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by greggyb 8y ago
The sort of freedom referred to has nothing to do with a zero-price. It has to do with the ability of two consenting adults (or we can say "willing parties" if you want) to enter into a transaction to exchange goods or services, o
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by greggyb 8y ago
The concepts are there in Microsoft's SSAS, which also lives in Excel as Power Pivot (only the Tabular engine, not the Multidimensional).
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Git has a great proof-of-work and consensus mechanism in its original application. Proof-of-work is code that passes tests and consensus is "Linus said 'ok'".
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This might be seen as picking a nit, but I think the distinction is important. Ethereum falters not because you can't do much with a purely digital contract, but because people typically want the guarantees of a digital contract excep
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Is "sedan" really a throwback? This seemsa part of current vernacular to me, and I have lived in several different regions of the US.
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I think the concomitant risk is that a human scissor operator can also apply bias, sometimes unconsciously.
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How is this incompatible with a product that comes with minimum guarantees? Say we have a way to grade bamboo (this is the question mark in my argument). Grade X bamboo would support the floor in question. Grade 10X bamboo would support 10x
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by greggyb 8y ago
Don't we deal with the variability of natural products in lots of places by grading? This example is not structural, but every piece of beef has a USDA grade. I think it is a matter of coming up with a standard (maybe it is imaging eac
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by greggyb 8y ago
I think the parent is referring to being able to grow easily. Per the video, an 18m timber can be grown in 3 years. I believe you are thinking of recycle-abiliy, which would be reusing an existing piece of bamboo. Both are valuable consider
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by greggyb 8y ago
I actually would object that geographic data should rarely be shown on a map. A data visualization should be chosen such that it helps the viewer to better understand the information contained within. Maps are great at showing some very spe
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Maybe I had pretty biased professors, but in my study of economics, there was no standing assumption that individuals are rational. Rationality is an observation of aggregate behavior, rather than individual. This is pretty robustly obser
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by greggyb 8y ago
In economics, "price" is pretty inclusive. Price is usually considered in terms of opportunity cost, and dollars (or other currency) are a nice proxy to use. But, the thing you think is a confounder here "prohibition makes a
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by greggyb 8y ago
I get that PEGs are more powerful than regexes, but it seems the example of componentizing is weak at best. I can do this very easily on the command line or in a .<shell>rc file: ipv4component='[0-9]{1,3}' ipv4="$
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by greggyb 8y ago
If I may rearrange your post a little (and please tell me if I am misrepresenting your view, because that is not my intent): Employers may abuse employees in terms of wage, and this has been seen in the past. Corporations have a stronger ne
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by greggyb 8y ago
I have a somewhat naive question. Since this and many similar recent issues are associated with SMT (Spectre, Meltdown), and the concern is about malicious code being run on the same core. Can IaaS vendors simply restrict VMs to always use
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by greggyb 8y ago
Your response implies that you do not believe that the original CoC was published in good faith. It seems to me that there are two broad mindsets that could lead to this (though I am abundantly aware of my own failings of creative thinking,
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> Also: taking notes with a pen takes ages. typing is quicker and needs less attention Unsure if this is in praise of writing or of typing, or if it is a neutral statement. I much prefer paper note-taking, except for its inconvenience. I
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by greggyb 8y ago
Not a series, but a great one-off video by Gary Bernhardt, A Raw View into my Unix Hackery , linked below. I haven't bought his courses, but based on what I've seen of his talks and free material, they may get you part of the wa
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by greggyb 8y ago
This is a really great explanation, and I appreciate you taking time to share in such depth. One question I have is on version control. I understand the value of reference images and release images and debugging images (with a rare bug fron
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Customers I've worked with that have small datasets would typically range into the 10M order of magnitude for a primary fact, though we had smaller outliers. Additionally, it would be common to have wide dimensions that could be KBs&#x
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> For very fast failures, within a few seconds (e.g. pressurized water nuclear reactor rather than an aircraft), when there is no warning from prior changes so that on-line working storage would also be useless, then reliable automatic r
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by greggyb 8y ago
I'm happy to continue this discussion in further detail and share my experience. You can get in touch with me at the email address in my profile if you'd like. You're hitting a very important question in your fourth paragraph
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The implementation you are discussing sounds pretty elegant. I am most familiar with Power BI from a data viz perspective, but have used most of the enterprise viz tools out there. The thing that always struck me about Power BI (and also Ql
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It seems to me like you could leverage any number of analytical engines that expose relational interfaces, rather than go to the trouble of building your own relational model. What are the goals in building first, rather than integrating?
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The purpose of my reply is to explain how there can be equilibrium and competition even in the face of a seeming monopoly. The critical thing is that threat of competition is as effective as competition when there are low barriers to entry.
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5. Since the strategy was so effective before, other competitors come in and do the same thing. 6. Now whenever there is an overpriced restaurant, I get delicious, below-cost food from the upstart food trucks. ---- OR --- 5. A new competito
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by greggyb 8y ago
My favorite guidance is Pollan's, "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."[0] Another piece of guidance I like is this (paraphrased): Eat absolutely anything you want. But make it all yourself. If you want cookies and cake an
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Comparative advantage is an economic theory that says there is still gain from trade between asymmetric producers. It is possible to have an absolute advantage in production of all goods, but still gain from trading with your inferior par
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This is a response to you and all the various siblings, nieces and nephews. AI does not remove scarcity. Comparative advantage is a real thing. It is well studied and well understood. The common argument seems to conflate AI, automation, ro

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