jpat

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   by jpat 1y ago

   FYI, the conservatives introduced the Online Safety Act. Its provisions came into force under a labour government.
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   by jpat 2y ago

   Neat game. You might want to check out this other git teaching game - https://learngitbranching.js.org/
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   by jpat 2y ago

   Nor am I
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   by jpat 2y ago

   I believe they may have been referring to the Global Intangible Low-Taxed Income (GILTI) tax, which from what I've read is as bad as the OP describes in their post. https://www.investopedia.com/global-intangible-low-tax
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   by jpat 6y ago

   True, but it does dip back down to the marginal rate of 40% at £120k. https://www.contractorcalculator.co.uk/marginal_tax_rates_ex... shows this with a clear graph.
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   by jpat 12y ago

   Thanks for the tip, I'll look into this more.
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   by jpat 12y ago

   In my testing of this query, I ran it against a time range that included over 40 million purchase lines, and our configuration of Redshift returned the result in ~6 minutes. That was much quicker than our legacy EMR implementation. Current
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   by jpat 12y ago

   I'm the author of the article. At Monetate, we've chosen our data warehouses to maximize throughput, rather than minimize latency. That's where something like Redshift really shines, it's great a large bulk ingests and
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   Moving product recommendations from Hadoop to Redshift saves us time and money(engineering.monetate.com)

   84 points by jpat 12y ago|62 comments
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    by jpat 13y ago

    This was a talk prepared for the DataPhilly meetup group. My goal was to provide some simple uses I've encountered at my company of mapreduce beyond just the canonical word count example. For the slides that are just a path, please r
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    MapReduce: Beyond Word Count(slideshare.net)

    5 points by jpat 13y ago|1 comments