#Scale

1/ Online retail is getting huuuge press on its response to the pandemic. But a dirty secret is that few online retailers are actually making profits. Those flush with VC/PEG
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A constant pattern in government over the years is men (in particular) fiddling with structures rather than focusing on systems change and better outcomes. NHS news another large scale example.
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the Pompeo speech reinforces my conviction that, inasmuch as there is a strategy, it's to steeply worsen the risk environment for US companies in China in order to force decoupling.
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The misconceptions about #PAGMI, and about solid minerals mining and fiscals in Nigeria need to be addressed. Some of it is driven by ignorance, which is fine, nobody knows everything.
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India is the ONLY country at a 《$2K PCI that has designed developed deployed tech protocol standards (eg UPI) on global scale and scope! @matthan @arunmsukumar All tech standards were
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What can we learn from the 'global land rush' about the risks of large-scale land-based carbon removal in climate mitigation strategies?A to put the numbers - like #Shell's reference to
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We often talk about our rights - what we are owed - but rarely our responsibilities - what we owe. I would like to talk about our responsibilities.This is going
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Hey Drs, this for you.Just cuz I don't LOOK like I'm a 9/10 on the pain scale, it doesn't mean that I'm not. Check your ableism and preconceived notions on
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Excerpt from a conversation with a client about backtesting and how to approach quant trading.People tell max dd numbers to their client like they know what is going to happen
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If you are walking along a deserted beach early one morning and encounterd a few dozen large stones on the sand, arranged to spell the word "Hello", would you assume
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I made a statement earlier that resonated with DTC folk.The e-comm order fulfillment business isn’t the shipping business. It’s the exceptions management business. Shipping a lot of packages is actually
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Lots of chatter about how movies are better if they appear larger to you, visually, and are louder. Personally, I prefer a disappointment to be smaller in scale, and easier
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Last night, I received disturbing news, confirmed to me directly by General Perna of Operation Warp Speed: States will not be receiving increased shipments of vaccines from the national stockpile
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1/ How do you scale a Proof of Work blockchain? Well, let's start with the classic Computer Science parallelization and work from there. 2/ If one Bitcoin blockchain can do
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A message from a techy friend of mine:Word on the hacker street is that the FBI is using all of these platforms and all of the scraped metadata (they are
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on a purely text based level the reason for the "leftist overwrites words words words" phenomenon is about a complete distrust in the (imagined) reader, not necessarily because they are
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