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by novaRom 8y ago
How true. I have many calls from head hunters based in London and their accent is hard to understand, especially via phone line.
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Airbus Beluga XL takes first flight(cnbc.com)
8 points by novaRom 8y ago|0 comments
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by novaRom 8y ago
I did read once that Tor should pass, but never had a chance to try
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by novaRom 8y ago
1) each installation profile is assigned a unique user ID that is stored on your computer 2) every 24 hours it sends IP, ID, version, cpu architecture, screen resolution and time since last message 3) then we store the resolved approximate
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by novaRom 8y ago
From their privacy policy: "When you install Vivaldi browser, each installation profile is assigned a unique user ID that is stored on your computer. Vivaldi will send a message using HTTPS directly to our servers located in Iceland ev
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by novaRom 8y ago
Not just rich, but 'equally' rich.
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by novaRom 8y ago
Intel PR was always too much addicted to Moore's Law. The Moore's Law is almost dead and so is Intel (Most semiconductor industry forecasters, including Gordon Moore, expect Moore's law will end by around 2025) Source: https
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by novaRom 8y ago
Let's say following: all the urban infrastructure is car-centric, period. Even in most developed European cities the car drivers are privileged. Why should we bike riders use side lanes/walks and not main lanes for example? On rar
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by novaRom 8y ago
Why not to eat just fruits? Why a kind of juice is necessary?
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by novaRom 8y ago
Dear Peter, A citizen of Central Europe (not in Visa Waiver List) who needs to travel regularly to USA to attend different workshops/conferences. Every year I have to apply for B1/B2 (because of Technology Alert List I guess) anew
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by novaRom 8y ago
In Germany we have extremely high property taxes (6% of purchase cost on new buy and 1.2% annual in my region). Plus very high transaction costs associated with real estate business (notary costs). It is interesting fact that more developed
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by novaRom 8y ago
Data collection by default. They don't even ask to "opt in". Hopefully they will pay enough in EU to learn.
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by novaRom 8y ago
On any new device I normally do the same thing each time: 1) Install Firefox Nightly 2) Install uBlock Origin add-on 3) Enable Duck Duck Go as default search engine 4) Enjoy I am still looking for a good replacement for Gmail.
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by novaRom 8y ago
mxnet is not just fast for "some" applications. It consistently outperforms many frameworks especially in realm of compute intensive convolutions.
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by novaRom 8y ago
I compared many frameworks and find mxnet is the best choice for production if you care about development time and speed of the training.
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by novaRom 8y ago
It would be fair to get rid of Windows from all EU public authorities, schools, etc. I really don't understand why is it still not done after so many years?
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by novaRom 8y ago
Google Flights is still not working in Firefox
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by novaRom 8y ago
Yes, Google Flights refuses to work with Firefox and asks to switch to Chrome
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by novaRom 8y ago
And terribly expensive rents, at least in big cities like Munich. Many engineers would like to move to US, but it’s much harder than to move to some other less expensive place within EU.
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Website is no longer available in the EU due to new data protections(tastingtable.com)
1 points by novaRom 8y ago|0 comments
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by novaRom 8y ago
This is true. And net salaries are 3x higher. Say, an average tech Joe from Munich is getting home only 3 to 4 thousands of dollars after taxes (48%, it includes social security, etc.), but renting a studio costs almost the same as in San F
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by novaRom 8y ago
The largest tax burden is on the middle class. The upper-middle class has fixed social security taxation (it is growing up to a certain level) and large part of the capital is in different securities which are taxed differently (much lower
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by novaRom 9y ago
> Behind closed doors, big pharma scientists complain about the quality of academic work Same in Deep Learning research - 99% of papers today is just an obfuscated description of their "alchemy". Even from famous universities a
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by novaRom 9y ago
It happens quite often, I donno why there is no supportive research on it.
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by novaRom 9y ago
how about food?
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by novaRom 9y ago
The very first impression after I land at any US airport is - why everything is so inefficient and of such a low quality? Roads, hotel rooms, transportation, food - everything looks inferior to what you see in an average European country. B
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by novaRom 9y ago
Normally temperatures in south Germany (Stuttgart, Munich) are between +10 and +25 Celsius in summer and between 0 and +10 in winter. The climate is mild and humid without strong winds. There are much fewer sunny days in comparison with US,
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by novaRom 9y ago
What is so bad to pay with Cash? It's anonymous and sellers don't pay extra charges to any US company (Visa, PayPal, etc.). Also most of the restaurants hide their revenues from tax authorities (it was recently in the news) - othe
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by novaRom 9y ago
I speculate that Google will sell TPUv2 for as less as 500 USD per PCIe card already in 2018. Nvidia's Volta TensorCores are essentially the same: 32-bit accumulators and 16-bit multipliers, but GPUs are more general-purpose which is n
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by novaRom 9y ago
Here in Germany I know nobody who has this gluten sensitivity, but I meet more people abroad with this issue, esp. many digestive problems seems to appear in US - so maybe something is different during food processing? Do you have this prob

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