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by fxj 8y ago
Top pharmaceutical companies with revenue greater than $10 billion Rank Company 2016 USD billions 1 Johnson & Johnson NYSE: JNJ 71.89 2 Roche SIX: ROG 50.11 3 Pfizer NYSE: PFE 52.82 4 Novartis NYSE: NVS 48.52 Number 2 and Number 4 are s
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If this is a compelling argument against gouvernment intervention, then why does it work so much better in europe where all three sectors are state-owned? The best example is switzerland, where the costs are a fraction of the costs in the U
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I think the problem is that all three sectors that you cite, health care, higher education and prison system, there is no free market but they are oligopols where only a small number of big players can lever their weight and keep others out
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i use hackers keyboard because it has all the needed keys like control and alt and it works very nicely together with emacs. or you can startup jupyter notebook and use firefox as front end.
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emacs works pretty well. even the touch scroll gestures are translated into scolling in emacs. and changing the buffer by touch also works. so you can use emacs eshell and a keyboard and it is perfect.
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There is even gcc, fortran, scipy and julia repo for termux. See here: https://github.com/its-pointless/gcc_termux
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In termux you can use proot and run other linux distributions in a container. Here is a script that automatically instals debian on termux: https://github.com/sp4rkie/debian-on-termux
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But email relies on free and open source standards while instant messaging is a walled garden that relies on closed protocols by some shady corporations that sell your data.
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In principle instant messaging is just email with a dumbed down interface.
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I think this is the future of instant messaging. If we all would change instantly to delta.chat, whatsapp et al would go bankrupt and we would not lose a bit of security. At the moment everybody is fine with handing out their most private i
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Even electric (sampled) pianos are tuned that way. The difference from the well-tempered tuning is given by the Railsback Curve ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_acoustics#The_Railsback_... ). For the highest and low
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Yawn! Really this discussion all over again? Just use the right tool for the right job. I wonder whether carpenters also discuss their hammers and screwdrivers like that. </rant>
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It is all speculation and no proof, but a good advertisement for the cited scientist.
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When the client of the robocaller who wants to sell something is fined then there are soon no more orders for robocaller.
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In germany robocalls are illegal and the caller can get a huge fine.
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robocalls are illegal in germany. They are called unerlaubte Telefonwerbung and one energy company got fined with 140.000 euros. https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/DE/Sachgebiete/Telekommunik... FTA: After the E wie
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The project was done as a "Matura-Arbeit" which is the equivalent of a final project in highschool.
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Earth's moon has unstable orbits: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_orbit#Perturbation_effec... Gravitational anomalies slightly distorting the orbits of some Lunar Orbiters led to the discovery of mass concentr
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A year-by-year history of pollution in the Roman Empire(theatlantic.com)
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I would call food, dwelling, healthcare, communication(internet) the four basic necessities. So why not providing these for free and for the rest, just tax other sources of income by a fixed rate depending on how much is needed to provide
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Are there any web sites where you can read what each of the companies do for their recruiting process? At least you would know what to expect...
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I totally agree. However, SMS is a protocol that just works on ANY mobile phone.
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I wish we could go back to the old protocols like RSS, email and SMS. They were open and you could use any client you like and they never had problems with walled gardens. Sometime you have to lose your freedom to really value it like RMS s
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Hey try this: https://www.kununu.com/us
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A very high abstraction language for the glue (python, R, lua, ...) and a close to the iron compiled languange for the heavy lifting (C, C++, Fortran, Go, Rust, ...) or you give julia a try.
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If privacy is an issue for you then build your own phone using a raspi https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/piphone-home-made-raspberry...
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A reinvention of quaternions and Clifford Algebra? There is also a very good book by David Hestenes about the application of Clifford Algebra in 3-D space ( http://www.springer.com/de/book/9789027716736 ).
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BigBash It – Convert SQL queries into bash scripts(bigbash.it)
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One basic difference between humans and robots is sustainability and resilience even when something goes wrong big time. In the evolution of mankind the number of humans was reduced to several ten thousands and still we did survive as a spe
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Data Scientist at Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (Munich, Germany)
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