail I use for my bank. At the time, I was surprised a bank would sell your e-mail! Right now Apple ID includes
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by andomar 6y ago
The few epidemiologists that have spoken out against the measures have been ordered to stop talking publicly. Studies have been accompanied by lengthy apologies for the facts they found. See for example https://www.wnd.com&#x2F
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by andomar 6y ago
Which epidemiologists are you referring too? It seems even Scientific American can't get information from them. "One epidemiologist told us the environment was “too toxic” to talk to us, even anonymously." https:/&#x2F
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by andomar 6y ago
In a normal year 3,000,000 people die in the US. The numbers are higher because of covid-19, but not by a lot. You can check the CDC graph for excess deaths: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/ex
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by andomar 6y ago
Well most people do use cloth masks. That's good too! The existing professional masks should go to healthcare workers.
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by andomar 6y ago
New to me, but did you read their response? It says "The study found that cloth mask wearers had higher rates of infection than even the standard practice control group of health workers" but they say that health care workers shou
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by andomar 6y ago
All research I can find shows that masks are largely ineffective, i.e. 100,000 people have to wear a mask to prevent 1 infection. Some research suggests masks make things worse by creating a moist cloud in front of your mouth. For example
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by andomar 6y ago
If Central Banks were to get into Bitcoin, they would make early investors in Bitcoin very rich. Like 1 person would own 25% of all the world's wealth. That wouldn't be proper Central Banking :)
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by andomar 6y ago
If they change color in sync then that is a known property of both marbles. Say you have a marble that is blue if the number of seconds is even and red otherwise. Knowing the color of one marble is enough to know the color of the other marb
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by andomar 6y ago
That sounds logical. Relativity theory allows you to age one object faster than another by changing their relative speed. Nobody would claim there was information travelling faster than light in your example. What makes people say informa
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by andomar 6y ago
Say you put a red marble and a blue marble in two envelopes. You randomly post one envelope to Australia. One year later, you open the other envelope. You now know the color of the marble in Australia. What's the difference between t
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Codinghorror gone from Twitter?
16 points by andomar 9y ago|5 comments
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by andomar 18y ago
Treating 1 out of 10.000 customers badly is hard to avoid.