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by yannyu 8y ago
EM waves are spherical in nature (analogous to ripples in a pond) rather than directional. So the rotation of the earth wouldn't significantly affect the strength/reception of the signal by a distant planet. The bigger factors wou
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by yannyu 8y ago
What "records"? Unless he filed for unemployment, the only other people who would know would be his employers.
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by yannyu 9y ago
While what you're saying may be true, maybe we should be questioning why this kind of communication is considered acceptable and without consequence in the gaming community.
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by yannyu 9y ago
Or maybe words are imprecise and fluid and the majority of people understand the intended message even if it's "technically incorrect". >You might be hang up on the additional narrative attached to the word “minority”. You
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by yannyu 9y ago
The article above talks about how many of the author's friends had no idea that the event happened to her, even though it was one of the most important events of her life. I imagine it's similar for many people who've endured
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by yannyu 9y ago
I don't think most people think all success is 100% luck, but many people do find issue with those who consider themselves self-made without any consideration for privilege and luck. It feels like you're setting up a strawman here
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by yannyu 9y ago
Right. As you said, companies aren't optimizing just for this year's sales; they're going to be balancing acquiring customers this year, the cost of each sale, and the retention of those customers year over year. So if a sale
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by yannyu 9y ago
Probably just anecdotal numbers from experience. I've seen similar things as well. The division of prospects/accounts is kind of a big deal, and usually defaults to geographical area or industry as the primary dimension, with size
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by yannyu 9y ago
You can attack the presentation of the content, but do you think anyone wants to go back to the days of dealing with Oracle and SAP charging you for perpetual license and support, and then also needing consulting by the hour from them or a
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by yannyu 9y ago
To universally label the move from on-prem, perpetual licensing to SaaS as pure rent-seeking is to misunderstand how different kinds of software products are purchased and used by different users. As far as enterprise/business customer
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by yannyu 9y ago
How is that any different than someone who goes 100MPH and then 20MPH and claims to have not violated a 65MPH rule because the average speed was 60MPH for the trip? The units of the measurement do not dictate how the measurement is made.
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by yannyu 9y ago
Yep, I entirely understand the point. Consider that when the police measure your speed, they're still measuring in MPH. Just because the units contains a specific time-frame (hours), doesn't mean the measurement is made over an ho
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by yannyu 9y ago
A 65MPH speed limit doesn't mean I can go 100MPH for some section of the road, and 30MPH for another section and still be in compliance. Similarly, an APM limit wouldn't directly imply that the kind of "gaming" that you&
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by yannyu 9y ago
Why? Speed is in MPH or KPH, would it be better to go by m/s? The convention in gaming is APM, so they're just using the nomenclature that is already understood.
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by yannyu 9y ago
Wingnut Welfare is a real thing: Wingnut welfare is an important, underrated feature of the modern U.S. political scene. I don’t know who came up with the term, but anyone who follows right-wing careers knows whereof I speak: the lavishly-f
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by yannyu 9y ago
If that's all it were, then someone would have repackaged Google Docs and sold that to the legal world. While "track changes" is absolutely essential to any product that aims to replace MS Word for legal docs, a replacement w
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by yannyu 9y ago
I worked on this for a while as well! I talked with a lot of people who deal with contracts regularly (both lawyers and laypeople, in-house and in private practice) and all of them acknowledge there are inefficiencies in the way they work.
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by yannyu 9y ago
There actually is a lot of legal-industry-specific technology out there that most people have never heard of. It works well enough for what most lawyers and firms want, but it seems to have hit a local maxima for one major reason: nearly al
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by yannyu 9y ago
Absolutely, I was saying the features were modern compared to PostGres search :)
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by yannyu 9y ago
They're slightly prioritizing recall over precision: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_and_recall
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by yannyu 9y ago
You could just as easily set up Solr/Elasticsearch locally and index your data for searching. It'll give you the advantage of being able to do more complex queries, faceting, grouping, stemming, synonyms, and things that you expec
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by yannyu 9y ago
Anecdotally, I was also a member of a small, online, gaming focused community for a long time. It wasn't as directly tied to emulator/roms, but there was definitely a focus on Japanese console games. Over the years, a number of th
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by yannyu 9y ago
Can you? I'm not sure most people are as consistent with their views on what laws are "good" or "bad" as you might think. Most people tend to judge the morality of their actions by intent, and judge the morality of
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by yannyu 9y ago
In philosophy of ethics, this is still something people think about. In utilitarian style ethics, the ends (mostly) justify the means, so if in lying you are overall increasing utility/happiness for more people than if you told the tru
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by yannyu 9y ago
Even if it were true that "these kinds of stories are what people are looking for", that doesn't mean it's not "evidence of sexism".
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by yannyu 10y ago
If you look at the spreadsheet, it lays out some of the criteria: Work time Family services "Flexible (yes/no)" Additional time off (yes/no) "Allow remote (yes/no)" Mandatory hourly presence (in hour
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by yannyu 10y ago
The swastika predated the Nazi party and Hitler by several millennia, and is still an important part of several religions and cultures. Wishing for the swastika to become un-stigmatized isn't really so controversial from that perspecti
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by yannyu 10y ago
Theoretically possible, but then the money is stuck in Amazon-land, right?
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by yannyu 10y ago
This is the way to think about it here. It's a contract that happens to be called an NDA. NDAs vary from company to company, some are very permissive whereas others contain non-compete and non-solicitation clauses. You should review th
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by yannyu 10y ago
India is another place where this is fairly common. Addresses in the US are ridiculously simple and easy compared to many other countries.

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