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by gkanapathy 9y ago
I think this article goes into it in more detail: http://markasaurus.com/2015/09/01/whats-wrong-with-shipping-...
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The Search for Better Search at Reddit(redditblog.com)
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by gkanapathy 9y ago
If this happens, it seems likely that Apple would work out a special plan or add-on with the carriers just for this.
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by gkanapathy 9y ago
I would think climate would make some difference compared to California. I wonder how much though.
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by gkanapathy 9y ago
Happens in Scala too: scala> 1+2+"="+1+2 res1: String = 3=12
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by gkanapathy 9y ago
https://urbanize.la/post/los-angeles-should-ignore-elon-musk...
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by gkanapathy 9y ago
There is a deeper level of vendor lock-in for serverless vs servers as well.
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by gkanapathy 9y ago
Houston's urban geography is not appreciably different from that of LA. Other than it's a lot cheaper. Yes, the weather is terrible and there are no hills or mountains.
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by gkanapathy 9y ago
From the article: > Most of the children born into households in the top 20 percent will stay there or drop only as far as the next quintile. And rewritten a bit, it sounds rather weak: > More than 50 percent of the children born into
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by gkanapathy 9y ago
Basically, it's Australian
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by gkanapathy 9y ago
> A simulated heart does not pump real blood. Well, now, a simulated heartbeat implemented in a pacemaker and connected to a pump does cause real blood to be pumped. A real brain adds real numbers, and so does a computer brain. A real br
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by gkanapathy 10y ago
Not only was it possible to do everything in SMIT (or smitty) on the command line, smit would tell you the exact command line and options that it was running for any given operation, making it very easy to script and learn.
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by gkanapathy 10y ago
Hmm, but how many .vimrcs have set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab
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by gkanapathy 11y ago
Seems like it should be possible to rate limit failed logins, and of course failed logins on a per-account basis.
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by gkanapathy 11y ago
Apple doesn't keep the base model small to save costs. They do it to increase revenue (and margins). The cost to go from 16GB to 32GB is inconsequential. (They upped the step-up from 32GB to 64GB with no increase in price.) In fact, th
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by gkanapathy 11y ago
The article also claims that it's a free market. While Hong Kong has a very free-market economy in most things, real estate and development is the one thing where it is less free than most places. It is the part of economy where the go
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by gkanapathy 11y ago
They actually do say "unlimited phone, and 7GB tethering". It's very explicit, and limited tethering is a specific part of the "unlimited phone" plans. And as the article says, if you want more tethering, you are ab
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by gkanapathy 11y ago
Oh, they're different. They cost more, take five or ten times as much plastic to make, take more fuel to transport, and take up more space in landfills. Think about just how little material the thin bags use, and think about how many o
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by gkanapathy 11y ago
Well, that makes sense. But then, the cost of the bag should roughly reflect the cost of all these external harms from using them. What if it turns out that the cost is something like 10c a bag? That seems like a plausible number to me. It&
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by gkanapathy 11y ago
Does Austin allow give-aways of re-usable bags? I am not familiar, but I somewhat doubt it. Those bags typically sell for 99c in San Francisco. The 10c charge is for single-use bags (typically a paper sack, but plastic at some establishment
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by gkanapathy 11y ago
Also it's not clear to me that the environmental resources required to wash a reusable bag on a household scale (sink, water, soap) is lower than that required to produce a disposable bag on an industrial scale.
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by gkanapathy 11y ago
Couple things: * BART is straining these days. During commute hours, it's basically at capacity. The Bay Bridge is also at or over capacity. * Housing within walking distance of BART stations in Oakland that are also somewhat close t
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by gkanapathy 11y ago
A "height restriction" in paris is means a seven-story building, while in SF, it's a three-story building.
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by gkanapathy 11y ago
There's where it's shot, and there's where it is run from.
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by gkanapathy 11y ago
Cab drivers who drive out to drop someone off are very likely to hurry back to the dense parts where they can pick someone up. Uber is able to cover a large hailing area, so if cab has gone to the suburbs, they are more likely to be able to
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by gkanapathy 11y ago
I believe Mint does not use Yodlee, while most other sites that offer similar functionality do.
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by gkanapathy 11y ago
The author goes on a lot about metadata and bad search interfaces for it. Yes, classical music metadata doesn't fit with the "simple" pop music artist/album/song format. (Though the "featuring" and remixes
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by gkanapathy 11y ago
In fact, they tracked prices for Feb 1-10, and the Super Bowl is Feb 7. The week before the Super Bowl is the dog-and-pony show. Whether or not people are actually going to fill up SF hotels for an event 40 miles south (vs staying in San Jo
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by gkanapathy 11y ago
I came here and wasn't born here, older than those kids in the story. Fortunately I still managed to learn my elitist entitled attitude.
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by gkanapathy 11y ago
Pretty sure that if it was a hack or credible bomb threat, that they would not have been flying again after only an hour. A scenario like that would suggest just a normal IT glitch and a reboot/restart to fix and validate that it'

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