1812Overture

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by 1812Overture 8y ago
Amazing health breakthrough! Our product Nature Farms Pure Organic Battery Acid kills one hundred percent of cancer cells in lab tests!
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by 1812Overture 8y ago
I live in the core of a city and love it, but all the damn jobs I get offered are an hour away in the suburbs.
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by 1812Overture 8y ago
It's gotten better. It used to be Me: Restaurant Google: Restaurant Supply Store Meat Wholesale Warehouse Place Where a Taco Cart Occasionally Parks Former Location of a Restaurant
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by 1812Overture 8y ago
Hilariously your replies would be great bot replies to start comment thread fights.
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by 1812Overture 8y ago
I regularly have recruiters coming to me with jobs in the Bay Area. I tell them that my salary requirement is double for up there versus Los Angeles. A few of the big players will always be able to afford that, but I see smaller tech compan
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by 1812Overture 8y ago
They're all in D3.js and available on GitHub.
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by 1812Overture 8y ago
I've seen plenty of "coders" with 15+ years experience maintaining and changing other peoples code that couldn't write code from scratch to save their lives. You see it mostly from people who've spent a lot of time
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by 1812Overture 8y ago
I applied for an analytics position that unexpectedly had me take a Python coding test like this (I know a bit of PHP and Java but no Python) and I was able to google everything I needed to pass the test in the time limit. Apparently I got
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by 1812Overture 8y ago
New York also almost had a skyscraper blow over because no one bothered to calculate what the wind hitting it diagonally would do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citigroup_Center
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by 1812Overture 8y ago
I see no way of controlling privacy in a decentralized system. It'd be like trying to delete all the emails you've sent to other people or stop someone from forwarding an email. Once you put the data out there in a decentralized s
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by 1812Overture 8y ago
My tactic is always to pretend to be an assistant doing it for my boss so I have no authority to do anything but cancel/downgrade etc.
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by 1812Overture 8y ago
The grocery stores I go to have price tags on everything.
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by 1812Overture 8y ago
https://www.quora.com/Do-slow-drivers-cause-more-accidents-t...
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by 1812Overture 9y ago
The cars would creep along at 5mph every time there's a pedestrian on the sidewalk then, obstructing traffic and causing accidents.
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by 1812Overture 9y ago
It's actually more dangerous as it forces other cars to change lanes to get around you.
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by 1812Overture 9y ago
That's easy. The ad network that serves you ads on YouTube also serves ads on Facebook. They have a profile of you that connects your facebook and google accounts.
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by 1812Overture 9y ago
Not just online activity. Bank/credit card transactions. Utility/tax information. Postal information. Subscriptions to anything. DMV records. A detailed profile of you is for sale to anyone who cares to pay. Probably less detailed
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by 1812Overture 9y ago
They buy the info from massive data brokers, who buy data from other large and small data brokers, who buy the data from app makers, services, etc. User123@gmail.com expressed interest in buying kitty litter isn't exactly sensitive inf
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by 1812Overture 9y ago
IP address, or if you have any shared accounts you could have a cookie identifying you as the same user. Ads also target connections of people who're interested in a product so you could get the ad from being friends/following som
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by 1812Overture 9y ago
In Tucson AZ it was a constant problem that freight trains would either blow through town at full speed or crawl through level crossings blocking traffic rather than obeying speed laws. It was always cheaper for them to pay the fines than t
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by 1812Overture 9y ago
$10,001
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by 1812Overture 9y ago
Gotta love using trendy non-ACID databases for financial transactions and suddenly rediscovering why ACID databases were invented.
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by 1812Overture 9y ago
"Well, obviously, you needed to press CTRL+Q+F4 between steps 2 and 3, it's so obvious we don't even need to put it in the instructions."
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by 1812Overture 9y ago
Oh god I can feel them doing it now.
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by 1812Overture 9y ago
Main use of HSR is going to be getting to and from peripheral cities. Fresno to SF and Bakersfield to LA in under an hour would be HUGE. That's going to get used more than the full SF to LA trip.
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by 1812Overture 9y ago
Nothing created after Mickey Mouse will ever enter the public domain in the United States.
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by 1812Overture 9y ago
More important difference is that a lot of the empty space in Europe is at its northern and eastern extremes and America's empty space is mostly in the middle (and Alaska).
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by 1812Overture 9y ago
Obviously. He'd have fallen of the edge.
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by 1812Overture 9y ago
Orion designs really only work if you're evacuating the planet. Massive fallout and radiation would be caused by each launch.
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by 1812Overture 9y ago
Rent in an area is generally considered excessive when it's more than a third of the average income. And it also has to cover taxes, maintenance, etc. This is assuming you own them free and clear with no mortgage. If you finance buying

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