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by jdale27 9y ago
The current legislative environment is entirely ill-equipped to deal with these companies, and moreover, no one even knows how to deal with them. The former may be true; not sure about the latter. Existing anti-trust law could be suffic
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by jdale27 9y ago
Looks like there are quite a few posts by the same author on the blog: http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/richard_s...
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Yes, that certainly could be the case. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be much (if any) understanding of what is different about those illnesses, and in particular no practical test that can distinguish between them to help identif
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by jdale27 9y ago
I was thinking something similar. Though rather than a billionaire, some enterprising libertarian / anarcho-capitalist folks could move there and push the city further in that direction by simply using legitimate democratic processes.
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Is that because people who farm the land using modern techniques can get much more out of it than the Amish, and therefore are pricing them out of it?
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I didn't read Amazon's requirements doc; was an out-of-the-box "educated workforce" a requirement? It seems like that could be seeded with new grad hires and existing Amazon employees who are willing to relocate for much
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by jdale27 9y ago
There are levels of "criticality". Credit monitoring is in a different category from, say, spacecraft or nuclear power plants. But if a security breach can lead easily to identity theft, and therefore to a catastrophic compromise
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I suspect that only works because those cities are already relatively walkable/bikable. Unless you live within walking/biking distance of the closed-off street, and the route between you and the street is pleasantly walkable/
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by jdale27 9y ago
Yes. China has more manpower, but that's about their only advantage. Navy, Air Force, the US dominates. And as everyone knows, you never get involved in a land war in Asia...
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You are not an "average American". But really, it doesn't matter what the average American thinks; it's about the strategic calculus of showing that Japan and South Korea are under US protection.
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Well, they are separate cities, since they have geographical boundaries and distinct city governments... But yes, if the San Francisco Bay Area were merged into a single megacity with a unified, powerful municipal government, some of its
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The real goal is to build a database of genotypic and phenotypic data and use that to identify drug targets. In other words, curing the illnesses.
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Can you explain what conclusion we are supposed to draw from that chart?
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Is the knowledge really being lost? These people will get jobs elsewhere. With their experience, they might end up working on some other OS, and bringing the benefits of their knowledge to other systems that are now more widely used, so thi
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by jdale27 9y ago
Actually I think it's a reference to one of the principles of the Toyota Production System (TPS): A leader must understand the daily work in great detail so that he or she can be a best teacher of your company's philosophy. --
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by jdale27 9y ago
California, especially Silicon Valley, wants to have its cake and eat it too. People want to "preserve the agricultural heritage" of this region, but not allow even the minimal amount of development needed to meet the basic needs
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Ishin-Den-Shin: Transmitting Sound Through Touch(disneyresearch.com)
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> Released in early 1991, the video not only became an instant hit, but also a quintessential video in the ’90s genre. It codified the checklist for what a video in the ’90s would look like. > Guess what video this is talking about,
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by jdale27 9y ago
While I'm a fan of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and I'm sure this is a well-researched article, it seems a bit odd to call it the "Modern History of Computing", given that it seems to leave off in the 1950s.
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How to Read a Paper (2016) [pdf](blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca)
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Source?
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I think what's being suggested here is that these products provide no utility (or even negative utility in the case of antibiotic-resistance-generating antibacterial soaps) and so you're being tricked into buying them for no valid
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by jdale27 10y ago
Obviously the error was made by the human who wrote the software that drove the car... hence, human error. QED.
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Why on earth should we believe them?
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Original WSJ article: http://www.wsj.com/articles/theranos-saw-huge-growth-in-reve...
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They should have hired Erann Gat to do it in Lisp.
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That is fucking amazing. I can't even comprehend what it must be like to be living on that wall for eight days (let alone 19 or 28). The mental and emotional state it must put you in...
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S3 has built-in functionality to trigger a Lambda function when certain events occur (e.g., object creation). For example, see http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/with-s3-example.... .
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I think that is a great idea, and perhaps not unlike what the Semantic Web was possibly intended to enable. But it seems not to have been very successful. Or am I mistaken?
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Sure. But while most of us are happy to work our asses off to improve our own status and our family's status, how many of us really put a significant amount of effort (time or money) into improving things for people who are worse off t

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