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by jordanb 9y ago
Speculation shouldn't drive up the price of rent. If anything, it should drive rents down because more units will be built to satisfy speculators which will then be contributed to the pool of available rental housing. We saw this durin
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by jordanb 9y ago
Strategic Air Command's cold war propaganda is pretty campy but the porn shots of the B-36 and B-47 are an aviation buff's wet dream. That youtube video is just a small taste. Also that movie taught me the proper pronunciation of
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by jordanb 9y ago
> * What degree you get in college isn't that important, a B.A. will let an employer know your teachable And the lies we're telling the next generation are * Get a STEM degree, they're always in demand * Become a programme
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People understood binary perfectly! This was only about 50 years ago! It's a function of the electromechanical technology: It's a lot easier and more reliable to have a wheel with ten index positions on it than to have four wheels
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Alternately they could have patrons pay in arrears: You give your donations and then you pay at the end of the month. One transaction on the card and then it gets divvied up.
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Not sure why you're getting downvoted. You're right. For instance, take the garment industry: the big gains in productivity were made a long time ago. It now takes about as many people to make a pair of jeans as it did 30 years ag
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Baidu also made it really easy to find pirated material.
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A few years ago, AdaCore's Robert Dewar observed that nobody has ever been killed by a flaw in Avonics software. That's perhaps not a good elevator pitch for a hockey stick startup but it's a good testament to the capabilitie
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by jordanb 9y ago
I'm always surprised by how thoroughly uninterested the Haskell and Rust communities are in learning from the Ada/High Integrity Software community. Here you have people who are actually doing what you purport to be interested in
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by jordanb 9y ago
What's the utilization in the construction industry? I think that'd be a more fair analog for mining.
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So I'm guessing that Goldman is all in on Bitcoin then?
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Hadoop isn't Oracle. If you need to write a file to the data lake, you write it. If you need to read something out you do that too. There's no schema, it's actually a file system with actual files in it, like your shared driv
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by jordanb 9y ago
You don't need to write map reduce jobs to access data in Hadoop. In fact, you can do it from excel: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Connect-to-a-Hadoop...
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Not really. They could be trying to build a company-wide data lake. Some files in the lake will be very small, others will be very large. Because it's in HDFS it won't matter if the very small ones suddenly become very large. End
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by jordanb 9y ago
I'm not a runner so I don't have much need for NB, but all my shoes and boots are made by Thorogood, which is a unionized bootmaker from Wisconsin.
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It's a leveling down of standards. The new global standard for the conditions a factory worker may expect is that they'll work 12 hour days, live in a barracks, get paid every three months and suffer routine exposure to dangerous
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by jordanb 9y ago
My Mom feels guilty that she used those "sterile" plastic bags in our baby bottles when we were little. Of course they were BPA.
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by jordanb 9y ago
What we should really have is municipal fiber running to each home the same way as we have municipal roads and water/sewer lines. Then anyone could set up business as an ISP and provide service over that publicly owned infrastructure.
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I love to program and I go to lots of meetups here in Chicago, but I also have a lot of friends who are not techies and I have conversations with people all the time that don't revolve around apps or frameworks.
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I'll have to defer to your knowledge of the market for self-taught cryptologists. My understanding is that most journeyman programmers working in security are in Burb Suite Operator positions. My point isn't that becoming a subjec
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by jordanb 9y ago
An LOB programmer could work on computer vision side projects for a couple years and probably put together a neat portfolio of work. But the few people who are really hiring people who "own" CV want PHDs with a relevant thesis an
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by jordanb 9y ago
The big danger is "owning" some domain that falls out of fashion. You might "own" distributed systems and do great for a time, but then companies start transitioning from that architecture and nobody returns your calls a
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by jordanb 9y ago
I think the GP had it: Key stakeholders were not interested in a real bug bounty. The bug bounty project was a Public Relations exercise. Being able to say "we have a $30,000 bug bounty program and nobody has claimed it" would be
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by jordanb 9y ago
In the context of the government and politicians it's actually called "Perception Management" although the tactics are the same.
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Rising housing costs used to be considered a public crisis that required intervention. For instance, in the 1960s Sweden responded to a housing crisis with their "Million Houses Program."[0] But after decades of "ownership so
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by jordanb 9y ago
Your chain breaks at "less people willing to buy goods due to risk". SEK going down will push the costs of imports up. It will also make Swedish exports more competitive. Imports being more costly will cause Swedish consumers to s
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I use uBlock Origin plus uMatrix but I have to say that it's probably only for people who are really serious about security. It breaks nearly every site by default.
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I've heard this argument before and it's predicated on a set of assumptions about savings rate that may not hold true. It's easy to come up with a plausible set of numbers where the absolute savings are better in Austin even
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You have a really mercantile view of things: Team Murika is gonna Win the Trade War by signing all the primo players from the other teams! An alternate way to look at this is that the economy and society of the USA is failing its own citize
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I know you're being coy picking the example from your list where the market leader wasn't simply forced out by an even bigger market leader. But in fact we have seen a lot of consolidation in the photographic industry. Back in the

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