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by endymi0n 8y ago
On the ethical side, I fully agree, however that‘s not how things work. Investors are insured through liquidation preferences. If shit hits the fan, it‘s very probable that they will get at least their money back with a firesale or an aquih
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As one of my favorite comedians once put it: „Analysts are people who tell you what the world will look like in 15 years if nothing changes. Now do you REALLY want to know how long your toenails get if you don‘t cut them?!“ Movement here wi
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by endymi0n 8y ago
Then again, for the 700 billion dollars defense budget you'd get free universal healthcare and higher education for all of the US — AND would still have a few dozen billions to spare on cancer and Mars expeditions... but who in their r
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by endymi0n 8y ago
This makes much more sense indeed. If I'd try to hire 25% minority groups into my company from a pipeline that currently tops out at 5% applications, it wouldn't do any good for my company. I'd LOVE to hire more women for the
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by endymi0n 8y ago
Buses, maybe. Trains: Nope. Doors are locked from the inside, usually aren't accessible while moving and even someone would get inside, well, you can't get off the tracks. You'll get a red signal and a forced braking shortl
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by endymi0n 8y ago
At the solar flux levels at the point of that probe (light intensity decays by distance squared), efficiency is probably mostly irrelevant. What's the challenge though is how you irradiate all the heat away to provide a large enough te
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Update on Global Google Cloud Networking Incident #18012(status.cloud.google.com)
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by endymi0n 8y ago
This goes deep within the UX of their systems - some of the most frequent actions in Stackdriver like jumping to a time within the logs is a mess. There are no quick actions (like "jump to now"), and THEN I have to switch to a non
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by endymi0n 8y ago
Just for the record, Norway is just about on par with the US if you count foreign born population, and Germany is even slightly above: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_d...
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I think so mainly because of the near total lack of societal support of bringing them up to be educated, responsible adults with opportunities. If you want to have them, fine. But then, you better be prepared to be able to pay for health ca
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by endymi0n 8y ago
In my not so humble opinion, it all comes down to a short- vs. farsighted culture and the resulting fundamental attitude towards kids. In the US, kids are seen at worst a nuisance and at best a personal luxury. In most of the northern/
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by endymi0n 8y ago
In most cities in western / northern Europe, it's completely impossible by now to get a mortgage for a home remotely large enough for a family, even with two factory drone salaries and even if you pay all of your life.
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Yes. The fundamental weakness of the OPs view is that there are different types of „right“ depending on the correct tradeoffs to make. My main guide for that tradeoff is estimating how often code will be read vs. written vs. executed. All t
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'It may be a hundred years before a computer beats humans at Go — maybe even longer,'' Piet Hut, an astrophysicist at the Institute for Advanced Study in New Jersey, told the NYT in 1997. ''If a reasonably intellige
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Protip: MongoDB works absolutely best for analytics when it is replaced with a sane and scaleable column-oriented database like Redshift or BigQuery right before serving that report.
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Exactly. This very ambiguity makes it easy for both sides to just shift the blame to the other side in case this whole collusion gets discovered – which you can now nicely see in the wild. In the best case scenario for both companies, both
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Technically, on-device processing is clearly the way forward (it's interesting how Apple is currently pioneering the field in a way). The pessimist in me already sees how three letter agencies worldwide will welcome this change in orde
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While the 99th percentile is certainly more attractive, the mean and probably even the average are much lower. It's funny how people are willing to bet against the lottery on their whole career. Then again... https://en.wiki
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Apple attacks the core primitives of Adtech very strategically with this update. This is very smart actually, much better than the first iteration. They're going after the meat right away, like cookie synchronization ("Tracker col
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Guess that's the very definition of finally reaching their stated goal: Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33grif58qO8
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by endymi0n 8y ago
Here's the core of the problem and also why most of crypto / blockchain technology will go down the drain soon: Decentralization isn't a business model. The opposite is. That's it. How you get to any competitive edge in
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by endymi0n 8y ago
While I can't vouch for its accuracy, the portrayal of the Apollo 12 mission is my absolute favorite from the "From the Earth to the Moon" miniseries. While the Apollo 11 were diehard professionals and excelled in the spotlig
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by endymi0n 8y ago
Playing the devil’s advocate here: Depending on whether you think that 3rd party tracking cookies are a feature that should be opt-out or a bug that should be opt-in, it‘s just as plausible to classify this move as a fair defense against Ap
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Having done this with MySQL before, there‘s basically three things you can do: 1) Do what you proposed, but this kinda defeats the whole purpose, as that side table can get very, very large (and if it‘s not fitting into working memory anymo
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I think the only reasonable answer is "it depends". After the new updated base OS images for our systems after Meltdown and Spectre were out, it literally took us ten minutes of human and about an hour of machine time to recompile
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All of this feels like a classic case of "the perfect is the enemy of the good". Package and dependency management in Go is honestly a total mess today and with vgo challenging all current assumptions about how to generally approa
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The magical word here is „angular momentum“. The energy that a chunk of mass can store in a flywheel is squared with the distance of that mass to the center of its rotation axis. If you distribute the Tesla sized mass around the edges of
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by endymi0n 8y ago
The point is: Even if you're using single, static binaries (like we do in 90% of cases with Go), the big benefit of Docker is that you don't just get a binary, you get a service interface . I can't stress this point enough
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Exactly this. It‘s so hard that it took PostgreSQL almost two decades to finally implement that feature and they had to support a lot of internal features first, like speculative insertion. If you want to do UPSERT 100% correctly and ACID,
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Why the snark? Let's do the math real quick - a square meter of photovoltaic panel will give you an averaged 4 kWh per day, which gives you around 80 grams of hydrogen via electrolysis. That gives you 8 km of driving a Mirai with curre

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