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by edge17 3y ago
Exactly, the whole point of buying at all is to adhere to a convention or tradition.
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by edge17 3y ago
Isn't that most large capital intensive efforts? Also to be fair a lot of US defense and aero contractors have manufacturing partnerships around the world.
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SF BottleBank recycling program spent $4M to return less than $220K in CRVs(abc7news.com)
3 points by edge17 3y ago|0 comments
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by edge17 3y ago
I think because one day everyone woke up and heard about PRISM, including a lot of the tech companies, which had to go into damage control to deny their involvement. It was big news with brands that every American was familiar with.
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by edge17 3y ago
There's a lot of talk about 'political extremists' and 'lobbyists'... Who exactly are we talking about, because those are specific people with names and not some boogeyman.
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by edge17 3y ago
Not listening to farmers is how elections are lost. Even so, agriculture creates a huge number of jobs in and adjacent to the agriculture industry. You might solve one problem, but you will have a new one too.
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by edge17 3y ago
I think people have largely become accustomed to seeing nothing being built or improved in California. Whole generation of people at this point.
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by edge17 3y ago
Before going and digging into these, could you also explain what the necessary background is for this stuff to be meaningful? In spite of having done a decent amount with neural networks, I'm a bit lost at how we suddenly got to what w
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Stealth bomber crashed in field on Google Maps (2022)(google.com)
4 points by edge17 4y ago|3 comments
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Stolen Angkorian crown jewellery resurfaces in London(bbc.com)
1 points by edge17 4y ago|0 comments
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by edge17 4y ago
If I live next to a construction site, would something like this provide some guidance in terms if whether I should be doing more to clean up the air in my home?
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by edge17 4y ago
Just out of curiousity, what are the equivalent commercial products in this space?
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by edge17 4y ago
Alternatively one could say Democrats lost ground for being too soft on it. Seriously though, your comment makes it sound like Republicans benefit from high crime. No one benefits from high crime.
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by edge17 4y ago
I think the point here is caste is something different than the other categories. Caste doesn't discriminate gender, religon etc. In the indian caste system you can be a woman, a Christian, etc and still not escape it. It is a layer on
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by edge17 4y ago
Could someone please explain to me why this is cool/useful? I'm not a huge spotify user. Is the idea that I can set up the daemon on a networked computer in my home and then have it stream to speakers around my house?
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by edge17 4y ago
If three physicians are annotating 100-200k images, how much does that cost?
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by edge17 4y ago
Why does this article claim to know that Twitter might go down due to cost cutting? Isn't there a possibility that their infrastructure is just hugely wasteful? Having never worked at giant web app company, if it were run efficiently t
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by edge17 4y ago
That's what the Chicago Style Guide recommends, and a lot of outlets use the Chicago Manual to guide their editorial practices. https://cmosshoptalk.com/2020/06/22/black-and-white-a-matter...
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by edge17 4y ago
My guess is it has to do with Reuters editorial positioning on what's going on with Ukraine and Russia. I agree though, I don't see the relevance.
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by edge17 4y ago
Yea but the metric of success in embedded mught be more clear than web, which tends to be more customer facing.
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by edge17 4y ago
FIPs?
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by edge17 4y ago
Whatever it is, problem or not, it's a huge market.
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by edge17 4y ago
I guess, if you're calling development and startup cost zero.
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by edge17 4y ago
They're early adopters. Guessing they're worth a lot since you're counting on them.
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by edge17 4y ago
I don't know about ROS2, but ROS is pretty good for prototyping things. Maybe not what you want for shipping a product, but it is highly productive as a platform. Lots of companies use it.
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by edge17 4y ago
I wouldn't call a self selected vocal minority the 'true face' of anything. There have always been 'get off my lawn' types, predating nextdoor. Nextdoor is also not heavily used in every single neighborhood across a
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by edge17 4y ago
Is this situation also reflected in gradschool and phd applications, or is it as competitive as ever?
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by edge17 4y ago
Note that I didn't comment on the outcome, only the intended purpose. I suggest reading the demonization wikipedia article for more examples if the India example doesn't satisfy you. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by edge17 4y ago
It's similar to the demonization in India in 2016 where the goal was to force people to declare their piles of black money. People don't always declare things correctly for tax purposes, and black money leads to other parallel eco
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by edge17 4y ago
By the definition, software isn't an economy of scale. Unit cost doesn't decrease by magnitude as output increases. A utility company is an example of economy of scale.

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