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by sobani 9y ago
Your first point is not a contradiction. You can disagree with something for whatever reason, but still want to participate in whatever proposal 'wins'. If you prefer baseball over football, but all your friends are playing footba
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by sobani 9y ago
I guess it's comparable to a company who is being investigated and risks a large fine. Most of the time when the fine is determined, the stock price goes up . The uncertainty keeps the price down. People expect a fine, but not how lar
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by sobani 9y ago
20years * 50weeks / 4weeks = 250 assuming a man year is 40h/week and those 4 weeks were a crunch of 80 hour weeks, then 125 people worked on the same piece of software, assuming no ramp up time. Is this even possible?
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by sobani 9y ago
But still, when you advertise X to people who searched for X' (or even X itself), you can see the conversion rates of those ads, right? And you should be able to measure if that setup is profitable or not.
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by sobani 9y ago
refactoring != adding new features. Also some refactorings are easier with tests, some are harder. The kind @viraptor mentiones is the kind that spans more than one compoment. For example when you decide that a certain piece of logic was in
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by sobani 9y ago
> The biggest problem is going to be with people who have never driven. Isn't that basically what @usrusr was refering to? People who rely on the autonomous driving so much that they basically forgot how to drive themselves?
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by sobani 9y ago
Do the current biological 'autonomous drivers' have the necessary 'snow firmware'? AKA do SA people have experience with driving through snow?
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by sobani 9y ago
Working != practice. When I'm building some CRUD interface for my job, there's nothing I'm practicing with that. When I spend my entire day doing that, I've gained 0 relevant hours for Malcom's 10K.
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by sobani 9y ago
Besides the fact that many consider the 10,000 hours a myth, please keep in mind that the theory is about 10,000 hours of practice . I bet that even people who have spend 20 years on side projects haven't reached those 10K hours of pr
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by sobani 9y ago
I'm working for a healthcare insurer and I don't believe anything has been rewritten since they went from mainframe to .Net. The previous application I worked on is over a decade old (and it shows). The current application I'
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by sobani 9y ago
"The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket." - Andrew Carnegie The way Buffett invests is by reading all day, everyday and once in a while making a very informed investment. Most peopl
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by sobani 9y ago
re aluminum plant: https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/german-firm-tur...
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by sobani 9y ago
The 1.2% tax on assets is the 30% tax on financial returns. It's just that at some point the government was like: "math is hard, let's go shopping^w^w assume the average return in 4%".
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by sobani 9y ago
As an example, the Dutch "pension fund for government and education" aims to have 128% coverage. They still haven't fully recovered from the 2008 crisis, because they currently still have only 102,5% coverage.
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by sobani 9y ago
Instead of listening to a podcast/audiobook once on normal speed, you could try listening to it twice on double speed. * Especially audiobooks generally have only one core idea so even if you miss a part, you're not missing much.
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by sobani 9y ago
You mean countries like Germany, Holland or Denmark? I suggest you google for "fiets met kinderzitjes" (bike with child seats) to get examples of how you can transport 2 small children on one regular bike. Once the children get ol
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by sobani 9y ago
I read that twitter reply as Without the huge stink that my prominence created, I would still be locked out. Also, I'm not allowed to talk about why I was banned (which would help others not get banned), nor how someone less notable c
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by sobani 9y ago
Dutch first names confuse systems as well. Gmail doesn't understand the first name of my colleague is "Jan Willem" and not just "Jan", when showing the list of recipients.
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by sobani 9y ago
Pedophilia is not predatory either, just like homophilia isn't. Plenty of celibate 'adult-lovers' prove that just because you can't get what you desire, doesn't mean you will act on it. Even if you want to act, I&#x
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by sobani 9y ago
Didn't he also refer the bell curve studies that claim that despite the same average intelligence, there are less 80 IQ women than men and there less 120 IQ women than men? So why wouldn't it be reasonable to assume when he was ta
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by sobani 9y ago
The question then is: Is the available data more useful than a coin-flip, which would be the alternative method of making a decision. On the other hand, a coin-flip is probably the better tool. If you can't generate enough data for a s
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by sobani 9y ago
Which was exactly the point of the memo!
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at a risk of dropping below the HN value threshold: whoosh
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I have also noticed this. When I was younger, I had 0-1 crushes at any time. But today I find beauty in a lot of different people. Maybe it's maturity, maybe it's the 'clock' in my male brain urging me to find someone, a
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by sobani 9y ago
Did you perhaps reply to the wrong post? I cannot make sense of your reply. Both Netflix and Disney already produce a lot of content, so they don't have to bootstrap a pipeline anymore.
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You measure your output in lines per second?! It's clear you are more productive than me then.
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It's possible though it might backfire, just as conflict of interest disclosure may backfire: disclosure can increase the bias in advice because it leads advisors to feel morally licensed and strategically encouraged to exaggerate the
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by sobani 9y ago
Aren't those Republican voting miners from Ohio or something (I'm from Europe) part of those conservatives? If not, who exactly are those conservatives you're talking about? As an outside observer I always equaled conservativ
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by sobani 9y ago
I only know of the case of a Matt Taylor, who was part of the Rosetta project (land a probe on a comet) that was branded a sexist for wearing a shirt given to him by a woman.
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by sobani 9y ago
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin-cash I did happen to write my comment around the top of the price chart, as the current price is $447.

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