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by lr1970 5y ago
Can these companies still claim that they are "Equal Opportunities Employer" if they openly discriminate against residents of one state?
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by lr1970 5y ago
Few anecdotes from Amazon's folklore. "Why a six-pager has 6 pages?" A typical meeting at Amazon is 1 hour long -- 30 minutes reading followed by 30 minutes discussion. It is rumored that it takes Jeff Bezos 5 minutes to read
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by lr1970 5y ago
If country A undercuts taxes below a set minimum of 15%, country B is within its rights not to recognize taxes payed in A for the purpose of avoiding double taxation. As a result, country B can demand tax payments on profits generated in B
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by lr1970 5y ago
For the context: Donald G. McNeil Jr., the author of the article, was a prominent journalist for New York Times leading their COVID-19 coverage from the beginning of the disease. He was abruptly dismissed from NYT citing his use of some que
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by lr1970 5y ago
I would call Colonial Pipeline a _negligent victim_ like most other companies that found themselves in the same situation of being hacked and held for ransom. Negligence stems from the fact that they consider Cyber Security as part of IT su
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by lr1970 5y ago
These modern 50mm lenses are certainly marvels of optical engineering. But the future seem to belong to simpler, cheaper and lighter lens designs with optical imperfections corrected digitally. Modern phones take stunning images (in good li
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by lr1970 5y ago
> The US only accepts doctors who went to Canadian or American medical schools. This is factually incorrect. There are tons of doctors that graduated from European, Indian and Chinese medical schools. To practice medicine in the USA they
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by lr1970 5y ago
Similar shenanigans were rampant in Hollywood in early 20-th century. This lead to creation of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) trade union representing interests of movie actors. Might be the time for photographers to unionize as well?
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by lr1970 5y ago
Or its variant: "The difference between practice and theory is greater in practice than in theory."
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by lr1970 5y ago
Nikolai Vavilov's younger brother Sergei [0] was a famous physicist who together with Pavel Cherenkov discovered Vavilov-Cherenkov radiation [1]. By the time Nobel committee awared Cherenkov the Nobel price Sergei Vavilov already died
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by lr1970 6y ago
The IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy should remove this paper at once for gross ethics violations. The message should be strong and unequivocal that this type of behavior is not tolerated.
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by lr1970 6y ago
For those interested in the detailed and honest exposition of the Soviet Space Program there is a great book written by Korolev deputy Boris Chertok (head of automation for Space Program). The book was translated into English by NASA and is
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by lr1970 6y ago
Actually the article does say that the 100MW is served for about an hour that makes it 100MWh. But I do agree that it is a sloppy journaism to confuse power and energy. Basic high school level physics.
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by lr1970 6y ago
To put it in perspective. During the recent cold weather the State of Texas was short of 16GW of power for more than 40 hours making it 640GWh shortfall in amount of energy needed. You would need 6400 batteries 100MWh each to meet such dema
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by lr1970 6y ago
> Borrow checker tracks who is using what over time. This is a very imprecise statement. Do you mean tracks at "compile time" or at "run time"? A more accurate statement would be -- the borrow checker enforces a spec
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by lr1970 6y ago
I hope that the chopper will not generate an opaque cloud of dust while hovering and am looking forward to seeing spectacular images.
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by lr1970 6y ago
For those who never read it, here is the link to the archive.org version of the short story HARRISON BERGERON by Kurt Vonnegut [1]. [1] https://archive.org/stream/HarrisonBergeron/Harrison%20Berge... EDIT: This is
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by lr1970 6y ago
Bitcoin is a distributed feat currency with a proven limited supply (20M coins max) and slow and expensive transactions. At present, bitcoin cannot be coopted by any central bank and cannot be inflated by a "printing press". These
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by lr1970 6y ago
The fact that the SolarWinds CEO dared to blame the whole security breach on a single intern is a damning testament to the rotten security culture at SolarWinds. Would you trust a company where a single intern can compromise security of all
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by lr1970 6y ago
Russians build balanced ternary computer in 1958 [1] and were experimenting improving its design up until early 1970-th. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun
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by lr1970 6y ago
"Wolf of Wall Street" with Leonardo DiCaprio vividly shows wild west of pump and dump schemes in late 80s - early 90s. The movie is based on a true story of Jordan Belfort who finally went to jail. But today's SEC lost most o
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by lr1970 6y ago
> Alternative to tomawak exist though, so maybe? Your probably meant tokamak.
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by lr1970 6y ago
A clean and sustainable source of energy exists in a form of controlled nuclear _fusion_. Unlike Nuclear _fission_ (current nuclear technology) fusion works with hydrogen (deuterium and tritium isotopes) and produces no lasting radioactivit
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by lr1970 6y ago
Not to criticize a free OSS project. It is very cool, but comparing it to Bloomberg terminal is a misnomer. Bloomberg gives you data, analysis, models, news, document access + Bchat which is highly useful to professionals. OTOH, Gamestonk T
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by lr1970 6y ago
> as NYC hospitals apparently did in an unethical attempt to control spread. I am curious where did you git this from? In the spring 2020 COVID patients in New York City ICUs were intubated not to control spread of the virus (there were
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by lr1970 6y ago
> Oct 2019 - this article The article was published on Oct 31, 2018 (not 2019).
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by lr1970 6y ago
IIRC, during the Korea war there were people at Pentagon proposing to nuke China over their support for the North.
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by lr1970 6y ago
How does PDM deals with binary python modules like foo.so that in turn depend on other binary libraries like mylib.so? This is what conda manager and conda environments are great for, covering the ground for all major platforms.
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by lr1970 6y ago
Yes, this was after ma Bell was broken up and Yann ended up in the AT&T Research. And then AT&T management closed the whole project. Glory days of Bell Labs are all in the distant past, unfortunately.
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by lr1970 6y ago
> That's surprisingly shitty for such a premium product, especially coming from a company that claims to be reducing e-waist. Apple was the first vendor to glue-in batteries inside all of their laptops effectively forcing people to

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