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4y ago
I don't think you understand what coercive means
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4y ago
taking something with the threat of force is not the same as owning something that you traded for in a mutually agreed upon transaction
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4y ago
> It's hard to fathom what kind of asshole you'd have to be I don't think you picked up on who this asshole is in this situation
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4y ago
The author calling this a "blog post" really undersold it!
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4y ago
This is very common! What's worse is these engineers likely created or at least contributed to a situation where tribal knowledge is valuable, rather than developing simple decoupled systems that can be picked up by new engineers.
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4y ago
A question for the people here who have a favorable view of kubernetes: what is your level of experience with it, and what problems does it solve that aren't already solved by cloud managed services?
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5y ago
I can't imagine someone arguing that avoiding tight coupling is a personal preference.
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5y ago
it's much more likely that it doesn't appear in results because people don't click on it when it does
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5y ago
unless they used a different sample rate, why would there be a drift?
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7y ago
but who's browsing Instagram while posts aren't loading?
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Enhanced Forecasting Now Available in AWS Cost Explorer
(aws.amazon.com)
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8y ago
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9y ago
> if DST was to go, all countries would have to drop it simultaneously, or else the resulting patchwork would be too much of a pain There are already countless exceptions to DST and people seem to be doing fine. E.g. in Australia there a
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9y ago
> I got how much dreaming contributes to creative problem solving. And decided not to mess with it. Why not do that in lucid dreams? It's a common use-case. If you can't be as creative when you're lucid, then ask one of th
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9y ago
> when I dream lucidly it is fun but my dreams lose a lot of spontaneity and richness For me this is a function of how many of my dreams I have been writing down. The more I work to remember my dreams, the richer and more detailed they a
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9y ago
> I'm a Prime subscriber but can't watch Prime videos (TV and movies) on my regular Android device Why not? I regularly watch Prime Video on Android.
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9y ago
Other discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15808379
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9y ago
It's more like a piano played through a tube amplifier. It can add character, if you're into that, and it can't be reproduced well with digital effects.
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9y ago
Substances that are fat-soluble are alcohol-soluble, in particular cannabinoids, see: green dragon
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9y ago
For anyone wondering: https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you
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9y ago
Indeed. For anyone wondering: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepan_Company
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9y ago
> The volca series is also great entry level gear Entry level but also unique! I recently got a Volca FM and I absolutely love it. The alternatives were either vintage or insanely expensive. This was cheap enough for an impulse buy.
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9y ago
> It's a conundrum for central bankers. The old model may no longer work. It is (and has been for a while) the goal of the Bank of Canada to keep inflation between 1% and 3%: http://www.bankofcanada.ca/core-functions
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9y ago
That is the point of experiments.
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9y ago
Correlation is usually accidental. e.g. http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
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9y ago
It's interesting that this is from 1000 years before Pythagoras but the claims of contemporary usefulness sound exaggerated. Is there something I'm missing?
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Mathematical secrets of ancient tablet unlocked after nearly a century of study
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I found that too! I can concentrate much better on a lecture with an increased speed. Never really thought about it but it makes sense that less pauses mean less occasions for the mind to wander. It's been a gripe I've had with th
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9y ago
> horribly expensive Where I live WF is cheaper than the Safeway next door for any items that are carried by both. The rest might be more expensive but higher quality (hence worth it for some people).
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The splay trees paper by Sleator and Tarjan (1985) https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sleator/papers/self-adjusting.pdf It's just such a cool result and the paper is very well written. Further, the dynamic optimality co
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9y ago
Not so much a lifespan as an average; Amazon is hiring tens of thousands of people every year.
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