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by piokoch 6y ago
Hmm, found at least one like this: newbie789 6 hours ago [–] This is fascinating because I am myself half black, lived in many communities of mixed demographics and never once heard a friend (of any race) say they want more police at all, e
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by piokoch 6y ago
Very true, there is a very good blog post by Joel Spolsky on that: a good support person will spot recurring technical and report that to devs. Some offshore "consultant" support or badly paid "call center person" does n
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by piokoch 6y ago
I don't think they can - if they do this, Kindle would not be allowed in airplane cabin.
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by piokoch 6y ago
I am really curious how those Yale guys check applicants race. Some kind of skin color pigment measurement (sorry, you are a bit too white to qualify as African American, next person please)? Or do they measure someones eye shape to "d
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by piokoch 6y ago
I was working in the office, where next doors we had a company that was doing English language learning software that was sold on CDs in book stores. Once I was talking with the owner of that company, he was investigating options to move be
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by piokoch 6y ago
Very true, as St. Matthew has written "But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing" A lot of charity is not for the sake of helping someone, but for the sake of making oneself to lo
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by piokoch 6y ago
I think the article lacks one more "standard" claim for this type of pseudo-science writings: slow breathing cures cancer.
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by piokoch 6y ago
I wish I could see that powerful AI in action. Think of something easy like, for instance, AI powered point of sale in the supermarket. Right now many shops introduce "automatic" POS, and the automation means that instead of shop
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by piokoch 6y ago
Garmin CEO at al must be reading this impatiently, looking for some clever-magic clue, which is not gonna arrive, I am afraid. Meanwhile Garmin watches users (like me) are wondering how it is that syncing my watch that I have bought with an
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by piokoch 6y ago
The divide 51:49 is nothing special if there are two candidates, in Poland the difference was typically 2-8 percentage points, in fact in 1995 election the difference was almost the same as in 2020 so I wouldn't say anything special ha
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by piokoch 6y ago
Actually in Poland more media are "liberal" anti-government than pro-government. As a matter of fact traditional media like TV, newspaper, vertical news portals are becoming less and less influential. In Poland this manifested cle
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by piokoch 6y ago
I've checked wikipedia and it seems that affirmative action that was designed to remove all those inequalities was introduced something like 30 years ago, so one generation lives in the environment without discrimination. Has this affi
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by piokoch 6y ago
I have read somewhere that maybe in future place in the office will be given by some employers as a perk, by default people will work from home (those who do office-like work, obviously, nobody will have car production line at home). This c
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by piokoch 6y ago
"You're saying that in situations where someone attacks a police officer, the police are 1000/50" Are you claiming that it would be "more fair" if this ratio was different? Should it be 50/50? I think not,
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by piokoch 6y ago
Yes, but they use another "social app" that happen to be owned by Facebook the corporation. Even though I don't like Facebook and its founder, I have to say he was clever enough to avoid the fate of MySpace, which just stoppe
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by piokoch 6y ago
Yes, you can do even more, you can put all those user data to some offline storage as long as you can justify that you need this (which is very often the case). GDPR is mostly about processing user data, not storing them. So user can execut
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by piokoch 6y ago
As a non American I am not getting this at all. In many US cities/towns sheriff is elected. In all other cases city mayor is elected. How it happens that all those mayors and sheriffs are still in the office if police brutality is such
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by piokoch 6y ago
That's very true. Another thing is that it is not like EU is somehow very far behind the US in terms of services hosting or "the cloud". There is French OVH provider and there is German Hetzner. While the former has an opinio
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by piokoch 6y ago
Wait until some HFT investors will step up to buy such fiber cable to be microseconds faster than competition. Those $3000/kg could turn out to be a small change.
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by piokoch 6y ago
Almost nobody and it does not matter. IBM core business is not hardware anymore, they are consulting company like Accenture, McKinsey, Deloitte, etc [1]. The software & hardware company from the '80 and '90 died and filled for
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by piokoch 6y ago
"My engineer friend uses it for supply chain management, a beer store hq clerk helped implement it, construction accountant has used it, etc." Is SAP something that can be somehow scaled down? if this is used for a beer store, it
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by piokoch 6y ago
I don't think theoretical physicists would find these findings to be that interesting. There are a lot of mathematical results that can be somehow applied to physics, but very rarely something interesting comes out of it from physicist
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by piokoch 6y ago
"As a conductor, when I stick my head out of the car to perform the required platform observation" I can't really believe that the country that managed to send man to the Moon is not able to put a camera somewhere in the trai
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by piokoch 6y ago
Think of a simple landing page with a form to save data from a form and send out an email with confirmation. In PHP you just need to add to your HTML page a few lines of PHP code and copy it using scp to any share server hosting that costs
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by piokoch 7y ago
A 2020 A.D. blog post. Title has nothing to do with the content and the content itself is a bunch of speculations and pessimistic predictions that are so far not based on any scientific evidence.
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by piokoch 7y ago
Kind of surprising. I can somehow understand that FB bends under pressure from Chinese government - huge population of a "superpower" country. But Vietnam? It looks as if FB was forced to squeeze every cent of their revenue. FB mi
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by piokoch 7y ago
That's the way free market works. If masks were more expensive, it would make sense to invest and produce more of them. Instead governments and institutions all over the World are trying to keep prices low and the only result they get
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by piokoch 7y ago
Facebook did that (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Ana... , funny stuff they did to circumvent GDPR). And Who cared? There was some noise in the media and that's all. Was Mark Zuckerbe
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by piokoch 7y ago
I've installed the application, it needs 840 MB of the memory. Firefox with more than 100 tabs opend consumes 1.2 GB, IntelliJ with a huge java project consumes 1.6 GB. I understand that this is proof of concept application, but what e
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by piokoch 7y ago
I think that people like Sam Altman, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, etc. can truly contribute to funding more science. For starters they can ask companies they fund to start paying taxes in some other place than Jersey, Cayman Islands, Luxemb

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