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hjk05
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Let’s do a quick substitution and see if you argument holds if we insert something we can hopefully both agree would definately be insignificant. Let’s assume someone scheduled a vote to force Bezos to get a hair transplant or quit his posi
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8y ago
You are arguing against higher level abstractions. Absolutely nothing in your post is in anyway specifi to Mathematica. You could substitute the language and the api call to any other and have the same argument.
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“Lyft rises after IPO” This means they did a good job! “Lyft falls after IPO” This means they did a good job! I’m getting a destinct “this is good for bitcoin” feel about how people react to post IPO movements. So going on from here, if the
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Or maybe it didn’t go well enough, and that’s the reason for a second attempt. You can’t say either way which is what makes the question worth asking and a potential answer extremely interesting. Though an actual answer, not just a deferenc
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I’m in no way a Theranos apologist. What they did was evil and crimininal because they pushed far ahead of what any moral startup would do. But they weren’t evil solely because their leadership had blind faith in their product. And for all
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8y ago
That sounds like a horrible suggestion when considering the stories of most successful start ups. Look at Theranos, it would have died a quick death like this, but ended up being a hugely successful business right up to the point of collaps
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8y ago
Big Parma is lobbying FOR healthcare reforms.
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8y ago
Could you provide a reference for how to break our?
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8y ago
Docker is vastly over complicated? It’s one file jotting down a setup, and two commands, build and run and your up and going. How could it possibly be simpler? Bloated? It takes up almost no space and the docker image containers in large pa
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With the amount of optimization that goes around the bunker industry and fueling shipping tankers, I’d would be extremely interesting to see how electrification plays into this. Right now you have such fun cases as a Bunker company selling
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> You know, if you’re pursuing a noble goal, it’s OK to fake it ‘til you make it. This seems completely be starkly in contrast with reality. She did not persue a noble goal and secondarily achieve power and wealth. If that was the case s
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8y ago
Something often overlooked because it doesn’t fit the “evil professor overworks students” narrative, is that students themselves elect to put in more hours because they feel reaposible for their projects. During my graduate studies I worked
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8y ago
Try writing out typical mathematical formula derivations using only s-expressions. I tried for a period and abandoned the persuit. It’s just not comparable to established mathematical notation.
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8y ago
I’ve worked in industrial production in the semiconductor industry and have friends who work building large housing projects, and I have to say that their example of “wouldn’t it be stupid if bidgebuilding was like software!?” Is a bad one.
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8y ago
Why don’t they already just know that stuff? I Denmark all of that is just filled out automatically.
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That’s the way it works in Denmark. You get an email saying basically: “here’s a draft of you filling where we have filled out everything for you” you can then go and make any needed corrections and hit submit. Super simple straight forward
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8y ago
As an employer I would not care much if a new hire only had the skills of uni but not the diploma. But I’m lazy and there is no way I’m going to do what’s essentially 5 years worth of examination to ensure the candidate lives up to some sel
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> It's a very safe place, crime and stealing is almost nonexistent. It’s comparable to Russia in crime statistics. It’s not exactly great, but not bad either. I think almost the entire norther Europe are far superior to Sri Lanka. B
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So the moral is, instead of acting out at children in the moment, instead just stay calm and instil them with a mortal fear of the mundane. I’m not sure how much I like that last part, and whether I feel little kids should be fearing they’l
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True, and if I’m a dairy farm that wants to sell my products to Walmart’s customers there’s only one distributor of shelf space to go to. You can’t cut through an arbitrary point in the business and just demand they change their model. The
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There is nothing hypocritical about using opensource licensed software under the terms of that software license.
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Can I sue walmart for not letting me put my products on their shelves? I mean that’s basically them abusing their monopoly on Walmart stores right? Let’s get things straight. Apple does not have a monopoly on smartphones. Apple does not hav
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> which is the definition of a monopoly. Like Walmart has a monopoly on shelf space at walmart. Apple does not have a monopoly on neither Phones nor on application markets for phones. They have a very attractive market, which they contro
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Same story with phones. You are free to buy from other suppliers. But you can’t walk into a Walmart and buy milk from whole foods on their shelf’s, even if you feel that would be great for you personally because Walmart is closer but you pr
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Amazon is not a monopoly... monopoly does not mean “successfull company I son’t like”
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Everyone gets to make money... the open version being maintained by Amazon you am an just copy and start your own company if you want. It’s Elastic that’s trying to limit the use of their version to prevent anyone except elastic from making
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> Automation is a good thing at any scale. Once dealt with a company that spend close to 2 years to develop 2 different generations of a robotics system to glue together two plastic pieces. One of the pieces changed slightly close to the
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8y ago
Go to Ikea and but a system, no need for robotics or PID controllers, complex webbased control console or any of that. Just plastic planter and a light, you’ll have fresh lettuce with little trouble in no time.
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These systems all feel like the worst parts of failed industrial automation projects. They take something that is extremely simple (growing lettuce) and claim to make it “easy” by attaching robotic watering systems and lighting systems that
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Sounds a lot like fingerworks who had a similar product on the market I think about 14years ago or so. As I remember it they got snatched up by Apple and ditched the product. I always wished they’d release a slightly better touchpad tech ve
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