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> What money do big companies need to raise? For example, to buy some company to improve their business. They can do that in cash or they can issue more shares, e.g. with their Bea…

Summary from nexthop conference page [0]: In this talk, we will discuss Facebook’s backbone, its evolution, and the motivation behind it. We’ll see what our current SDN backbone ar…

Accurate enough. Saint Petersburg has been registering daily temperature measurements and publishing them in newspapers since 1778 (in Delisle scale).

You just described Fair-trade laws[0] enacted during Great Depression and repealed around ~1971. Matt Stoller also described these laws in his book. [0] https://www.britannica.com/…

What you described is called "sick leave" in Europe and you are entitled to sick pay by law.

The part where they use lidar to handle condensation from car exhausts and heating vents is very interesting. It looks like it's almost impossible to detect pedestrians in such sit…

> data to be downloaded really isn’t that large. We’re talking images and 3D models. I think you underestimate image sizes for modern AR/VR applications. For example, good quality …

This is actually great in so many aspects for companies. GitHub could even change the way companies handle open-source development (in the same way Uber changed taxi market). Inste…