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The Misfit Who Built the IBM PC(every.to)
5 points by vonmoltke 2y ago|0 comments
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by vonmoltke 3y ago
I know this is a joke (like the Jets), but the NFL was a 501(c)(6) organization. You can't deduct donations to those.
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by vonmoltke 3y ago
The paper is referring to the flouride content of tea itself, which seems to be much greater than that of fluoridated water systems.
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by vonmoltke 3y ago
I believe the GP is referring to price look-up codes ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_look-up_code ). These are often applied via sticker to the produce, as shown in the Wiki images. Every self-checkout system I h
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by vonmoltke 3y ago
Just because a bunch of forums do it that way doesn't mean it's correct. When I was at Twitter the Compliance team determined that all user-generated content was Personal Data under the scope of GDPR. Those forums may be getting
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by vonmoltke 4y ago
Running this code would require a lot more than just the exported models. There are a large number of code and system dependencies missing.
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by vonmoltke 4y ago
SaaS products are infrastructure. Each different SaaS used is another piece that needs to be connected to the system and maintained; it thus becomes part of the system infrastructure. Each new SaaS piece has costs (time and money) assoc
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by vonmoltke 4y ago
Since mortgage-backed securities have been a thing since the mid 1980s, no.
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by vonmoltke 4y ago
First, "out of state" doesn't mean "across the continent" (though that is more likely in Seattle or SF, since they're rather isolated from out of state population centers). Second, that is not evidence in the s
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by vonmoltke 4y ago
They only miss out on this if the people they are working with are in the same office as them. This isn't always the case at large companies. I suspect that people who work for companies where teams, organizations, or even the entire
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by vonmoltke 4y ago
USPS generally contracts out long-haul.
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by vonmoltke 4y ago
Location: NYC metro Remote: Yes (or hybrid) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Scala, Java, Python, Hadoop, NumPy Résumé/CV: https://wmkrug.com/krug-resume.pdf Email: hnhiring@wmkrug.com I can't
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by vonmoltke 4y ago
> All professions have a union of some sort that police both the members and the employers - lawyers, doctors ... No, they don't. Professional societies aren't unions. They don't police anything, governments do; the soci
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Software Engineering of Machine Learning Systems(cacm.acm.org)
2 points by vonmoltke 4y ago|0 comments
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by vonmoltke 4y ago
Location: NYC metro Remote: Yes (or hybrid) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Scala, Java, Python, Hadoop, NumPy Résumé/CV: https://wmkrug.com/krug-resume.pdf Email: hnhiring@wmkrug.com I can't
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by vonmoltke 4y ago
Aurora, a container manager on top of Mesos, was developed in-house. Mesos itself was not.
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by vonmoltke 4y ago
There are currently three data centers, hosting all of the real-time and most of the batch production load. Ad-hoc load and some production batch load was migrating to GCP, but this was being significantly curtailed in the months before th
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by vonmoltke 4y ago
> There are other things that can bring a site down, like [...] too much traffic[.] But generally speaking those things are rare and don't bring down an entire site. I agree with your assessment, but I do want to highlight that this
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by vonmoltke 4y ago
The way TLS was integrated into Finagle, most services should not need to be restarted to pick up and use their new certs. That said, there are certain core services that will require manual intervention, and there will inevitably be some
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by vonmoltke 4y ago
> Then Engineers have to stay with the associated Professional Society (so many hours of training a year; paying dues; etc). Speaking for the US, they do not. Joining a professional society is not a condition of licensure, nor is licens
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by vonmoltke 5y ago
Ferrari makes about 8,400 cars a year, almost entirely assembled by hand. McLaren produces just shy of 5,000 per year. Tesla is currently producing about the combined number per week. Ferrari and McLaren cars are a very exclusive club. F
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by vonmoltke 5y ago
> As it is, using prison populations to provide lower-cost-than-otherwise-legal labor for private corporations creates a huge mountain of perverse incentives. The vast majority of prison labor is for the direct benefit of the states or t
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by vonmoltke 5y ago
How is it that there are "luxury apartments without renters", yet landlords get away with " rent[ing] out shitty apartments at abhorrent prices"? Why don't the people who can afford those shitty apartments move to
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by vonmoltke 5y ago
From the article you cited (just above the examples): > In 1990, about a dozen European countries had a wealth tax, but by 2019, all but four had eliminated the tax because of the difficulties and costs associated with both design and en
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by vonmoltke 5y ago
> What kind of mad person dumps listservs directly into their inbox. The kind of mad person who tries to use a Hey.com email account with a listserv...
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by vonmoltke 5y ago
> I'm not aware of any financial aid package (outside of maybe some private loans?) that you can apply for with the intent of using that money for car repairs and have it not be fraud. When I was in undergrad (granted, 20+ years ago
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Scottish Government seeks to make emergency Covid powers permanent(thenational.scot)
9 points by vonmoltke 5y ago|3 comments
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by vonmoltke 5y ago
> I consider I'd be doing free labor for a company not willing to let its own workers contribute to a project if they can't monopolize the returns from it I don't think that is the reason. When Raytheon or other contracto
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Covid-19 false dichotomies and a comprehensive review of the evidence [pdf](bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com)
1 points by vonmoltke 5y ago|0 comments
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Do Chance Meetings at the Office Boost Innovation? There’s No Evidence of It(nytimes.com)
4 points by vonmoltke 5y ago|0 comments

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