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by sologoub 9y ago
Not really seeing any connection beyond the jungle part. Mayan world and religion doesn’t appear to share much with Tolkien: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_religion vs https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w
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by sologoub 9y ago
Why Elven?
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by sologoub 9y ago
If only it was true... quite the opposite is the case at least in US: https://medium.com/@philipn/want-to-see-something-crazy-open...
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by sologoub 9y ago
It depends on who “you” are in this case. If that “you” is a company that solely makes money by selling various behavioral data and has little care about various jurisdictions (which they really should, especially with GDPR, let a long “doi
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by sologoub 9y ago
As someone that digs in this data for a living, personally strongly believe this should be on by default for all browsing. The example they give is an insanely bad design for healthcare.gov and I would absolutely not want to find that type
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by sologoub 9y ago
It’s all material - the offices were quite spacious if a bit low on ceiling height. If parts of the container walls were redone to allow more circulation it would be a lot more livable. I also only spent two work weeks at a time, about 10 h
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by sologoub 9y ago
As someone that has spent time in an office built out of shipping containers, my view is that they are great for shipping but not living in. Experienced it both in summer and winter months. Both completely sub-optimal. Because you have poor
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by sologoub 9y ago
Completely agree, but as with the VW case, I’d argue that many in management who knew and allowed it will not be punished.
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by sologoub 9y ago
Thank you for the excellent explanation!
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by sologoub 9y ago
Naively thought that by absorbing heat energy and transforming it into electric current, there was some cooling effect when compared to heating the surface of the planet.
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by sologoub 9y ago
Nope, totally ignorant here :)
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by sologoub 9y ago
Completely side topic question - are there any studies on how much surface of the planet would need to be covered with solar to make a measurable impact on absorbing and/or reflecting enough sunlight to affect some cooling?
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by sologoub 9y ago
Just spent two weeks on the other side of the border from Munich, in Austria. The article is very accurate on over the counter meds - you can’t get what you are used to in US. I caught a really nasty flu the first few days there and by end
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by sologoub 9y ago
> Interacting with people face to face is one of the deepest wellsprings of human happiness; That varies from person to person. There are enough introverts around who are completely drained by excess human interactions and need time to p
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by sologoub 9y ago
US and EU are doing a lot about reducing their output of CO2, but unfortunately that’s completely dwarfed by new output elsewhere: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_... Without global actors t
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by sologoub 9y ago
Was just there on a weekend trip, while on longer trip to EU. (Got to love that in Europe you can just hop on a plane on a whim and be in a completely different country within a couple hours!) Using the metro really reminded me how much LA
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by sologoub 9y ago
Mining/refining is a significant source of pollution on earth. It’s interesting that in talking about economic impacts, we don’t talk about the reduction in “expense” to our environment and health. If the current mining industries coul
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by sologoub 9y ago
Source? I can’t find any evidence that there was any economic significance to that war aside from loss of the fleet and human life. Bruised imperial egos for sure and likely contributing to an image of a week government, but I’m hard presse
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by sologoub 9y ago
A lot of requests to BI teams are simply “what’s the <metric> for <some set of dimensions> for the last/next <timeframe>”. Literally, thousands of analysts just answer these one liners day in and day out. More diligen
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by sologoub 9y ago
It depends on what kind of prototype it is. If you need to run a POC with a customer or two, localhost won't do.
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by sologoub 9y ago
Don't think there is, but for initial trial there is $300 credit for a year.
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by sologoub 9y ago
Unfortunately, that's not one of those over-engineering times. GAE standard environment simply does not include the needed SDK. I'm guessing they just haven't gotten to it. The SDK works as expected once imported as the outsi
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by sologoub 9y ago
Standard environment does not and it's a damn shame. Flexible environment does not have that restriction.
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by sologoub 9y ago
I recently restarted fiddling with GAE after stopping in 2012 and moving everything to heroku/aws. To say I'm blown away by how far it has come is an understatement. Within less than a day I had a prototype up and running that han
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by sologoub 9y ago
From consumer standpoint, A380 is by far my favorite for cross-Atlantic flights. A340 would be a distant second. 777s layout fits more people then A340 (superior for airline), but 3/4/3 seating just plain sucks for passengers comp
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by sologoub 9y ago
LA really needs to work on providing restrooms. The RV convoys aren't really that much of a problem themselves (some individuals are, but so can be those with homes). Instead what they leave behind is a problem - feces, urine and trash
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by sologoub 9y ago
Author is very focused on "vs the elites" topic. However, the strangers comment is about safety. Even the quote used from Musk states that one of those strangers could be a serial killer. That's not an elite-only concern. Sta
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by sologoub 9y ago
> Signal problems and car equipment failures occur twice as frequently as a decade ago, but hundreds of mechanic positions have been cut because there is not enough money to pay them — even though the average total compensation for subwa
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by sologoub 9y ago
Metering is not a critical/safety component of the grid. It's an important business component, but it does not by itself guarantee safety or preclude safety measures from kicking in. There are other systems that are used to monito
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by sologoub 9y ago
The parent comments author has this in the profile: >about: CEO at http://www.3scale.net I'd venture to say there is at least some qualification to answer here. </sarcasm>

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