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by meritt 8y ago
That's not the case at all. It's very cost-ineffective to automate low-skill jobs because the human capital has historically been extremely cheap. There's a reason we don't broadly have robots cleaning our houses, landsc
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by meritt 8y ago
This is the first time the PHP extension swoole (an async library) was on the test. It took #10 place on the JSON serialization test. The remainder of the tests rank terribly because the implementation incorrectly uses synchronous DB calls,
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by meritt 8y ago
Elon retweeted [1] the underlying article with the statement: "Best analysis of Model 3 to date". He also acknowledged [2] that $28,000 is a reasonable cost estimate once they reach scale. Try doing a little bit of research before
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by meritt 8y ago
You didn't really provide an answer to why the USA keeps killing innocent people other than asserting the US military is designed to kill people (which is absolutely true) but I'm not seeing the reasoning why innocents are kille
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by meritt 8y ago
> with the obvious consequence of mass deaths of innocent people So the drone program has a very ineffective targeting algorithm, one so bad it has absolutely catastrophic results, and we should be upset they've tried to hire the on
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by meritt 8y ago
There's no bending necessary. Google defined [1] what they meant in their IPO filing. > We believe strongly that in the long term, we will be better served—as shareholders and in all other ways—by a company that does good things fo
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by meritt 8y ago
> Because it is a conflict of interest. No, it's not. That's entirely subjective. It's only a conflict of interest in the heads of people who believe the U.S. military is evil. The problem is that Google has a different in
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by meritt 8y ago
Truck drivers require a specific skill and license. There's a finite amount of those people at any point in time. If the number of jobs exceeds the number of workers, then we have an abundance of jobs in relation to the amount of human
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by meritt 8y ago
The quoted text is incorrect/misleading and it's not even in that particular embedded clip. What he said was: "When you buy non-productive assets all you're counting is whether the next person is going to pay you more be
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by meritt 8y ago
I assume this is primarily applicable to rasterized and printed materials since you'd need the appropriate typeface and/or font in order to render the glyphs correctly?
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by meritt 8y ago
Please explain to me what a labor shortage is then, if it's not a shortage of labor. Should I be using the more economically correct phrase 'scarcity of human capital'?
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by meritt 8y ago
> In that case, 3 companies will realize they don't actually need those workers afterall, not for the salary they're demanding. They'll find another way to do business without hiring them, or they might even go out of busi
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by meritt 8y ago
Labor shortages absolutely exist. If there are 100 jobs requiring a specific skill and only 97 people exist who have that skill, that's a labor shortage. Those companies can compete for those workers all they want, but it doesn't
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by meritt 8y ago
The data source of this report is the 2016 Survey of Consumer Finance [1] and they prepared a separate report [2] looking specifically at wealth-holding by race and ethnicity. > In 2016, white families had the highest level of both medi
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by meritt 8y ago
Someone at Uber probably recently committed: if (personDetected()) - break(); + brake();
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by meritt 8y ago
https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2018/05/VPNFilter.html provides a detailed technical overview of how VPNFilter functions and their findings conclude it appears to be a derivative of similar efforts by the same
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by meritt 8y ago
According to DOJ [1], "Someone" is Fancy Bear [2] and the FBI has seized control [3] of the C&C domain (ToKnowAll.com) [1] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-... [2] https:&
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by meritt 8y ago
> EXAMPLE: I was once handed a MySQL database of IoT signals where timestamps were in seconds since the epoch and asked to report on this data without changing the database I'm not following why you moved the data into postgres othe
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by meritt 8y ago
Wyden is the most knowledgeable legislator we have when it comes to technology. Here's him explaining Net Neutrality [1] and urging a 'no' vote [2] on Ajit Pai's FCC nomination. Here's a letter [3] from him a year a
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by meritt 8y ago
Zillow has published some work on it -- https://www.zillow.com/blog/bigger-homes-smaller-lots-184558... but it doesn't go back very far. -10% since 2000.
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by meritt 8y ago
> Land is the epitome of something that cannot be manufactured, so goes up in value. Lot sizes have gotten significantly smaller over the past 50 years. The difference is probably closer to 3 vs 20 if you include the amount of land purch
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by meritt 8y ago
The primary facility in graph databases is each node explicitly contains a list of relationships it has with other nodes. The relationships are treated as first-class citizens. Neo4j has a great set of docs that introduce Graph DBs to peopl
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by meritt 8y ago
assuming you're on postgres, generate_series() is a far easier option to do exactly what you've described.
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by meritt 8y ago
Avoiding the EAV model while still being flexible (e.g. sparse attributes for any variety of products) is one place where the JSON datatype really shines. Throw your non-standard attributes into a JSON object and use the native DB functions
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by meritt 8y ago
Advan, Reveal Mobile, QuestMobile, Pinsight, Streetlight Data, RootMetrics, OpenSignal, SafeGraph are a few of the companies selling various forms of mobile user location data.
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by meritt 8y ago
The music composition on this video sounds eerily similar to Final Fantasy 7's main theme. These sections specifically: * Surface Hub 2: https://youtu.be/7DbslbKsQSk?t=1m34s * FF7 Main Theme: https://youtu.b
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by meritt 8y ago
Glad I'm not the only one. NYTimes and SiriusXM are companies with solid products whom I refuse to do business with due to the hassle of cancellation. Meanwhile Netflix allows you to sign-up, cancel, or even temporarily pause your serv
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by meritt 8y ago
Given the scenario we're talking about (ensuring your phone does not emit location signals) using airplane mode is placing a significant amount of trust in the phone manufacturer.
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by meritt 8y ago
Get a faraday bag for your phone is the easiest and most certain.
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by meritt 8y ago
I can't speak to the relative complexity of the two machines either (obviously a Tesla is vastly more technologically complex but that doesn't mean it's necessarily more difficult to assemble: assembling computers today is ex

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