jcriddle4

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by jcriddle4 6y ago
It is interesting that when Facebook and Twitter are confronted over some censorship they will often talk about needing to be more transparent over and over and over and over...
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by jcriddle4 6y ago
It isn't just getting kicked off the platform that you should worry about. You have zero control of long term pricing. Developers sometimes even develop without doing any math on what the services they are using cost in year one. Ask p
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by jcriddle4 6y ago
The link below is on historical gas prices. Also include a link on US dollar to Euro. Depending on the state we are currently at about 2.50 and have been over 3.50. The dollar menu going to 5 because of a 10% or 20% drop in currency doesn&#
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by jcriddle4 6y ago
A 10% drop in currency would in your example, assuming no cost of shipping oil, US would go from 3.00 to 3.30 at 20% drop would mean 3.60 and even a US currency drop of 40% only gets you to $4.20. The data on trade indicates that countries
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by jcriddle4 6y ago
Point taken but the oil example isn't the best example on imports as we have since about 2010 really dropped imports with Obama's "All of the above" energy strategy which included opening the Arctic to drilling twice. He
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by jcriddle4 6y ago
The US would benefit from a weaker dollar as it would protect what remains of our manufacturing base and also act as an export subsidy. Currency valuation, and in particular currency manipulation, is equivalent to a tariff or an export subs
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by jcriddle4 6y ago
If you have several thousand stored procs and triggers then having to not rewrite all of that is actually likely over a million in savings.
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by jcriddle4 6y ago
So given 68 million USA twitter users, if this rate continues, it wouldn't take long to get half the USA switched over. I am assuming most of the new users are USA. I suspect a fair number will use both systems for awhile. There could
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by jcriddle4 6y ago
Obviously you don't have experience with Oracle or you would have written hundreds of thousands of dollars in license fees... /s
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by jcriddle4 7y ago
I suspect it is more company/occupation specific. High paying white collar workers are probably much more likely to be able to stay home. Low pay workers, likely have much less vacation benefits and all and must come to work. Me specif
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by jcriddle4 7y ago
Well I am glad nobody is going to lie. /S
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by jcriddle4 7y ago
Until companies start to drop open office plans I hope to see articles like this fairly often.
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by jcriddle4 7y ago
Pictures of the actual building on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Opera_House
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by jcriddle4 7y ago
Are you asking if there is a phase of the disease where the body temporarily wins most of the battle but the virus continues to inhabit the host? Sort of like hiv? Maybe even a phase where the immune system keeps the virus count so low only
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by jcriddle4 7y ago
Isn't this the point of every third or forth Dilbert cartoon? This seems pretty universal. Humans are very flawed. There are those who accept that reality and those who like to believe in some fairy tale that for really "important
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by jcriddle4 7y ago
If the ticket is fully refundable then it is also not a sunk cost. The land example also has potentially the same issue if the land can be sold for the purchase price. If the land can be sold but at a 20% discount then the sunk cost is only
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by jcriddle4 7y ago
You might have been joking but yes that type of question is being asked because a child friendly channel, if so classified, may see huge revenue cuts depending on how the regulations finally fall out.
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by jcriddle4 7y ago
The proposed new rules might mean an over 50% cut in revenue to a channel possibly driving the smaller players out. Very interesting side effects of regulations.
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by jcriddle4 7y ago
Reddit has an option to sort on controversial on a group and also on comments. I suspect the algorithm is probably looking for things with a combination of upvotes and downvotes. Take a look at any reddit group or the comments and sort on c
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by jcriddle4 7y ago
"Companies want the flamebait...." The moderation system on reddit seems to heavily promote group think. Actually promoting controversial comments as a default would be interesting.
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by jcriddle4 7y ago
It reminds me of a saying about democracy which is something like "democracy is a terrible system except all other systems are worse".
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by jcriddle4 7y ago
There is absolutely zero ways for WhatsApp and other to comply unless there is a back door. If the Senate votes on this treaty then it has the exact effect of legislation.
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by jcriddle4 7y ago
I suspect Facebook has wanted an excuse to remove the end to end encryption and avoid the negative publicity at the same time. Done.
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by jcriddle4 7y ago
Interesting, some of use find the current generation has plenty of stories that seem dedicated to showing men as total losers and women as three million percent better. Yes it is painful, ham-fisted, sexist and vapid.
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by jcriddle4 7y ago
Yes college is like crack cocaine. The lives I have seen wrecked by it is amazing. Just the other day a good friend of mine was talking about getting his hundredth PHD. He was looking into possibly Quantum Mechanics next. Such a powerfully
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by jcriddle4 7y ago
No major or even minor political party is talking about just "canceling" the debt without paying the lenders. The lenders are still going to get paid so this isn't a "taking". The debt is just transferred to the the
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by jcriddle4 7y ago
Google probably wants one stream of data coming in that they have complete access to. Also probably make it more convenient to tap for the NSA
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Questions surround Nasa’s shutdown of an international cosmic-ray instrument(physicstoday.scitation.org)
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by jcriddle4 7y ago
I think people believe Blue's much slower approach to space is because of more testing and planning. I am a skeptical person and believe you can learn much more by doing. As long as missions are unmanned then frankly why not take tons
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by jcriddle4 7y ago
"...In 2018, Agrawal...studied...661 open source and 171 in-house proprietary projects. In that sample, over 89% of all projects were hero-based..." In theory a "professional" project would want efficiency so all develop

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