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manquer
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Homos sapiens in span of few thousand years evolved from herbivores and became omnivores? Do you have a citation for this ? I did not think it would be possible in a short timeframe to make that kind of jump. Changing Diets changing the gut
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manquer
3y ago
What has food habits to do with evolution?
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It is because on reboot you may not get the same physical server . They are not rebooting the physical server for you , just the VM Same VM is not allocated for a variety of reasons , scheduled maintenance, proximity to other hosts on the v
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3y ago
AVP was the exception than norm. Apple aggressively keeps products under wraps before launch fires employees and vendors for leaking any sort of news to the press . Also an hardware product that is miles ahead of competition in terms of com
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3y ago
We could argue that about almost anything though . There are always secondary effects possible and sometimes even likely. I can only think of the proverb/poem - "For want of a nail".
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Publish or perish and other academic pressures are hardly unique to for profit or even non profit universities, even Government institutions have similar incentive models to get tenure or other advancements, it seems pretty universal ? Do y
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3y ago
there are many people who do behave like this , however I am not sure if anyone with this kind of behavior would write to online column seeking advice ?
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3y ago
Here you go https://archive.is/NEh2L It is a soft paywall not hard one, you can bypass easily using an archival site.
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3y ago
For every “Friends” there are thousands of ‘Two guys a girl and a pizza’
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3y ago
Digital asset, not currency. That is the key difference, asset transfers being expensive(in transaction fees) is not abnormal. I don't like it, I don't support this industry, it is still big waste of energy, however if you see it
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3y ago
> too expensive to transmit elsewhere Citation needed . It is rarely if ever too expensive to transmit electricity anywhere . We have offshore wind solar farms in remote places , there is even cross continent lines between Africa and Spa
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3y ago
Why is it bonkers ? Bitcoins are just speculative assets . All crypto is, nobody is actually doing real economic transactions on them, I.e buying and selling services/goods for bitcoin. It is not practical to do so with transaction
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3y ago
They don’t need to shutdown for everyone , they need to shutdown only for their country . Countries do this all the time , just yesterday we were talking about internet shutdown during elections and exams , then there are restricted countri
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3y ago
That is the goal ? The spec's goal should be to keep it simple on the developer side and hiding/"punting" complexity to the platform/browser developer, is that not the sensible (and secure) way of doing this ? Users
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3y ago
What are you on about ? The spec/interface for developer does not have the handle the complexity of implementation browsers have to . Do you as the app developer deal with any of that integrating Stripe ? of course not, you yourself sa
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3y ago
Classical chess is a terrible game to watch , one of the reasons it doesn’t get the money other sports do . A live stream for the World Cup deciding match may get few thousand watchers at best . Pee wee league football gets more probably .
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They got a billion dollars for a year old company i don’t think that can be characterized as selling because they didn’t have a funding model. Fine, Facebook , TikTok , Reddit and myriad others have found how to moderate and monetize user g
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YouTube does very well ? .
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Why do you think this is a flawed decision to do so ? In my opinion this is a conscious choice by Selig both times and a good one. There are business models where venture funding is unsuitable as there will never be hockey stick growth or u
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3y ago
This is not reddit however have to say relevant username :'-)
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it is $13.99 / month in the US now. $150/year is a lot of money - for a product you can choose not to pay and still mostly use.
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Good product is first about understanding the user and the problem statement very well foremost. Most product moats are just that, everything else is a function of that. Designing a great UX to interact with the system is the other key ingr
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Actions have access to environment secrets . Those secrets can open door to PII.
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New sales is not only source of revenue Netflix sells plans for higher resolutions for example If some just have say a laptop screen and a phone you consume content on there is little need for higher resolution plans. However let's say
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It doesn't matter if human/LLM or its simply preset text is the source. Spam has to be consumed and "bought" by a human, so it is easy to classify as humans are predictable in what scams we fall for.[1] Most spam is adve
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Bayesian filters worked very well for email spam. Google ( and most others) has been able to keep spam classifed long before transformers were even introduced with mostly Bayesian filters. Not saying it can or can’t be solved with transform
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I think he means the notification model . You can disable email notifications, you cannot disable the notifications model .
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Loads of other people fought the japenese: Korean, chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, Burmese to name a few. Americans won against the japenese yes,many fought though
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Cost and price are at best correlated. Cost is at best a floor for pricing rarely the signal for it. Bandwidth cost is very cheap for AWS and other major cloud vendor, even cheaper than likes of OVH, Hetzner buy at, because they also own go
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If the goal is to write a clickbait article, then there is no better time to baseline against to prove the story author is building . March 2020 is the lowest markets went in the early days of COVID, and last few years have been amazing fo
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