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by qubax 8y ago
> This is good for tech in the east coast. Fin-tech firms WILL HAVE TO compete against Amazon for (supposed) west coast wages, and could help build a much stronger tech industry than NYC has atm. Amazon will represent a tiny portion of N
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by qubax 8y ago
> Literally the first sentence on this page describe the censored content as "sensational, vulgar or politically harmful content." I know. Hate speech. Also, isn't that the same list that social media like facebook, reddit
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by qubax 8y ago
Dan Carlin is not a historian, he is an entertainer. His podcasts are entertaining fiction, not history. > The Mongols barely left any written trace but wiped out entires cities and regions [2]. They left tons of written traces - in musc
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by qubax 8y ago
> "Political adverts are - and have always been - banned on British TV and radio. That ban has wide support and has helped sustain the balance of views which is at the heart of British broadcasting - and ensures the political views
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by qubax 8y ago
> is still that the majority of C# developers let themselves happily trap by the Microsoft marketing machinery. Or people choose what works for them? Or they have to deal with sunk costs? > They just swallow anything which so-called M
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by qubax 8y ago
> The Chairman reports to the board. The chairman is the head of the board. He doesn't report to the board. He, along with the rest of the directors, reports to the shareholders. The chairman has a fiduciary duty to the shareholders
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by qubax 8y ago
In most companies, the CEO reports to the chairman of the board and the chairman of the board reports to the shareholders ( particularly the major shareholders ). The biggest TSLA shareholder is elon musk and many of the large shareholders
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by qubax 8y ago
We don't know if it is an emergent property. That's what we think it is likely. but we won't know until we find out what consciousness is. And we won't find that out until we crack the secrets of the brain. There once wa
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by qubax 8y ago
Maybe for superficial bugs in small toy programs. But a real bug in any sophisticated program requires a bit more than looking at the code most of the time. User feedback, log/trace data, performance data, system events data, memory du
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by qubax 8y ago
> Whoever thought the placebo effect was a ‘trick’? People pretending to be journalists who need to clickbait to make money. I wish the nytimes would stop making their headlines a question already.
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by qubax 8y ago
That seems managable when you have 3 candidates. What happens when there are 10 or 20 candidates? Would voters have to list their top 10 or 20 choices?
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by qubax 8y ago
> The practice interview point strikes me as odd. In large, because I have never done one. Do folks really typically do that many practice interviews? I only did practice interviews for my college internships and my first job because my
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by qubax 8y ago
I agree. Surviving a nuclear attack isn't the problem. That's just simply a matter of luck of where you are at the time of the attacks. Surviving the aftermath would require blood, sweat and tears. When civilization ends and human
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by qubax 8y ago
Isn't that a step down from teaching people VBA macros? I hope it isn't for a CS class. They should be learning principles rather than creating toy plug-ins which is something anyone can do for a hobby if they wanted.
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by qubax 8y ago
> This, combined with the “Our Trusted Partners” section, clearly shows that this isn’t about getting people out to vote in order to strengthen the democratic process - it’s about supporting a particular political party. Was there ever a
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by qubax 8y ago
Part of me wishes it was true. But part of me also knows that betteridge's law of headlines is as reliable as newton's laws of motion for everyday life.
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by qubax 8y ago
Hopefully this is the first step in tackling IP theft issue. China is a big problem, but so is britain, israel, korea, japan, etc. Sometimes, these countries take our IP/tech and sell it to china.
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by qubax 8y ago
> Imagine if say, Sweden or Canada were to be the next upcoming superpower. Because sweden or canada are such wonderful utopias? Wonder why they have such small populations? Wonder why so many canadians and swedes leave their paradises?
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by qubax 8y ago
If you propagandize one side like that, of course it looks dystopian. You could do the same exact thing for pretty much any state, country or bloc. > In what way is China not already run by a dystopian regime? How about the fact that the
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by qubax 8y ago
Twitter has the same problem that reddit, facebook, youtube, etc does. Journalists and the media want to dominate it. Why is twitter so terrible today? Because there are so many toxic journalists on it. https://medium.com/@H
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by qubax 8y ago
> Sigh.. I've seen this argument so many times I have to wonder if the people peddling it has ever sat on a hiring panel. I have interviewed for jobs and have interviewed others for positions on my team. Both startup and traditional
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by qubax 8y ago
Espionage is one thing. But isn't targeted cyberattacks on another nation's facilities and infrastructure an act of war? Anyone know if there are any international law covering cyberattacks?
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by qubax 8y ago
But why is it flagged? That is a reasonable comment. Also, what's with the rampant brigading here. Every reasonable comment here seems to get immediately and automatically downvoted.
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by qubax 8y ago
"A commitment to end pay and opportunity inequity"? I'm confused here. Are they demanding that preferential hiring and advancement practices and programs for women and certain minorities be stopped?
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by qubax 8y ago
> I would be genuinely interested to see what kind of difference there is between the sexes when comparing like-for-like jobs. There really aren't any differences. Just do a simple mental exercise. Imagine if the gender gap is real
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by qubax 8y ago
> and gets to promote his book in the process He's done that with a lot of his book. He's somewhat of an opportunist that way or maybe he is just trying to be relevant for the times he's in. After the iraq war, he put out
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by qubax 8y ago
Because every government hacks, spies on and steals from every other government. The US was built on stealing tech from britain. https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-02-18/us-complains-other-na... Going back even furt
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by qubax 8y ago
Having the designs itself can only carry you so far. You also need the fine precision tools, materials engineering, software, etc in order to build sophisticated machinery. China is advancing quickly but they can't make up 200 years of
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by qubax 8y ago
Jesus that's horrible. I made much more than that straight out of college. But it was in NYC where cost of living is high and taxes destroy you. The saddest part is that your salary didn't increase much in 5 years? Going from $60k
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by qubax 8y ago
True. Not only that, pretty much every stretch of land and ocean is owned/claimed/patrolled/etc now. So you can't escape it. Everyone is governed to some degree. Perhaps in the future when we are a truly space faring peo

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