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by jkot 10y ago
> The plug-in Prius can go about 13 miles on battery power alone. Old soviet Wartburg 353 could go over 1 mile on battery. One would put first gear, start engine without spark and car would jump forward. I wonder what it would take to
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by jkot 11y ago
Serious question: how many new buildings are started in SF per year?
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by jkot 11y ago
Companies are investing into diversity, for example Intel will invest $300M over a few years. Hiring prominent feminist seems like a good way to do that. Also such event often makes profit on donations.
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by jkot 11y ago
Why $225k is too much? Bill Clinton and Al Gore take similar money. Well known political activists take between $50k and $20k per speech. Actors are charging millions for 20 minute episode. That money seems fair for such prominent speaker.
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by jkot 11y ago
Anyone using Kubuntu 16.04? I am thinking about moving to Fedora.
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by jkot 11y ago
Read my profile. I literally design and implement memory efficient java collections for living. I also worked with Scala for 7 years, including compiler and IDE. First I agree that Collections.immutableMap(map) has many problems. EC immut
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by jkot 11y ago
For example Scala Map uses Brie. On each update it creates new tree, while old tree still hogs memory. Immutable EC collections are way more optimized. EC immutable API is a mess because it implements mutable java.util.Collection. I like Ko
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by jkot 11y ago
And Scala immutable collections are memory hog and GC nightmare. I find good compromise with Kotlins read-only interfaces and Eclipse Collections optionally immutable collections
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by jkot 11y ago
I had to show ID in Czech Republic, Hungaria, Ireland and Greece.
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by jkot 11y ago
Anon SIMs are already banned in many EU countries. It does not really work, some homeless people have thousands SIMs registered on their name. Also opposition in Germany says this might be discriminatory to refugees, since some of them have
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by jkot 11y ago
I would add that Kotlin has excellent compatibility with Java and you can use thousands if not millions existing libraries. Other JVM languages such as Scala or Clojure have their own libraries and that makes integration harder.
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by jkot 11y ago
> Cognitively I’m not sure a kid gets why you can boss Alexa around but not a person. Because as a parent you let them to boss you around. Children know difference between person and a dog (or computer program in this case).
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by jkot 11y ago
This is bad example. Shop refused to sell based on nationality, not based on location. You can still watch Netflix if you are Chinese living in US. But on second though that shop was geoblocking the entire world except tiny room. One has t
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by jkot 11y ago
I speed read a few books from Hemingway to find out if I liked the author. Not my cup of tea.
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by jkot 11y ago
> In western countries it's almost unimaginable to not be able to rely on banks to store your money safely My relative lost seven figures from Cypriot bank just a few years ago. In Greece bank will not allow you to withdraw money
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by jkot 11y ago
China is massively investing in Africa, and there is a growing political tension for that :-(
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by jkot 11y ago
Some radio amateur could perhaps help. 40 years is a long time and equipment is now amazingly cheap.
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by jkot 11y ago
I think there was post while ago which tried to predict property price raise based on number of new coffee shops.
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by jkot 11y ago
Kotlin will be always catching up. Scala is more research oriented, Kotlin is a bit more conservative and pragmatic.
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by jkot 11y ago
Paper is here: http://wiki.t-o-f.info/uploads/EDM4600/The%20camel%20has%20t...
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by jkot 11y ago
There should be a cap on goverment guaranteed loan, perhaps $20k.
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by jkot 11y ago
I think we can agree that many users are migrating away from batch processing.
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by jkot 11y ago
Some countries in Europe allow non-compete clause. But employer has to pay full salary for duration of that clause.
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by jkot 11y ago
GPU databases are around for a while, but not much has changed. I think bigger thread is cheap memory and raise of in-memory computing. Today you can have a workstation with half TB RAM for fairly reasonable price. Hadoop is already being c
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by jkot 11y ago
Compare Sweden and Denmark. All countries around Sweden have lower crime rate.
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by jkot 11y ago
No, I tried to find some screenshots, but its 11 years ago. Current skype does not have this feature.
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by jkot 11y ago
Skype has something similar back in 2005. You could ring random person and have a chat. I dont understand obsession about Sweden. It is expensive country in decline with high crime. There are better places in Europe.
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by jkot 11y ago
> anyone caught using encrypted software can be punished by 2 years of prison > The providers would be obliged to ensure access to the content of the encrypted messages I am not sure if users can be punished. I could only confirm
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by jkot 11y ago
I dont understand this. Athens city is basically broke, but streets are clean and they build new infrastructure even today.
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by jkot 11y ago
There is a quite good technical description of difference between Spark and Flink http://blog.madhukaraphatak.com/

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