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“Proptech” is booming in Canada(business.financialpost.com)
2 points by dgudkov 8y ago|0 comments
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by dgudkov 8y ago
>Stop Blaming Yourself I'm not sure if such advice is good. Of course, the industry should start reducing/removing added sugar from products. You can keep eating what you're eating, keep blaming the evil corporations and w
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by dgudkov 8y ago
Too closely - meaning having a customer that said the N-word somewhere? I'm not picky, just trying to understand what "too closely" means in your answer.
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by dgudkov 8y ago
The missing question here -- why did Patreon do it? Is it because they are afraid of legal risk of not being able to defend themselves against a lawsuit? Or they are afraid of loss of revenue/capitalization if an online activist group
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by dgudkov 8y ago
>The sad realization was that private companies can control who gets to speak very effectively. It's rather a sad realization that a vocal online minority can control private companies (and public figures) very effectively.
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by dgudkov 8y ago
>rational, emotionally detached conversations about complex and sensitive subjects would be beneficial to society Yes, only when they are exactly that - rational, and emotionally detached. All conversations on sensitive subjects fall int
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by dgudkov 8y ago
It's not witch hunting. It's ad money hunting. Click-based advertisement has created incentives that are directly opposite to what drives good journalism. Therefore, paywalls and online subscription is actually the best thing that
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World Time Buddy – Time Converter and World Clock(worldtimebuddy.com)
1 points by dgudkov 8y ago|0 comments
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by dgudkov 8y ago
While he has a point, it's worth noting that at the same time China's military spending have tripled over the last 10 years [1]. Did Jack Ma say anything about that? Or is he, as a member of the China Communist Party allowed to cr
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by dgudkov 8y ago
>I've always been intrigued by F# but haven't found a good project / use case for it I would highly recommend trying F# on a project with complex data processing.
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by dgudkov 8y ago
>simply having wealth begets more wealth It's not a 100% rule. Lots of wealth has been lost due to wrong investment. Many rich people lose their fortunes.
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by dgudkov 8y ago
Money ownership didn't change when money management switched to family offices. So distribution of wealth hasn't changed. How did family offices create inequality?
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by dgudkov 8y ago
I struggle to understand the point of the article. >Rich clients have taken a closer look at private banks’ high fees and murky incentives, and balked. OK. Rich clients were not happy with the way external managers managed their funds an
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'Hi-tech robot' at Russia forum turns out to be man in suit(theguardian.com)
3 points by dgudkov 8y ago|0 comments
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by dgudkov 8y ago
They have different design goals. Async in F# works better for F# applications. Tomas Petricek wrote a couple good articles [1][2] comparing both approaches to async computations. [1] http://tomasp.net/blog/csharp-fshar
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by dgudkov 8y ago
>they all have massive contractor workforces (including consultants) that don't have the same benefits as anyone else I can't tell for many F500 companies, but IT contractors in large Canadian banks in Toronto are typically pai
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BMW's new electric car powertrain system totally torpedoes Tesla(wired.co.uk)
24 points by dgudkov 8y ago|12 comments
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JSON Generator – tool for generating random JSON data(next.json-generator.com)
1 points by dgudkov 8y ago|0 comments
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Canada risks losing its artificial intelligence edge as adoption lags(business.financialpost.com)
1 points by dgudkov 8y ago|0 comments
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by dgudkov 8y ago
Paid members that can vote and elect the board is a very good model for online communities in general. If it was adopted by Facebook or Google+ we could've seen entirely different plot of story than what we have now.
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by dgudkov 8y ago
It's a trend -- Google employees raise voice more and more often. The Damore memo, the defense contracts, and now this. Clearly something is happening there.
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by dgudkov 8y ago
>If the company does something that jeopardizes the stability of society, just enforce control. It didn't work out well with Bombardier (CS-series).
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by dgudkov 8y ago
That episode is called "Nosedive" (season 3, episode 1).
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by dgudkov 8y ago
>let anyone who feels it is worth pay for it. Don't rely on altruism to be a good indication of real demand. People like to get good deals. When you get for free something that is of good value -- it's a good deal and most peop
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Toronto's failed Amazon bid actually earned the city $143M(blogto.com)
3 points by dgudkov 8y ago|0 comments
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by dgudkov 8y ago
The point about your colleagues makes sense. However any averages and distributions would be grossly misleading. It's like analyzing home prices without taking into account home design, location, age, neighborhood, etc. Transparent pri
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by dgudkov 8y ago
>A major imbalance is information. One radical idea is salary transparency. Publishing only salaries will contribute to the information imbalance because salary makes little sense without a more or less detailed job description. It may m
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by dgudkov 8y ago
That's nice to know, although I'm not talking about just selecting a mod. The point is to configure all policies of a social network -- enrolling, banning, messaging, posting, collective decision making, connections to other socie
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by dgudkov 8y ago
Yes, but neither of them has a mechanism for self-governance which is the point.
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Proposition: a better model for social networks
4 points by dgudkov 8y ago|4 comments

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