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by pcarolan 8y ago
I'm generally in favor of Nuclear, but they need to complete their whole-life planning before opening new plants. Presently, the status quo plan is to store nuclear waste at or near where it is generated in perpetuity. That's a pr
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by pcarolan 8y ago
That is a big downside and I hope Redshift does add this to their product. Unnesting + flattening is difficult (but not impossible) to do in Redshift. I'd argue that python + built-in JSON support makes it an orange not a red though in
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by pcarolan 8y ago
To say that Redshift doesn't support Arrays vs BigQuery's UDF support is a little confusing. Redshift has built-in functions for array operations and Python UDF support. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/la
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by pcarolan 8y ago
Can the person who down-voted me explain why asking for a source on a fact-based statement is worth a down-vote? Just curious why that's offensive? I could have googled it myself, but it's not my source, it's the OPs I was in
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by pcarolan 8y ago
I love this perspective. Do you have data to support it?
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by pcarolan 8y ago
SMS could and should be expanded to include more social primitives within the protocol. Lately, I find myself using group chats in SMS more than any social network. Facebook and Twitter have a dis-incentive to do this, but Apple and Microso
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by pcarolan 8y ago
It seems like a smart transition technology would be truck driving roads. Basically install sensors on major freeways for longhaul routes which allows the road to take the wheel. You could have on/off ramps for this so people could tak
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by pcarolan 8y ago
Would love a data/analytics section which discusses techniques and methodology at a practical level.
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by pcarolan 8y ago
Does anyone know if and how this would affect cellphone companies who sell location data to data brokers? http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-verizon-location-data-... You practically can't opt of this or are of
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by pcarolan 8y ago
What is Github's reason for this? I'm looking for some salient reason why they'd sell their company. Is it investor pressure or founder apathy, or ...? It seems to me like creating and running a product as admired as Github i
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by pcarolan 8y ago
You and op work for companies you seem to fundamentally disagree with. Can you say why you don’t leave? Asking not out of judgment but to understand.
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by pcarolan 8y ago
I think the bigger problem was the culture that company had in place that would lead people to do that.
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by pcarolan 8y ago
What AV equipment do you use that you find indespensible?
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by pcarolan 9y ago
Fair comment. The title would imply there's a 'so what?' in the article, not just a 'how'.
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by pcarolan 9y ago
I thought Senator Durbin phrased it well: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rTIKWURvbQ4
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by pcarolan 9y ago
If these are underwater and the mining process on land is already extremely toxic. Does this mean that mining them underwater will release large amounts of toxins into the ocean?
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by pcarolan 9y ago
Job seekers hire consultants? News to me. Good on them.
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by pcarolan 9y ago
It would be valuable if a 3rd party solved the problem of feedback minus the liability. Could be a business there. No idea what that would look like though.
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by pcarolan 9y ago
Are there any liability laws that hold those in the chain of custody accountable for third party misuse? Seems like it is an obvious burden of responsibility.
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by pcarolan 9y ago
I’ve even seen companies struggle to sell a dollar for 90 cents. Great point.
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by pcarolan 9y ago
This is why God invented Spark.
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by pcarolan 9y ago
Agreed. I'd say there's nothing out there today (i'm aware of) that has as much personality and joy as TSN did.
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by pcarolan 9y ago
Here's a good rundown: https://a16z.com/2018/01/21/mental-models-tokens-crypto-tren...
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by pcarolan 9y ago
He sounds like a jerk and you're going to have to spend a lot of time with him. Walking away should be an option.
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by pcarolan 9y ago
Some of us think that burning coal at 250kwh[1] per transaction isn't sustainable. [1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/bitcoins-insane-...
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by pcarolan 9y ago
That's me. Any idea how well supplements are absorbed? Which are better or worse?
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by pcarolan 9y ago
What dose is recommended for adults and what is the best way to get it into your system?
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by pcarolan 9y ago
If we respond this way[1] to every argument, no issue will ever get resolved. I don't disagree with you regarding electric vehicles, but it doesn't address the issue that bitcoin is an environmental catastrophe in the making[2]. [
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by pcarolan 9y ago
I'd agree with this if it didn't dump carbon into the atmosphere at a staggering rate. Investors should buy carbon offsets with their newfound wealth so they're not externalizing that cost. [toned down]
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by pcarolan 9y ago
Even if we act to erase material poverty, there is another greater task, it is to confront the poverty of satisfaction - purpose and dignity - that afflicts us all. Too much and for too long, we seemed to have surrendered personal excellenc

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