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by pbourke 6y ago
I’m curious why people are downvoting the comment. It is quite remarkable for a major corporation to call the President out so explicitly. This is a scorched-earth approach to the comparatively anodyne world of public messaging around gover
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by pbourke 6y ago
> Why would I be upset that that some teen or 20-something, who primarily uses the internet to post and browse selfies on social media, does so from a phone rather than a IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad? Because it used to be that you could sta
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by pbourke 6y ago
> the WH is looking for a pre-election "win", more symbolic than anything. The "win" being the announcement of a case and ensuing press coverage or whatnot? I'm assuming it would take years for such a case to be
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by pbourke 6y ago
Everyone wants to fire up Tensorflow, Keras and PyTorch these days. Fewer people want to work in Airflow and SSIS, spend days tuning ETL, etc. This is the domain of data engineering, which bridges software engineering and data science with
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by pbourke 6y ago
> Incentivize customers not to pick up the phone and call How companies should do this: provide self-serve options for most things. Make the status of a long-running transaction transparent. Fix issues that cause people to call in the fi
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by pbourke 6y ago
What if you presented it with a bunch of single-word slides and had a compelling frame? “What my 10 years among uncontacted tribes in the Amazon taught me about the boiling point of water”
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by pbourke 6y ago
Sometimes it’s not possible to buy your way out of the problem with better hardware. If the issue is locking, or inefficient data structures, or interpreter overhead then there will be a floor to your gains. That floor might be quite high,
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by pbourke 6y ago
That was true a few months ago, but things have changed. Many North American factories closed down or curtailed production in the March-April-May timeframe. There was a rebound in demand as spring turned into summer (which was a major point
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by pbourke 6y ago
The post you responded to said they'd consider moving to "WA. No state tax. Nice nature.". You then pointed out problems in downtown Seattle. I'm not here from the Committee to Get Everyone To Open A Business In Seattle,
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by pbourke 6y ago
I’m buying my first pickup. These are not cookie-cutter vehicles. The MSRP is a floor for sticker prices. Once you factor in trim levels, packages, engine choices, etc there’s a continuous gradient that runs from MSRP to 2x MSRP or more. Wh
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by pbourke 6y ago
If you work for a large company, or one that is a supplier to automakers, I highly recommend researching whether your company is part of the make’s corporate discount program. The prices are often in the neighborhood of employee pricing, an
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by pbourke 6y ago
There is more to Washington than downtown Seattle.
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by pbourke 6y ago
It was not mentioned in the article, but it seems like there’s also lower inventory on car lots due to the slowdowns and closures of auto plants in the spring.
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by pbourke 6y ago
Well met, mirror-universe me
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by pbourke 6y ago
> China isn't, nor has it really ever been imperialist. Would Tibetans agree with you on that point? > The United States [...] is responsible for the death of millions of innocent civilians. Are you aware of China’s Great Leap Fo
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by pbourke 6y ago
> In Halifax, the train dispatcher on the pier stayed at his post to send one last message to keep the next passenger train from entering town. One of the best Heritage Minutes: https://youtu.be/rw-FbwmzPKo
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by pbourke 6y ago
> Almost nobody is going to want to keep up this horrid lifestyle after the virus is over. We are modifying our lifestyle in response to COVID-19. I don’t plan to spend significant time in an office going forward. Do you think there will
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by pbourke 6y ago
If you enjoyed this comment you might also like “Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance” by Jane Gleeson-White
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by pbourke 6y ago
Some occupations - usually professions such as medicine and engineering - seem to have a relatively strong ethical tradition. Perhaps it comes from the self-regulatory aspect of being a member of a profession. These ethics courses in softwa
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by pbourke 6y ago
It may be easier for the US to adopt mask wearing than to become a relatively small island nation with a trusted leader which locked its borders several months ago.
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by pbourke 6y ago
> No science supports masking for the general population. How’s this for science: look at the statistics for nations which had near-100% mask compliance (Taiwan, SK, Japan). Look at the animal study on hamsters separated by walls made of
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by pbourke 6y ago
"debits and credits balance" is a very useful constraint to have in your system in order to maintain data integrity. Transactions can also get quite complex - think of a salaried payroll deposit - this is a transaction with 5-10 s
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by pbourke 6y ago
The big difference I see between HN, Reddit, and traditional message boards on one hand and Facebook/Twitter/Instagram style social media on the other is the relative prominence of personalities vs topics. HN/Reddit/boar
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by pbourke 6y ago
> "The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced Tuesday the establishment of three quantum computing centers across the nation, involving an investment of $75 million.&q
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by pbourke 6y ago
Care to unpack this? The two ideologies that come to mind when I think of air travel are process improvement and safety theatre.
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by pbourke 6y ago
> Another factor besides coronavirus is widespread civil unrest. Also local politicians are coming under pressure to “defund the police” and some are taking the first steps toward that goal.
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by pbourke 6y ago
> Tech Twitter needs some sort of filter to keep them out. Tech Twitter manages to generate a fair amount of de novo BS without any involvement from journalists.
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by pbourke 6y ago
Surely she’ll sit down to read that NEJM paper and be appropriately chastened.
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by pbourke 6y ago
Exactly - it’s become an in-group signal due to Donald Trump politicizing mask wearing.
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by pbourke 6y ago
> That should reinforce the important point that we're dealing with unqualified, clown-show/amateur-hour political appointees in multiple levels of government In light of this point, how much would you trust a vaccine approved

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