darrenoc

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by darrenoc 2y ago
Exactly. The main way to get promoted at Google is to claim that you launched something important. Results in a lot of busywork and misaligned incentives.
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by darrenoc 2y ago
That amazing internal knowledge graph you're talking about folks on the outside never seeing? That is very ironic because that knowledge graph used to be Freebase.com and a lot of the data came from the open data community who voluntee
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by darrenoc 5y ago
I think it's far from a fad, the adoption of the semantic web has been enormous in the past 5 years. Almost every major tech company (and many financial institutions) now have their own Knowledge Graph team.
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by darrenoc 5y ago
There's no mention of any NDA, you've just constructed it as a straw man.
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by darrenoc 5y ago
Why are you reading and replying to the comments when you haven't read the article? You've come at this with a terrible take by inventing a non-existent NDA that would exonerate the CEO. Why bother?
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by darrenoc 5y ago
His car was found abandoned with the engine running. He was murdered.
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by darrenoc 5y ago
I'm not sure if he designed the game as such, but it's widely reported that it was Sids last project before his departure from Microprose. It's still a cult classic among MTG fans for the novel RPG aspects.
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by darrenoc 5y ago
This is harmful racial stereotyping. Most of the hardest workers I know are Indian.
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by darrenoc 5y ago
That's a ridiculous expectation for a city. Urban housing needs to be dense. The kind of housing you're describing belongs in the suburbs.
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by darrenoc 6y ago
There is a large contingent on HN who are both rich and cheap, so I don't think this holds any water
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by darrenoc 6y ago
I don't know why you're up in arms about this, but it's clearly not false. Almost all of the games content is PvE based. The PvP mode is very small in scope compared to everything else that's available.
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by darrenoc 6y ago
Oh dear, there's no way anyone can be that stupid is there?
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by darrenoc 6y ago
It may be reasonable, but it's very poor optics. It makes it seem like they are trying to coverup any possible COVID exposures within the force.
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by darrenoc 6y ago
If you're not a US citizen, you won't have to pay income at all due to tax residency rules. only the US is brazen enough to charge non-resident citizens income tax
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by darrenoc 6y ago
This is a bit like when they cancelled the Rotherhithe walking & cycling bridge because it was allegedly going to cost 400 million. Powerful establishment lobbying groups ensure that government estimates for green projects make them see
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by darrenoc 6y ago
It's noteworthy that Deliveroo is already doing the kind of vertical integration you describe, it's called "Deliveroo Editions"
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by darrenoc 6y ago
The thinly veiled subtext is that the place they are required to pay it is nowhere.
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by darrenoc 6y ago
This is a disgraceful verdict for the Irish people. We laid ourselves bare as a tax haven for MegaCorps, and now we're not even seeing the benefits.
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by darrenoc 6y ago
Nope, they don't make any profit even when charging 30% fees. So this 10% cap will probably cause them to withdraw from the market.
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by darrenoc 6y ago
It's not that complicated. If you look up Ocado, they have entirely automated their warehouses.
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by darrenoc 7y ago
It says a lot about my knowledge of ML that I went into this post fully expecting it be about Autobots and Decepticons.
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by darrenoc 14y ago
There are other places for discussing the movie as a whole: a torrent discussion should focus on the torrent IMO.
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by darrenoc 14y ago
In general, I find this approach incredibly annoying. Usually I would rather see the canonical version of a given site. Hypothetical example: because I'm running Linux and in the US, a site shows me content/software geared towards US Linux