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by borissk 3y ago
In Muslim countries/societies there's usually a very strong pressure to have a lot of kids from the religious authorities.
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by borissk 3y ago
Interesting that Putin's regime follows similar philosophy - they recently started a big campaign against abortions, including forbidding abortions in private clinics.
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by borissk 3y ago
Paying people to have kids has some interesting side effects. Raising a kid in a big city costs a lot more than raising a kid out in the country. So if the government offers a fixed subsidy per kid the insensitive to have kids is a lot stro
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Tucker talks the minute he leaves Putin interview [video](youtube.com)
2 points by borissk 3y ago|0 comments
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Lessons from Sports Psychology Research(knowablemagazine.org)
2 points by borissk 3y ago|0 comments
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US Senate advances $95B Ukraine, Israel aid bill after failed border deal(reuters.com)
12 points by borissk 3y ago|10 comments
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Russia's Adaptation Advantage(foreignaffairs.com)
4 points by borissk 3y ago|0 comments
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by borissk 3y ago
Maybe this is a way to get rid of a lot of employees without explicitly firing them. Looks very likely that the recent advances in AI will drastically increase the productivity of developers, operations, BAs, etc. so companies like IBM will
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by borissk 3y ago
Very interesting. Wonder what a killer app for the Vision can be.
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Embattled army chief lays bare Ukraine's challenges, at home and abroad(cnn.com)
2 points by borissk 3y ago|0 comments
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by borissk 3y ago
What does the interview process for Senior Full Stack Engineer (C#) look like?
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by borissk 3y ago
So far Ozempic looks like a miracle drug. Interesting if it will stay this way or down the line negative side effects will be discovered.
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AMD Ryzen 7 8700G and Ryzen 5 8600G Review: Zen 4 APUs with RDNA3 Graphics(anandtech.com)
4 points by borissk 3y ago|0 comments
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by borissk 3y ago
I think they plan to drastically increase the laser bandwidth. This is a new tech, that they just started using.
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by borissk 3y ago
You're right - this is another problem for Intel. They have a reputation for underpaying engineers, so the best and the brightest go elsewhere.
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by borissk 3y ago
And furthermore they lost most of their best engineers and scientists during the years that the company was run by the useless MBAs. Now each new technology process is a huge struggle. Intel has secured some of the first new gen EUV machine
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by borissk 3y ago
Say what you want about Musk, but his companies really deliver some amazing tech at scale. With the laser links operational, Starlink antennas will probably soon be installed on practically all commercial airplanes and ships.
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by borissk 3y ago
Looks like all the tech companies will use the current lay off wave to get rid of employees management perceives as under performing. I guess by next January they will be back hiring full swing.
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Will United Launch Alliance Have an IPO in 2024?(fool.com)
1 points by borissk 3y ago|0 comments
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by borissk 3y ago
Who is this "we"? The flatearters?
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by borissk 3y ago
If people are willing to risk their lives in the name of human progress, why wouldn't it be ethical?
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by borissk 3y ago
There will be people on the Moon within the next 10 years. Both Chinese and American. Sending humans to Mars is completely doable with chemical rockets. Just a matter of investing enough money. If SpaceX is successful with further developme
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by borissk 3y ago
So it's better to write this sort of code in a language that's unsafe by default (e.g. C), rather than try to abuse Java. Reminds me of the code that Microsoft produced when they were trying to prove their new .NET Core is one of
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by borissk 3y ago
Meeting aggression with aggressive response is what leads to escalation. Escalation of conflicts between nuclear powers sooner or later will end with some unfortunate consequences. Facing an aggressive Russian or Chinese regime, armed with
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Ukraine's new strategy hits Russia where it hurts(spectator.co.uk)
22 points by borissk 3y ago|1 comments
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by borissk 3y ago
The jobs of the few hundred data scientists that actually work on improving AI at Google/DeepMind are very secure. But in a few years (as LLMs continue improving and people figure how to use them effectively) a significant part of the
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by borissk 3y ago
https://archive.is/O0zr5 Anyone here taking Ozempic? Care to share your experience?
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EU Commission seeks feedback over Apple Pay's commitments(euractiv.com)
2 points by borissk 3y ago|0 comments
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by borissk 3y ago
How would you interpret this news about phosphate in Norway: https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/news/gre... ?
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by borissk 3y ago
Next step - format all their SSDs to teach them to make backups :)

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