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by vivegi 4y ago
That argument doesn't hold. Yes, climate action is needed. But, for many countries that have to lift their populace from poverty, 'goal #1: No Poverty' and 'goal #2: Zero hunger' may carry higher weightage as they t
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by vivegi 4y ago
Why would focusing on just one measure be the right approach when the UN (i.e., its member countries) have agreed on 17 sustainable development goals? Focusing just on emissions isn't sustainable! This just doesn't make any sense.
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by vivegi 4y ago
Bangla, Sinhala and Tamil have distinct scripts. Bangla script is similar to Devanagari script in the sense that you have the topline (overbar a.k.a. Shirorekha, literally headline). Sinhala does not have that. Tamil is a completely distinc
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by vivegi 4y ago
- Social media - Ad-trackers - App stores/subscriptions - Cookie banners - Stupid "AI" - Ridiculous customer service chatbots/IVR call-trees - Cryptocurrency scams
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'\0' (NUL) terminated strings in C is the idiomatic example for sentinel values.
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by vivegi 4y ago
Around 25 years ago, I was part of a team that was building a client-server workflow system in C++. We had sharded SQL databases and an object server that managed the ORM for each shard and a queue server that kept a prefetched list of obje
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by vivegi 4y ago
Nope. While you are still searching product-market-fit, if your product or service has a unit price (price that consumers pay) that is designed to cover the amortized cost of your "owned infra" or operating cost on the cloud, it s
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by vivegi 4y ago
The solution lies in denying authorship rights (ie., natural rights of authorship) to programs. This will prevent claiming copyrights on AI-generated content. A fundamental issue with granting authorship rights on AI/program generated
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Two Minute Papers: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbfYPyITQ-7l4upoX8nvctg A channel with videos about lot of AI papers. DUST Sci-fi: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7sDT8jZ76VLV1u__krUutA Grea
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by vivegi 4y ago
This makes a lot of sense. In the past when I built scrapers/aggregators, it made sense to separate out the scrape part and the aggregate part. 1. It decoupled the steps and allowed for concurrency of the scraping and aggregation tasks
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by vivegi 4y ago
Yes. I was thinking in the lines of Karp's 21 NP-complete problems or Hilbert's problems. There is indeed a Lists of unsolved problems page in Wikipedia itself ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_unsolve
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If you intend to keep majority stake in the startup (business vertical, in your terms), another alternative could be to keep the technical IP as your own property that you give usage rights to the startup (for free or for a fee). This would
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Wouldn't a sub-wiki on Wikipedia for topics with unknown answers serve the purpose better? Interesting concept though.
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Hypothetically, it could run a bit deeper than that. Amazon also runs a Print-on-demand (PoD) operation and offers that as a paid service to booksellers. Several years ago they acquired a company called BookSurge which was into PoD. Booksel
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by vivegi 4y ago
For the Web, REST + HATEOAS architectural constraint is already a universal object reference framework.
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Reminded me of this article on saving silence and protecting ecological spaces from sound pollution. https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20210712-the-worlds-most-...
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Ask HN: Solar PV vs. Thermoelectric
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That is because almost all applications use filesystem calls (directly or indirectly), but only some apps may need a transactional API. Consider a process P1 using a fictional transactional API in an OS and is accessing the path `/a&
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by vivegi 4y ago
Just yesterday I was reading about Time-of-creation/Time-of-use (TOCTOU) race conditions in symlinks ( https://lwn.net/Articles/899543/ ). The manufacturer's new container-id generation logic probably has&
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by vivegi 4y ago
Probably, what Netflix needs is to build an Electronic-sell-through/Download-to-own service. Same tech. Different licensing and win over the indie/small&medium budget filmmakers.
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If it is about a water toy that he can play with that has flowing water, consider a Heron's fountain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heron%27s_fountain There are many YouTube videos that show how to make one using
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by vivegi 4y ago
1. Merkle-trees. Helps with content-based-retrieval, efficient add/modify/delete/move node operations. Useful in scenarios where you are building a data-serialization format that needs to support efficient updates. 2. Not nec
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by vivegi 4y ago
Even before that it used to be called Industrial Relations (I am referring to the practice in India pre-1980s).
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Wow! I remember an exploratory conversation I had with the CEO of a large health insurance company's individual plan subsidiary and this was several years ago, a time when ridesharing was gaining traction. They were talking about partn
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If I recall, for the doctor setting, all that was required for compliance was the patient sign a consent form permitting the care-giver's use of the Google Glass device which they kept on file. In addition, the doctor would ask the pat
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by vivegi 4y ago
Example. Hi, my rates in our contract are going up from $xx/hr to $yy/hr to adjust to market rates effective ______. You know that I have not had a rate revision for several years. The new rates are reflective of the additional sk
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by vivegi 4y ago
You know what I miss? Serendipity. When I browsed VHS tape jackets looking at the key art, logline/synopsis and the cast, I had this nice feeling of discovering screen gems, serendipitously. Now, I am tired of recommender algos that ju
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by vivegi 4y ago
First, the term "friendly fraud" sounds terrible; First-party fraud at least conveys the meaning clearly without the marketing dressup. Second, how does this not weaken the rights of the card-holder? > This change will empower
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by vivegi 4y ago
MS Excel Spreadsheets. More than the tool, what matters is the discipline of all functions (i.e., departments) agreeing on the business processes such as annual budgeting, quarterly/monthly forecasting, feedback loops to account for re
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by vivegi 4y ago
You are going to have pick-pack-ship. With pharmacies, the number of SKUs are quite high (there are around 250,000+ NDC codes - National Drug Codes assigned by the FDA). Combine that with dosage regimens in prescriptions and other requireme

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