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by iwintermute 10y ago
Interesting - i've tried to find Ted's books on Audible several times with no results. And it happens to be regional restriction. "We're sorry. Due to publishing rights restrictions, we are not authorized to sell this it
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You can take a look at Germany[1]. And see the results of “Energiewende”[2] [1] http://euracoal2.org/download/Public-Archive/Library/Charts-... [2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl
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Wasn't it the case with the first AI winter? When the field was overhyped, oversold and then imploded?
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> Certainly not, or else climate science would still be in thorough disagreement Looking at Europe - I see the decisions, policies and agreement. Looking at USA I see conscious decision to ignore the science predictions when it suits som
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It has gotten twice as cheap (if you look at average ticket prices adjusted to inflation) from 70 to now. Also point about concorde - it's more fuel efficient to fly slower (look at drag coefficient [1]) So from point of view of afford
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Yup, I'm quite familiar with what modern economics research looks like. My problem with them start when I get to "We now use formal econometric techniques", when they get very limited model with huge amount of assumptions and
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Not op, but also from economics background - the issue with economics in public perception for me is that is't became modern "religion"/ideology and moved far from proper science. Especially "mainstream" econom
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It's a little bit "сonspiratorially" from my side, but I feel like high real estate prices is a feature, not a bug - without it potential founders can have more resources to bootstrap and less dependency on VC - but when your
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I think it's worse for the reader. Experience gives you "undocumented" knowledge - for example, knowledge of how system behaves under real load and what bottlenecks are and what are other limitations of particular architectur
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I also started with the first model - full physical keyboard and great physical buttons on the side. Than I switched to paperwhite - and although now I had back-lighting I really missed physical buttons. Now I have voyage - they returned &q
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as for alternatives - the second keyboard (I use in office) is Filco Majestouch 2 (tenkeyless) - great one. The only gripe - I decided to go with brown switches, but I actually prefer blue ones (as in Razer model).
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I have blackwidow - the Razer drivers/soft is a buggy mess. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. Plus new models use worse switches.
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Or is it just - V2 is not good enough for consumer product - let's go to V3?
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My Realtek sound drivers for PC were around 450 MB (!!!). Nvidia drivers are around 350 MB and update quite frequently. That's insane. And Chrome has great update mechanism.
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Can you provide any examples?
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They both are non legitimate - it's easy answer. shame that propaganda sounds somewhat russian - as if it's not possible or wide-spread in USA. What's interesting is that why there's no "start-up" that's f
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Speculation (if it's clearly marked as such) - is just an "entertainment" piece - for example, you could write in your blog what are the next features for iOS without any clear sources - that would be just speculating about.
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As of now I think HN/reddit/twitter serve the same purpose (poorly - twitter more and more tailored for person with thousands of subscriptions and not for someone who's carefully organizes his "human filter" collect
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I always thought that Tokyo situation is because of constant seismic activity - when you have so many earthquakes it would be very hard to find the break underground
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1. Social aspect of it - I would find "human filters" that shared very high quality content on different topics - art, programming, medicine, architecture - and that was very transparent for them - they just kept interesting artic
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Couldn't agree more - I often see this pattern in programmers - they try to think in cursors instead of sets and end up really fighting the instrument - not using it as intended.
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If I recall correctly encrypted.google.com used https by default at the times where google.com was via http. Now it's the same as a normal one.
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Do you have any obfuscated training sets available to public? edit:typo
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Not the original poster, but IIRC cloud watch improved a lot in recent months - before that web interface was kinda hard to use with all the log streams, right now it's much easier to search for some event for example (time brackets we
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Can anyone share their experiences using AWS Lambda in Production?
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RE: "restore the glorious Russian Empire" - his latest customs/economic union with Kazakhstan and Belarus is a joke. And there's two most pro-russian regimes as of now. CIS is also as good as dead. USSR is gone and won&#
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Military base is not stronghold anymore. You don't need to protect it from siege. Kaliningrad is just a place of location of strategic missiles of medium range. It single-use weapon. You don't need ground path to Kalinigrad.
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Well, there's another historic precedence - Baltic Germans. Do you afraid that they maybe coming due to historic precedence too? Ask Czech Republic about them and "obliteration of culture". Do Czechs afraid of Germany coming
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Re: Russia can also be expected to threaten Europe with more confidence; hopefully our defense spending will increase to pick up the slack. Any real threats to Europe will lead to nuclear conflict. It's not 1910 - you don't need t
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Crimea - it's were russian navi is. The former soviet military harbors for Black sea were rented by Russia. When power changed in the Ukraine to be USA/NATO oriented Russia did everything to keep it's military presence. As fo

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