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by jdavis703 2y ago
Spirit believed it was buying a specific, certified titanium alloy. Imagine the rabbis at Hebrew National were out sick, but Hebrew National continued churning out “Kosher hotdogs” that hadn’t been properly vetted. Sure it’s still a hotdog
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by jdavis703 3y ago
My experience from west coast wildfires and taking indoor air pollution measurements is if I put 3 air purifiers in one master bedroom and keep the windows and doors closed I can go from code purple air outside to code orange air inside… So
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by jdavis703 3y ago
Yes, 22 horses died at Berkeley in 2020. Several hundred workers also came down with COVID during that time. The sport is hard on labor and horses.
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by jdavis703 3y ago
Has anyone just requested access to GitHub’s training data? In other words, maybe GitHub will send a drive with all the data.
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by jdavis703 4y ago
Yes, as someone who has done volunteer telemarketing, we mark the call status. For example if you’re angry/rude, non-English speaking, disconnected, etc. Campaign managers can then target call sheets accordingly (e.g. for a Spanish-spe
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by jdavis703 4y ago
The “quiet car” on medium-haul passenger rail routes (e.g. Acela in the US.) or a sleeper car on long-haul rail or a first class “private room” on airlines like Emirates.
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by jdavis703 4y ago
> I have a well paying job now, and I am pretty sure I would throw my marriage into chaos if I told my wife I was leaving my job to pursue a start up. This is a conversation you should have with your spouse. Many spouses go back to schoo
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by jdavis703 4y ago
In London security will sometimes specifically ask if you or anyone else has made repairs or modifications to any electronics. Depending on how honestly you answer, this could still be a hassle.
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by jdavis703 4y ago
I have seen legacy companies with security rules so tight they can’t ship anything cool. On the flip side are legacy companies that ship great user experiences, but apparently just totally ignore the security people. Does the security profe
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by jdavis703 4y ago
I have the latest iPhone 13 Pro Max, shoot RAW and with acoustic filters mounted on my phone and what not. Both my photos and iPhone photos that I’ve seen at “iPhone photography” art exhibits are clearly lower quality. Now one could argue a
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by jdavis703 4y ago
I don’t consider myself wealthy, and I make less than half that… But I’m also not poor. I have no problem chipping in or 1 or 2 percent more if it means keeping the masses from revolution… As happened to my step mom’s parents in the Chinese
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by jdavis703 4y ago
Yes, but it sounds like forensic researchers envision this tool being the equivalent to bullet striation. So in other words, law enforcement finds a suspect, captures their camera, photographs RAW images, and then compares the sensor imperf
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by jdavis703 4y ago
Most of these jobs hire software engineers, not programmers. The job is more than coding. Software engineering is writing technical design docs. Gathering business requirements. Gathering technical requirements. Negotiating with stakeholder
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by jdavis703 4y ago
IME many large, non-tech companies are so bureaucratic they essentially have an async flow. Which perhaps is fine, there’s already a defined process for what needs to be done. But for a startup where even the next two weeks are foggy, async
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by jdavis703 4y ago
What is the board supposed to do then? Dilute Bezo’s and everyone else’s holdings?
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by jdavis703 4y ago
Rents are up 15% YoY, which is probably a leading sign that demand is back. I know some folks might blame higher rents on greedy landlords… But it’s quite clear that at work this year’s class of new grad hires is moving to the Bay Area. Wha
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by jdavis703 4y ago
The CEO of Amazon has a $212mm compensation package. That’s what I based my estimate off. And I’m sure we can all agree that $212mm is more than “hardly any salary.” I could retire on that amount, have my alma matter name a building after m
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by jdavis703 4y ago
If Amazon’s board decided to reallocate the CEO’s compensation package and grant it to employees, it would increase the entry level salaries of warehouse workers from $18/hour to $18.45/hour. Not a bad bump, but also historically
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by jdavis703 4y ago
My Twitter feed is basically the news. The first 4 of 5 posts are from established news organizations or about current events. Social media vs news media is a distinction without a difference.
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by jdavis703 4y ago
I don’t trust Bluetooth for video conferencing. Having everything hard-wired is much more reliable. It’s why work from home video conferences are janky in a way that in-office VCs weren’t. If you can get a dedicated microphone or webcam and
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by jdavis703 4y ago
Many states in the US have family leave (including paternity leave). California is more than 10% of the US population and the rules for paternity leave are extremely broad: - Welcomed a new child into the family in the past 12 months throug
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by jdavis703 4y ago
The answer is to make it clear what the tradeoffs are. For example it could be more cash and less stock. Or lower price but longer lead time. Just offering a range without any other variables would be foolish, and complicated negotiations u
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by jdavis703 4y ago
I’m not expert enough to know if this is dangerous are not. But an aircraft is a combinatorial explosion of complexity. For example, innocuous sounding changes for the 737 Max caused several hundred deaths. If the tolerance was indeed too s
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by jdavis703 4y ago
I’m not sure. We’re on a hedonistic treadmill. Yesterday’s inventions are todays problems. It’s easy to look at polluting transportation, addictive social media or unhealthy processed foods and extrapolate that the future will be worse. But
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by jdavis703 4y ago
I don’t want your limit for “sizable” is, but yes, but they’re semi-hidden on places like Slack, Reddit and Discord.
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by jdavis703 4y ago
Sounds like the poster is having power management issues. Could be a dirty fan or a bad chip. I’ve dealt with the latter and it was fixed under warranty.
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by jdavis703 4y ago
Are you using ad blockers, tracking protection or enhanced browser security? Consider using a stock Google Chrome installation from a desktop computer. I’m not defending the “good enough for government” mentality but merely suggesting some
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by jdavis703 4y ago
Sure I’d have liked all these features on March 2020. But at least where I live the pandemic is still very much raging on. We still have mask mandates and vaccine passport checks. Having masked FaceID and vaccine passports in the wallet sti
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by jdavis703 4y ago
> The employees Business Insider spoke with said they would be covered retroactively only once the paperwork was finalized, which left them on the hook to pay upfront fees. This seems like many responses on HN are over reacting. Employee
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by jdavis703 4y ago
As people age they do get “free” insurance from Medicare. And if a white collar worker experiences downward mobility they can qualify for free or cheap insurance through the Medicaid and Affordable Care Act provisions.

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