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"controlled areas" is relative - for example it includes mayhem zone SOMA and the hills. Also they just got started, relatively speaking, and have been expanding. Give it a minute. Really, computers seem more naturally suited to d
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Wait, what? Paris streets are a mess, even after Haussmann. That does not prevent outstanding transit. Even before the latest obsessive aggressive agenda-driven nonsense. The two things that Paris has are (1) inhabitant and workplace densit
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2y ago
> if the richest country in the world had the common sense of simply - There is nothing simple about it. - There is nothing inevitable to this appearance of "not enough money". For example very little of self-driving cars devel
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2y ago
> Perl 5 has been in maintenance mode for so long Perl 5 has been adding features consistently over the years, not just fixing bugs. Many people just ignore the new features, but you don't have to.
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2y ago
Keep Higher Order Perl for later. It's great but far too much for a 2nd book when getting started. The camel book Programming Perl is still a great start which adheres to the layered aspect. Don't read all of it, just a few parts
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2y ago
Awk is too specialized, specific. Perl is amazing at text processing AND also amazing at much more. The basics of perl for basic awk-like functionality is really not much to learn. Skip awk and learn something more useful. This works becaus
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2y ago
For that matter, is Volvo popular in China? Does Volvo advertise in China?
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There is that. And the idea of trying to retain new grads would already have worked 30 years ago and yet here we are.
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2y ago
Volvo is an interesting case. Being acquired, becoming a subsidiary, is famous last words for the past culture and focus. If the acquirer really cared to retain that safety focus, I would have expected doubling down on related advertising a
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2y ago
Wouldn't attaching green cards - or at least temporary work permits - to US university degrees be a positive change compared to employment agencies / contractor firms trying to sneak in piles of people without such degrees and scr
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2y ago
You are missing that it is used a lot in spite of that process (1) being a major administrative headache for the users, both employees and employers, (2) costly compared to hiring "locals" although that's moderated by perhaps
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2y ago
You are obviously rewriting a lot of the law, and ignoring that the penalty seems to still be "up to 18 million pounds". So no, there is a deliberate bias against smaller sites.
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2y ago
> A corporation has the resources to figure out how exactly the law applies to them and defend that at trial. A very large fraction of corporations are run on minimal margins. Some of them still do try and keep up with regulations and th
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2y ago
In San Francisco, pedestrians and bikes can appear anywhere around your car, at any speed in any direction. Including wearing all black, no light and taking 2 steps forward then turning around and taking 2 more steps forward (repeat but var
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2y ago
Yeah and that's mostly nonsense (but expedient). It's hard to compete with any large industry and still their inefficiency is your opportunity. See also Uber and friends against taxis (both impossible and illegal), SpaceX against
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Customer reviews and professional advice are still not solved - and still a huge opportunity in my mind. 1) Customer reviews would in theory help people choose better and fast. There will always be the issue of difference of opinions but we
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"Usually" is famous last words in investing - hopefully your rationale goes a little deeper. Doesn't need to be all that deep, just a little deeper than that crowd.
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> "Competition is for losers" - Thiel. This quote is great but is not a call for building inefficient businesses. An inefficient business invites competition (which is for losers). An equally nice saying is "your margin is
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Markets drive efficiency but there is no major force that makes the process fast. All the way to the process taking several lifetimes and so it's one dimension of human-scale investing or competition but just as iffy as the rest. So yo
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What in the world?! > The average payout was just $51.62 (a gain of just 3.2%), which is statistically indistinguishable from breaking even. Yeah, it's not statistically significant because (1) the experiment was stupid small: "
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Food Recalls Have Been on the Rise. Here's What You Need to Know
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Is Boar's Head deli meat safe to eat? What experts say amid listeria outbreak
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The concern should be that they are not in control of their manufacturing. NOT that the flaws discovered are low priority or that the product is low risk or that they actually do recalls or whatever. The lack of manufacturing control is the
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My track record of finding the extras online is extremely poor. And contrasted with discs that contain sometimes rather large amounts. Some extra videos of course but also full length commentaries. Do you commonly find much of this stuff? F
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> lithography process for every layer It's not. They are similar process steps, deposition, etching, etc but they are applied at once to long deep holes and other staircases that intersect the many layers. The layer is an insulator
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This one is already 4 years old, but actually describes the operations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdS3jkDKmOU
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The "extras" also speak in favor of the physical media. The streamers apparently still haven't figured out what to do with that.
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I'd add "learning deliberately" in the category of "necessary". It's not a matter of hacking, secrets or shortcuts but of ramping up faster than by merely passively doing. If a new situation or tool "shows
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How are these CDs that ended up in landfills a high impact on the environment?
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These supports shouldn't be necessary anymore, no contest - while the reality of it, etc... But why do you think CDs, of all things, are such a high impact on the environment?
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