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by sfifs 8y ago
Absolutely right! I did it in my third and fourth year of engineering and got very clear academic research isn't the way for me to go even though I turned out to be pretty good at it. Ended up in business research and analytics
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by sfifs 8y ago
Basic principle is to try to build new habits of how we eat gradually changing only 1 or 2 things every week and re-enforcing what works/cutting what doesn't. Typical diets (in my community) are 70 percent carbs, 30 percent veggie
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by sfifs 8y ago
> Well, my general impression is that doctors live under this illusion that patients will somehow succeed in making lifestyle changes that will cause the disease to go into regression or disappear altogether. Well in the last 3 months, I
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by sfifs 8y ago
I understand compared to Tipu's butchery of Hindus, particularly upper castes, the British were preferable. A massive population (including my own direct ancestors) were forced south and west towards Kerala fleeing Tipu Sultan.
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by sfifs 8y ago
Manufacturers generally don't want to be big in retail because that would require them to hold a lot of working capital as inventory. Apple is fairly unique in this regard because of the hefty price premium they command. eCom still wor
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by sfifs 8y ago
Fasting doesn't make anyone money and is against desires of most people. So unlikely there's going to be any significant industry push even though it's one of the few non surgical options proven to reverse type two diabetes.
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by sfifs 8y ago
> piss on customers for 2 months and then drop a "sorry for the inconvenience". I thought Instapaper was a free service that Pinterest bought mainly for it's article parsing technology? As an analogy FB's customers ar
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by sfifs 8y ago
This is very interesting! I wonder what the chart would look like if the lengths in each direction represented total lengths of streets in that orientation. Hypothesis for some of the oldest European cities which look like big circles curre
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by sfifs 8y ago
Loss of face when they're trying to contrast approach on climate change vs. Trump
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by sfifs 8y ago
And in India, we still use a more traditional counting system beyond thousands - we say "lakh" for 100,000 and "crore" for 10,000,000. The words million and billion are not in common use.
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by sfifs 8y ago
> "Sample" of 2700 and then calling it "National IT Survey" in a 20.7m population is a joke/travesty. For well designed, stratified and representative surveys 2700 is actually pretty good sample size and will get
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by sfifs 8y ago
Are you assuming only European companies do business in Europe? EU prosecutors have a history of going after American tech companies much like US has a history of going after foreign companies - especially Chinese and now European (eg. Volk
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by sfifs 8y ago
If you don't and some regulator fancies making an example of you, then your shareholders will fire and sue you.
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by sfifs 8y ago
To avoid becoming the precedent should prosecutors choose to make an example of them.
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by sfifs 8y ago
The whole point of EU is to garner trade advantage by negotiating as a block instead of as small countries when they saw large countries like US, USSR and China get negotiating power. It is also to not have any tarrifs and free movement of
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by sfifs 8y ago
This is generally a bad idea in any production code. You normally want to add context to the error so that your logging captures the issue at the very minimum. You may want to do cleanup in the function etc. I almost never have written this
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by sfifs 8y ago
The people who funded it were politicians who cater to public who read the pop sci magazines. I wonder if any significant number of people who actually made the funding decision looked at anything beyond "this will make you look like y
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by sfifs 8y ago
Ok I understand. Typically any public statements made by a company are carefully orchestrated PR because interests of management and key employees who are compensated in stock and options is tied to stock performing well (if public) or val
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by sfifs 8y ago
The question is so what if your profit margin is 2%. Are you big and expanding or are you contracting and belt tightening? Do your shareholders demand higher earnings? How much power do they have? Amazon famously zeroed out profits for a d
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by sfifs 8y ago
Yes. That's how people like Elizabeth Holmes raise a billion dollars and gain a who's who board comprising of famous statesmen without any questions asked, how young son in laws become more powerful than career diplomats and how C
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by sfifs 8y ago
Politicians generally don't draft regulations. They decide what to sell and then sell it to the public. Lawyers (bureaucracy, politicians team, industry reps) draft regulations. It is unlikely that the lawyers who drafted GDPR for inst
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by sfifs 8y ago
I believe you are missing the point of the comment. Even if smaller players take all super duper steps to protect user data, advertisers have no real way of knowing if they are in fact compliant whereas they have a simple way of looking at
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by sfifs 8y ago
The problem is they have never demonstrated they actually have the money. It's very simple really to ask your bank to provide a certified and digitally signed account statement. This routinely happens in audits. Tether has never showed
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by sfifs 8y ago
GDPR is helping US internet giants and squelching smaller players. I work in the media space and can see where advertiser money is flowing. Advertisers who had previously spread their money supporting smaller publishers including European p
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by sfifs 8y ago
What you are missing here is the fact that I/O is orders of magnitude slower than processor. Most of the time in servers is spent waiting for I/O and multiplexing green threads on processes without context switches while some exec
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by sfifs 8y ago
Modern language runtimes used in the server space like Go basically multiplex green threads across processes to minimize context switches between concurrent execution paths. By leveraging the fact that I/O is much slower than processor
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by sfifs 8y ago
serverless is primarily a decentralisation/small-scale/unpredictable workloads play where you trade off fixed costs of managing a dedicated instance for higher variable per call cost. At any reasonable scale and predictability, ru
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by sfifs 8y ago
Many small programs simply doesn't scale to the modern web when just the baggage associated with spinning up processes will kill you at any reasonable load. UNIX has nice ideas but recognise they were founded in the shared computer bet
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by sfifs 8y ago
Expose a C program with all the language's subtle undefined states and manual memory management to the big bad web! What could go wrong...
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by sfifs 8y ago
Imagine as president which is a lot more likely :-)

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