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by q-big 4y ago
> Project was 63% with an uncertain timeline to completion. That alone is a red flag for any enterprise project. This is in my opinion rather a good sign instead of a red flag: If one is honest , nearly every enterprise software proje
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by q-big 4y ago
> As the moment somebody puts in the work to engineer a package so hella cheap that anyone can afford it, and start to actually do so, ideal market theorists pour in undoing the entire thing, lest money be left on the table. The problem
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by q-big 4y ago
> Just because the Great Pyramids were built with slavery They weren't build by aliens with alien technology? ;-) SCNR because we are talking about Elon Musk with his space obsession.
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by q-big 4y ago
The existence of such scalpers rather shows that the price set by the producer is too low for the given rate of production (i.e. there is more demand than supply for the given price). In an ideal market, the producer would increase the pric
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by q-big 4y ago
How would you formulate these phrases then? For the phrases that you list, I actually did look them up in the dictionary beforehand when I wrote my comment to be sure that I express them correctly in English. "fellow countrymen"
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by q-big 4y ago
There exists another solution that is "obvious" to "everybody" who has worked in life insurance (or long-term investments in finance): the concept of present value (PV): > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by q-big 4y ago
> For anything related to stats, PDEs, and optimization (basically that subset if mathematics that is most useful to other sciences), category theory is a horrible foundation. For analysis, Peter Scholze and Dustin Clausen would disagre
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by q-big 4y ago
> There isn't even a english speaking country in the EU anymore Ireland and Malta have English as one of the official languages, and for Ireland English is in practice even the more important one of the official languages. But tha
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by q-big 4y ago
> Europe does a really bad job of integrating people (not unique to Europe, it’s really the default state of humans). > English is the lingua franca of Europe. These two sentences contradict each other: Integrating people implies th
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by q-big 4y ago
> because they can start a company in the UK or Israel with 20 pounds by filling out an online form in 5 minutes. Starting a company in Germany is much easier if you don't need limited liability (which GmbH and UG (haftungsbeschränk
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by q-big 4y ago
> Wouldn't it be better to welcome and accommodate educated and enthusiastic foreigners who want to invest in your country and its people, rather than being a language purist for the sake of it? The same could be said about anglopho
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by q-big 4y ago
> The Germans mostly have nothing to compare it to, and think it's normal: it is not. Many Germans know really well how bad it is. This is one of many reasons why politicians and bureacrats in Germany are hated the same as, I think,
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by q-big 4y ago
> In many other countries they offer official translations, and the government body will bear the cost of interpreting. > Germany is almost uniquely hostile to foreigners in this regard. Do English-speaking countries offer such servic
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by q-big 4y ago
> I have learnt German. I speak fluent German. I am German. As a native German speaker, I really would not consider > I speak decent German, but the vocabulary of company incorporation was not covered in my Volkhochschule classes nor
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by q-big 4y ago
Since the code is open source, any other person could publish the latest code dump as a book and attempt to go with the "free speech" arguments through the courts.
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by q-big 4y ago
> Because people at some intelligence, education and skill level are much less likely to join terrorist organisations. > People who join terrorist organisations are usually ones that do not have many other options. Don't you rath
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by q-big 4y ago
> considering the prof himself suggested to write the thesis. Perhaps the professor thought that the student was capable to do this in acceptable quality - but afterwards the professor saw that he was too positive in his judgement of the
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by q-big 4y ago
> Telling people that they simply don't have the personality to do science if they aren't allowing themselves to be abused is unhealthy. The purpose of a PhD/doctoral degree is to boostrap a career in science. The position
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by q-big 4y ago
> Incredible workaholism is not a “necessary” characteristic of a useful researcher. Formally, workaholism might not be necessary to be a useful researcher. But it helps a huge lot .
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by q-big 4y ago
> we don't want to disadvantage people for having children Why do "we" want that?
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by q-big 4y ago
> Thanks to this attitude birth rates have collapsed in most of developed world and we have 2 pensioners for every child. Rather thank the politicians who sold you a pyramid scheme as a pension system. > Between this and climate catas
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by q-big 4y ago
> I once had employer tell me that because I was single with no kids I did not "need" as much income as a co-worker with multiple kids... Why not rather: you don't have such a time-intense hobby such as raising kids, so yo
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by q-big 4y ago
> Your multi-year investment can be taken away at any time on a whim at your supervisor's discretion. I disagree: I often say that the true value of the PhD/doctoral studies is that you have the opportunity to work on deep que
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by q-big 4y ago
> Gene Kahn (RIP) said it best at the Senate meeting Gene Kan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Kan
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Transatlantic Tunnel(en.wikipedia.org)
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by q-big 4y ago
> They really ought to get around to building that transatlantic track In the past, concepts for a transatlantic tunnel that is used by advanced trains were conceived: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_tunn
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by q-big 4y ago
> A bigger problem with blended wing designs is actually for the people on the peripheral. When the plane banks, passengers further from the axis of rotation will feel a more significant change in their altitude. You literally feel like
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by q-big 4y ago
> At some point you can change enough of the text to not violate copyright. The grey area involves the courts. > It feels very simple to me so I might be missing something. In my opinion, you are missing something subtle: In continent
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by q-big 4y ago
> Psychology is kind of a mess. I rather quote from the jargon file ( http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/weaknesses.html ): "Many hackers have noticed that mainstream culture has shown a tendency to pathologiz
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by q-big 4y ago
> The main arguments for Excel, that I suspect, would be better collaboration features (like comments and sharing and such), and better integration with other MS tools (Outlook etc.). No, the main argument why Excel is used in the finan

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