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Theconversation.com – Academic rigour, journalistic flair(theconversation.com)
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by jmngomes 10y ago
Agreed, and this has been tried in Switzerland with positive results; to quote just one: "The cost-benefit analysis showed a considerable reduction in costs for medical care and law enforcement; the benefits per day and patient amount
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Maybe that problem gets substantially easier to solve if we start educating people (and children) about what they're actually being fed, as well as imposing basic decency rules on how slaughterhouses and aviaries operate. I don't
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by jmngomes 10y ago
>> poor bird was encouraged to grow in an unhealthy manner The bird was not "encouraged to grow", it was forcefully bred by a corporation that treated it like trash to increase their financial gains... >> I wonder if i
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by jmngomes 10y ago
It's not true that "giving them everything they want to and don't ask anything in return" is necessary to receive an emotional response as the ones that have been described here. That's not even a good approach to e
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"Mark Cuban recently talked about it as the most important technology to ramp up on, to avoid becoming a “dinosaur”" I wonder if this impresses this blog's audience, or does exactly the opposite...
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Because that usually involves understanding a complex, mission-critical legacy system with no documentation, no support and implemented using little to no methodology or best practices.
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by jmngomes 10y ago
The fact that this website uses an appalling expression like "weasels out" says a lot about their (lack of) "journalistic" ethics...
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Hadoop filesystem at Twitter(blog.twitter.com)
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Why There Will Never Be Another RedHat(techcrunch.com)
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Fact-Checking Facebook Politics Pages(github.com)
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B Corporations(bcorporation.net)
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The private cloud is for suckers(infoworld.com)
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Dear Silicon Valley: Stop saying stupid stuff(infoworld.com)
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Dutch bank is replacing 5,800 people with machines, at a cost of $2B(qz.com)
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by jmngomes 10y ago
But how much would cable cost if the individual channels didn't rely on advertising for profit?
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I'm under the impression that simply having a visible legal notice like "By visiting this page you agree to our ToS" is enough to bypass that.
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Which is the case with Portugal. But the alternatives to seek funding were far from great (e.g. China).
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"they are extremely powerful tools, and in the wrong hands things can and do go wrong." Like guns, or even some drugs. "That doesn't make them illegal." But it should make them heavily regulated and scrutinized, whi
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by jmngomes 10y ago
You should read up on Rocket Internet, they're far from being a startup. And Axel Springer is one of the largest publishing comapanies in Europe.
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by jmngomes 10y ago
Actually, most if not all of those bombs are considered obsolete/decomissioned [1] and aren't an actual first or second weapon of choice if someone decides that a nuke is needed. So these weapons are far from being "crucial f
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by jmngomes 10y ago
> IBM (via SPSS) is one of the big players in the field They have been pitching "crime prediction" since at least 2010 with no real results so far...
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by jmngomes 10y ago
Exactly. The complexity here is not in learning Cobol, it's understanding a complex, mission-critical legacy system with no documentation, no support and implemented using little to no methodology or best practices.
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One reason would be that these programs crash, require updates to keep up with industry/process changes and/or will eventually be obsolete in terms of performance or process adequation. But the knowledge required to fix or update
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by jmngomes 10y ago
In Portugal, most people (to avoid saying everyone) that work in IT regularly work unpaid overtime, unlike most other professions where overtime is (obviously) paid for, and mostly due to poor management, e.g. project manager doesn't w
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by jmngomes 10y ago
I didn't say that ending corruption would "support this thingie", I identified corruption and associated crimes as an appropriate source of funding for a BI initiative, namely because there are economic studies that estimate
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Or by reducing the financial excess/waste that goes to corruption, tax avoidance or rent-seeking companies (many of who oppose the very idea of a basic income).
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The Mental Disease of Late-Stage Capitalism(medium.com)
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...which are (basic) best practices in any programming language.
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> "Besides this, the overall load on the cluster fell below 50 percent thanks to Hyper-Threading technology, further contributing to the impressive results. In broad terms, when the load increases to over 50 percent, HT-engines, whi

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