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by vegabook 10y ago
nitpick -> I see 0.006 * 14.5bn as 87m? Or am I doing something wrong? Also you have to factor in that a large proportion of the goods might have sizable negative time value, especially if they're perishable, but also if there is an
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by vegabook 10y ago
Agreed. My sense is that if this happened to political heavyweights like Google or Facebook, we'd have serious diplomatic muscle on the case, as indeed we have already seen in the past with Google's China travails, or Obama's
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by vegabook 10y ago
It is almost certain that this evolving risk was disclosed to Verizon (and other officially interested parties) during the initial stages of the sale negotiating process, and could well explain the difficult gestation of the Yahoo sale. Not
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by vegabook 10y ago
100% agreed. Investment vs consumption. Though maybe, just maybe, this thing has an "investment in reputation" angle to it too? More generally I wanted to contextualize the amounts.
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by vegabook 10y ago
because Pharma doesn't partner with academia??
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by vegabook 10y ago
If you look at pharma company R&D, they know where their bread is buttered: people who are at risk of death are much bigger spenders than brunettes wanting to be blondes. 70%+ of pharma R&D goes towards life-prolonging research.
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by vegabook 10y ago
Very nice. Some context: Mark Zuckerberg is worth 55 billion dollars. This is 5% of his net worth. Mark Zuckerberg spent 20bn on Whatsapp. At his 28% shareholding in facebook that's a 5.6bn USD personal commitment. The top 5 global pha
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by vegabook 10y ago
I have to assume you're referencing Apple, because otherwise, apart from maybe Lenovo, for a good quality decent price machine with at least a semblance of design attention, Dell has been pretty good for something like 8-10 years now
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by vegabook 10y ago
your stomach is packed with hydrocholoric acid at a pretty mean pH of between 1 and 3 anyway.
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by vegabook 10y ago
I'm running an ISO keyboard on a Dell Precision as we "speak". Recall you don't have to buy the Ubuntu pre-installed version because it's the same hardware. I retro-installed mine on a UK-keyboard Windows Precisio
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by vegabook 10y ago
Honestly Dell does Ubuntu pre-installed and therefore its XPS and Precision models never give this kind of bullshit uphill, even if you don't buy the Ubuntu version. It's now my go-to vendor, simply because I consider any vendor w
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by vegabook 10y ago
"learn to say no" is critically important, but can seriously damage relationships with colleagues. I have found that it is important to explain very carefully and ahead of time why you will often be saying no, and try to mitigate
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by vegabook 10y ago
The above code is wrapped in a thread and runs non stop in each node. It's really not very complicated. It's basically sticking a def around the top block of code and then thread.start() in the main. It's extremely cheap beca
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by vegabook 10y ago
In fairness, "use Anaconda" usually nullifies this dependency / deployment problem completely.
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by vegabook 10y ago
That's very interesting and I did not know that. I happen to run my own modest (12-node) cluster, and had planned to move to cloud if I grew beyond 20 nodes. The fact that I would not own the transport layer in my case is quite severel
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by vegabook 10y ago
The missing link in MirageOS is a BEAM-style distributed computing framework. If this were available, I'd be using Ocaml/Mirage almost exclusively. Imagine the beauty of supervisable, millisecond demand-scalable, ultra-lean, Ocaml
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by vegabook 10y ago
They broadcast every 2 seconds. No heartbeat = dead.
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by vegabook 10y ago
that's a very fair point. There are few applications where if the DB goes down, there's any point for the rest of the system to stay up. My use case happens to be distribution of financial tick info without persistence - ie: no ca
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by vegabook 10y ago
who needs warships when you can destroy a country economically electronic payment-systems sanctions? I think the East India Company comparison is entirely reasonable, if not right now, soon. And it won't need anything so vulgar as actu
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by vegabook 10y ago
Facebook's transparent attempt to own the internet in Africa is scary, distasteful, but strangely tinged with inevitability due to Mark Zuckerberg's unstoppable hunger and relentless competence. I hope Africa is as savvy as the We
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by vegabook 10y ago
indeed, with the small caveat that you now need to know the database's IP address, thereby introducing a failure point / master IP point. My solution is completely IP address agnostic. Indeed you could run my version even with DHC
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by vegabook 10y ago
it is trivially easy for any node to broadcast its IP address to the whole network periodically (in my case every 2 seconds) using a separate thread and UDP. Using this technique I have rock solid ZeroMQ topology that reconnects with max do
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by vegabook 10y ago
totally agree. They're infamous for this front page call. Remember when they also were lauding Gordon Brown for selling half of Britain's gold for an average price of 270?
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by vegabook 10y ago
The Economist has a knack for getting on the case of sectors / companies whenever their price is at an extreme - and being wrong. It's actually a good contra-indicator, as we've seen with oil, shale, gold, more recently Deuts
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by vegabook 10y ago
Personally I work in macro and fixed income market analysis (strategist), and I can heartily recommend R as your first language. Indeed, coming from a CS background, I first applied Python to many problems, and resisted R which was not a &q
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by vegabook 10y ago
----------> erroneous comment deleted. Original suggested GPL was protection against dual versioning (Open Source/Enterprise) as opposed to permissive licences which enable @animats business model analysis.
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by vegabook 10y ago
Lula would be proud ;-)
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by vegabook 10y ago
but move on from what exactly? Vim 8? Looks good to me.... Maybe you want to move on just for the sake of moving on? To a new generation? Can you explain why? Seems to me that the person who knows the code base 200%, who wrote/vetted
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by vegabook 10y ago
you know what? I'm prepared to cut Bram Moolenaar a lot of slack given the goodness he gave us for 20 years through 7 versions of one of my top 3 pieces of useful software.
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by vegabook 10y ago
that was true pre-neovim too so we still can say that activity has increased signficantly post-neovim announcement.

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