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by thomasz 9y ago
Most likely someone was told that his bonus depends on improving the number of sign ups. Which he then did.
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The only way to get people into such "I get everything and you get nothing" arrangements is to either take advantage of an incredibly desperate situation, or through deception.
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It's selfish on an unfathomable level. And on top of that, it is self defeating. This is a stunt that you can only pull of once. Who in their right mind would ever want to work for, or even with , such horrible people ever again? How
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https://www.destructoid.com/former-kerbal-space-program-deve... They won't get a dime from me ever. For anything.
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That's why you should always have a domain expert on board when trying to enter a business you deem ripe for disruption. Chances are very high that you do not completely understand it.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrappage_program#Germany
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Germany has a comparatively weak consumer software industry.
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I think you misunderstood him: HE well be right in 2020, not his liberal friends, because there will be no democratization. That's his entire point: Capitalism has gotten a divorce from Democracy.
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They pay one way or the other. The ad campaign cost is factored into the consumer price. In my eyes, this all comes down to convenience. If there would be a way to automatically deduct the small price for an impression from my account every
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by thomasz 9y ago
Well, it's a failed attempt at translation. "Baby Boomers" is not really a term that is used very often. I was referring to the generation that was born during the war or in the immediate aftermath. > My parents demanded r
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by thomasz 9y ago
As a rule of thumb, the parents of our baby boomers were a generation of repressed, damaged, emotionally and/or physically violent wrecks who demanded absolute respect and obedience for suffering through a war they themselves started.
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Yes, as a rule of thumb, we live through emotionally starved childhoods which causes us to become emotionally detached automatons whose only joy in live is producing cars and occasionally waging war against France, which is always good clea
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This is not how the argument against “ethical consumption” goes. There never will be anything close to enough soap artisans to meet even a tiny fraction of the demand; and even if production would be greatly expanded, the product would stil
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect
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> Algorithms for predicting recidivism are commonly used to assess a criminal defendant’s likelihood of committing a crime. These predictions are used in pretrial, parole, and sentencing decisions. Proponents of these systems argue that
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The accuracy, fairness, and limits of predicting recidivism(advances.sciencemag.org)
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No, this what a real schizophrenic is. It's a terrible disease that should not be romanticized in any way.
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German cops have fired a total of 52 bullets in 2016, which killed 11 people. I think it’s very likely that situation would have had a different outcome.
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There is no alt right in Germany. We are dealing with a surge in far right activism, but those people are just that: Right wing extremists. It’s not a new phenomenon, it never went away completely.
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That's a very simplistic interpretation. The article is really worth a read. The whole accident is a prime example for a very minor problem (loosing air speed indicators) spinning completely out of control, with the crew being making e
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Cars with automatic transmissions cost more.
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They were great at getting their OS preinstalled on nearly every PC. They were really good at backwards compatibility, and they were absolutely ruthless against their competition. But they always, always sucked at marketing.
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> For me as an Spaniard who works in center Europe who last week was in Catalunya is obvious who is using violence. It is not the police. There are people trowing stones to police, they are insulting and spitting to them, they are doing
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by thomasz 9y ago
“The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.” - Keynes
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Huh? You just have to be careful not to use the linux filesystem from windows. It's hidden under %localappdata%\lxss anywax. Editing test.py in your Desktop and then running it with python /mnt/c/Users/Neves/De
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by thomasz 9y ago
It's hardly the fault of the language if people are lying in their method signatures. I'm not aware of a mainstream PL with a type system that is powerful enough to avoid something like that.
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This has nothing to do with ideas . The site was used as a dumping ground for letters claiming responsibility^1, doxxing of right wing activists, calls for violent protest and so on. The whole thing is a little bit odd because in the past,
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by thomasz 9y ago
Did he seriously just throw random colors on random words and compare that to syntax highlighting?
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You are wrongly calculating with $180 instead of $13. The $180 figure is $13 adjusted by inflation.
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>There seems to be a common theme of startups succeeding with dynamically typed languages, and adding static typing later. However calling the original decision a "mistake" is neither fair nor accurate. People forget how old re

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