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My personal take on this is that high IQ quickly turns into a liability in childhood. Particularly when entering the school system. I believe the words "bored to tears" summarize t…

I'll chime in. Most chemical processes happen faster with a higher temperature. Some drugs decay into harmful substances (e.g. Aspirin). Other factors, such as humidity or UV, may …

These guys know what they are doing. The guide rope coming undone may lead to safety improvements for other divers. The divers found themselves in a quite difficult situation, and …

This appears construed. LIFO: The human rights do not include a right to _enter_ any country (except maybe one's own). You may also not leave a country if you are subject to lawful…

Thank you guys for your answers :) I am charting the landscape of distributed database systems (federated and homogenous). Node interconnectivity is just one of many potential bott…

Looks like a sound design based on a cursory inspection :) Question(s): Do you offer any appliances? The reason why I am asking is for computationally intense workloads where the s…

Unless you are a master of corporate-fu: You're going to be so popular! :)

Can anybody give me an example of any dbms that spans the OLTP/OLAP gap properly _on the same data_? Potentially added constraints: -ACID for OLTP -## TB+ -30-way analytical joins …

Proper risk management is serious business. "Risk" "management" in smaller businesses may just be pretended. This illusion will cost some time, focus and money to keep up. I believ…

SQL is the best when it comes to reasoning about information as tables. If you want to reason about tables as graphs, SQL becomes impractical for many applications. Performance cha…

Regarding favours: People that feel entitled to one's time can go think about their own attitude. The goodwill you mention is not good will at all. Whether the declining party's tr…

Sounds like they spend a lot of money on questionable "marketing". Also, one never knows where the true profits are recorded in the days of ubiquitous tax avoidance.

The real problem is that the concept of "hate speech" is nonsensical. It is a term created exactly to polarize debates and prevent rational discourse. Calmly explain that to any on…

How are we to know which words you mean, and which words you don't mean?

I assume this is one-sided, but since Dr. Laskar didn't get to present his side of the case in court, I believe it's appropriate to link to it: http://joylaskarstory.com/chronology…

You are mentioning implementation-specific issues that may have more than one solution. If one goes to the heavy contenders in this space, e.g. Teradata, you may expect: - DMA for …

Hear, hear! With quantitative analytics being used and abused by ever more businesses, the advantage will go to those that can apply qualitative checks to their assumptions - and s…

Well, the CBP should bloody well train their staff on the rules they're tasked with enforcing.

I agree with this. Furthermore, the bright youths of the nineties spent a lot of time putting hardware (and software) together. Now a lot of this is on a commodity level, open sour…

I believe the first thing to understand about SQL is that everything is a table (aka relation). Once one understands that, the idea of modelling entities as relations and relations…

So, the specifics: - The guy takes his time to offer high quality advice - The guy offers a lot of high quality advice - No real specifics are given on _why_ he's a jerk - Higher t…

I like the irony of Heisenberg leaving a legacy of uncertainty. Hitler's policies in Poland and elsewhere from 1939 on may have swayed Heisenberg from contributing to the German wa…

lutusp is referring to this study in particular. There are many variables that potentially should be corrected for that aren't mentioned in the article.

Is that so strange?