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There were no companies, as that would require private ownership of factories and other means of production. As the article says these were built in state owned factories. There we…

I wonder if there’s any information on how the Australian dialect (if there was any) was accepted when it was still a penal colony? Cockney would also be a great comparison as both…

The government very clearly provides for support for the equities in many ways (which I’m sure you’re aware of) How do the following not count as benefits to the equities in your v…

I love the fact that a large portion of medicine is basically debugging and reverse engineering as a profession. It seems to be a good time in the debugging of these complex pathwa…

At least a few banks have been running like this since 5+ years ago, and at least one collaborated with AWS which led to this: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-workspaces-de…

"En Engine, Not a Camera", a great book and posits that this effect drives a large portion of modern (post-1970s) financial markets. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/134474.An_E…

At first I thought it was yet another experiment that generates nonsense papers to show which journals will accept just about anything, but after running a quick search on some of …

That part is not as weird as it seems. It's not unheard of for VCs who are looking to maintain a relationship with a startup to provide an introduction even before investing as a g…

I'm a co-founder at a small NYC startup and, as is usual, sometimes random VCs reach out to chat or ask questions. Most of the time I either ignore or have a short conversation. A …

I usually bring up this research when talking about employee onboarding but there was a study done in 2015 (with Mozilla) that showed a “good first issue” approach didn’t actually …

Ahh this brings back memories. One of my first projects at a large investment bank was working on a tax engine where the first step was transaction classification using a decision …

Results like these are not always malice, as other commenters pointed out search by price is not well figured out yet. There are some issues with relevance ranking for price where …

What happened is that the technology spawned by the Semantic Web "fad" is now absolutely everywhere but it looks and works nothing like how people thought it would. Freebase, after…

Retrofit( https://square.github.io/retrofit/ ) is probably one of the best Java libraries I've ever used, missed it a lot when working in Python. Cross-pollination is awesome.

Slow, in this context, is too much of a vague term. Are we talking about latency? Throughput? GC pauses? UI sluggishness? VM startup speed?

I read it as the author of that quote explicitly _choosing_ to say that to make the message simpler to his target audience. I think the author fully understands that in reality it'…

Something about your comment really struck me. In most sci-fi utopias, increasing automation was assumed to lead to cheaper marginal prices that gave everyone more leisure time. In…

You are correct. The something new, at this point, is going on disability and waiting it out until they get Social Security payments. Most 50-year-olds with a high school education…

I used GNOME for 10+ years and switched to the Mac a few years ago. The nail in the coffin was the Unity/Gnome Shell craziness that was so poorly executed. Is it just me or this ar…

Anytime I hear microtubules I instantly think Penrose and The Emperor's New Mind

I wish I could up vote the part about physical reality a few times more :) What's even worse is with something like usability, it's even more insidious since may never really find …

It would consist mostly of line of business applications. Everything from the aforementioned high frequency trading applications to record keeping (stock positions, cash balances, …

I think there's still a start-up stigma attached to programmers from financial firms. Unless you have high-frequency trading, algo trading or some other high end signal attached to…

This is hilarious, as the whole original point of patents is to make knowledge more widely spread so that people can use that knowledge after the expiry of the patent. It seems tha…

3. Something similar is actually already the case in areas like Hong Kong and other commonwealth states. It's called a stamp tax ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamp_tax#Hong_Kong …