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by jVinc 7y ago
> Why would they benefit in green energy infrastructure? The worlds largest Wind Turbine Manufacturer Vestas is danish. Besides them, there's lots of green energy infrastructures companies that are expanding. Also of note, the Large
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by jVinc 7y ago
So in that situation, the banks are basically in a position where raising their rates (which earns them more) will lead to the feds covering more and more of that? What's to stop them from collectively playing chicken against the feds,
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by jVinc 7y ago
Fun and interesting read. I can see the need for being very specific on tons of stuff when your life essentially becomes traveling the world going from talk to talk likely always organised by someone new and inexperienced at hosting importa
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by jVinc 7y ago
For those who don't know Denmark, the title is really overselling the reality here. Denmark is tiny. You can cross the entire country by car in 5 hours and it only takes that long because water seerpates the major island and peninsula
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by jVinc 7y ago
Interesting move. Looking forwards to seeing what he decides to do outside of work with Apple.
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by jVinc 7y ago
Was just about to post that tidbit. I think people who have just about trippeled their investment in Bitcoin since February would argue that it's going through a pretty hefty recovery at the moment.
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by jVinc 7y ago
That's like saying Apple should be afraid someone straps a microphone to a raspberry pi and starts competing with the iPhone.
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by jVinc 7y ago
It seems to me that an iPhone is a lot easier to repair than a car. Sure you need to be careful about the gluing if you want to retain the aesthetics, but replacing the motor in your car is also a pretty extensive operation requiring extrem
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by jVinc 8y ago
> they don't When you take parts of a quote out of context it changes it's meaning. That's rather bad practice, so please refrain from doing that. As for the marketing. Do you think Audi should stop marketing its cars to c
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by jVinc 8y ago
I've tried 3 services now, and what they all seem to not get is that they are not selling food. I can get food in the local supermarket. They are selling convenience and peace of mind. Whats the difference? The difference is that if y
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by jVinc 8y ago
> but who owns the database? And who enforces the contract? And who owns the actual data? > Blockchain provides satisfactory answers to all those problems. What problems? I mean your arguing like something like public transportation
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by jVinc 8y ago
> Why was this guy using drugs starting at age ten? What led up to that? Shouldn't it be classified as a parenting failure, not a "disorder" on his part? "So you say your father broke your arm.... This isn't a bo
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by jVinc 8y ago
Person comes to conclusion that objective tool doesn't work because it doesn't give him the results he wants. I'm glad he didn't get to just subjectively call people bipolar or not based on what he wants, it would just
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by jVinc 8y ago
You can't just blankly state that functional programming is or isn't declarative. sort([42,7,2]) is declarative in that it declares what is wanted not how to do it. But if you write a functional bubble-sort, then that function is
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by jVinc 8y ago
Might be a language thing, but if someone sends me money through paypal, I definitely would say paypal receives the funds from that person and then sends them to me. Thus paypal can tally up how much money they have sent to their customers.
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by jVinc 8y ago
If you kick someone in the groin because someone said they'd pay you 20 dollars to do it. Then apologizing is the right thing to do. But don't expect the victim to forgive you just because you apologize, not even if you give the 2
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by jVinc 8y ago
"You don't have to learn some special language to create high-performant applications or libraries." I like this comment, which seems to suggest that I don't need to learn LLVM IR in order to write a python class that em
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by jVinc 8y ago
My takeaway from Birdbox is the old adage: "Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes." Sure it got tons of views because of all the advertisement and the tons o
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by jVinc 8y ago
If I don't trust security in the low levels of the stack, why should I trust no security in the low levels of the stack? If I'm not certain of the low levels I can always add security. Why not just have security in the low levels
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by jVinc 8y ago
Battle royal was already popular enough for Epic to drop everything they had and shift focus to the genere without any doubt that it was the correct thing to do. To give them credit for the popularity of the genre is to rewrite history.
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by jVinc 8y ago
The scientific community is not strengthened in any way by those who falsify data and credentials. Quite the contrary, sometimes other scientists dedicate years to worthless pursuits because they are working in a "promising" direc
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by jVinc 8y ago
Wrong visualization method. They should have used a Ternary plot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_plot
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by jVinc 8y ago
Why wouldn't trading be for morons? Should we also limit loans to people who have a specific minimum IQ or do we live in a free society?
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by jVinc 8y ago
Which is both the objective and a net positive for the workplace. I get that everyone who's bad at interviews want to do away with them. But you could likely find charming individuals who want to do away with technical requirements bec
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by jVinc 8y ago
Sometimes a 30 min conversation with an experienced developer can save you 3 months of work. Conferences can be extremely productive, but it's just like everything else, it depends on how you personally do it. For some developers its &
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by jVinc 8y ago
Just because you don't need money, it doesn't mean you cannot use it. Hopefully they will be able to use that money to speed up their revenue growth and quickly pay back stripe and be left at a higher revenue point than they start
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by jVinc 8y ago
I'd love to see someone drawing out the graph for A song of fire and Ice. Not only do you have several simultansus character arcs to draw out, but through the story arch they are also discontinuous and mix between being interwoven and
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by jVinc 8y ago
The next level disruption. Taking an industry that is known for absolutely horrible almost non-existing cupstormer service (for everyone not paying tons of extra money), and just remove the customer service entirely. I'm sure he's
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by jVinc 8y ago
I've worked a lot with EMG and EEG, and always wondered how they got past the huge problems with variation, lack of sensitivity and reliability. From this and what I've read from users it looks like they didn't actually get p
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by jVinc 8y ago
So you admit freely that you actively tried to bias your survey. I admire that you are honest about it, but I'm extremely confused as to why you are honest about that it seems like you're shooting yourself in the foot twice. First

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