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by presscast 8y ago
I've heard that it's rather common to be technically profitable (i.e.: a company has a greater income than expenses), but nonetheless insolvent due to bills coming due before clients pay their invoices. From what I was told, this
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> a true Bessel beam cannot be created, as it is unbounded What does "unbounded" mean in this context? What is an example of a "bounded" beam?
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For most of us, dealing with this kind of issue is a hassle, even when there's no actual legal danger. Substitute "bad PR" with "litigation risk" if you prefer. The point is: there exists an incentive to think in t
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No, but it might prompt someone to dig deeper. I think companies are starting to treat the hiring process as a security risk and are trying to minimize the attack-surface.
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This gets right to the heart of the issue, IMHO. Hiring has become such a litigation-prone process that companies are now incentivized to leak as little information as possible. It's sad because nobody wins -- companies get sued for p
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by presscast 8y ago
A few silly questions from someone who comes from containers (Docker, specifically). 1. Can I "run" and "manage" unikernels on my development machine like I would a Docker image? (Use case: keeping build and deploy env
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The thing to keep in mind is that clickbait writers will take liberties when citing these twitter accounts, cutting up the quotes to make them sound natural.
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I'm more interested in how you manage to be this productive. Any tips on managing time and projects?
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Why?
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>Too little, too late And a damn shame, too. One of the major enabling factors for Silicon Valley's success has been the unenforcability of non-compete clauses in CA. MA has a lot going for it (e.g.: MIT, relative proximity with E
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>I almost gave up 20 minutes in or so as there's no doubt it has a conspiracy theory feel to it Agreed. Despite posting the parent comment, I'm not a huge fan of Adam Curtis because I feel like his ideas are often a bit wishy-
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With all the complaining and name-calling, I'm quite surprised that nobody has proposed forking the project and maintaining a tracking-free version. Certainly, it would appear as if there's a demand for such a project.
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>invalidate news organizations It should also be mentioned that this has been Putin's strategy since he's been in power: blur the line between political/historical fact and fiction, and exploit the ambiguities that arise.
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>I'm not sure I would consider human prosperity a zero-sum game. You're assuming that "human prosperity" is the game being played, as opposed to "national power", which very much is zero-sum.
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Relevant paper from Nature published last year: _The presence of microplastics in commercial salts from different countries_. https://www.nature.com/articles/srep46173
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What's the trade-off when disabling CGO?
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This seems to perform better than the OP's link. Does anybody know why that is? Are there certain forms of data for which Markov chains perform better?