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4,700karma·943submissions·March 21, 2011
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Nope, invest in what will make you money. If you like what Tesla is doing buy their products.
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I assume it's http://www.nextbike.de/en/prices/ , which I also subscribe to. There is advertising on the bikes.…
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Also you may end up working at a place full of bad eggs. Prospective employees in Europe who have an interest in a productive life also have to vet the company to make sure they select employees caref…
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The problem is that we can't trust open source software either. Software being closed source doesn't make it impervious to analysis. Software being open source does not mean it has been anal…
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Contrarian view: I love AMP and I find myself clicking AMP links far more often because I can get the information I want much faster. And this is on LTE. AMP should be supported by CDNs and toggleable…
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My thoughts exactly. He had a good intuition, but teachers want substance not opinion - as they should.
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Being from a country that has commercial news (clickbaity, alarmist, etc.) I'm finding it ok to watch the news from European public TV. You get to know what's going on in the world but avoid…
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Why?
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I am from a non-US, non-EU, non-UK country and the Economist coverage about my country isn't perfect but it's pretty decent.
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You may be interested in the fantastic Microcorruption CTF, which uses the real-world MSP 430 microcontroller. (Also anyone interested in TIS-100 and Shenzhen I/O should at least take a look) [1]…
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And this is how incredibly smart people can over-engineer a solution to a simple problem...
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My question as well. This doesn't look like something that will have a long life - and that uncertainty is bad.
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There are plenty of exceptions to the "resource curse": Canada, Norway, Brunei. There is, however, a lot of infighting in Venezuela.
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Calling for government regulation of devices is all fun and games until the government comes along and mandates closed source, irreplaceable firmware like the FCC did with Wifi access points.
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Presumably from European governments in the case of Airbus and from the Brazilian government in the case of Embraer. In the late 1990's Embraer and Bombardier sued each other in the WTO which fou…
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Criticism to the study goes both ways. It COULD be that with a larger sample size, more meaningful project and more experienced developers the result would be "TDD actively hampers productivity b…
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You can also add a coverage tool to your CI and get the same result (tests get written) without any of the ideology (TDD fairies sprinkle unicorn dust everywhere).
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What happened to Gen Y. Not catchy enough?
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Is there another angle? E.g. can the attacker have precomputed the results of those operations and now he can mine faster than anybody else or something like that?
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Why is it a given that teachers "must" have low salaries? The sixty classrooms without teachers show otherwise. SF teachers clearly need raises, and those can be funded by taxes from all tho…
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This discussion if quickly being flooded with right-wing extremists. If you make a claim, please, provide a reputable source. If you see a claim being made without a source, do something for the intel…
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That's not what's going to happen. One side will have robots, the other will have humans. This is already happening.
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Pretty much yes. Wake me up when some company announces you have 25 mandatory days off a year + unlimited extra days. Then we start to talk. Also please post your experience on Glassdoor.
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Sure, with exactly the same paranoid rhetoric at exactly the same time. /s
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