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by mighmi 3y ago
I've personally never been in a situation where analytics drove change. Even mere A/B testing seems like a ghost in (most?) organizations, where management or designers decide to force through their personal preferences. That said
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by mighmi 3y ago
> The Schlieffen plan developed by it's namesake general The Schlieefen plan didn't exist. > The Schlieffen memorandum of 1905, with its 1906 supplement, was not a plan. It was not operational. It did not go into details or
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by mighmi 3y ago
One guy liked to send dick pics, another was doing a lot of drugs and sent deranged messages for 48 hours straight to random people and the last was "just" a compulsive liar, who seemed to invite a prostitute to the office who the
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by mighmi 3y ago
What's wrong with it?
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by mighmi 3y ago
> load up Tor and go download terabytes of information in any industry imaginable How do you find any of it?
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by mighmi 3y ago
Hostelworld has absolutely cornered the hostel market, with most venues signing away pricing. This allows hostelworld to equalize prices in a given location, raising them above board although occupancy is down (many empty places during the
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by mighmi 3y ago
You weren't able to scale enough initially to be profitable on your own operations, I presume? At what scale would you be able to support your burn rate? This is a fantastic project. I also briefly worked on something similar, but left
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by mighmi 3y ago
Thank you for sharing that video! Your foam project looks fascinating too: https://github.com/kgrgreer/foam3
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by mighmi 3y ago
We had plenty of amazing paradigms/development environments/holistic experiences which we've regressed from: - LISP environments - Smalltalk environments - Symbolics genera - Mesa and Cedar - Apple's Newton Besides thing
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by mighmi 3y ago
Historically, having your first child around 27 was average except for the wealthy. The post war period was a historical aberration of young marriage. > fathers consistently older (30.7 years) than mothers (23.2 years) https:/&#x2F
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by mighmi 3y ago
How do later editions of SICP differ? I have no idea which I used.
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by mighmi 3y ago
I used to leave little cards with a line describing why I liked a given book and my email address. I never received a reply though.
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by mighmi 3y ago
What does this refer to?
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by mighmi 3y ago
What makes you choose Go over C#/Java for medium projects? And why not go for the large projects?
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by mighmi 3y ago
Since it mentions video disc players as 10^10 bits... 5gb of data (encoded as digital audio) really could be stored on a single vhs in the 70s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSnrQBfBCzY although computers didn't leve
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by mighmi 3y ago
You seem to have wildly misread everything I wrote e.g. > varying BAC regulations throughout the world. Drunk driving in one place may very well be legal in another when I wrote: > lower blood alcohol level allowances. I.e. reform it
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by mighmi 3y ago
It seems like it rebuilds itself with PGO. I can't tell if I'm being paranoid/didn't only include stdlib in something, but I ran some random programs, restarted my computer and the install is now at 320mb, vs. 213 when I
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by mighmi 3y ago
> The USA does as well, except among poor people and gun victims. I suggest you look at the actual causes of death in the US: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db456.htm#secti... Considering typ
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by mighmi 3y ago
This simplifies them a fair bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXWbdxOAuDs
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by mighmi 3y ago
Here is a great treatment with sources, musing on the real meaning of it: https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9rvroo/most...
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by mighmi 3y ago
It's only a profit because of a gain in their equity holdings. > recognized a $386 million unrealized pre-tax gain related to the revaluation of our equity investments
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by mighmi 3y ago
Thank you for the advice! > ...like what? Russia and the US. All through personal connections.
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by mighmi 3y ago
O1 or E2 visas can be attached to a company you found.
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by mighmi 3y ago
Mint Mobile is $15/month for unlimited.
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by mighmi 3y ago
How do you find these positions? I speak German and did my studies there but always worked in other places.
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by mighmi 3y ago
"Introduction to Operating System Abstractions using Plan 9 from Bell Labs" is the best operating system book I've seen - and it works through Plan9: https://archive.org/details/plan9designintro It isn&#
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by mighmi 3y ago
> This led me to a Reddit community of replica enthusiasts, who traded details about “trusted sellers” capable of delivering a Chanel 2.55 or Loewe Puzzle or Hermès Birkin that promised to be indistinguishable from the original, and pric
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by mighmi 3y ago
> largest branch of the Abrahamic family tree, namely Islam The number of all Muslims only surpassed members of the Catholic church around 2008. There are still substantially more Christians as a whole, including Orthodox and Protestants
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by mighmi 3y ago
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-all-top-e-commerce-apps-i... > already added in-app voice assistants to their apps - Amazon, Flipkart, Big Basket, Udaan, P&G, and JioMart > Voice technology has finally cau
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by mighmi 3y ago
The US already has Zelle which does this. However the roll out was botched, many banks don't seem to use it and most people (including me until a few months ago) thought it was a paypal competitor - but it's actually a government

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