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by revel 7y ago
I personally believe that it's extremely unlikely that CFS has a silver bullet cure like stomach ulcers because CFS is an umbrella diagnosis for several distinct conditions manifesting with similar symptoms. The DSM condition is diagno
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by revel 7y ago
This is an interesting article but there's a dichotomy here that isn't discussed that I think is important. Part of the appeal of an API gateway is that it facilitates bolting on solutions to a ton of common crosscutting concerns
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by revel 7y ago
The OpenAI approach to managing the release of the larger dataset strikes me as totally flawed and upside down. The biggest concern the team seem to have is that the fully trained GPT2 model will be used to spread propaganda and misinformat
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by revel 7y ago
The internet is already not free for much of the world. It's depressing to type this but China successfully created a parallel version of the internet that is anything but free. That model got exported and now you see the same approach
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by revel 7y ago
interesting to watch the West coast become an angry sea of red as everyone wakes up
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by revel 7y ago
Does this mean we're going to get silencers for leaf blowers? If so, how many nobel prizes can they be nominated for?
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by revel 7y ago
Thanks. That's a pretty neat and tidy summary.
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by revel 7y ago
My takeaway from this is that there is no active attempt to influence the direction of Go to fit Google's agenda and that's a good thing. However, active influence isn't necessary to shape Go's direction and functionalit
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by revel 7y ago
How close are we to quantum computing being a thing that I have to actively think about? My understanding is that it's on the horizon but not all that close. I'm impressed at the heavy investment in tooling and education by micros
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by revel 8y ago
Too bad I use vim%7qccccnn!2ff
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by revel 8y ago
then almost as soon as it became possible everything got segmented into product groups by distributors What a shame
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by revel 8y ago
Totally agree. There's so much nuance to fundraising that isn't expressed here. Dilution is a critical aspect to raising capital: too much will ruin your ability to raise money in the future. Too little can result in a cancerous d
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by revel 8y ago
I love how brazen this letter is. > Apple’s approach has always been to grow the pie. Apple's approach has always been to grow it's own pie. They have never been even remotely interested in playing nicely with other companies.
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by revel 8y ago
If you don't care about the designation then the most cost effective thing to do is just get the books from a previous year from somewhere like Craigslist or ebay. The official syllabus is published by the CFA Institute. Schweser have
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by revel 8y ago
The comparison between The Three Body Problem series and some of Le Guin's books is interesting because the two authors have such wildly different strengths and weaknesses. I love them both but, purely in terms of writing, there is abs
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by revel 8y ago
it's not just that large numbers of projects are a hassle, they make it harder to develop projects in isolation
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by revel 8y ago
Totally agreed. This is pretty much the definitive guide on how to perform a high stakes migration where downtime is absolutely unacceptable. It's extremely tempting, particularly for startups, to simply have a big-bang migration where
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by revel 8y ago
I think you're completely right that his fund isn't just performing straight up arb. In fact, I don't think it can generating most of its P&L from arb since (from what I remember at least), Galaxy Digital simply has too m
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by revel 8y ago
Overall corporate debt levels are at record highs, but the bigger problem is highlighted in the article -- the quality of debt has degraded substantially. There are a ton of companies that have been skating along at BBB/BBB- (in S&
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by revel 8y ago
If you pay consultants or freelancers you're going to get exactly what you ask for, and you're definitely not going to be getting anything better than that. Your mvp will likely be a pure standalone piece of software that you ca
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by revel 8y ago
I suspect that the person who made this site worked at Amazon. The way they describe SWF makes me think that the author used it when it was in it's prerelease, "Decider" form. The "Flow" version that went onto becom
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by revel 8y ago
because without banks to act as facilitators you would not be able to finance a house or car. Small businesses lending would dry up as would most lending for equipment and commercial real estate. Banks did a lot to earn their terrible reput
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by revel 8y ago
Let's get real for a second here: gab courted neo-Nazis and became a refuge for anti-semitites and racists precisely because that was their target user base. Gab's pearl-clutching about anti-semitism is about as genuine as an arso
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by revel 8y ago
Also, what are you going to do if you're forced into an arbitration court? Your chances of winning in that environment are zero, even with competent legal representation.
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by revel 8y ago
It's time we took a serious look at getting rid of the unholy trinity of employment contract law: - Non-competes - Forced arbitration - Non-disparagement / NDAs If an offer includes a non-compete, it should also include appropriat
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by revel 8y ago
What is not discussed in this article is the staggering amount of Italian debt the German government is exposed to as a legacy from the 2008 financial crisis. An Italian default would be like an atom bomb going off in European markets and t
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by revel 8y ago
So I looked into this more and you're right that it's sulphuric dioxide that I was thinking of. CO2 emissions from shipping are 800m tons per year and, if taken alone, would constitute the 6th heaviest source of carbon emissions i
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by revel 8y ago
Practically speaking, the single biggest area of low hanging fruit is clean shipping. Right now the largest 15 cargo ships emit more greenhouse gasses than all the cars on the road combined. The US could take the lead on this issue by modif
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by revel 8y ago
Phew, hopefully all the developers working on Google+ enjoy their new project working on a currently unnamed chat program. We haven't had a new one of those in checks calendar 172 days.
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by revel 8y ago
The problem is that this is not true and everyone knows it. What you've hit on is the core problem facing digital media today. I subscribe to several online news services but the WSJ is not one of them. I wouldn't mind paying th

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