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by dgudkov 7y ago
>My personal belief is that all of this is happening due to a lack of a proper father figure for boys growing up Can't upvote this enough.
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Air Force experimental satellite is the largest unmanned structure in space(spacenews.com)
2 points by dgudkov 7y ago|0 comments
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FCC bans spoofed text messages and international robocalls(engadget.com)
13 points by dgudkov 7y ago|4 comments
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by dgudkov 7y ago
I guess, the next step now should be declaring "Sales Is a Cancer on Society". I believe one could draft a similar list of downsides for sales and sales tactics. Jokes aside, advertisement itself maybe not a "cancer on societ
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by dgudkov 7y ago
It sounds like the type of expensive art that would be relevant rather in an investment bank than in a public hospital. A decent non-trivial local artist's painting typically costs around $2000. $65K spent locally could've been a
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The Crazy V-Bat Vertical Takeoff and Landing Drone Could Be a Game Changer(thedrive.com)
1 points by dgudkov 7y ago|0 comments
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by dgudkov 7y ago
>There's either something not captured in inflation numbers My pet theory is that real inflation is higher than the official one, and is around 4-5%. The cause of the inflation is a gradual loss of quality basically everywhere exc
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by dgudkov 7y ago
Not all implementations of async are thread-based. For instance, in C# it's task-based. In F# it's thread-based.
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Canada invests $85M in internet satellites for rural areas(engadget.com)
2 points by dgudkov 7y ago|0 comments
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by dgudkov 7y ago
>...increasing the license costs by more than a factor of ten When I hear stories like that I always wonder what was the thought process of the sales people that managed that account. Probably something like that: - Hey, do you remember
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by dgudkov 7y ago
I, like many people in this thread, learnt about algebraic effects for the first time from the posted article. However, many commenters seem to be mislead by the explanation based on an example with exceptions. What I learnt from [1] linked
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Solargaps – Smart Blinds with Solar Panels(solargaps.com)
1 points by dgudkov 7y ago|0 comments
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Russia's Intelligence Agency Hacked: 'Largest Data Breach in Its History'(forbes.com)
6 points by dgudkov 7y ago|0 comments
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by dgudkov 7y ago
>There is literally zero precedent for what you’re talking about. That's not exactly true. While China doesn't detain US citizens (yet!) it detains several Canadian citizens presumable because the Huawei's CFO has been arr
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by dgudkov 7y ago
>It couldn't win against coal on a balance sheet It did win against coal on a balance sheet. It's the environmental concerns that stopped nuclear from proliferation, not the economical.
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Toronto tech workers now make an average of $100K per year(blogto.com)
3 points by dgudkov 7y ago|1 comments
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by dgudkov 7y ago
Who thought couple years ago that would be coming.
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by dgudkov 7y ago
It's not about scanning. It's about printing (replicating) a book - it is significantly more expensive to replicate a real book than a digital book.
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by dgudkov 7y ago
TLDR: Promotional article for Superhuman (email client) written by its investor.
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by dgudkov 7y ago
There is a big difference between copying physical objects and digital ones. Books can be copied for sure, but the cost of copying a digital book is negligible compared to the cost of copying a real book. Zero cost of copying makes it possi
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TransferWise’s new debit card for the US fires the starting gun on a new war(techcrunch.com)
2 points by dgudkov 7y ago|0 comments
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by dgudkov 7y ago
The main connections a startup needs is customers. The vast majority of customers live outside of the Bay area.
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by dgudkov 7y ago
Money provides safety and freedom and is crucial for happiness on low to medium-income levels. However, with more money neither safety nor freedom doesn't increase significantly (sometimes it's even the opposite) hence no increase
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Nasa’s X-59 supersonic jet will have a 4K TV instead of a forward window(techcrunch.com)
2 points by dgudkov 7y ago|0 comments
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Stanislav Kurilov(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by dgudkov 7y ago|0 comments
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Nasa spacecraft will use fuel that's safer for humans(engadget.com)
1 points by dgudkov 7y ago|0 comments
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by dgudkov 7y ago
It's not a counterpoint. It's the point.
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by dgudkov 7y ago
I've heard that Thoma Bravo specializes on re-selling assets. If that's true then the $15bln sticker on Tableau should only justify and boost their intention to re-sell Qlik.
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by dgudkov 7y ago
I remember the wave of BI vendor acquisitions in 2007-2008 when IBM acquired Cognos and SAP acquired BusinessObjects. Now, 12 years later the wave repeats. Google is buying Looker. Salesforce is buying Tableau, and probably Qlik will be acq
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Watch Nasa Build Its Next Mars Rover (Live Video)(jpl.nasa.gov)
2 points by dgudkov 7y ago|0 comments

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