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by sfifs 8y ago
Unlikely to ever happen. History suggests that the way evolutionary biology corrects this is revolution or invasion :-)
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by sfifs 8y ago
Nope, no connections whatsoever. In fact I work at a place a few orders of magnitude bigger than what MailChimps of the world would handle... Shit happens from time to time in business and the normal approach is you connect and discuss by
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by sfifs 8y ago
Fair point. Though I suspect many more warning signs would have come up given billing is involved.
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by sfifs 8y ago
Hmmm... This poster has noticed an issue on 17th, mailed support and without waiting to see if there's any reply or resolution, decided to blog publicly about it the same day... seems definitely premature, maybe borderline of questiona
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by sfifs 8y ago
So here's how it could have happened.... You may have brought it online in which case almost certainly there was a FB tracking pixel fired back from the e-commerce website to signal that you did. On the other hand if you bought from an
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by sfifs 8y ago
No data but last week when I was there, I pretty much only remember seeing BYD busses and electric fleet. BYD is headquartered in Shenzhen iirc
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by sfifs 8y ago
Market forces working through reputation generally do take care of verification fairly well in many countries - even more so in this era of free access to information. I find it ironic that in "socialist" (India, China) countries,
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by sfifs 8y ago
The problem with this kind of stuff is how do you keep these up to date. Visa policies change all the time and generally don't get a lot of publicity. There is a reason there are specialist visa agencies like CIBT
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by sfifs 8y ago
As I said, we will need to wait for for second/third year production run of any car before really being able to understand if something is offering value and that's when significant adoption will happen. Tesla, Nissan and BYD are
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by sfifs 8y ago
Create React App and Create React Native App have both been very productive and mature tools to get things rolling fast.
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by sfifs 8y ago
The only real competition for Tesla right now is BYD and maybe Nissan. Everything else has essentially vaporware until they get to version 2 production models and it is questionable if they will find sufficient takers for their version 1s T
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by sfifs 8y ago
Work in a company with ~100k magnitude of employees that has been through multiple chat and collaboration apps over a decade. There is no switching delays for employees because these are basically deployed as hard cut over. There is pre-sw
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by sfifs 8y ago
As a counterfactual the other hand everyone in China appears to pay by mobile phone without problems using WeChat Pay and Alipay and no one seems to be locked out. Almost no one I know carries cash - it's just for the tourists who can&
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by sfifs 8y ago
Teaching is actually very different than ability to self learn. I taught a class of 8-11 year old lower income but fairly motivated kids programming with Scratch over summer. Everyone did reasonably well but exactly 2 out of the 26 demonstr
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by sfifs 8y ago
India, South East Asia and used books in Europe/US
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by sfifs 8y ago
This should be a management problem - why is it a government problem? Basically you are saying that your capital structure incentivizes managers to value short term gain over long term costs and so you would like to short circuit that with
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by sfifs 8y ago
Had kids yet? :-)
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by sfifs 8y ago
I believe several college CS courses globally use this in year 2 or year 3.
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by sfifs 8y ago
I just completed part 1 building a computer from gates and writing an assembler and am in the middle of part 2 where you develop compilers and a stack based virtual machine. For someone like me who did not study computer science but has bee
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by sfifs 8y ago
This misses the investment context which leads to companies choosing coal oil and gas over solar. The limiting factor on deployments continues to be "what to do when the sun doesn't shine bright". Night for starters and in a
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by sfifs 8y ago
But a lot of those 20 billion pounds also went to enrich the arms manufacturing company owners and keeping factory workers in jobs. So cynically, it's probably a net win for the UK Government :-) As Frederick Forsyth said in one of his
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by sfifs 8y ago
This discussion reminds me of the classic "standards" xkcd https://xkcd.com/927/
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by sfifs 8y ago
Or as Matt Levine says - it is about theft (ie trading on stolen information) not about fairness
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by sfifs 8y ago
The GP comment is much more about the financial model of the business than what we might mean from regular language. For instance, I'm an advertiser, Google and FB for me are just another publisher like CBS or ESPN and clients like us
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by sfifs 8y ago
Because businesses fundamentally run on Outlook and Office and support for that has been pretty amazingly consistent. Yes I've seen SharePoints and Skydrives and OneDrives and Yammers but none of them are critical the way Office and Ou
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by sfifs 8y ago
Any idea where the actual numbers are? I can't find any link in the Bloomberg text.
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by sfifs 8y ago
> It’s a spot no human has ever explored, and it’s so deep that any communications from the submarine will take seven seconds to travel back up. I found this interesting. Are they going to use sound waves for communication? Aren't t
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by sfifs 8y ago
Yes very likely they're trying to mitigate against what is sometimes known as "co-employment risk". Basically different types of companies have different legal requirements in terms of taxation, retirals and benefits. In the
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by sfifs 8y ago
Yup this seems to basically be co-employment risk mitigation. I have seen situations where there is a hard limit on how long we can hire a contractor for a task through an agency. I have also seen limitations in what we can specify, measure
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by sfifs 8y ago
> when I criticize FPGA’s embarrassingly small amount of freedom. It takes a critical mass of knowledgeable people who don't necessarily want to be compensated monetarily for their efforts for this to happen (think early GCC and Lin

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