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Not OP but if I may, these numbers alone also does not necessarily indicate that you can successfully weather a downturn in near future or is well on the path to future success. Yo…

CPLEX, XPRESS and Gurobi are the gold standard for solving an MIP of a meaningful scale (relative performance will depend on the specific problem but you cannot go wrong with eithe…

Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe. Extremely well written history of Sackler family detailing their involvement in the opioid epidemic and inner workings of FDA. Bad blood by …

> I pay a service to manage backups so I can walk away from a solo project for months and know it's ticking away. Any recommendation of such service?

> Why shouldn't google be able to paste ads for its products on certain searches? Because their monopoly in search business is an illegal advantage for the other business they are …

Agree that they are well implemented from user point of view, I use them all the time. What I do not like is that they do not have to compete with others, especially when it comes …

Agree, I take back the specific example of tuner since it doesn't show up searching only for guitar tuner or such terms. But I still stand by other snippets.

To the downvoters: I would love to hear your counter argument and change my view.

Isn't this another blatant case of Google abusing its position of being the gate-keeper of internet and pushing its feature above the websites that exists with the same feature for…

> (From the article) I found that having a physical paper show up at my door made me more likely to read it. So true. I had the same experience with magazines. Growing up, I would …

And 11 mentions of "digital". Definitely high on buzzwords with no real substance

Notion that supply chains are "old technology" is frankly part of the problem. That combined with the author's point of supply chains being emergent and not designed has made compa…

Amazon spent capital on building an efficient supply chain based on technology which is a huge entry barrier for any competitor. They did not use VC on exclusively providing any di…

Probably the most effective economic trickle down.

If anything, I find this very clever. While there are many valid reasons that justify anger against Uber (workplace harassment and predatory pricing), I don't think this is one. In…

Well I did some clicking around and came to know that this falls under their First Click Free [0] option. The details sounds more unfair to me. Example - 'A user coming from a host…

So the normal 'human' link is paywalled but access through Google news is complete. Why is this unfair practice not penalized by Google?