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by dgudkov 7y ago
ZipCar solved the problem with parking by getting fixed spots in public parking lots. I don't see why Car2Go couldn't go the same way.
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by dgudkov 7y ago
I suppose you seriously underestimate the harm it causes, and its scale. Hint: chasing "user engagement" boosts extremism and violence.
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by dgudkov 7y ago
I used car sharing in Toronto a lot including Car2Go. A couple years ago Car2Go left Toronto. As they explained it - they failed to get the city's permit for free unlimited street parking. However, as I see it the real reason was that
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by dgudkov 7y ago
Big tech companies maybe don't put kids into mines, but they have other ethical issues (privacy, manipulation with public opinion, etc). I don't think anyone can reliably tell that their issues are more ethical or less ethical tha
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by dgudkov 7y ago
Of course news sites know how to create fast, easy-to-read websites. There is no point in complaining about poor usability and bloated websites, because it's just a symptom of a decease. The internet in its current state is ill-equippe
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by dgudkov 7y ago
>It also feels like social media platforms are starting to die faster than they can be replaced. Very well can be. Social media in their current form belong to corporations rather than users. Therefore sooner or later they start making d
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by dgudkov 7y ago
Here is the link: https://www.axios.com/life-expectancy-every-country-world-b3... According to the chart the growth of life expectancy in China is pretty much inline with growth in India, so it looks legitimate. While in th
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by dgudkov 7y ago
From a report linked in the article. >China surpassed the U.S. for healthy life expectancy for the first time in 2016. Ouch.
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You need to put Bayesian Nets in your tool bag(diginomica.com)
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by dgudkov 7y ago
>You could argue that I'm using the wrong tool for the job. For ad hoc filtering, calculations, merging, analyzing tabular datasets a dedicated tool such as our EasyMorph ( https://easymorph.com ) would do a better job tha
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Rason Analytics API: Restful Analytic Solver Object Notation(rason.com)
2 points by dgudkov 7y ago|0 comments
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Gravity Jet Suit(gravity.co)
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by dgudkov 7y ago
>tendency among science journalists ... to overstate the significance of new advances in AI and machine learning It's very hard to not overstate when overstating brings you clicks, likes, retweets, and dopamine spikes.
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Chilean Protestors Down Drone by Dazzling It with Dozens of Laser Pointers(thedrive.com)
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by dgudkov 7y ago
I'd like to point out that it's still not possible to support the Firefox browser with donations directly, in a crowdsourcing fashion. Donations to Mozilla Foundation don't go to Firefox which is supported only by search&#x2F
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LCBO API(github.com)
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by dgudkov 7y ago
What's the perfection then? What's the ultimate ethic company would be like?
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by dgudkov 7y ago
For anyone interested in columnar compression and columnar databases I highly recommend reading Vertica's Technical Overview White Paper [1]. I don't know how Vertica is doing now, but it's a beautifully designed columnar dat
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Berlin Blockade(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by dgudkov 7y ago|0 comments
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Canadian-made 'invisibility shield' could hide people, spacecraft(ctvnews.ca)
1 points by dgudkov 7y ago|0 comments
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by dgudkov 7y ago
Nothing extra-ordinary to be honest. The application has built-in tools for fetching weblogs over SFTP and creating business rules for parsing different types of events in the logs - e.g. downloading the installer, reading tutorial, etc. Th
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by dgudkov 7y ago
Very mundane tasks but it saves me some time: * Automatically clean Windows desktop from garbage and temporary files that are older than 15 minutes * Download and parse Ngnix web-logs every day, extract notable events * Send myself email no
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Understanding searches better than ever before(blog.google)
2 points by dgudkov 7y ago|0 comments
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by dgudkov 7y ago
OK, what I understood from the article is that the guy owned 1% not of the company's acquisition price (as he thought), but 1% from (price - X) where X was unknown and turned out to be greater or equal to the price. The fact that he di
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by dgudkov 7y ago
>As a former soviet occupied country citizen, I am amazed that westerners would want to overthrow capitalism. Its what makes the west so prosperous. It's paradoxical, but the West is falling victim to its own economical success. Ine
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by dgudkov 7y ago
This letter is something the modern internet and media are sorely missing - a real expert opinion instead of a flood of "armchair expert" opinions. I would always prefer one opinion of someone who does , over a hundred opinions o
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Egyptian Fraction(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by dgudkov 7y ago|0 comments
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by dgudkov 7y ago
From the Twitter thread: "Never answer your phone. Seriously. Only use it to make outbound calls. You cannot trust caller ID, and you should never answer unscheduled inbound calls." Makes sense. Phone calls as they are can no l
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Instagram cuts the Following tab so we can like and comment in peace(thenextweb.com)
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by dgudkov 7y ago
You may also want to check out a rather powerful tool for aggregating spreadsheets - https://easymorph.com (I'm the founder)

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