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> The real question is: Will Elizabeth serve the purpose of your fund — or by investing in her, will you simply be serving her purpose of writing her rise-from-the-ashes narrative?…

People talk about this being a replacement for busses, but I think that misunderstands what a bus service is. A bus service generally is a utility provided by the local government …

They're not a charity. What do you want them to do? Hire $100Bn worth of engineers until their net income is 0? The possibly difficult truth at Google is that there's probably <1% …

I've got to say - I found it REALLY difficult to find an authoritative or trustworthy source on what the link tax is. From my understanding here's the rub: there are two definition…

I think it's a bit of a stretch to be saying that Sci-fi writers were making accurate predictions of what would happen in the future and when. Heinlein doesn't write about space be…

It's quite amazing how good a job Silicon Valley does considering how badly wrong it could go (I'm looking at you Big Bang Theory). I'm sure there are quite a few industries that c…

I think there's a serious point to what you're saying. I was bought up in the UK so I have metres for short distances and miles for long distances. If you say to me 5 miles I insta…

The business model appears to be to get established and then use a combination of network effects and monopolistic pricing techniques to be profitable. The problem is though, you n…

I would've thought it's self-evident that if the problem isn't real then you're never going to fix it. If the reason this problem exists is a political tool for the right wing then…

Sorry but you're going to have cite some real sources, not right wing propaganda. I mean, I read the entire article and I still for the life of me can't actually understand on what…

What does this have to do with being an academic? Does this change if you're a notable employee of a company? I don't think so. If you are in a situation where your personal reputa…

I've got to say, I can't actually call to mind any instances of controversial peer-reviewed papers. I can point to the Bell Curve- that was controversial, but it was a also a book …

Despite the routes terminating at China's firewall I don't think it's a good guess to say this was necessarily a Chinese attack. It seems like the interference of the Chinese firew…

I hate this debate. Firstly, this headline is terrible - the BBC basically states that Universities do not censor speech and the facts back them up. They make the perfectly valid p…

But it's not the precision that's arbitrary it's the range. If your number format represents 0-100 and you want to represent 200 then your number format isn't imprecise, it's limit…

It's a good question: the answer is that they have done this. (or atleast they are doing this) https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/05/24/a-peek-inside-that-i... What's proving to be …

What you're describing is OpenCL, yes it exists, both Xilinx and Intel produce toolsets. No they aren't sane by software standards, but they're fantastic compared to hardware engin…

Yeah I really think this is the most important point. In an enterprise environment it's almost more important to be able to point at who is responsible for supporting a product as …

Can you imagine running a company with a product where 100 people feel empowered to make small tweaks to the UI without going through a prioritization and design process?

Well yeah, specifically the gaming sector seems to be driven by huge margins for tiny gains. The volume production will go to industry.

It's 'let alone'

The second you go after anyone using the communication channel it's fairly likely the entire channel will shut down or change so you're much better off moving quickly on everyone y…

I don't think that it's fair to say that Apple's release schedule has been similar between now and the previous year. Last year the iPhone X was announced in September and released…

I think we should attach an important health warning. Samsung release their S9 in March 2018, whereas Apple released the iPhone X in November. So this quarter is the drop from Sams…

I think you're being too rigid. There are situations where one employee forces themselves on another at the christmas party. In that situation obviously the right call is to report…