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by sievebrain 8y ago
They may well be partly true but when setting up SpaceX he immersed himself in rocket physics and basically became a self taught rocket scientist. He isn't just a manager.
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by sievebrain 8y ago
Yes I noticed that too. I'm starting to think psychology may end up ahead of other fields actually - the replication crisis is much wider than just psychology but it seems to have come to the surface there first. And so they're th
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by sievebrain 8y ago
I use it, it made it, but I'd still prefer the old function keys back
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by sievebrain 8y ago
API+messaging is a spam nightmare. Client integrity is a very powerful antispam technique, I used to use it to great effect. Given the near zero value and popularity of legit bots I'd have made the same decision in their shoes
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by sievebrain 8y ago
That might just mean those companies are never created at all. A huge number of sv "companies" have no business plan beyond acquisition.
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by sievebrain 8y ago
Emoji movie is culture, whether we like it or not. There's no rule that culture has to be highbrow.
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by sievebrain 8y ago
Netflix built a global CDN. That's physical infrastructure which isn't readily replicated
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by sievebrain 8y ago
Isn't N in FANG Netflix? I thought Netflix was loss making. And Amazon has spent years being break even or making losses (albeit for good reasons).
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by sievebrain 8y ago
They aren't common in America either!
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by sievebrain 8y ago
I worked at Google on maps during those times. There was a lot going on that isn't public and some bad behaviour by Apple, Jobs very much saw Apple as the dominant partner and didn't treat the maps guys well at all. It was a very
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by sievebrain 8y ago
I've take to journalists before on technical topics. Whenever I she'd to see the article before publication so I could correct mistakes they always refused and always stated they never share stories with sources. So I think you&#x
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by sievebrain 8y ago
Probably because you're asking people to Google stuff for you? It's all public. There are two women. One posted on Twitter the next day boasting about the awesome night she'd had with Assange. She later deleted the post but o
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by sievebrain 8y ago
Yeah, lots in this case. The reason so many say the Assange charges are a setup is that the case was dropped initially by the prosecutor after it became clear the women were lying, their stories simply didn't stack up so there was no c
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by sievebrain 8y ago
GDPR request over some embarrassing information, perhaps? Facebook probably can't win here. Presumably they have a policy that compels deletion in some cases and they don't want to argue about individual cases
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by sievebrain 8y ago
Yeah, I noticed that. Then she went on to talk about how she was asked to write about systems thinking even though she knows nothing about it, and wrote a preface based on a few minutes googling. I admit I stopped reading at that point. Bog
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by sievebrain 9y ago
No, some are residential. I know someone who just moved in to the new skyscraper by Battersea power station
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by sievebrain 9y ago
Again! Your goal is not to create an inclusive community. Your goal is to create an exclusive community. Look, if want to create a female only website then go for it. But you have to own your actions. You can't exclude half the populat
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by sievebrain 9y ago
It has the same feature, called chronon
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by sievebrain 9y ago
Probably they don't. You can be concerned with something without government force being your proposed solution.
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by sievebrain 9y ago
Well let's try to understand it. This view must be rooted in the idea that such people have chosen their gender, and therefore chosen their gender pronoun. To not use it then would be like refusing to call someone by their preferred n
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by sievebrain 9y ago
Polling and statistical generalisations hide a lot of detail - they can generally identify the what, but whether they get the why is much more hit and miss. Most obviously without anecdotal reports on what people believe, pollsters would no
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by sievebrain 9y ago
It can also be that a few poll questions aren't sufficient to reveal the nuances behind why people answer certain ways. That said this dataset is invaluable.
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by sievebrain 9y ago
Pro-EU federalists of course.
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by sievebrain 9y ago
The EU isn't unifying people of their own accord. Every time there's a referendum held anywhere on EU policies, the EU always loses yet the policies are put into effect anyway.
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by sievebrain 9y ago
Isn't that circular? Part of the reason you believe Russia is a hostile pariah state is because the CIA tells you it is. As for "If don't believe US intelligence agencies I've abandoned all reason" ... just laughabl
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by sievebrain 9y ago
After a year of reading that the Shadow Brokers are "definitely" Russian intelligence, despite the implausibility of that theory, I'm glad to see some sanity slowly reassert itself. But I wonder if anyone who made such confid
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by sievebrain 9y ago
And Apple is one of the most profitable companies in the world no? They can't spend the money they earn. They could lose 20% and still not be able to spend what they make.
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by sievebrain 9y ago
It's not the case. Show me the law that says that. You can't be there isn't one - it's perfectly possible for companies to take moral stands and many do. Consider that both Google and Facebook have no presence in China.
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by sievebrain 9y ago
Yet somehow Google manages to make phones and not cooperate with China.
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by sievebrain 9y ago
It's well known that the government there is in the process of systematically blocking VPN usages. This is causing issues in academia at least, along with other segments of society that got used to"opting out" of the firewall

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