symlock

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by symlock 7y ago
The more companies though, the more times the same dollar can be taxed.
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by symlock 7y ago
Well, other arguments aside, there is a little bit of a difference between a single-system ENIGMA and building multi-system spaceships.
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by symlock 7y ago
Very Interested, but what markers are there for me to trust you/your company? Is it Open Source? Have you been around for long? Are you audited? Is there a sustainable business model? The https://www.zood.xyz/products&#
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by symlock 7y ago
For those wondering how the image was constructed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMsNd1W_lmE Basically, the image has been constructed by calculations on massive measurement data-sets from multiple synchronized telescopes
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by symlock 8y ago
Sphinx is a workhorse. Very light memory and CPU usage compared to the popular Elasticsearch.
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by symlock 8y ago
Understanding non-altered History, science communication, one-or-more scientific fields, marketing, and the human mind is much more than almost anyone can hope to achieve. This means that both bad science and improper understanding of scien
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by symlock 8y ago
Recommended Open Source Alternative: https://photoprism.org/
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by symlock 8y ago
or just greater consequences (fines, imprisonment) so even legitimate uses-cases (whistle blowers?) are scared to say anything.
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by symlock 8y ago
This headline is incorrect for how little is actually measured in this study. It's like staying that rammed earth houses are bad for the environment because they use more dirt that otherwise might be growing plants - so everyone should
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by symlock 8y ago
This looks like email, but with shared storage of emails similar to the way IPFS allows nodes to cache pinned content.
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by symlock 8y ago
How long do air wave licenses last? Is there a substantial cost to renew or do you simply have to re-bid?
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by symlock 8y ago
Yes, don't be afraid to quit. I've left companies for some of these situations/items and I'm financially better off.
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by symlock 8y ago
I'm not a "serverless hater", but every company I've ever worked with had backend processes that were not tied to HTTP requests. I still keep actual servers around because the HTTP gateway is not the pain point. It'
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by symlock 8y ago
There are government run (even if by proxy) social networks. The are worse that Facebook. https://vk.com/ is government run. The Chinese "Credit Score" is run by Alibaba and Tencent, which run all the social netwo
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by symlock 8y ago
Crowds can't have "wisdom" by nature of the averaging that must occur for binary choices/responses from a crowd. "Knowledge of the Crowd" is the correct phrase as the storage capacity + experience is greater th
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by symlock 8y ago
Yes, gofmt is a wonderful since so many other languages can have very different way of writing code leading to harder-than-necessary digestion of new libs or projects.
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by symlock 8y ago
Most antibiotics & modern medicine kills gut flora. It seems gut flora have more to do with proper nutritional absorption preventing the need of drugs to begin with. Consider the termite's inability to digest wood when their gut fl
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by symlock 8y ago
> "...had rejected Comcast’s earlier offer partly on concerns the government would block the deal." > "we are pleased to present a new, all-cash proposal that fully addresses the Board’s stated concerns with our prior p
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by symlock 8y ago
> 22. I saw that women are more decent and self-sacrificing than men The majority of men love themselves while women love others. Men will sacrifice for themselves. Women will sacrifice for others. Why? Is it global culture teaching a wo
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by symlock 8y ago
> problems caused directly by excess body fat I would say this is putting the cart before the horse. It's not excess body fat that is the source of health problems. It's the lifestyle (diet and movement) that leads to excess bo
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by symlock 8y ago
What do you mean?
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by symlock 8y ago
The only time I find I need generics is when I'm prototyping things and making lots of changes. Node, Ruby, & Python are great for this. In fact, PHP's associative array is really powerful/sloppy since it can be used as a
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by symlock 8y ago
Really neat to see beaker broswer support native P2P with progressive enhancements like github.com/beakerbrowser/hashbase providing the cute URL's we all like. I'm sure hashbase.io will be blocked really quick, so it&#x2
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by symlock 8y ago
"I hate that" people think calories and weight is the primary gauge of health. It's true weight is very often a negative health indicator because of the toxic nature of the diet that results in weight gain. However, losing
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by symlock 8y ago
I missed it the first time, but the article has linked source code (github.com/jackschaedler/handwriting-recognition) for all the D3.js demos that is worth a read.
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by symlock 8y ago
I would say read and write twice as much code for learning as you do for work. Like most learning, you have to apply the concepts for them to stick well so just reading isn't helpful until you've practiced the ideas yourself to
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by symlock 8y ago
One nice thing about startups / small companies is they can be flexible with work hours.