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by powera 11y ago
There's a difference between "Here are specific bad things that will happen in the future" and "Some weather happened, it rained here and it didn't rain there, therefore global warming". I don't trust rep
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by powera 11y ago
I'm sorry, but an article that invokes arbitrary heat waves, fires, rains, and droughts implying a "shit [has] really started hitting the fan" narrative in the first paragraph is pure link-bait and fear-mongering, regardless
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by powera 11y ago
If you're an employee (and not a contractor), there are generally a LOT of legal protections against employers that don't pay their employees on time.
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by powera 11y ago
Gilbert Gottfried used the joke in 2001 after a 9/11 joke backfired terribly, although the movie was apparently already in progress then, the author of the article says it was a well-known inside joke. http://observer.com&#
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by powera 11y ago
The one person at Google more wrong than Vic Gundotra still thinks that G+ failed because people didn't listen to HIM enough. How shocking. (and seriously, do you really think one person could have fixed the turd of G+ even with a bi
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by powera 11y ago
I regret that I have but one +1 for this comment. This is exactly what happened. The thinking was, "We're going to make a successful social network ... what can we do that looks like successful products?" So the target aud
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by powera 11y ago
I assumed this would be a submarine ad article for Netjets. But it's not even that interesting.
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by powera 11y ago
Wait, I assumed he was already in jail. Why wasn't he already in jail?
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by powera 11y ago
Was it useful to do YCombinator and be in the SF Bay Area for several months while working on a product that is only available in Bangladesh?
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by powera 11y ago
Probably zero in terms of cash, but high in terms of knowing sympathetic people in high places more-or-less everywhere in Silicon Valley.
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by powera 11y ago
If the attacker has installed malware on the target machine and has physical access to it, literally nothing will save you.
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by powera 11y ago
From a pure science reporting point of view the news article screams "the claims in this news article are an outlier result that isn't actually likely to be true". The lack of peer review, the claims that things are actually
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by powera 11y ago
This article begs the question on "Biological replication and self‑reproduction are in fact such stupendously well‑orchestrated physical transformations that one must explain how they are possible under the simple, no‑design laws of ph
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by powera 11y ago
This isn't a paradox at all. It's a slightly non-intuitive result.
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by powera 11y ago
This article seems to be saying "Clearly technology is bad, now we just have to figure out a reason it's bad."
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by powera 11y ago
If a Tesla Model S costs $70000, even if electricity and maintenance are free (and there's no premium for self-driving) you would have to drive it 875000 miles for it to cost $0.08/mile. This seems like the type of thing that is
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by powera 11y ago
No, but I definitely can discount one study because two other people that claimed similar things were proven wrong (and Lysenko was less than a century ago). Although I can't tell in this case whether they're claiming anything ot
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by powera 11y ago
A pop science article talking about how "a researcher in the growing field of epigenetics and the intergenerational effects of trauma" found ... intergeneration effects of trauma kind of sets of my https://xkcd.com&#x2F
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by powera 11y ago
Data counter-point: When I interviewed at Google, I used "echo foo" in my Java code through two white-board coding interviews, and I still got the job. Sure, there are some terrible interviewers in the Valley (and I've been i
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by powera 11y ago
OK, this article is hopefully getting spam upvotes - it's clearly a terrible article promoting some (probably terrible) product through lies.
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The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran (1923)(www-personal.umich.edu)
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by powera 11y ago
If every computer data on a Mars mission dies, I think all the colonists aree dead. We aren't anywhere close to the technology to support colonists on Mars without technology. Ergo, "physical books" are just a waste of weig
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by powera 11y ago
This whole "universe splitting" theory seems like a load of utter hogwash trying to explain the simple fact that humans tend to have really bad memories.
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by powera 11y ago
If they really had 1 million concurrent active users "assuming 5% of our simultaneous actives were chatting, that we needed to be ready to support up to 50,000 users chatting at once", and were seeing growth "chat was an inst
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by powera 11y ago
If you get $240 million in investments, and then sell the company for $250 million, I fail to see how it was successful (or "building a unicorn") at all.
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by powera 11y ago
cgroups were largely written by members of the Borg team.
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by powera 11y ago
The MR master handles it. Mapreduce workers can request shards (work) that have data local to the host it is running on. For large mapreduces this basically works because both the data and the tasks are in most of the cluster, and for smal
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by powera 11y ago
Why are you both saying "we need to work on putting together a better social safety net and we need to work on making a whole lot more affordable housing available" and dismissing Section 8 Housing, which, as far as I can tell fro
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by powera 12y ago
It seems to me that the obvious conclusion here is that short-term options are underpriced due to the risk of people trading on news before the market-makers find out about it.
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by powera 12y ago
I seriously don't know if that article is being sarcastic or not.

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