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by sfifs 7y ago
That's basically been the conventional thinking about rocketry historically - scientists and engineers looked at the tyranny of the rocket equation and choose to maximize payload per launch because they were largely funded by governmen
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by sfifs 7y ago
This is basically what comes from a mindset increasingly common among ML practitioners of abdicating thinking and assuming "the machine will find what features are important". They throw a junkyard full of features at the algorith
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by sfifs 7y ago
The moment LTTE lost broad international support was the moment they assassinated Rajiv Gandhi, the ex-prime minister of India who was looking likely to win the popular vote in the election cycle. It probably ranks up there with strategic b
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by sfifs 7y ago
20% increase in the world's trading inventory and working capital tied up to get a 0.7% reduction (24% x 3%) in emissions. Yeah makes complete sense to pursue vs. other avenues! </sarcastic>
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by sfifs 7y ago
So far as you know. My impression is that especially Japan's strategy is always to keep itself at the threshold of becoming a full nuclear weapons with very little effort given the Geo political situation. They already have a full fled
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by sfifs 7y ago
Another thing marketers in US and to a certain extent Europe fail to see is how digital has evolved in Asia and think through what it means for their own work. The same marketing giants which spend 90% of the hundreds of millions of dollars
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by sfifs 7y ago
Well the smartest talents of the previous generations built and exploded hundreds of nuclear weapons including a couple on innocent civilians, created ICBMs that can destroy civilization in a few minutes and created situations that brought
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by sfifs 7y ago
If it's sticker based QR normally you just show your screen to the person behind the counter before you pay to verify recipient and amount. Many payment QRs are actually dynamically generally on a POS machine LCD so you get amount and
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by sfifs 7y ago
The thing is that American and European law enforcement generally play "fair". They generally won't arrest employees travelling into their jurisdictions for things that are more "civil"-like offences - notable excep
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by sfifs 7y ago
Actually it's much simpler. The Walmart's and Kroger's of the world know Amazon makes most of its profit in AWS. Amazon uses the profit to compete on prices with the retailers. So by insisting on working with vendors and part
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by sfifs 7y ago
The irony of using Kindle Direct publishing but not putting out a Kindle version is palpable :-) I have stopped buying paper books over past several years as they simply accumulate moisture and mould in the climate I live in and make rooms
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by sfifs 7y ago
While Go has issues with lack of functionality in error handling, I think the biggest win has been treating error as value and returning error via multiple return values paradigm. It forces the programmer to be aware of the possibilities of
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by sfifs 7y ago
Probably yes for single adults in their 20s and 30s without any small kids or elderly parents to take care of who live in a small (possibly European) city with low enough population density that it allows bicycles on public transport. Doesn
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by sfifs 7y ago
And this attitude convinces me to never consider move off my beefy Dell precision with its onboard CUDA GPU and Xeon processors :-)
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by sfifs 7y ago
The basic issue in Europe is that train and bus travel is insanely expensive relative to air travel. That's why Ryanairs of the world even exist and are able to offer fares comparable to bus and train. If governments are serious about
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by sfifs 7y ago
The problem with Industrial AR is that most use cases I've seen (maintainance, instruction manuals, support etc) are cost centers, not profit centers. It will generally cost more to produce than the current methods - so business invest
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by sfifs 7y ago
Economic growth usually depends on (1) increase in consumption (2) increase in investment in long term assets (housing, markets) which lowers cost of borrowing for new businesses. Both happen more when people have somewhat secure earnings.
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by sfifs 7y ago
In general you'll very likely have to let go of the "closely control" piece to be able to contract the kind of work you refer to out safely. Contracting to experts would probably be pretty safe. Note that nothing will happen
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by sfifs 7y ago
Steel has miniscule amounts of carbon (0.2% is typical). The carbon comes largely from pig iron from the iron making step (where it comes from the coke used to smelt ore) and an oxygen lance is actually used to burn out excess carbon from m
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by sfifs 7y ago
Well with cheap carbon free electricity, we could cut all the CO2 emissions from iron and steel with hydrogen based reduction and about half that of cement manufacture (about half the carbon use is energy cost for heating as per Wikipedia a
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by sfifs 7y ago
With so much bad publicity, it seems likely WeWork's IPO is dead in the water. I'm surprised anyone's still willing to underwrite it. The interesting question is going to be what questions will now get asked of SoftBank Visio
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by sfifs 7y ago
Not GP but in my experience - Curiosity and to gain a certain techy reputation among nerdy circles. About 15-20 years ago when I was in engineering school, my seniors used to ask me to install Linux on their PCs back when installing it was
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by sfifs 7y ago
The owner and directors will almost certainly get sued at some point. Just a matter of time with these things
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by sfifs 7y ago
The autothrottle automatically pulling the throttle back sounds so much like MCAS preventing nose being pulled up and in both cases, it seems the pilots did not know previously these kind of activations could happen.
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by sfifs 7y ago
Would you possibly be in the top 20% household income percentile? For such households, it's generally not required to buy furniture in credit in most markets. Credit for these sortse of things generally is for people with lower income
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by sfifs 7y ago
Why would a PR release be any more reliable than a news article? At least mainstream news articles try to maintain the appearance of being unbiased :-)
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by sfifs 7y ago
People who are short selling are expressing the thesis that the probablity adjusted return from a bet on drop in stock price of one company is worth more than investing in alternatives like an index fund etc. It's exactly equivalent i
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by sfifs 7y ago
> there are all kinds of ways a malicious actor can and do manipulate stock prices that have exactly ZERO to do with the companies finances Over a time horizon of a year to a few years, short selling cannot artificially depress stock pri
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by sfifs 7y ago
Your comments below indicate you're doing personal (hobby? Learning and experimentation?) programming on your MBP. In this case I would suggest buying a modern Linux laptop with some kind of Nvidia GPU from Dell or ThinkPad which gives
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by sfifs 7y ago
This has mostly to do with martching age horizon of source of funds and utilisation of funds. Banks borrow short (from deposits of individuals and companies) and lend long which exposes them to a certain amount of financial risk. The big

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