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by k_sh 7y ago
> how much has "too" varied over time though? Looks like[0] the real value of your average acre of US farmland is about 3x what it was fifty years ago. There's more data available if you want to drill down into cropland vs
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by k_sh 7y ago
> too expensive or its in remote location This is generally how land values work...
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by k_sh 7y ago
Yes, refusing to testify to the grand jury... in the WikiLeaks case.
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by k_sh 7y ago
I've always taken "public ownership" to imply "publicly-traded company", which means John Q. Public can call up his broker and buy some shares in the company. This in contrast to privately-held companies, which can
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by k_sh 7y ago
> It's not like we pay the police $2,000 for each arrest Not in a direct sense - but civil asset forfeiture and arrest/citation quotas do incentivize individual officers to take actions that benefit their department's budg
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by k_sh 7y ago
Sure, but the Mueller report was widely reported[0][1][2] to be released Thursday morning days ago. [0]: https://deadline.com/2019/04/redacted-robert-mueller-report-... [1]: https://www.washingtonpost.c
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by k_sh 8y ago
AI doesn't solve the underlying issue that made ketamine depression treatment expensive: intellectual property rights on a particular molecule. If a company achieved AI that can identify effective alternatives, why wouldn't they j
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by k_sh 8y ago
You're right, but that doesn't mean it's a waste of time to design systems more resilient to the human element.
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by k_sh 8y ago
Airplane safety should be more strict than car safety, because the damage an airplane crash causes is a handful of orders of magnitude higher than a car accident...
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by k_sh 8y ago
Follow-through. Google is infamous for this sequence of events, time and time again: 1. We made this great new thing that's gonna change the way you verb! Hope you enjoy it! 2. (1-5 years of product stagnation) 3. Hey, thanks for the a
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by k_sh 8y ago
If you feel like you're having allergic episodes when drinking, you may have some sinus issues lurking!
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by k_sh 8y ago
I'm glad we're waking up to this fact. It's not enough to hold a belief... in our system, action is required. I think this is why young people are so frequently screwed by political decisions and policy - we are, uncoincident
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by k_sh 8y ago
Paratransit is recognized in North America as special transportation services for people with disabilities, often provided as a supplement to fixed-route bus and rail systems by public transit agencies.[0] [0]: https://en.wikiped
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Feds Can't Force You to Unlock Your iPhone with Finger or Face, Judge Rules(forbes.com)
7 points by k_sh 8y ago|0 comments
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by k_sh 8y ago
"BuzzFeed launches a new website for its real journalism": https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/18/buzzfeed-news/ "Buzzfeed News adds a Pulitzer winner and top Pentagon correspondent to its staf
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by k_sh 8y ago
Babel (specifically, babel-preset-env, which I assume you're referring to) only ensures that your code's syntax can run within a given browser. It doesn't make sure all the web APIs and browser features you take advantage of
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by k_sh 8y ago
I could've sworn that they closed down a year or two ago. Are you sure you just got this? Edit: yeah, looks like this happened 8 months ago ( https://munchery.com/blog/a-letter-to-the-munchery-community... ) Edit 2:
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by k_sh 8y ago
> most of the US government is designed to self-sabotage things like publicly run transit anyway What level of US government is sabotaging transit? The federal government doles out at least $2.3B every year for transit projects[0], meanw
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by k_sh 8y ago
> Giving someone 0-day notice and physically escorting them out of the company is simply unacceptable. This is a pretty common practice, especially when dismissing employees that work with sensitive information (e.g. architecting trade s
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by k_sh 8y ago
supposed !== possible
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by k_sh 8y ago
You're describing theft. Bird didn't abandon their scooter, they know where it is and intended for it to be there. As noted in another thread here, something being left on the street doesn't mean it's legally abandoned,
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by k_sh 8y ago
It's probably on the front page because Chariot was part of YC W15, and later acquired by Ford.
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by k_sh 8y ago
Wellbutrin (bupropion hcl) is FDA approved as a smoking-cessation aid. I took it for a year or so (though not for smoking cessation), if you have any questions I'd be happy to answer them! Email in profile.
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by k_sh 8y ago
If roads were 20x wider, 68% of LA County would be streets. Sure, turning two-thirds of a city into roads will cut down on traffic - but within realistic restraints on road construction, induced demand is real. (There are 140mi^2 of roads n
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by k_sh 8y ago
I got my figure from this part of the entry: > AC759 reached a minimum altitude of 59 feet (18 m) above ground level, comparable to the 55 ft 10 in (17.02 m) tail height of a Boeing 787-9, two of which were on Taxiway C
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by k_sh 8y ago
This almost happened last July[0] at SFO - an inbound Air Canada flight lined up against a taxiway (with five full flights on it, over 1000 people actually) instead of a runway, and missed the planes on the ground by about five vertical fee
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by k_sh 8y ago
> site is also intentionally crippled so you need the app to do some things I don't have a citation for this, but it's pretty clear that they do this to make automation harder.
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by k_sh 8y ago
A "law enforcement has requested that your car pull over automatically, press here if you don't want this to happen" dialog would serve the need here while also protecting passengers from bad actors.
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by k_sh 8y ago
This would be illegal in some (most?) places - labor laws ban employers from clawing back pay for almost any reasons. In California, for example, you can't even dock someone's final paycheck if they fail to return a uniform - if s
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by k_sh 8y ago
Insurance companies? I'm not sure I've ever seen an insurance company gamify anything.

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