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by allengeorge 3y ago
My understanding is that the initial Mini models were made with Peugeot engines, which were underpowered and pretty unreliable. At some point BMW switched Minis over to use a Beemer engine, at which point quality improved dramatically. Mini
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by allengeorge 3y ago
I do not think that Subaru models outside of the BRZ or Solterra have Toyota parts.
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by allengeorge 4y ago
It’s to distract from the government’s unwillingness to hold a public inquiry into China’s election meddling.
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Twitter Suspends Accounts of Half a Dozen Journalists(nytimes.com)
16 points by allengeorge 4y ago|6 comments
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by allengeorge 5y ago
“The rules on making multinationals pay taxes where they operate - known as "pillar one" of the agreement - would apply to global companies with at least a 10% profit margin. Twenty percent of any profit above that would be reallo
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by allengeorge 6y ago
I went through the same flow and was convinced it was expressly designed to make setting one’s preferences impossible. I also wanted to know which UX/UI designers put together the password reset process, which was pretty infuriating.
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by allengeorge 6y ago
It’s mind-blowing to me that a 3-year car is considered aging. Anecdote time: my parents bought a secondhand 93 Toyota Corolla that I inherited and drove until 2011. They continued using it until 2018, and got rid of it. It was still runnin
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by allengeorge 6y ago
I once read (or heard?) that the reason why Twitter has such outsize importance is because a lot of journalists use it. They’re on it a lot, follow a lot of people, use it to discover what issues are blowing up... I’m sure that’s not the on
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by allengeorge 6y ago
“The study still does not address a worrisome mutation in the South African variant, called the E484K mutation.”
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Why the Amazon, JPMorgan, Berkshire Venture Collapsed(wsj.com)
2 points by allengeorge 6y ago|0 comments
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by allengeorge 6y ago
Yes, we have. Specifically: 1. LIST 2. PUT 3. LIST would trigger situations where (3) wouldn't include the object inserted in (2). This is well-known however.
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by allengeorge 6y ago
Hmm. I use 1Password with a vault we both share. Works great.
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by allengeorge 6y ago
One edge is being reclad in blue glass as we speak. Sadly.
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by allengeorge 6y ago
I was unable to figure out how to get this to work with an iMac as a secondary display :( Looked wonderful though!
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Compiler from LLVM IR to Minecraft Datapacks(github.com)
2 points by allengeorge 6y ago|0 comments
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by allengeorge 6y ago
Are you referring to Indochino? ( https://www.indochino.com/ )
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by allengeorge 6y ago
I think the OP got confused - as I did - on the position of Toronto on the lakes. We both didn’t realize that Toronto is in the same box as New York.
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by allengeorge 6y ago
I’m fairly sure Toronto is larger than Chicago... EDIT: Yeah, back in 2013: https://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2013/03/05/torontos_p... - and I’m pretty sure it’s almost at or crossed the 3M mar
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by allengeorge 6y ago
I like going to the grocery store.
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by allengeorge 6y ago
No. We’ll see the same reaction that people had when witnessing extreme weather events: focus on the immediate problem, and refuse to engage with larger issues on the basis that “it’s too political”. For extreme weather events citizens and
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by allengeorge 7y ago
I don’t consider this a positive. I would, on balance, prefer to have a language with a smaller feature set that limits the amount of syntactic variability in the code I see. This, I believe, allows me to focus on the problem, not on the la
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by allengeorge 7y ago
You've never heard of WeWork? They also acquired Meetup and Conductor?
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by allengeorge 7y ago
Specific conspiracy theories aside, it’s unsurprising that a lot of people - hell, even I! - find the course of events surprising. The man had a dubious source of income, was offered an incredibly irregular plea deal, all sorts of theories
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A Neoliberal Nightmare at OZY Fest 2018(rollingstone.com)
2 points by allengeorge 7y ago|0 comments
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by allengeorge 7y ago
My (conspiratorial) take is that they’re making noises about this so that politicians can step in and pressure the FAA into approving their modifications. Talking about blue-collar job losses and economic impacts has the amazing effect of c
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by allengeorge 7y ago
Alternatively, I’d like to see companies like Boeing feel the effects of cutting corners recklessly.
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by allengeorge 7y ago
The key point: major changes were made: 1. Very late in the design process 2. After construction had started (!) I mean, politicians or not, the moment you start making major changes during buildout you’re going to have problems, regardless
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by allengeorge 7y ago
The company I work at does not fire people for introducing bugs (everyone introduces bugs at some point and time). We try to find out what failures in our process (dev, test, release) contributed to the failure and try fix them. Some of the
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by allengeorge 7y ago
As many other posters have noted this is a Quebec bill, and has (sadly) been a long time coming. My personal opinion is that this is making a mountain out a molehill. And, I don’t think this is the right way to encourage integration (if any
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by allengeorge 7y ago
People do complain about high rents in NY and Toronto, but - and this is a big one - homeowners vote consistently and so politicians listen to them. I would _speculate_ that: 1. renters are more transient, so are less invested in the commun

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