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by uberdru 8y ago
How can you be sure he's assuming any capital risk? It's far more likely that any downside would be passed on to shareholders.
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by uberdru 8y ago
It is. That's the whole point of having systems to regulate it. When those systems are overridden by, in effect, collective freeloaders, any system breaks down.
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by uberdru 8y ago
This needs to called what it is, corruption. "Self-dealing is the conduct of a trustee, attorney, corporate officer, or other fiduciary that consists of taking advantage of his position in a transaction and acting in his own interests
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by uberdru 8y ago
Go straight to the classic on this topic: The Art of Memory by British historian Frances A. Yates. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Memory
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by uberdru 8y ago
Lots of Kafka + Cassandra out there looking for a replacement. I wonder if this is the one.
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Introducing streamy-db: a deterministic database on a stream processing engine(domsj.info)
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Going Head-To-Head: Scylla vs. Amazon DynamoDB(scylladb.com)
77 points by uberdru 8y ago|55 comments
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Hooking Up Spark and Scylla: Part 4(scylladb.com)
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7 Russian Intelligence Officers Charged with Hacking Sports and Doping Groups(npr.org)
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Bland on Blonde: why the old rock music canon is finished(theguardian.com)
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by uberdru 8y ago
It's interesting to speculate about how 'cultural fit' supplanted 'doing your job'. By its nature, a so-called strongly defined culture is exclusionary, and has more than a few Orwellian undertones. On the one hand,
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by uberdru 8y ago
I picked up on that too.
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by uberdru 8y ago
This is particularly relevant to Anthony Bourdain's case. If you recall from his earliest shows he was always talking about throwing in the towel and becoming an ex-pat in viet nam or wherever he happened to be.
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by uberdru 8y ago
You never know till studies get funded.
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by uberdru 8y ago
I agree. It's ultimately a policy question. Why is funding disproportionate?
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by uberdru 8y ago
I agree. Just interesting that the issue is not proportionally funded. That's perhaps a more interesting question.
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by uberdru 8y ago
Not sure how else you could reasonably frame the question.
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It's official: Charleston apologizes for its role in slavery(postandcourier.com)
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by uberdru 8y ago
"At present, men account for 80 percent of all suicides." Yet, "There’s more funding on research into women’s mental health and the suicidality of women and in young people."
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Anthony Bourdain and the ‘Silent Epidemic of Male Suicide’(grubstreet.com)
59 points by uberdru 8y ago|76 comments
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Here’s what happens when you replace toads and turtles with 3D-printed replicas(sciencemag.org)
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How an Entrepreneur Says He Is Fighting for the Soul of Blockchain(medium.com)
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'Bizarre as Hell': The Disappearance of the Yuba County Five(mentalfloss.com)
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Cessna's New Skycourier Twin Turboprop Plane Will Make a Wonderful Weapon(thedrive.com)
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Astronaut's DNA no longer identical to his identical twin's after year in space(thehill.com)
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The Tech Industry’s Psychological War on Kids(medium.com)
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The Psychology of Progressive Hostility(quillette.com)
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The Quantum Thermodynamics Revolution (2017)(quantamagazine.org)
105 points by uberdru 9y ago|49 comments
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Histories of Violence: Neurodiversity and the Policing of the Norm(lareviewofbooks.org)
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Fortresses, farmlands of the Maya emerge from massive LiDAR survey(arstechnica.com)
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