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by shubb 9y ago
On insurance vs regulation - What isn't being mentioned here is that insurers will require insured companies to do a bunch of stuff in order to remain insured. Have some processes in place, do some things, and so on. Just like your car
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Devils advocate, they might simply know your face. I worked in a 5000 person building for a year, left, and went back a year later for a christmas party. The shared reception still remembered who I was without being told and were able to gu
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The report itself is fairly easy reading. https://www.fca.org.uk/publications/research/understanding-f... There are summary sheets for each age group, and detailed tables. I found the ones around self employment p
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by shubb 9y ago
I agree it seems weird. Presumably relatively few of those people are really technical. The rest would be handling DMCA requests, support calls, enterprise sales, etc. Still seems like a lot of people. I think that a lot of the time, middle
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Look at scraping Google and Bing maps?
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It's also worth pointing out that the design cost of a new model of car (which is equivalent to a new VERSION of an existing software product) is at least 1 billion dollars. If a really good big crud app costs 100k on upwork is more si
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I wonder how many technology things are the shiny appearance of magic ontop of the old and mundane. I guess we should look at any New Thing, and say, what existing boring thing is this really?
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Maybe the effects of the equifax breach or a successor will be widespread enough to make the general population appreciate end to end encryption and proper security...
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You could probably answer this question using this resource [1]. However, someone used it to show no associations between psychotic episodes (specifically) AFTER controlling for other factors (that are associated with cat ownership)[2]. Usi
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Don't be too positive though - if the TSA think you really love the USA then you might want to move there. You need to write a bot that tweets 'I love the USA but wouldn't want to live there' every day.
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That's more like the carpenter drawing marks in the wood to tell him where to cut. I feel like, complexity is a problem when there is more software than one person could write. At this point, you probably need to do some Business Analy
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It's really worth putting a lot of effort into hanging onto your old student friends.
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Or old content. Spotify provides access to a huge back catalogue and although it probably reduces the value of some content it monetises other old content that was basically dead. Currently Netflix has a tiny library, when you take into ac
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Explains why 'i won it on an ico' is such an appealing explanation of wealth to some bitcoin users...
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It sounds like ssn is not fit for purpose. If the gov is going to issue a 'secret number ' why not a 2fa device?
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>> They have ... lack experience of crashes/associated fraud. The Asian financial crisis was all these things.
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There are a lot of ways of configuring tax, democracy and economy. What you are writing here is an assertion, not an argument. You don't present evidence, or hint at why what you propose would be a good idea. Can you explain what good
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Aren't you really saying that they are narcissists? The job market is a bit like this - a lot of job opennings and a lot of applicants. If all of the jobs you are qualified for are beneath you, then you need to fix your head. And if yo
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No, that isn't what I meant. Older statistical methods were not complex and could be analyzed by a human to ensure they complied with legal and moral obligations. Newer approaches such as but not limited to neural networks create a mo
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This brushes over the very real prospect of automated discrimination that we increasingly face as AI techniques replace simple statistical methods. As a society, we would want to avoid a situation where someone is turned down for a job for
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The 2017 Big Data Landscape(mattturck.com)
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I wouldn't feel confident to mentor anyone on anything. I'd feel like a total fraud. This can't be uncommon. When I was a developer, I either felt like what I was doing could be done by a smart highschooler (probably better t
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Actually, a person's non verbals might be as important as classical attractiveness. Eye movements while taking to someone, posture during conversation, and voice characteristics could all be measured.
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Ah, but you are paying for the items you listed. Presumably the core of your cover is hidden in your taxes?
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In a democracy, it is important for normal people to understand what our governments have done in the past, in order to know what they may be doing today. Today, Venezuela is on fire. The opposition claim this is due to government ineptitud
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Thanks - here in the UK Monzo (a startup but more or less a traditional bank) is filling that niche, and I'd not hear of Aeon. I think a mobile privacy platform like that has a lot of potential but you'd need to make it very easy
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How much 'real' transaction goes on through these alt coins? Bitcoin enabled trade accross borders without going through banks, and with the possibility of evading normal money launderng proceedures. Ethereum offered fascinating n
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I'm going to dig the biggest hole ever. Is a lofty goal, or at least a deep one. You might sit and plan and talk to people and make a buisness plan involving dump trucks and stay at your day job planning for ever. You might make viabl
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Some guys, usually is guys, love to talk about sport. They don't play sport - maybe they did back at college but the drinking aspect of being in a team was just as important as athleticism. But now sport is something they watch and ta
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I've been involved in this a couple of times and want to share a thought. If you are just aggregating data, that's not a moat. A lot of folks are buying data from a bunch of sources to give complete coverage - e.g. a dataset of al

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