anon1mous

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by anon1mous 11y ago
Exactly. Most of the numbers and arguments in this article are made up. Has there been a single nuclear plant built anywhere in the developed world on budget? They all end 3x-6x the budget. Decommissioning those is extremely expensive as we
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by anon1mous 11y ago
Yeah, privacy is dead and gone. The other day I was in UK at a Tesco open doors event. They talked mainly about tribes and agile, but also demoed a couple of new technologies. Turns out they have face tracking operational on all their petro
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by anon1mous 11y ago
As in "We tasked one of our interns, the one with a Russian literature degree, to anonymize the DB ... two hours before we let the clients access it".
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by anon1mous 11y ago
"Conspiracy theory" most of the time means exactly "legitimate criticism that the article/TV/politician wants to gloss over".
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by anon1mous 11y ago
Don't be silly. Qatar won't overtake US. Neither will BRICS or Japan or Nigeria, etc. They lack innovative culture, disrespect for authority, etc. West Europe, the only real competitor, is almost forever bound to US.
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by anon1mous 11y ago
That's a lost battle, the future is dark :(
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by anon1mous 11y ago
That's interesting. >> Even the financial companies we deal with who were pretty heavy with the WPF are canning it next cycle. Where are you based? What are they planning to adopt? My company is consulting a couple of hedge funds
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by anon1mous 11y ago
If apples were ever compared to oranges, this is it :) Here's an alternative comparison - 440 rubles was the annual rent for a 2 bed room state apartment in Moscow. Today the same is rented for 40 000 EUR.
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by anon1mous 11y ago
Right, especially for "advertisers" with three letter acronyms.
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by anon1mous 11y ago
Today it's genotyping. But if they store the sample they can sequence it once the price goes down.
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by anon1mous 11y ago
Wrong. For one people used to die a lot younger, many genetic defects will only kill an older, weaker human. For two the environment is different, e.g. many more cancerogens in and around us. Just have a look at the cancer rates. A middle a
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by anon1mous 11y ago
FDA is US only. 23AM has a lot of customers from the rest of the world, that get all the health analysis.
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by anon1mous 11y ago
How do you know a page has loaded? A complex page with ads, AJAX, WebSockets may be constantly busy. Most social buttons, ads, etc. are now loaded by callbacks, that usually finish after the page has rendered.
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by anon1mous 11y ago
The XHTML+XSLT+XML-FO stack produced pages that took 3x-10x less CPU to render. But that's dead of course.
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by anon1mous 11y ago
Amazon has by far the best dev leads. Some of them are guys who worked on the Common Lisp standards in the 80s, some are 22 yo Bring Your Own JS framework hippies. But the management manages to select for lead roles the very best devs inter
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by anon1mous 11y ago
Just being in Switzerland won't make a company safe. I know of a case where a European sys admin, at a medium size ISP, was blackmailed into installing monitoring/fiddling devices by an US agency.