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Can you say more about why you're avoiding the blockchain?


I am not exactly avoiding the blockchain. There isn't any production ready database that I am aware of that provides immutability like the blockchain and an advanced querying system like NoSQL database systems.

I looked at BlockchainDB which solves my immutability requirement but I don't think it's production ready yet and if I host one myself, I can mutate the data by destroying my BlockchainDB machine.


I wish there was a special keyboard widget on the iPhone for coding. I want the keys in the keyboard to be bigger than what the iPhone currently displays.


Could there be other possibilities?

Europe may want to achieve some things in common but not at the expense of not achieving other things not in common.

Per the article: step outside the European worldview to see how cultural viewpoints elsewhere understand and express the value of multilingualism


Weirdness of a language is completely subjective

This isn't true.


What do the terms inflected and irregular mean?


Inflected language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflection

"Irregular" means that a perticular word does not obey the usual rules for inflection (an example of such a rule verb (without to) + "ed" -> simple past, e.g. "jump" -> "jumped"). For example "go" -> "went", "sing" -> "sang". You will usually simply have to learn those.


GRE doesn't matter, many CS programs don't even require it

The GRE isn't irrelevant.


Among top CS programs (top 20), what I've heard is that it doesn't matter as long as you get a decent score. And if you need to do heavy studying to get a decent score, there's little chance your grades and/or research record is good enough to get admitted in the first place.


Uber’s position is that if it learns [of a sale or loan] that goes around its share-transfer restrictions, there will be consequences

What consequences?


They give 'em the ol' cement shoes.


Is this true? Wouldn't encrypted Internet calls be protected on the mobile network?

So any choices that a congressman could’ve made, choosing a phone, choosing a pin number, installing or not installing certain apps, have no influence over what we are showing because this is targeting the mobile network


I wonder how CEOs feel about their bottom line when they're off by such a big percentage in the workforce they need.

Couldn't they have predicted this sooner?


It's interesting Dropbox doesn't enter these trend discussions. It flies under the radar.


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