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Cheaper than building your own datacenter, or buying your own server space and paying a dedicated engineering team to monitor a cluster for you. I can do things on my own or with a…

Probably not. A crematorium gets up to 1400 degrees F. I doubt a thick body bag could do that.

This article is critiquing the unstructured get-to-know you interview. It is not critiquing highly structured interviews with clear goals, nor technical challenges, nor references …

My favorite stat about micromorts is that motorcycle travel and canoe travel pose the same risk when measured by distance. That is, one mile of motorcycling has the same risk of de…

I don't know how the author can draw this conclusion. He seems to say that employees engaging in shady practices is the inevitable conclusion of requiring a certain amount of accou…

The author highlights why Airbnb is the right company to use to talk about it. > Often arbitration clauses are invoked in cases where consumers feel they have been financially slig…

Actually it doesn't. WSJ seems to have closed the google loophole.

Make it illegal to ask what level of education you have received or just where you went to school?

Being held accountable to metrics will incentivize some behaviors over others. It's not surprising that when Arts and Phys Ed are not on the test, they are dropped from the curricu…

Not if the 20% was the single largest individual process sucking up power.

Good.

I think trust is a bigger deal in the R community than say Ruby. With a gem you can tell pretty quickly if it works or not, and the community has a higher standard of testing. With…

Except that prisoners are a captive audience, being held by the Government, and the phone companies get a monopoly on an essential good. So a federal regulatory body absolutely mak…

I believe that erosion is a bigger issue than loss of nutrients. For example, Iowa has lost an estimated 10 inches of topsoil in the last 150 years. There are only six inches left.…