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by beefield 7y ago
Sorry, could someone ELI5 what is OLAP? And while you are there, what is Tabular Model? As background,I have worked with SQL and relational databases, and occasionally keep on hearing these, but nobody ever explained to me what these are an
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by beefield 7y ago
Honestly curious and hopefully not rude, but how can you concentrate on anything? Or does your work/life not require you to concentrate ever/most of the time on anything? (I have turned all but phone call and sms notifications off
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by beefield 7y ago
My thinking goes as follows: If language is how people think, then you should be able to convey your thoughts to pther people easily and perfectly by using language. Obviously, that is true for only the most trivial thoughts, thus I persona
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by beefield 7y ago
Slightly off-topic, I have been occasionally trying to learn to use pandas, but having worked quite a lot with SQL, there is one thing that I can't get over. Is there a way to force pandas to have same data type for each element in a c
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by beefield 7y ago
Of course. I thought the context was quite obviously me being in a position where I am expected, for whatever reason, to make a judgement of my opponent's capabilities/progress/quality of work/whatever. At that point I d
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by beefield 7y ago
Don't know about questions, but there are couple of answers I have learned to be serious red flags: 1. Yes, I understand. (with no further elaboration or clarifying questions) 2. It's okay/good/going well (again, with n
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by beefield 7y ago
> Google used to have that, but of course they stopped it. There are browser addons that have he same effect though. Yep. Ironically enough, that was killed soon after I found about that. And anyways, it was implemented far from easy to
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by beefield 7y ago
> I wish there was a way to directly help Bing/DuckDuckGo/Yandex improve their search results. I am amazed that no search engine gives me easy way to blacklist domains from my results. That would make the usefulness of any of t
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by beefield 7y ago
Yes, but what we are missing is a platform[1] where I can join a random convoy going the same direction than me. And pay something for the lead car or offer myself as a lead car in case I feel like driving and earning some money. This woul
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by beefield 7y ago
Yes. Can you estimate how much these companies have received funding compared to self-driving tech companies/projects? My wild guess (based only on the general visibility) is that it amounts pretty much to a rounding error.
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by beefield 7y ago
> We will eventually update markings and beacons on the roads to make it easier for the cars. Or even easier, platooning. I don't understand why autonomous cars is a bigger thing than platooning. I mean, platooning solves 95% of us
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by beefield 7y ago
This is more and more starting to smell a bit like this is the first time in a while when somebody is actually looking whether a plane fulfills the regulations. Just wonder if FAA & co should actually audit some other models as well wit
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by beefield 7y ago
> Tether and exchange deposits are obviously not cryptocurrency As you say, that is obviously true. Almost as obviously true should be that they are (or at least very hard try to be) _money_ . And that should roughly as obviously point
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by beefield 7y ago
> I also don't really agree that the bank owes my friend that $100k. I am sorry if I sound blunt, but I do not see this something that is a question of opinion or something one can feasibly agree or disagree with. This is pretty muc
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by beefield 7y ago
> No, that's not true. Money can be either debt-based or non-debt-based. Well, you are right in that money _can_ in theory be non debt based. However, currently it is not , and I am quite confident that if you tried to come up with
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by beefield 7y ago
First, the "own money" in the bank is not technically his money in the bank, but money the bank has borrowed from your friend. So the bank is in debt to your friend. Now, in order for the bank to be able to be able to pay its debt
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by beefield 7y ago
That money is debt. In a very fundamental, literal and practical sense, debt or credit (i.e. someone owing somebody something valuable) is what money is . The traditional definition of means of unit of measure, means of payment and unit
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by beefield 7y ago
Sorry, but you do not exist. Everybody knows that we need to have IP because otherwise nothing currently under copyright or patents would be produced. (Sarcasm.)
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by beefield 7y ago
That infrequent thing seems to be the worst. You can't really calculate years, you need to calculate hours. I think I have quite solid background in some sports, and I have tried to learn surfing now maybe 6-7 years. unfortunately ther
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by beefield 7y ago
I guess I should have been more prudent. Some time ago I recall reading here at HN some crude calculations about this where I got this impression.
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by beefield 7y ago
To be fair, flying in MAX was/would still be orders of magnitude safer than pretty much any other transportation method outside flying. (No, I don't think I still want to fly that, either)
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by beefield 7y ago
I thought that is me being stuck in 3d and the toys around me moving in 4d? As I would like to move myself in 4d...
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by beefield 7y ago
_I_ would like to have a VR experience in higher dimensions. It should not be completely impossible to build some kind of actuators that I can somehow attach to my body to sense my orientation and acceleration in fourth dimension.
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by beefield 7y ago
> Advocating for the removal of voting rights for those who disagree so that we can arrange their future for them may be counterproductive. I disagree slightly. Not "may be" but "is" counterproductive. Occasionally yo
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by beefield 7y ago
I'm quite tired of the framing of the climate change discussion, whether it exists or not. It is like you pondering whether your house is going to actually burn next year or not when you think about purchasing insurance. Completely idi
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by beefield 7y ago
> Enjoy watching social engineering videos together! They're entertaining, informative & I personally think more enjoyable than most of the stuff that passes for movies, sports & TV shows. Do you have any recommended playlis
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by beefield 7y ago
> Most business in the United States is done despite of management, not because of it. I would not consider that so Geographically constrained. to me the most obvious textbook example [1] would be Nokia. I mean, there was no way the top
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by beefield 7y ago
> Taxes for all shareholders are deferred until they sell Sorry, but this is plain out wrong. If you are shareholder and get dividends, you pay taxes. Even before you sell.
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by beefield 7y ago
Of course I understand that. But why it should be allowed to pay accumulated profits out from the company in a way that the taxes for share owners are deferred? What is the societal good of that?
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by beefield 7y ago
Sorry, you seem to be quoting a bit selectively. From the same article: > These are batteries that NASA is using, but they’re not batteries that we’d use if we were going to try and make it economical to fly today, because they’re very l

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