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by jobu 11y ago
“The guy who’s making the $100,000 car is not changing the world,” one of Xindayang's financiers boasted to Forbes, referring to Tesla's flamboyant founder Elon Musk. “The guy who is making the $10,000 electric vehicle is changin
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There are a couple great bits in that article, but this is one I've seen as a trend: "Under an employment model, by contrast, the company has a much more reliable and knowledgeable workforce, one that can be held to a specific st
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> Jira Agile is simply awful, the UI/UX is non-intuive and super hard to understand. What product would you consider better for Agile? And are you talking Scrum or Kanban style Agile? Over the years I've used and tried a bunch,
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A lack of ethics and concern for innocents can also be more efficient when it comes to assassination
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Yeah, consumer reports is blaming the cell phones for poor voice quality, but it really seems to be the phone companies. In a previous job most of my team worked out of Bulgaria, and I could hear them better over Skype on my iPhone than I c
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> Maybe a bit offtopic, but could you elaborate on why you think infinite growth in a finite world is possible? This argument assumes we are restricted to a finite world. There has been significant discussion about mining asteroids recen
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That seems to be the suggestion, but I wonder if it's the the wrong hypothesis. What if some bacteria have evolved to "hack" the metabolic signals from our guts (and possibly other mammals)? They could stimulate ghrelin to ma
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Agreed. The article boils down to this: Krämer: "It is all just a bad transfer of power from the state to billionaires." It's just a philosophical difference in opinion about who should decide what to do with the money - el
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The time-limited trial is essential for selling productivity software, unfortunately most companies are doing it wrong. Beyond Compare[1] has a 30-day trial that is 30 days of use - not just 30 consecutive days. If I actually use a piece of
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Many developers and companies look at Facebook as a model for good software practices and principles, so it's interesting to see them struggle with the same issues: "Increasing overhead initiates a positive feedback loop: less ge
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Waterways are the most efficient, but I don't believe Ethiopia is flat enough to make use of its rivers for transport. Here's a comparison - http://business.tenntom.org/why-use-the-waterway/shipping-co...
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It's interesting that the music studios are pushing for consolidation in the streaming audio market. Even if they do own a piece of the companies it seems like that could come back to bite them in the future.
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Hard to say if this is true beyond Denmark: "Dee also said while there are strong, large effects in the study, kids who delay kindergarten in Denmark have universal access to reasonably good pre-K. In the absence of consistent access
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This is really dirty politics. Even if Lamar can't find anything that actually supports his argument he can drop embarrassing or out-of-context emails to the press in an attempt to discredit scientists.
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Digging even further, that authorsearnings.com article links to a WSJ article titled "E-Book Sales Fall After New Amazon Contracts" - https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en#hl=en&q=E-Book+Sales+Fall... (google li
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Only time I've had to wire money was for the downpayment on a house. Apparently there's a limit to how much you can send over ACH (at least with some banks).
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In my experience, Confluence sucks a lot less than SharePoint. The unfortunate thing with any Wiki or document sharing tool is they tend to become cesspools of outdated or contradictory information. It has to be someone's job responsib
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Thanks for the tip. I knew a number of "craft" whiskeys were from MGP, but I didn't realize that Templeton was as well - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Templeton_Rye Now I'm really curious about the
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Blantons is worth trying if you've never had it: https://www.blantonsbourbon.com/original_single_barrel Also, it's not Bourbon or single malt, but Templeton Rye is one of my favorite whiskeys (and reasonably price
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There is some merit to "doing one thing well", but taken to the extreme it can be horrible in a different way: tar cvf - FILE-LIST | gzip -c > FILE.tar.gz ( https://xkcd.com/1168/ )
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The amount of data is also a huge challenge. The HL7 "standard" for patient data exchange is huge - thousands of potential data points with tens of thousands of options. The IDC-10 code set allows more than 14,400 different codes.
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This. Interoperability is great when it lets data into the system, but a huge threat when it allows data out.
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> We just don't want them stalking our children in the local park. Exactly. I'm all for conservation, so long as it doesn't lead to humans becoming part of the food chain again.
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The problem is not that the genuinely authentic seems unauthentic, it's often just boring and/or clumsy. I've heard some actual impromptu audio from radio hosts and at times they come off as nervous, bumbling idiots (i.e. nor
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There's a bakery near us that makes some amazing Bavarian sunflower wheat bread. They sell it pre-sliced in a few local grocery stores as well, but it definitely doesn't keep very long. Most store-bought bread is shelf-stable for
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The sad part is the policy was likely unnecessary given what we now know about the effects of urban migration and modern healthcare on reducing population growth. It's often too expensive to have multiple children in a large city, and
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This is where that quote comes from: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/06/fear-of-terror-makes-... "You are 17,600 times more likely to die from heart disease than from a terrorist attack"
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According to that ruling, the prosecutor's office is not liable, but it doesn't necessarily mean the prosecutor himself is not liable.
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The last line of the article surprises me: However, we're hoping that by the time Gen IV reactors are ready for construction (sometime in the 2030s), fusion power will have completely taken over electric power generation. Based on th
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Edward Snowden mentioned using a pseudo-random phrase like MargaretThatcherIs110%SEXY in his interview with John Oliver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzGzB-yYKcc

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