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by siculars 10y ago
Apple, definitely Apple.
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Virtually all major oil companies are directly related to their respective governments, publicly or privately.
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Uh, what? I didn't realize you had to be a billionaire to invest in the stock market.
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Team Trump is plugging the leaky ship. There may be too many leaks to plug though.
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Why aren't managers graded on retention? If you lose too many people you're penalized or fired.
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Tl;dr humans communicate at 10 bits per second. Machines communicate at a trillion bps. We don't communicate or synthesize information fast enough and this will, of course, be a problem. Also, ai autonomous driving will leave 12-15% of
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Elon Musk: Humans must merge with machines or become irrelevant in AI age(cnbc.com)
153 points by siculars 10y ago|219 comments
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Was wondering the same thing. Either each volunteer was in a predetermined location with specific uuid'd torches or there some newfangled rfid/bluetooth location tracking to within one foot or so that I want to know about. My mone
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by siculars 10y ago
In other news... Bic pen, makers of ubiquitous writing implements, claims copyright over all writings made with said implements. Where does it end?
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35-60k... euros? That's kinda low even in pound sterling. Is this what folks get paid in The Netherlands as a "software engineer"?
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Ya, I didn't even know what "pre-sales" meant before getting the pre-sales architect job I have now. Know your tech, know how to dev something, but mostly know how to communicate. It's the communication thing that often
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The people are there. The pay is not.
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It has not come without a price though. Note the rabbid anti-semitism and general domestic issues including a considerable increase in rapes. All factors considered, Israel does more than its share to help the situation. Or perhaps they sho
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All true, but that's standard warfare stuff. Only certain populations were targeted for extermination. Jews were not the only ones but Russians certainly were not.
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Similar perhaps to a "red-line" that was touted by the Obama administration but never enforced.
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Not yet, but soon [0]. [0] http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-38755946
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Had similar exemptions been applied in war-time Europe the Franks may well have been saved.
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Among other folks as well [0]. Of note, the US was not the only country to turn away refugees during WWII. Also of note, from what I've read, refugee immigration has been temporarily halted from certain countries with the exemption bei
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by siculars 10y ago
Erasure encoding does not greatly increase storage space consumption. Consider a 2n or 3n replication factor in systems like hdfs, Cassandra and Riak. In those cases storage space consumption is 200% and 300%, respectively. Erasure encoding
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by siculars 10y ago
Here's another overused word: passion.
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1984 and Brave New World are my all time double plus good books. We've been gradually sliding towards those worlds over the last number of decades, regardless of Trump. If nothing comes of this election but stronger protections around
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But, uh, I thought manufacturing jobs were never coming back stateside. So strange...
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This. Why manufacturing needs to be done here in the USA. Those who control manufacturing control all the things. When you control the factory you figure out how to make the factory smarter. Tesla could have just said "Hey, we need bat
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I have a very good friend who actually worked on this project. He was a supervisor level guy and would send me pictures from the tunnels. I believe his exact quote was "the MTA burns barrels of money like it's going out of style.&
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by siculars 10y ago
Beyond iPhone in China, I have a larger question. Let's say I were building product in the US with child labor in unsafe conditions not adhering to US laws and regulations. Would I be allowed to sell that product in the US? Probably no
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by siculars 10y ago
Beyond iPhone in China, I have a larger question. Let's say I were building product in the US with child labor in unsafe conditions not adhering to US laws and regulations. Would I be allowed to sell that product in the US? Probably no
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How China built ‘iPhone city’ with billions in perks for Apple’s partner(mobile.nytimes.com)
1 points by siculars 10y ago|1 comments
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I'm at basho makers of Riak. If you're looking for ha at the db take a look.
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Riak TS 1.5 just dropped this week [0]. Designed to do the horizontal scale thing over temporally sorted data. /disclaimer/ I work for Basho [0] http://docs.basho.com/riak/ts/1.5.0/releasenotes/
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Re. your horizontal scalable write intensive use case is basically what Riak TS was designed to handle, but specifically with a temporally sorted data model. Riak TS just got a version bump too [0]. Because Riak TS is a derivative of Riak K

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