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by sfifs 6y ago
Based on the analysis, it is very likely that the 7 stars were more distinctly visible but then gradually became harder and harder to see upto about 30-40k years ago. So cultures started making stories for why it disappeared. The fact that
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> All their contributions up until this point are still under the Apache license, so they'd have no reason to sue, I think Ah right - makes sense.
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I wonder if non-ElasticCo contributors to Elastic Search who disagree with the SSPL license change can sue to have their contributions removed. Could even be a class action lawsuit if quite a few contributors disagree.
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> How true is this, in practice? I hear software folks say this sort of thing somewhat frequently, but I haven't heard it from a _legal_ person. As a business person, I'd prefer to avoid the legal expense and risk to find out t
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> Over the years they've spun off many of these divisions and today's GE looks nothing like OG GE. That's why today's GE is close to bankruptcy and easily threatened by corporate raiders. Arguably if they has stayed
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Have you explored sending a legal notice through a lawyer?
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I have found that in any situation that goes beyond one off research or experimentation into something that needs to be orchestrated oe deployed in production, you need to move to a language with a lot of bells and whistles libraries which
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Notebooks are primarily a discovery tool when you're exploring your data, deciding what ETL transformations and feature engineering to create and testing algorithms. When you want to run stuff in production, you move to a regular code
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As with nearly all capabilities in all fields, you're trading off flexibility, quality, throughput and speed to market. You're also trading off cost on the vectors of capex vs. opex. Injection moulding gives high quality and thr
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I don't know why you're being downvoted but yes this kind of question is always the center piece of any anti trust trial. > Is the market for advertising apps in the App Store the same market for advertising Facebook depends on
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Yup very much so. Apple uses a logged in ID to run attribution for their own ads business but requires other ad businesses to use a different ID (IDFA). Till now, these were functionally similar so no one objected. If they change the rules
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Thanks! Updated!
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There's much more to this than meets the eye. I believe the basic reason Apple delayed implemening the proposed iOS 14 IDFA policy change is that Apple has their own ads business for promotion of app store installs which was using a de
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Giant parabolic concentrators in space also essentially become weapons and therefore no major nation will allow others to possess them. Laser beams to transmit power may be more efficient but same problem with weaponization
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Apart from the usual regulatory angle (zip code in US often proxies for race), generally the need for interpretability goes with risk and frequency of decisions being made. The risk and decision frequency profile of "tag photos with n
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> But many of the tools available through Homebrew are so essential to me that without Homebrew I likely would have stuck with Linux and FreeBSD for my laptop Apple is sending you a message on your value to them as a customer by the fac
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Platform traffic and discoverability. ECom volume lives or dies by traffic and Amazon has the bulk of it in Western markets. This is only going up as people take their product search directly to eCom vs. generic search (this BTW is also why
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Some thoughts: > What's amazing is that Indian classical music has no key. There is no absolute sense of middle C or whatever. It is relative to the tuning of the drone European music actually was largely relative too until keyboard
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The problem for EU is they haven't forged a nation like what US or India has done in spite of their cultural diversity. They're still essential squabbling little countries. How horrifically the south European countries were treate
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My approach is to simply organize work so that anything development oriented is kept in the WSL home dir and keep docs and PowerPoints in the Windows Documents dir which covers 95% of my use cases. The new Windows terminal is also pretty co
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Unless you're developing explicitly for iPhone, Windows + WSL may be a good option. I used it at work and then also switched my personal ThinkPad from Ubuntu to Windows + WSL2. You get far more hardware configuration options in the hig
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Is WSL not supported?
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> As someone who does transit advocacy in a dense city with good transit, it is very frustrating. While going a bit off topic, the issue I have seen with advocacy groups is that they focus on solving for the median case (eg. 80% of trips
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Almost all paper nowadays is made from managed forests (ie. Plantations) and paper is perfectly bio-degradable. So I'm not sure why it's a big problem. I use a mug because the 50c off pays off within a month and the mug keeps the
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Because given the regulation has been in the works and they knew it, they probably would have to have state this precise risk in their IPO documents for fear of being sued and big investors might have balked?
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You're assuming "good faith" in listing risks in the IPO document :-) Companies generally list risks from the fear of being sued by shareholders, not from goodness of their heart. And recall this listing was not in the sue-ha
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Talking to friends in China, there's actually a fair amount of understanding and support for the government. They value stability and the massive leverage ratio Ant was working with scares a lot of people about financial instability -
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So what's happened i think is a bit of (1) Very rapid provincial/local government supported innovation and economic expansion across the board with little time for more "big picture" regulatory and risk management frame
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Well from actually regularly visiting China and having a team reporting to me on ground, i don't think lack of innovation is remotely the problm in China. In terms of a digitised economic model impacting regular Joes,m China is a few y
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> If you believe in the exceptional, or believe you are exceptional, America will draw you to it. Right until the moment we saw how America (society and government) handles pandemics and school shootings. Even a decade ago, what you said

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