superbrane

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Russian fighter jets in US election ads(theguardian.com)
12 points by superbrane 6y ago|3 comments
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by superbrane 6y ago
There is no surprise here. The ATM companies making the machines and their software are so old school and simply outdated in terms of cybersecurity.
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Modular Skyscrapers(edition.cnn.com)
2 points by superbrane 6y ago|0 comments
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by superbrane 7y ago
I read some time ago about the Keto diet showing good results even in Alzheimer/dementia cases. Keto is not the same as low carb but it's close enough. Our molecular biology and internal chemical reactions are still areas of resea
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by superbrane 7y ago
I hope he gets to solve the terraforming part of going to Mars, as well. Also, maybe he sets his eyes on colonizing the ocean space on Earth - lots of empty space in the water.
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by superbrane 7y ago
For sure someone at Samsung is now called "No. 1 Developer" :)
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by superbrane 7y ago
4h daily commute is horrific. the alternatives to your solution would be to get another job, closer to home or move closer to the job...just saying.
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by superbrane 7y ago
Here's another angle - not saying it's correct, just different. Why would you want to perfect working from your bedroom? It's ok to WFH for a while, but i would not recommend perfecting it long term. As a human being you shou
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Someone Used Neural Networks to Upscale an 1895 Film to 4K 60 FPS(digg.com)
2 points by superbrane 7y ago|0 comments
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by superbrane 7y ago
CEO was rewarded for increasing artificially the stock price, through stock buy backs. He did a good job at that and a bad job at managing an industrial company. That s how big companies start to fail, they lose sight of what matters.
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Coronavirus – From Simulation to Reality(marketwatch.com)
3 points by superbrane 7y ago|0 comments
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by superbrane 7y ago
This is just to protect the corporation from potential legal action. It s like a disclaimer on a police agent job that you might get shot when doing your job. Problem is when you don t care enough to take care of the ones who are affected b
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by superbrane 7y ago
1 more thought on this - Expedia and Booking are next on their menu...
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by superbrane 7y ago
This is what happens when you pay huge amounts of money on Google Ads and traffic. They notice that you must be quite profitable if you afford to pay so much, so they come for your market. It will happen more and more and the more you pay t
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by superbrane 7y ago
this is what happens when top management is compensated based on stock value and the bottom line. Instead of doing their job, top management practiced shares buy-backs as a way to increase share price. I think we'll get a new motto s
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Boeing – what happens when financial engineering replaces real engineering(wolfstreet.com)
9 points by superbrane 7y ago|3 comments
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by superbrane 7y ago
Since the planes become more software dependent, the pilots should be trained on procedures to recognize/evaluate/react to software problems/glitches as well. The problems with the B-MAX were actually related to bad software
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by superbrane 7y ago
Interesting that Boeing does no make the simulators directly but through partners. Having a delay in making the simulators might be because the makers of the simulators are having problems with the software replication from the real plane.
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by superbrane 7y ago
Congrats for launching a useful tool and already gathering a nice install base. Wonder how much of it is paid :)). Base plan looks a bit too restrictive - people can process 50 rows manually in xls -I suggest you offer more rows for the fre
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Facebook pauses push to sell ads on Whatsapp(businessinsider.com)
1 points by superbrane 7y ago|0 comments
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by superbrane 7y ago
If this cutoffs are made for the sake of increasing profitability of an already profitable company, they are a bad sign in terms of management style and quality - it will affect morale, creativity and enthusiasm of remaining employees.
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by superbrane 7y ago
It looks like it is more marketing than reality :). The keywords from their description "piloted initially and eventually autonomous"
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by superbrane 7y ago
- Make sure business stakeholders have realistic expectations about deployment, data migration, cost of working in parallel if another system exists, etc - stay away from customizations when possible. Each ERP comes with its own way of doin
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by superbrane 7y ago
Curious if this will work. About 1 year ago I was reading about US military research looking for a portable/personnel use device capable to combine night vision and thermal vision in one vision set - don't think they managed to g
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by superbrane 7y ago
in many corporations of this kind it's all about: - over-billing the customer (see Acc. and their legendary $20-30M site that was not working) - internal power plays between managers who want to show-off managing as much headcount as p