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Does "financial gravity" imply that noble missions are generally less profitable? Is there a way to align that (maybe by governments structuring the market with taxes / regulations…

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Such a site exists since many years ( https://www.blendle.com ), I don't think it has taken off hugely. People don't want to pay for content.

I work as a Data Engineer and in my country Azure is pretty big, and as a consequence their Data Factory service has become a common choice for enterprises. It's a GUI based ETL to…

I think the comparison was Snowflake vs Databricks SQL. Databricks SQL is a PaaS service just like Snowflake. Also, it uses their Photon engine, which is a proprietary engine writt…

It's definitely a long term thing. Some guys from my university founded a company around foldable containers in 2008 ( https://4foldcontainers.com/ ). It's still not common.

I've had this experience in Germany and it turned out that the waitress gets a cut of the turnover, at least for drinks. So they have an incentive to keep the glasses full. I'm not…

You must be jeroen

I started reading "The Master and Margarita" this year after seeing this title pop up on HN so often. I could not finish it, I found it rather boring. I'm curious, am I the only on…

My girlfriend works as a GP. One of her colleagues was on a visit and had to call an ambulance. She was able to do so by reaching out to the police via Facebook.. (not sure how the…

"Boreout" is an established term, it's kind of the inverse of a burnout. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boreout

Perhaps this essay by Paul Graham? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8753526

How is it more secure? Do you read the entire source code to search for backdoors?

Outboard motors for boats work like this. If you hit a rock with the propellor, a piece of plastic in the drive train breaks. This prevents the propellor or some other part of the …

I don't have data but my gut feeling says that the numbers of Bank Tellers has peaked. In my country (Netherlands) a lot of small branches of banks have closed. The general trend i…

Actually a couple of people mention the GFW in this page. Good to see that people are aware of the work being done.

This absolutely happens. Fisher boats will turn off AIS routinely. The nonprofit Global Fishing Watch is doing research to analyse AIS signals, and determine if illegal fishing hap…

I subscribed at https://acloud.guru/ for the solution architect course. Price is quite low (I think 20-30 euro) for which you get 20 hours of excellent video material. After each s…

AFAIK it is not multitenant, you get your own machines. They spin up the VMs with either open source Spark or the Databricks runtime - you get to choose the distribution and versio…

The startup time of a HDInsight cluster is quite long; it's not really suited for ad hoc clusters (which are really easy to spin up quickly in Databricks).

It's fairly common (at least in Europe) for people to have two sets of wheels, on with summer tires and one with winter tires.