gnrlist

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by gnrlist 8y ago
If this was Walmart's home speaker people would call their strategy predatory pricing, but since it's Google no one seems to care.
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by gnrlist 9y ago
As far as I understand it, it's taboo because the results will be misused, and any results that do exist will not necessarily apply to the genetics 100 years from now but the consequences of their misuse would. And unless we're go
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by gnrlist 9y ago
Generally speaking you're spot on and I think the 'report' is unrealistic. The one wild card I could see accelerating EV in the heartland is wind power. If you look at wind speed maps of America ( http://apps2.eere
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by gnrlist 9y ago
Good point, I didn't get the nuance from my first pass reading it.
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by gnrlist 9y ago
Aside from it's verbosity, the only nit I have with the article is that it muddles it's own point by talking about iOS as a monopoly.
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by gnrlist 9y ago
Chinese people want the Apple brand they don't care about iOS. If iOS was the status symbol it would get pirated and installed elsewhere. Apple has a strong brand because of it's history as a premium device company internationally
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by gnrlist 9y ago
My original statement was a bit over the top, but the idea I was getting at is how little impact most CEO's have on company performance ( https://hbr.org/2015/11/are-successful-ceos-just-lucky ), and how their
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by gnrlist 9y ago
Just like in sports, you get paid more for what you have done vs what you could do. Having a few really good pieces of work to show off is no guarantee that you'll consistently pump out good work, or that you haven't left clients
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by gnrlist 9y ago
Sounds like you're confusing the integer code point and the integer representation of characters. Many programming languages internally represent chars as UTF-8 or UTF-16, so when using libraries to read bytes into chars everything get
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by gnrlist 10y ago
If price is your thing, Linode for compute and Backblaze for storage; 4 CPU and 8GB RAM for $40 a month and 1/2 cent per month per gig. For full feature cloud I find Azure a better competitor to AWS as far as features/price/
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by gnrlist 11y ago
This sounds a lot like elastic distortions that have been around for a while.
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by gnrlist 11y ago
So they made PowerQuery that you have to pay for?
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by gnrlist 11y ago
My list is exactly the same. If you work at a place like this, please share :)
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by gnrlist 12y ago
There isn't a shortage of engineers in this country... http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/education/the-stem-crisis-i...