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I appreciate this clarrification comment: had originally read this as option B and was wondering "why would they say this?"

In software dev, for a big finance corp I like your comment, want to try to expand on it Comment long but there is a TL;DR at the bottom My theory is that there are 4 areas to doma…

The language of global commerce and technology has not and has never been English It is money. Specifically, right now, petro-dollars. For a while before that, it was pounds The wr…

"Sure, but the difference between one particular formulation of mineral oils and another cannot possibly be that important to the formula." Formulation matters and is very importan…

They stop growing a full amount of low value subsistence crops needed to survive and start growing cash crops on some portion or on all of the land. Those cash crops have a higher …

Answers here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-adoption-frame... TL;DR version - its about money and business balance sheets, not about technology. For businesses past …

just saw your answer - we are thinking exactly the same thing but I took the long-winded route to saying it

There are many setups where this is not just not possible. In some cases, doing this is prohibitive because of cost or prohibited by law. + for case of cost: lots of very large com…

Me: let's watch the animation to see this in action ... sees: "an uncursed food ration" This is wild; I gotta start playing text based games.

The piece is good but I think the primary segmentation is not 'useful' vs 'valued', it is strategic vs. tactical. The author actually realizes this but did not nail this idea to th…

I would think that anyone working in a sewer inspection van would keep the door open because it is highly likely that sewer inspection vans smell like, well, sewer.

I think they have to be long lived else they cannot make sense for performant testing. ie they are created as DB objects, using DDL, in the same way tables, views, functions etc ar…

OK, this I understand, that is a good insight - cursors are row-processing based so its gonna be slow I think Netezza, SQL Server and Oracle are all cursor-based processing "by def…

I understand the primary premise about the difficulty with testing SQL and fully agree with it. I do have a question though - while I understand how functors can help make the prob…

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That is essentially what has already effectively happened. Passengers are paying the drivers directly ( and the drivers then passing on the apps share on to them - the 30% in commi…

For this particular market, they are not charging less than the market will bear, they are charging all they can. They have to keep taking an 'L' specifically because there is extr…

Want to give you benefit of the doubt with regards to phrasing but tackling each of these statements as they are all factually incorrect: > 1. Online prices are not the same as in …

THANK YOU! Makes perfect sense now. That is a really clever joke.

¿ Should it be "Massachusetts Bodged Transit Authority" and not "Massachusetts Bodged Transistor Authority"? I can't help but think that I am missing a really cool inside joke of s…

I agree; can’t know what AI will do at this point so punditry like this is just meh. … and this analysis generalizes all types of AIs based on characteristics of just one type of A…

Methods provide the highest leverage if you “own” the common element used across the most system components ie the lowest common denominator. Saying it another way, don’t attack pl…

Want to second the two parent comments to this. Small freelance / contract team of very very senior very experienced people. 3 to 4 max. I was fortunate in that I, for the first pa…

I do not think that there is any confusion or misreading of the numbers here. Without dealing with the specific points made in the piece, I would argue that there is gap in underst…

This is a great observation. A clarification comment here to help explain what is going on here- re: the 'non-native' part of the comment above. Swahili specifically is a second la…