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by oarabbus_ 8y ago
They shouldn't have this power
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by oarabbus_ 8y ago
I disagree. He didn't ask that "don't most people know you need to fill up your car with gas once the tank gets low?" He made it seem like the fact that there is a high degree of uncertainty/estimation in genetic te
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by oarabbus_ 8y ago
Is it just me or is the headline a good reason to start a company _inside_ Silicon Valley? I can't be the only one who thought "all you saved was $1.1 million? I'd rather spend that and be in a location which is drowning in t
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by oarabbus_ 8y ago
>I thought it was pretty well known that these services are estimates only to a large degree? These services only take samples, they don't sequence the entire genome. Of course there will be errors when you have to extrapolate from
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by oarabbus_ 8y ago
Most engineers I know have not learned set theory or groups/rings/lattices. They still seem to be doing pretty well.
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by oarabbus_ 8y ago
>No, the real trend to watch here is not that the cloud providers are making it easier for non-technical people to code (although they are), but that they are straight-up reducing the number of people required to deliver technical soluti
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by oarabbus_ 8y ago
There's always the interviewing apologists out in force whenever someone brings up how broken the process is; this post is no exception.
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by oarabbus_ 8y ago
How anglocentric
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by oarabbus_ 8y ago
I realize this post may come off as abrasive, but here it goes. > but recent news has made it clear to me that travel is one of the human obsessions that is destroying this world and that the future will not happen: If you think that imp
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by oarabbus_ 8y ago
On the flipside “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?” – Albert Einstein
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by oarabbus_ 8y ago
>Some people seem to think every place should be equally affordable to everyone and I do not understand that. Perhaps you can explain Is there something obvious I'm missing here? This seems to be a salient point. Why should it cost
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by oarabbus_ 8y ago
>I'm reminded of a Quora answer by a guy who loved fighting, one phrase he used stuck out at me. "Great fighters have to kind of like getting hit." Floyd Mayweather disputes this.
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by oarabbus_ 8y ago
I thought Sears went out of business like 5+ years ago
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by oarabbus_ 8y ago
Because profits are expected to grow or actually grow. Is this facetious?
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by oarabbus_ 8y ago
That was likely my own comment; and it was comparing a company that didn't pay dividends to the exact same company which does pay dividends. In this scenario with equivalent cash flows, expenditures, and expectations of future growth t
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by oarabbus_ 8y ago
Dividends are not some magic; they are taken out of the share price. There's not really a difference between reinvested dividends vs. no dividends at all. And non-reinvested dividends are less optimal as you'll pay taxes on them,
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by oarabbus_ 8y ago
>I find it odd that being a big in a large market that isn't growing (like the mobile phone market) is seen as a problem. Why does the company need to grow if it's profitable as it is? It's anything but odd. That's th
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by oarabbus_ 8y ago
Because reading the comment thread, it's utterly antithetical to loot boxes. One is cosmetic and the other is functional.
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by oarabbus_ 8y ago
It also furthers the notion that "coding is easy" and if it doesn't come easy to you then you simply aren't a good programmer and will never be one.
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by oarabbus_ 8y ago
Right... but that doesn't address the point that nations in modern day are still decentralized.
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by oarabbus_ 8y ago
>The long run trend is very obviously toward a single government. Hmm, I think you will have to justify that statement, rather than simply claim it is a very obvious fact. Generally, there were fewer governments in the past as compared t
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by oarabbus_ 8y ago
>Zuckerberg is who he is--the same guy who, in college, called his fellow students "dumb f---s" for trusting him with their data. I don't really get why people constantly bring this up. First of all he's not wrong - a
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by oarabbus_ 8y ago
>Interview is a 2-way process and it seems a lot of people have bought into some of the kool aid. What too many people choose to forget or ignore is employment itself (at least in CA) is a 2-way process. The employer is not doing you
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by oarabbus_ 8y ago
This must be a facetious comment. You don't see how it being only banned in Saudi Arabia is not as bad as Saudi Arabia complaining and having it taken down worldwide? Plus, Saudia Arabia is not known as a bastion of personal liberty. B