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This is an important consideration that often gets missed in these discussions in my opinion. The methods and means to organize a group of people against oppression often are the same ones to rally a group of people around hatred and violen
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In some capacity, is it better to let something like 8chan exist given law enforcement and the government can actively monitor it and try and prevent such events from occurring? Would changing the laws around what constitutes domestic terro
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Isn't Brex relying on Mastercard underneath?
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I'm not saying Norway doesn't have technical or defense capabilities. I'm merely noting that Norway doesn't have the budget to develop state of the art fighter jets solely to provide the Norweigan government. In the case
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Norway is way too small of a country to develop its own weapons and airplanes. It has 2% of the GDP that the United States has. The cost of the F-35 project would deplete the entire Norweigan sovereign wealth fund. Secondly, what is the lik
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Well, my main point is I think it is somewhat absurd to blame GitHub for this. Sure, they can scan for SSN numbers, etc. but how many hackers are going to post stolen information to their Github account? A second matter though is there migh
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Capital One could have been proactive by running a script to scrape every github account to see if they had data that was compromised. I’m sure a lot of governments, hackers and graduate student researchers knowingly or unknowingly collecte
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But startups use Oracle according to Oracle...
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Do you think there could be a substantial time lag in that case though? Sure, some movies become hits with no marketing, but DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Ana Margo Robbie have been everywhere to market a movie with stellar reviews and a top directo
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Long term, this is likely right. It’s very easy to stop looking over your shoulder once the competition seems to have disappeared.
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P/S is also hard to use unless you did that for just AWS. Better to look at price to operating cash flow and better yet to capitalize R&D and leases.
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At the same time, when a breakthrough happens like with Gilead’s hep c drug, a single governing body is far less likely to educate and inform doctors that a major disease can basically be cured even if all the evidence points this to be the
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That’s an interesting theory.
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Peter Norvig had a point several years ago regarding the power of data. For instance, he mentioned some of the data Google collected could measure the effects of relativity. So in some ways, having the data makes it easier to “discover” som
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Maybe LBO? IBM still has some assets specialty assets like CPLEX for optimization where I believe they are the go to solution. I’m guessing if there was a buyout, some of the assets that could be adopted to a SaaS/cloud product could b
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While there certainly could be a shift back, it seems like it will likely occur because of edge computing. The cloud is still relevant here, but the question also becomes what a company could do if it had distributed sensors, etc. everywher
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Well, I believe some of the licensing was combative to many realities of best 21st century business practices. SAP had several lawsuits against some of its biggest clients, and as a result, changed its pricing methodology. In that particula
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It seems like an incumbent app should would likely want app stores to suffer from a lack of policing and degradation, whether they are paying 3%, 5%, or 30%. The less app stores are trusted for safety, the lower the friction there is to jus
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Exposure isn’t a bad thing. Eventually, kids have to learn. Growing up first in the city and then in the adjacent suburb, I would say kids who grew up solely in the city were much more mature by the time they were 18. Many kids who grew up
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I think this nails it on the head. The writer is conflating the affects due to socioeconomic conditions with the affects he wishes to perceive as it strengthens the arguments he brought forth in prior essays. This seems like an exercise of
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“violent downtowns typified by the ‘mean streets’ of the 1970s became clean and safe in the 1990s” While I’m not trying to be overly critical, he is also off base with his violent crime statistics as the nineties had the highest aggregate n
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I like "as" instead. I didn't realize that was on the table. To me, it seems more Pythonic given the typical English-like Python syntax of "with open(path) as file", "for element in items if element not in thin
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Floating-point precision can work depending on the financial application. If you are back-testing on exchange data, your simulation code only buys or sells at the bid or ask prices, so even if the signal has floating point imprecision, it d
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It's not revolutionary, but even with the stated two days of work in the original comment, you probably are spending a couple years worth of dollars compared to just using Shopify ignoring the time to find said developer, maintain the
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My understanding of the business is limited. I did hear Patrick Whiteside speak at a dinner though last year, and from his description, it seemed like most of these shows are packaged up and sold by the studios of even the agency itself. So
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As the 737 Max has shown, this isn’t exactly the industry you want to “move fast and break things” by attempting to try out every late and great technology. Then there is just an issue with the business model in general. Customers typically
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A lot of people made the same argument when Jobs removed the cd drive from laptops. It seemed like an issue at the time given most software was still installed from CDs. After a two year dark period where you had to use an external cd drive
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Literally, every glowing review I have seen comes from a related party, whether it is an investor, employee, or friend of the CEO.
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While I don’t know about the company traction, or sales tactics, I think it is fair to assume the feature set on email can be fairly easily replicated by the big players if they want to. Gmail added a lot of the Boomerang features as well a
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I’ve heard from countless of friends how many times Outlook goes down for their company, whether it’s a midsize company or a large company. I don’t think this is unique to Slack or company age.

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