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by cgio 11y ago
In terms of utilities this is how the energy market works for producers.
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by cgio 12y ago
In consulting, your only resources are human.
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by cgio 12y ago
In professional services, the economics of team building are much more challenging, given the short horizon of teams, both due to projects duration and due to high attrition rates. The traditional approach is to build teams of equals or of
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by cgio 12y ago
A funny fact. I am working on automation of various finance operations in different organisations , and in workshops often the business users will ask for complete automation; "I want to press the button and like that, reports produced
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by cgio 12y ago
Europeans are not subject to American laws, but they would be if they stole something in the states, or they would expect to be protected by US police when visiting the states. Can someone with knowledge comment on how this applies to someo
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by cgio 12y ago
You misunderstood; the arbitrariness I address is not in the term cloud, rather in your definition which tries to somehow bundle processes that surround your perception of an entity and the existence of the entity. I am not saying it is not
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by cgio 12y ago
I will disagree and note that over-analysis of language is needed when language becomes arbitrary, such as in your statement: rigidly assign a particular arrangement of physical processes to a single entity "cloud" leads to the n
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by cgio 12y ago
Not really, when I write a page per day, I end up with 20 pages in a year. At least for me, rewriting is a very important part of the process.
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by cgio 12y ago
Have you seen 10eqs? http://www.10eqs.com/
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by cgio 12y ago
Resource scaling is not that tough a problem computationally. The tough aspect of it is the practice of defining the driver of scale needs. Past that it is just calculating based on triggers a continuous or discrete scale. I have done it fo
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by cgio 12y ago
It's not even the ability to create it, just the process of experiencing it.
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by cgio 12y ago
I am white, grew up in an affluent environment that provided for studies abroad etc. After 8 years of work, I had the "that's a cute accent" transliterated to you cannot be promoted. I did get promoted eventually, but having
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by cgio 12y ago
Well it's not like teachers only stay in their position for a year. The framework could (and should?) keep on monitoring the progress of the students down the way and feed back to the teachers' rating until they graduate. That wou
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by cgio 12y ago
I believe that GP meant that the title of the book is linkbaity not that of the post.
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by cgio 12y ago
Working in such an organisation and being in the middle ranks (Manager), I may have a reconciling view to offer. These huge organisations (I see partners mentioned so I will assume big4) are not pioneering innovators (even if they try to ap
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by cgio 12y ago
A very nice summary of relevant scientific work is www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/~karl/Whatever%20next.pdf Also, thinking fast and slow and other pop-sci books around decision making put a similar model forward. Personally, I am more focu
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by cgio 12y ago
I do not thing equality is the right goal yet. For the time being it is active anti-discrimination and this means sometimes we have to discriminate to the advantage of generally disadvantaged groups. As a white male I have also found it ann
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by cgio 12y ago
I don't know if it's very intuitive given that a and be are still inside the ][. Maybe a]..[b would make it clearer?
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by cgio 12y ago
Maybe the author intended to filter his readers. Maybe he wanted the readers to switch to serious reading and comprehending mode. Writers do not always engage the maximal readership but sometimes they may not wish to do so either.
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by cgio 12y ago
Given Australia salary scales, this may be a typo, 180,000 would sound normal.
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by cgio 12y ago
There is the Arab Spring which started as demonstrations and ended up as full fledged revolutions which overpowered long standing regimes. Different dynamics, admittedly, but who can claim they can predict the dynamics of a society in turmo
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by cgio 12y ago
Being from Greece, with roots in Kalambaka, which is where Palaiokostas still probably lives, the money he gives to the poor is an insurance policy and makes a nice story, but it is totally immaterial compared to what he stole from the rich
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by cgio 12y ago
The von Neumann architecture was also inspired by the working of the human brain and that is why the specific terminology was used (e.g. memory.) Apparently the perception of brain operation has changed since, as it was much more mechanisti
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by cgio 12y ago
People belong in organisations, have roles in organisations, but also act within organisations and with reference to their organisations. The assertion of representation is not always valid, and I am sure many people get the context of what
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by cgio 12y ago
"It's wrong to do others work for them and let them represent it as their own" which is what I do in my everyday job. And I am not shadow-writing, I am a consultant...Writing ideas that superiors represent as their own, or cl
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by cgio 12y ago
Definitely it applies to all kinds of writing, where a feedback loop is desirable, in order to establish a communication channel. In this class, the only thing specific to business writing, is that you try to establish a communication chann
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by cgio 12y ago
I am writing an article about the "art" of business writing, where I use this analysis to refute the usual consulting wisdom of making everything simple to grasp, even if that means taking things out of context. My argument is tha
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by cgio 12y ago
You can still dos it in Australia, for domestic flights (albeit you have to pass the security check.) Still, I was quite surprised the first time I noticed so.
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by cgio 12y ago
Maybe it could use Minimum Message Length http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_message_length
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by cgio 12y ago
>Plugins are click-to-play everywhere except for a whitelist of trusted sites (e.g. YouTube, Netﬂix). what is the impact from a neutrality perspective?

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