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by beejiu 4y ago
Businesses are also competing in the talent market.
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by beejiu 5y ago
This follows political pressure in the past few days. "BP left the meeting with no doubt about the strength of the Business Secretary’s concern about their commercial interests in Russia." ( https://www.energyvoice.com&#
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by beejiu 5y ago
> Also, a significant portion of the dollars that Todd and Ted manage are lodged in various pension plans of Berkshire-owned businesses, with the assets of these plans not included in this table. Perhaps this is poorly worded, but can so
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by beejiu 5y ago
100% agree with this. A database is, in some form, a cache of its own. If you have to add additional cache on top, it's an additional source of complexity and risk. If you are building a financial platform, you should DESIGN around thi
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by beejiu 5y ago
Judging by all the 'I know better' comments that are posted in this very post, you really couldn't.
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by beejiu 5y ago
There's a reason futures can go negative, that is when the contracts get close to expiry, the holder becomes legally liable to receive the oil. Since the speculators have no way to actually do this (and that storage was at capacity any
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by beejiu 6y ago
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/604f423be90e0... Given this is called a "serious incident", it's a little concerning that the report does not go into the cause further than "the softw
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by beejiu 6y ago
Same issue, fixed after clearing cookies. Perhaps a dodgy A/B test.
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by beejiu 6y ago
You couldn't do it today, but possibly it would work 7 years ago.
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by beejiu 6y ago
It wasn't public facing, it was taken from an internal network it seems. https://www.businessinsider.com/cia-vault-7-leak-woefully-la...
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by beejiu 7y ago
My favourite "productivity app" is not an app at all. It's a plain old notebook. I write down any notes and actions I need to take, and strike through them once finished. It has a nice benefit that I can scribble notes, draw
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by beejiu 7y ago
I use Citymapper over Google Maps all the time in London, and in other cities where it exists. Last week, I landed in Brussels and needed to catch the train. Google Map's best route was a 40 minute wait for the next train. I opened Cit
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by beejiu 7y ago
Don't banks themselves offer an "online platform service" - i.e. online banking, trading, etc?
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by beejiu 7y ago
Uber has shot itself in the foot here because the network is not a moat. It is in fact easier to enter the market BECAUSE of the network. For most non-Uber cabs I take, the driver also drives for Uber.
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by beejiu 7y ago
You'll be surprised how many companies are "all in" on AWS or Google Cloud, including ALL backups.
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by beejiu 8y ago
It does not seem to take either inflation or lost growth on the down-payment. These two factors have a huge impact on evaluating property against other investments. It would be nice to factor in an interest-only mortgage rather than a repay
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by beejiu 8y ago
Blame assignment is counterproductive because it encourages a culture of risk aversion. I suspect highly productive members produce more bugs simply because of the size of their contribution, and that's acceptable in some (perhaps most
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How the outsized power of the City of London makes Britain poorer(theguardian.com)
7 points by beejiu 8y ago|2 comments
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by beejiu 8y ago
> I honestly think the finance industry could be half the size It is strange that an industry whose only purpose is to service the productive economy should be 20% of GDP. Here's an interesting take of the downsides to having such
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by beejiu 8y ago
The average reading age in the UK is 9 years old. Are you proposing that the Gov.uk website be inaccessible to the population it serves? Don't forget, unlike other websites and apps, people do not use Gov.uk of their free will. They ar
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by beejiu 8y ago
This confused me initially. Basically, he signs up to Company (not Slack) as noreply@slack.com. Then he creates an account at Slack as support@company.com. Slack sends an email FROM noreply@slack.com to support@company.com. The email gets t
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by beejiu 8y ago
The UK has two tax-efficient schemes for investing in startups: SEIS and EIS. For some perspective, if an 'additional rate taxpayer' invested £10,000 into your startup, they are only actually risking £2,750 due to tax relief (sour
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by beejiu 8y ago
The last time I knew, facial recognition technology is not yet advanced enough for the type of system you imagine. Is there anything specific you can point me to that would support your 'estimate'?
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by beejiu 8y ago
It is referenced in the paper, but it's worth pointing out Yelp's MOE. This is an open source (Apache 2.0) implementation for black-box optimization. It doesn't look like it is well maintained, but it is interesting nonethele
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by beejiu 8y ago
I think they are using the term 'capacity' to mean 'spare capacity'. I.e. that Amazon's entire compute usage is 80x the spare capacity, so scaling even a small amount would consume any spare capacity in AWS. Still,
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by beejiu 8y ago
If individuals and small companies can also negotiate their own tax rates, you might be correct. Since they cannot, it is a subsidy. There is no difference between collecting X and giving Y back than collecting X - Y.
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by beejiu 8y ago
But surely, in a 'closed system', they have to make up the difference between tax credits and actual cash outlay somewhere? Bargaining on tax seems inherently unfair, but inevitable when there is no harmonization between states. (
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by beejiu 8y ago
When I recently added 'click to unsubscribe' functionality to my emails, the URL got wrote out into some logs. Those logs got written to a Slack channel and Slack loves to click any link it sees. Oh, and it doesn't respect ro
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by beejiu 9y ago
It is not yet widely available... https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/891stx/start...
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by beejiu 9y ago
You don't need a domain-specific tool for every problem your business has. If a spreadsheet works, great. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. In a similar vein, there are plenty of small software teams that use nothing more than

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