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by danmaz74 9y ago
I don't see any contradiction. Enlarging the pool - actively seeking people who might think they wouldn't be hired because of their background - looks to me like the best way to balance diversity. While excluding qualified candida
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by danmaz74 9y ago
Thanks for the correction, I pasted the same link twice - can't edit :(
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by danmaz74 9y ago
Using (explicit) state machines in Rails is so easy, thanks to the gem of the same name(1), that we use them very often, with good results. I think that ease of setting them up and integrating them in whatever framework/language you us
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by danmaz74 9y ago
I honestly think you're overplaying it, instead. Whatever the scale of the changes, they will happen during decades, not years. "Economy cease to exist": what does it even mean? There was an economy during WWII, there was an
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by danmaz74 9y ago
Branding isn't just about spending a lot on ads. I found lots of actionable suggestions even for a small startups in a book called "Killer brands" by Frank Lane.
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by danmaz74 9y ago
If the temperature increases several degrees, hundreds of million - maybe even billion - of people will be displaced not just from the coastlines, but also from areas becoming desertified. Can you imagine the economic distress, humanitarian
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by danmaz74 9y ago
Makes a lot of sense for the customer. I just wonder what Amazon could try to do to prevent this model becoming prevalent.
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by danmaz74 9y ago
> TL;DR: The more the delay between investment and revenue generation and the more capital intensive it is, the worst. I think you're talking about high interest rates, not high inflation. High inflation means that, when you start
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by danmaz74 9y ago
Isn't it incredibly expensive to send BTC for this?
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by danmaz74 9y ago
> Cryptocurrencies are still 100% hype & speculation; a solution in search of a problem. Without any sarcasm: I saw them in use twice during the last 6 months in a very real use case, ie, hackers requesting a ransom (in the first cas
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by danmaz74 9y ago
I'll break some good news to you: Western culture has never been tied to the Standard American Diet. Unless if by "Western" you meant Western US :)
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by danmaz74 9y ago
With electronics - like with most physical products - having your production facilities near your suppliers and customers, and having lots of low cost labor, has a really big impact. With software, it's a completely different story.
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by danmaz74 9y ago
It's not just uncommon, it's unthinkable here in Italy. I wish it will stay this way.
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by danmaz74 9y ago
I'm male and I suppose this kind of problems happen much less often than to you, but I also came to the conclusion that not answering to meanness, nonsense, rudeness etc is the best tactic.
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by danmaz74 9y ago
Probably ETC?
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by danmaz74 9y ago
Solar panels already have huge economies of scales and lots of research investment; as a matter of fact, their price has been coming down incredibly fast thanks to those. There is no reason why adding bitcoin there will increase that speed.
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by danmaz74 9y ago
These waivers should be rendered null by law. I don't see any other way to fix the problem.
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by danmaz74 9y ago
There is already a huge demand for electrical power in the world, especially clean one. Bitcoin won't add anything specific for solar.
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by danmaz74 9y ago
On the contrary, bitcoin using up a lot of solar installation would only displace using the same solar panels for other uses.
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by danmaz74 9y ago
Not a full alternative, but long ago I created this super-simple A/B testing tool you can use on top of Google Analytics - not back-end required! https://github.com/danmaz74/ABalytics
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by danmaz74 9y ago
Open it in an "anonymous browsing" window.
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by danmaz74 9y ago
> Of course, the ideal solution will be to eliminate heroin and other hard drug use but this is a start. That's practically impossible. A much more realistic goal is to minimize hard drugs use, and to minimize the negative impact of
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by danmaz74 9y ago
We're entering sorites paradox(1) terrain here. I would say that what differentiates "gambling" from "investing" is the amount of risk you're choosing to take. The lowest risk you can take is distributing your
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by danmaz74 9y ago
> How is that gambling? When you buy the shares of company A instead of company B, because you want to gain more, you are betting that the price of company A is undervalued on the market compared to company B. This is perfectly fine IMHO
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by danmaz74 9y ago
On the plus side, much less stress and much more time to do things we like/find useful; many less accidents. On the minus side, many, many lost jobs. In any case, considering how important cars are in our lives, it's a trasformati
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by danmaz74 9y ago
I'm sure self driving will have a MUCH bigger impact on our lives than 3D printing. But it could take a pretty long time (really curious to see how long).
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by danmaz74 9y ago
It sucks even more when, as in my case, their app stopped working on my Sony Android TV a year ago and just won't start again (even after resetting everything). My only option now is to use the browser version in a small Linux PC I hav
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by danmaz74 9y ago
Note to the Skylight marketing team: I had never heard of your service in 10 years of using Rails, even if it was something that could very valuable to me. But if I open the homepage what I see is: "DO THE ANSWER DANCE". Cool look
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by danmaz74 9y ago
The OP was explicitly referring to the difference between chemistry in the lab (when you can conduct perfectly isolated, small scale experiments -> very low risks) and chemistry in industry (which is what you're referring to), where
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by danmaz74 9y ago
My impression, as a husband and father who admittedly doesn't shop very often, was that lots of women's clothes on sale - obviously not high-end ones - are all the things you said, but relatively inexpensive and supposed to not be

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