cbron

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by cbron 6mo ago
Spokane is Eastern Washington, the college in Cheney is literally called Eastern, its just not a desert.
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by cbron 6mo ago
Spokane is not desert. Even surrounding territory is more plains. Some desert military training happens at Yakima much further west.
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by cbron 3y ago
Interesting video, but it's all from the pov of the city's tax revenue and nothing else. Taking the first example, if they don't build the new food complex and keep the old one, less people will want to live in that city, and
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by cbron 3y ago
Reuters has some info, no apparent buyer: https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/wework-plans-file-bank...
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by cbron 3y ago
"Cities" is the wrong word here, it's really "downtown" or "city center" areas. The center of activities will move outwards toward the suburbs, but stay in the wider metro area. This has been slowly happen
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by cbron 4y ago
Yes, but very limited. They are only allowed to ask "are you a US citizen", and walk a dog around the car. I've never had one take more than 60 seconds in either AZ or CA.
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by cbron 4y ago
Rest would give you energy regardless, both physically and mentally. Nearly every sport has built in sitting breaks.
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by cbron 4y ago
It's not about ignoring editors, it's about taking constructive feedback, and the ratio of constructive feedback to noise is very low in complex projects. In those projects, people that aren't heavily invested typically don&#
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by cbron 4y ago
> I've never understood why it's somehow considered more 'consensus'-oriented than say FPTP. Biden won his election with 51% of the vote... Odd example here. That election wasn't FPTP, it just happened to work o
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by cbron 4y ago
Has anyone tried this with real estate solicitors ? I get a message per day about selling my house.
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by cbron 6y ago
> Importantly, Facebook helped people to get accurate, authoritative health information. Surely the author experienced some form of cognitive dissonance while typing this out.
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by cbron 6y ago
Yes. I worked for a major newspaper and would guess that all the people in editorial make up less than 50% of the staff. You have business, accounting, tech, delivery, support, sales, security etc...
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by cbron 7y ago
ditto
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by cbron 7y ago
No improvements on old features or adding new features, basically no updates at all for the past few years. Recommendations and rating system are crap. Usability around core features like bookshelves are terrible. The awards are just a popu
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by cbron 7y ago
+1, that was a great episode. The iOS hack story is especially crazy.
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by cbron 7y ago
religion != entertainment
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by cbron 7y ago
Mythology has served various purposes over the course of human history. This is referring specifically to modern superhero culture which may be derived from mythology but isn't comparable to it.
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by cbron 7y ago
> The message claimed that 700,000 records had been stolen and backed up elsewhere and demanded 0.4 Bitcoin (BTC), approximately $4,000 at the time of writing, from the owners. Not even a full bitcoin.
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by cbron 7y ago
Well, then go get a job with work/life balance that pays less.
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by cbron 7y ago
Wave is for small businesses or consultants. The government doesn’t know about most of the things that happen at low levels until the business reports it. End of the year bookkeeping can be a nightmare.
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by cbron 7y ago
If wave could pipeline directly to H&R block for automated tax filings it could be a really nice experience. Can't expect too much though, I just hope they don't kill it.
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by cbron 8y ago
Of that difficulty no, but I've been asked plenty of whiteboard questions from small and mid-size companies outside of the west coast.
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by cbron 8y ago
Not in the "think/work smarter" genre. Taking in diverse content, like reading medium posts all by different authors, can inject new ideas. But it seems this genre has a limit to how much useful info there really is.
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by cbron 8y ago
I read FS regularly for months, but eventually had to give up on it because it started to feel like one big regurgitated self-help book. Maybe he really wants to talk to interesting people and this is his way of doing it, but to me it seems
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by cbron 8y ago
As a kid who grew up outside of the tech scene but in Washington State, Allen had a big impact on the wider community through his philanthropy and his love of sports, he was well liked everywhere.
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by cbron 8y ago
What replaces slack rooms where any user can jump in and out, or search history ? Not group chats or emails. Only IRC comes close.
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by cbron 8y ago
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17297853
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by cbron 8y ago
Same. I was off all caffeine for a month and I much preferred going back. However I stick to tea now and save coffee for emergencies.
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by cbron 8y ago
It's a gamble to make the state look attractive for R&D shops/departments to either relocate or setup permanent testing sites. Automakers already use the desert conditions to test cars, so this is just an extension.
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by cbron 8y ago
Yes Waymo is still active. I live in the testing zone and see an enormous amount of their vans. About 1 for every 5 minutes of driving.

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