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by sorokod 1y ago
OneCoin's founder Ruja Ignatova, is the subject of an excellent BBC podcast: The Missing Crypto Queen.
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by sorokod 1y ago
Tylenol is a brand name owned by Johnson & Johnson. The active ingredient is Paracetamol aka Acetaminophen
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by sorokod 1y ago
I agree with most of what you are saying except for the "solely defines" bit. The culture is a powerful force but individuals are free to make choices and the language allows for these choices.
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by sorokod 1y ago
It's a culture, not language thing. Here is a JSON parser implementation (part of PlantUML) that lacks endless levels of abstraction. https://github.com/plantuml/plantuml/blob/master/src/main&#
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by sorokod 1y ago
"The strong do what they can, the weak suffer what they must."
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Albania puts AI-created 'minister' in charge of public procurement(theguardian.com)
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by sorokod 1y ago
The dash in the spelling is unusual (according to books.google), also different languages tell different stories Russian - looks like a hot topic at the start of WW2 : https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=%D0%B
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by sorokod 1y ago
Perhaps Sankey diagrams is a better way to visualise
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by sorokod 1y ago
The SA article has some photos https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung
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by sorokod 1y ago
Side effects "Shares in Ørsted plunged to a new record low on Monday after the Trump administration halted one of the Danish wind farm developer’s almost-completed projects in a move that shocked investors." FT.com
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by sorokod 1y ago
Why would the price/cost of hardware replacement be treated differently from the price/cost of software replacement?
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by sorokod 1y ago
You are quite wrong, do have a look at Turing's paper.
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France Tested Its Hunter-Killed Drone Squadron vs. the U.S. [video](youtube.com)
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by sorokod 1y ago
Exploration over exploitation. I don't see this as a misalignment, it is a choice by the company, to the extent companies as a whole make choices. The incentives are the manifestations of those choices.
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by sorokod 1y ago
"clearly work against their own interests" Perhaps, but perhaps there is a bigger set of constraints not visible to an outsider which the "buerocrats" are trying to satisfy.
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by sorokod 1y ago
As a codendeced variant, yes. A bit more nuanced version is that incompetence from a position of power is a choice.
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by sorokod 1y ago
TIL, a possible origin of the English word "nookie" https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/nookie#English
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by sorokod 1y ago
Can you share an example of this? I see that they adverise Cilantro Taste Aversion is that what you had in mind?
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by sorokod 1y ago
But things did happen since that "first place". Enough things to merit the original post. Is it not a good time to review the original decisions?
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by sorokod 1y ago
What is the benefit of leaving your data with 23andMe?
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by sorokod 1y ago
Ah true. Although it's the benchmark that is publicly available. The model is not.
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by sorokod 1y ago
Not even bronze. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44615695
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by sorokod 1y ago
Companies would game metrics whenever they have the opportunity. What else is new?
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by sorokod 1y ago
From the post: "Evaluation began immediately after the 2025 IMO problems were released to prevent contamination." Doe this address your concern?
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by sorokod 1y ago
Golgafrincham Ark B, material. https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Golgafrincham
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by sorokod 1y ago
Trump has already tried to use pressure to help Bolsonaro by announcing a 50% tariff on goods from Latin America’s No. 1 economy Apparently this (fueled by family members lobbying) has backfired in Brazil as members of Bolsonaro's ba
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by sorokod 1y ago
Presumably it is Meta's growth they have in mind. Edit: from the linked in post, Meta is concerned about the growth of European companies: "We share concerns raised by these businesses that this over-reach will throttle the develo
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by sorokod 1y ago
More can be said about finite games: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zermelo%27s_theorem_(game_th...
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by sorokod 1y ago
This is a rational attitude but my experience is that engineers do not get to "the latter" at their leasure. What typically happens is that peeking under the covers is forced on them along with a tight timeline.
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by sorokod 1y ago
There is similarity between Spring and "Buy now, pay later" schemes. You do often get a working feature quickly while having the price of evolving and maintaining that feature spread over some future. This is the best I can do for

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