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by pradn 7y ago
Fantastic answer. I don't know what I expected, but I find ~10 amino acid residues a second to be somewhat low.
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by pradn 7y ago
Doesn't the Bloomberg terminal also have a private chat feature?
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by pradn 7y ago
I don't see it as a çatastropic regression. We're already seeing instances of software gatekeepers like the Apple Appstore requiring users to upload bitcode that can be specialized to different processors. This is strictly better
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by pradn 7y ago
One good alternative to ctor+init() is a static factory method with a private ctor. It's just as simple as in C.
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by pradn 7y ago
This could be a case for "eminent domain"ing the domain from this user. If domains are property, "eminent domain" must apply to them too.
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by pradn 7y ago
Hawala is a pretty common way for people to send large sums of money between the USA and India. Amounts on the order of $100,000+ are not unheard of.
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by pradn 7y ago
I once went to a talk by Nassim Nicholas Taleb after the publication of his "Skin in the Game". He said the way to make a book last is to stuff it full of ideas, stories, and wander around. A focused book doesn't last. Take i
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by pradn 7y ago
Yes, Kubernetes's design was inspired by Borg, but the code is not Borg's code. BigQuery and Cloud Spanner use most of the code of the internal versions. That's the difference.
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by pradn 7y ago
This is a rather cynical take. It's hard to know the results of basic research on future therapies. Is it likely that this one project is going to find the smoking gun cure when there's hundreds of teams around the world trying al
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by pradn 7y ago
A good number of people will buy this on Steam, which is a bigger lock-in than any other DRM.
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by pradn 7y ago
People in this thread are comparing the iPad Pro to a laptop. I would like to get one just to serve as a powerful consumption machine. Websites will load faster with the powerful CPU. It has a great screen and a pencil for occasional doodli
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by pradn 7y ago
That doesn't include dividends paid out by the companies in the NIKKEI.
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by pradn 7y ago
So we can use garbage-collected languages in trading systems without turning on the garbage collector - just collect it all at the end of the trading day. I'm joking but this is a real technique.
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by pradn 7y ago
See the Millennium Challenge 2002 for another interesting "war game", this one a simulated war between the US and Iran: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002
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by pradn 7y ago
I absolutely agree that memorizing facts help you understand the world. Famously, students find memorizing dates in history tedious and useless, but it's important. Any new event you hear of can be compared with many concurrent events.
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by pradn 7y ago
I've stopped using Instagram to post pictures; I only use stories. I post a lot of trash/ephemera/jokes on stories. It's much more fun that having to figure out what to post. It's not permanent.
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by pradn 7y ago
There's a difference between ensuring companies creating beneficial products are financially rewarded and asking the customers to pay the full cost. The government can step in to pay for serious illnesses so we don't let people di
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by pradn 7y ago
Another way to look at it is that you're optimistic that the crisis will be resolved.
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by pradn 7y ago
I was recently looking at getting new hardware to improve Chrome loading times. (This is a somewhat theoretical affair for me since my desktop is already pretty fast.) But, now I wonder if I should downgrade. Maybe it's good not to upg
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by pradn 7y ago
You don't have to live in China for the Chinese government to have power over you. The threat of releasing your secret emails or browsing history is enough to get people to change their behavior. The internet enables such remote threat
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by pradn 7y ago
I'm currently at the Google NYC office and no one here says it's more efficient. It's just a way to pack more people into valuable real estate. Full stop.
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by pradn 7y ago
Multiple teams can work on separate abuse patterns, you know.
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Plimpton 322(en.wikipedia.org)
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by pradn 7y ago
The article doesn't mention if the musicians are sent in multiple planes, like athletic teams often are.
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by pradn 7y ago
The bell-maker sequence is one of my favorites in all of cinema. You'll be delighted to read this story in the Mughal emperor Babur's autobiography discussing the casting of a cannon and the emotions the cannon-maker felt when fai
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by pradn 7y ago
I work at the Google office in Chelsea, New York. One day, my old manager and I were talking about the future of GSuite and how entrenced MS Office is. We were next to a south-facing window and he pointed out toward all the buildings in dow
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by pradn 7y ago
Whenever I want to look up the highlights of a place, I look up it's Lonely Planet page. They are written well and have good pictures. The way to compete against a million random reviewers is by upping quality and forming a brand. In s
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by pradn 7y ago
I understand that. Being around a certain crowd makes you want certain things. An architect friend said she wouldn't want to be seen using an Android when a client visits her office. I'm glad my work and friends don't pressur
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by pradn 7y ago
It looks like there aren't enough independent, non-commercial articles to use as references. This is somewhat common for many newish technical projects. Add some academic papers, some usage numbers, some summary blog posts that aren&#x
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by pradn 7y ago
It's absurd to compare loss-making consumer products with a business that's the only shot for Google diversifying beyond ads and that has companies paying hundreds of millions of dollars over decade+ contracts. Urs says enterprise

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