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by gaius 8y ago
Is it a good time to learn Ruby? I mostly do React and Node + Java work professionally It can be fun and it's as close as Smalltalk will probably get to mainstream acceptance, but if you are hoping for a lucrative commercial skill th
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To be fair, that's what it is like to go anywhere in a small town you've lived in for a long time. :D That's true, but it's also true that in the next town over, you can be anonymous again. The difference with social m
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the same one that's responsible for the economic collapse. Credit ratings of individuals (Equifax) are unrelated to credit ratings provided by companies such as Moody's for corporate and government bonds.
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Banks specifically DON'T want you doing that because they don't want undesirable businesses funneling money in and out of their banks Not sure I understand this objection - the recipient of such a transfer would already have to
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Thanks. I knew of Tso of course through his impressive work on the RNG and was vaguely aware of some scandal involving him. Under the CoC as I understand it personal attacks are forbidden and surely dredging up something from 2011 out-of-co
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I haven't really followed the details. But if there is someone stirring up trouble, then that's what the new CoC is there to address.
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I actually think Facebook is very well equipped to combat disinformation campaigns on it's platform Of course it is. All social media platforms are. If Twitter or Youtube or Facebook or anyone wants someone gone from their platform t
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My group of real-world friends did an overnight migration (well not quite but once it started it was very fast) from Livejournal to Facebook; in retrospect that was a mistake and we all should have stayed on LJ. The killer feature? Being ab
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That Theodore Tso seems like a sharp guy. Hopefully he can put the controversy (whatever it was) behind him.
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Solar has far more deaths per terawatt than nuclear too (fitters falling off roofs really jacks the figures up). People need to look at the big picture or the entire lifecycle. All things considered nuclear is the cleanest and safest form o
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So, in short, US and UK will be faster? A UK PhD takes 3 years, a US typically 6 because it is padded out with running errands for the prof and other time wasting.
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UK will not only be faster (you concentrate 100% on research with no extraneous busywork) and you will get to tick the “international experience” box at the same time.
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But you’re only getting tagged if you have an account too, I thought?
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It's important to acknowledge that Facebook is inextricably intertwined with many peoples professional and social lives This is true but also it wasn’t that long ago that going out for a smoke break was vital for people’s professiona
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No, but I haven’t used it in over a year. My reasoning is that they will track me anyway (shadow profile) and I want to maintain a handle just in case GDPR has any teeth that I can use later.
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TDD requires you to manually predict every possible failure mode and edge case before starting work. It is obviously complete nonsense. Pure snake oil designed to sell training and consulting, not to produce working software.
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Started with RL and hoping to get much more into it in 2019.
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Then who are the creditors? The best analogy I think is that we borrow the money from our future selves. If we invest it well then our future selves will enjoy the wealth in retirement. If we fritter it, we will be destitute in our old ag
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It’s very strange wording that they use, they don’t want anything to be sexually “gratifying”. Like if it’s explicit content but you don’t find it “gratifying” they’re OK with that? It’s as if they don’t care about the content itself they j
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I wonder why the other app showing identical content didn’t get banned, maybe it is a bigger revenue earner for Google? And yes, there is far more of this on Insta.
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The hypocrisy of this site is staggering. Any one of these “growth hackers” would jump at the chance of Goldman running their IPO.
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You can clearly see both speakers fees and "donations" to the Clinton Foundation fall off a cliff after she lost the election. Goldman's paid her a lot, didn't they?
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In China many of the top party officials are billionaires. Vladimir Putin is widely believed to have massively enriched himself during his reign. Even in the US many politicians are far, far wealthier than their official salaries would su
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GS already has a rotten reputation. I don’t think they care. Both point are also true for Facebook, if you want an example closer to our industry, to understand the people and motives involved.
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Yes, but while it was owned by the taxpayer, it still pursued outsourcing of local jobs.
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Thousands of people have internal access to the full source code for the mobile app. So what? Thousands of the same people have access to the full source code of everything underhanded Facebook do and it hasn’t stopped anything.
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So their app can eavesdrop on your conversations to target more ads. Facebook does nothing without an ulterior motive.
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They're explicitly saying that they don't do that and that they don't have that information. But they did do it, so what does that mean...
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Energy is strategic, you have to maintain an indigenous capability just in case you ever need it, same with steel production, shipbuilding, etc.
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Never mind, plenty of cheap ex-Soviet nuclear power is still available from their neighbors... and Russian natural gas... and Middle Eastern oil... they surely don’t need energy independence! /s

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