goatinaboat

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by goatinaboat 7y ago
Visa and Mastercard are taking a 3-4% cut of every single consumer payment made in much of the world. That ends up being a very, very big number. There are two assumptions you are making, both of which are false. The first is that handlin
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by goatinaboat 7y ago
I am a mechanical engineer, and yes it is. The composites are simply too new to have all their properties adequately modelled yet. And they are a moving target.
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by goatinaboat 7y ago
I've a friend who joined FB recently and he said, quote, yes yes I know it's evil but it's so interesting . So there you have it in a nutshell straight from the horse's mouth, as it were.
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by goatinaboat 7y ago
It seems people want to eat their cake and have it too. But you could make exactly the same point about Facebook (and Youtube, and Twitter). They want the protection from liability that comes from being a common carrier, like the phone co
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by goatinaboat 7y ago
When I hear the word scrum I am always reminded that my school stopped playing Rugby because a kid in the next town got his back broken, in a scrum. So from then on we played football (soccer) in Rugby kit, until eventually all the kids had
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by goatinaboat 7y ago
it's really a victim of the developers who sold it as a magical process Developers may advocate small-a agile, but I have never heard of an actual developer pushing for Scrum, SAFe, or any of the name-brand "agile" methodol
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by goatinaboat 7y ago
I don't understand why they would go about this in such a weird way. The methodology of forging "super elite" units is pretty well documented, any number of former SEAL Team 6, Delta Force, SAS etc members have written their
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by goatinaboat 7y ago
I think he or she is drawing an analogy between Intel and Google both "cutting corners" to save costs, which worked well for them in the short term but had unforeseen consequences for everyone else over the longer term. This could
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by goatinaboat 7y ago
Not to mention things like renewable solar which is not readily and cheaply available The energy input of solar (sourcing and extracting the rare earths, the manufacturing process, installing and maintaining them in situ) is non-zero, and
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by goatinaboat 7y ago
My experience of TF is very much the opposite. It looks fantastic on paper (well, in the browser) and I was excited to start using it. But the shine quickly wore off. It claims to be multi-cloud but it's not as if you can take some TF