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otoburb
8y ago
Looks like Tableau but can't say for sure. Looks beautiful.
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8y ago
Punchy and brutally vivid writing. Reminded me of Hemingway.
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"Mathematics research had another feature that appealed to her at the time: It is something you can work on in solitude, if you wish. In her early life, she said in 1997, “I regarded anything to do with people as being sort of a horri
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otoburb
8y ago
Another physics layperson question here: Can this technique of studying a past state reversal apply to compromising one-way hash functions in some manner?
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The Genderless Digital Voice the World Needs
(wired.com)
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Niall Ferguson: A Big Tech Digital Dollar Would Be a Nightmare
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"For parents working in science, tech, engineering, and medicine, Cech says part of what drives them out of full time work or toward other fields is the cultural expectation that they treat their careers as the only thing that matters
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How to Keep Parents from Fleeing Stem Careers
(wired.com)
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Think These Are Planets? They're Something Far More Sinister
(wired.com)
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Do all networks obey the scale-free law? Maybe not
(phys.org)
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otoburb
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Wouldn't that sort of make sense that if Russian cash is floating around the rest of the planet then there's less of said wealth circulating within the Russian domestic economy?
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otoburb
8y ago
That is a viable option for many types of debt, but some forms of student debt cannot be discharged under bankrtupcty[1]. There is no easy answer here, because the immediate first-order reaction to questions about blanket student loan forgi
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New Squid Genome Shines Light on Symbiotic Evolution
(quantamagazine.org)
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China Will Likely Corner the 5G Market–and the US Has No Plan
(wired.com)
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>> It also helps that since I'm the boss, I don't have to put up with anybody else's crap :) Do you sometimes find it lonely at the top? I hope leadership loneliness is somewhat blunted by having your father around for
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8y ago
I've been at my current company for over a decade. The company has changed a lot over the years, going from a large public company when I joined, to private, back to public again recently. The reasons I stayed are simple: I've lea
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8y ago
>> If I susbcribe then I had to consume that media daily and read several articles to make that subscription worth it and I won't do that. Why do you feel compelled to read several articles per day to make that subscription wort
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8y ago
It's a game.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oregon_Trail_(series)
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True, but Canadian firms also compete with one another for talent, and many top firms (presumably more applicable to a whiteshoe law firm) offer "top up" the employe's parental leave salary to X% -- the best I've seen is
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Even with governments paying for parental leave up to the cap, and often with Canadian companies in the talent war offering to "top-up" to X% (e.g. 80% of normal pay), it means that on average Canadian companies may not be as fina
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> If you want me to not discriminate then please make laws which remove incentives to do so. I guess the question for small business owners to help answer: what laws would make this work? Gender-neutral parental leave seems to be the
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8y ago
>> Okay, so... how do they do it? They never answer the question. If you have say, a CFO or a specialist mechanic (that you only need 1 of, but definitely need) and they take a year off, what do you do? Just go without a CFO/mech
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The Double Life of Black Holes
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We're in "violent agreement". You seem to be missing my point. I completely agree with you that you cannot edit a transaction after it's been signed. I was trying to point out above that if the user is tricked, by signin
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I'm treating network & host attacks as a supply chain attack where the authentic/intended destination address is replaced by the attacker with the attacker's address. Hence my air quotes around the word "wrong".
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>> It could as well be sent via unencrypted http routed through China, then Russia and then an NSA server all while your host device is heavily backdoored. As much as we'd like to believe this is the case, MITM (network or host)
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Spanning the Database World with Google
(nextplatform.com)
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China ends a long freeze on new video games
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New instruments will study the universe’s most mysterious component
(economist.com)
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otoburb
8y ago
Yes, floonet is the testnet.
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