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Unfortunately, ny company won't let us install software thats not signed.


Could the portable version do the trick?


What's Ruby's popularity these days? Genuinely curious to gauge the trend for this language over Python and Javascript.


It was never for curiosity at the beginning but for military goals.


According to this [0] blog, it it:

PyTorch 1.0 takes the modular, production-oriented capabilities from Caffe2 and ONNX and combines them with PyTorch's existing flexible, research-focused design to provide a fast, seamless path from research prototyping to production deployment for a broad range of AI projects.

[0] https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2018/05/02/announc...


Microsoft knows how to talk the enterprise talk. BTW, Amazon competes against Alibaba for their main business, not Microsoft.


Just to clarify:

Amazon's "main business" is AWS, not their online store. For many years their store operated at a loss. Don't get me wrong, amazon.com is a HUGE business, but it's not Bezos' breadwinner.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/all-of-amazons-2017-operating-...


It only operated at a loss because they were plowing massive amounts of money into their delivery infrastructure. Revenue matters more than net income


Also because they are trying to estabilish monopoly. Amazon's long term plan is to kill every other big retailer.


To be fair, that's the hope of every company.


That's nonsense.

AWS is a very large business, and much more profitable than selling physical goods online.

But Amazon's overall revenue was $56.6B (Q3 2018[1]) and "only" $6.68B of that was AWS. By comparison, revenue from Amazon's advertising business is $2.5B - and no one is claiming that is their main line of business.

Even the article you point to shows Amazon made a profit of $1.69B on North American ecommerce vs $1.35B profit from AWS.

So yeah - AWS is a high margin business, but no where near their "main business".

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/25/amazon-earnings-q3-2018.html


their main business is their online store, your linked article proves as much. If the online store was to disappear tomorrow the value of Amazon as a company would decrease much more than if it were AWS. It is proportionately more profitable but that doesn't make it the main business


There are already hard at work planning for a clothing factory.


Canada is the beta testing country of the USA.


Except when you are beta testing a populist leader.


"Of the USA"? Is the USA a continent now?


More rats and cockroaches in New York, more mosquitoes in Hawaii, more seagulls in Boston, more pigeons in San Francisco, more crows in the bay area, what is this article talking about?!


I don't know if the population of these species is increasing globally but it seems the ones you listed are very unique in the way they relate to humans – see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbiosis.

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that human overpopulation and profligate consumption make a few species' population to thrive (e.g if they feed on human waste, share habitats, etc) while still causing a mass-extinction event and an ecological collapse (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction).

Multiple independent species have shown that in Europe, the insect biomass has dropped by more than 75% in the last 3 decades. In France, bird populations have fallen by 33+% over the last 15 years, but migratory birds are disappearing even faster (e.g the meadow pipit population has declined by nearly 70%).

edit: s/strive/thrive


> "strive" (try) -> "thrive" (succeed)

Not nit-picking, rather trying to help readers for whom English is a second language. :)


> I wouldn't be surprised to learn that human overpopulation and profligate consumption make a few species' population to strive

I can think of a few examples. Pigeons, rats, gulls, cockroaches, etc


Humans are the new ecosystem. Animals, plants, beings that live out a symbiotic or parasitic relationship with us and our imprint will thrive ... those that don't likely suffer.


But this new ecosystem would not survive on its own – e.g try feeding billions of humans without animal pollination…


There is far more wildlife in my small garden than the farmers field across the road from me.


I read that one and I was happy with it:

The Master and Margarita Paperback – March 19, 1996 by Mikhail Bulgakov (Author), Diana Burgin (Translator), Katherine Tiernan O'Connor (Translator)

Of course, Amazon will provide reviews for all translations in one big bucket so it's hard to know which one gets the best review.

You can go to sub reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1lngmm/which_the_mas...


Google was doing no evil till Sundar Pichai happened.


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