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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
Hooray! We can finally dispose of Betteridge's "Law"!
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
Embraer obviously isn't quite a Boeing or Airbus but their E-Jets seem like viable narrow-body jets. Now if the argument is that the USA isn't ok with all of the big jet manufacturers being foreign, then yeah, they have to bail B
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
That's generally the case. Alaska's UBI program requires that the recipient live in Alaska for the previous calendar year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Permanent_Fund#Permanen...
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
I'm not familiar with anti-gouging laws, but I'd be curious to see if Amazon's typical "we're the marketplace, not the seller" argument applies during declared emergencies or if they should be held responsible
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‘We’re hustlers’: Couple has made $100k reselling Lysol wipes(thestar.com)
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
They were going to get kicked out for spring break anyhow. Then again at the end of the semester. It's temporary housing. I do empathize with the minority of folks for whom this represents a real challenge. But having been enrolled a
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
Because I looked at the photos of the "riot": https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/local/photos-police-rio... And the kids on the street generally look like entitled middle-class white kids causing a dis
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
I'm not sure that this is why students are rioting, but the University of Dayton men's basketball team is currently experiencing unprecedented success (ranked third nationally), and the "March Madness" NCAA men's ba
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
> If you're not trying to be snarky avoid stuff like "dalliance for tech bros lighting money on fire" Haha, that's fair. To be clear, I believe remote work is generally more productive and represents the future of mo
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
Not trying to be snarky, but because I think it'll be meaningful to executives: What's the largest profitable remote-only company? Sure, your Gitlabs, Elastics, Sonatypes, etc, are remote-only, but they're still in VC-funded
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
Mongo reminds me of Tesla - early products were shoddy but had incredible hype. "It's incredibly fast!" "It's web scale!" "It'll be able to drive itself cross country in a couple of months!" And
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
It's already been established that hosting the Olympics in the current fashion is generally a money loser for the host city. All of those resources expended to build state-of-the-art facilities, housing, transportation, etc...with ros
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
That's funny, I just had a bad experience with Microsoft. I applied for a job on their site that had several locations listed, one of which was of interest to me. A recruiter sent me a bunch of questionnaires to fill out and then conn
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
Every time I see yet another library of web components I think of the classic XKCD about standards. Apparently there were N web component libraries but none of them were just what ING wanted, so now there are N+1 web component libraries.
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
I think the statistics to compare self-driving miles vs human driven miles are quite tough to judge. Tesla was criticized quite a bit at one point for comparing deaths per Autopilot mile to deaths per all motor vehicle miles. This was a ba
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
> Options add value, in luxury cars, a sunroof and alloy wheels are pretty much essential, not getting one means negative value on resale. I've heard the opposite, that options don't retain their value as much as the core of th
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
Reading their FAQ it sounds like you get to take a quick test drive and do a visual inspection, no mention of being able to take the car to a mechanic for a thorough pre-purchase inspection. There is a 7-day Money Back Guarantee (that does
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
The Nordic Language Processing Laboratory has a sizeable collection of open source parallel texts: http://opus.nlpl.eu Click on any of the headings in [brackets] on the top of the page to see the language pairs available for dow
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
That might be a good 90% solution - car registrations are public records, which tons of companies harvest, which is why you get those annoying extended warranty junk mailers, etc. Not all cars get registered though - some are chopped for pa
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
How would manufacturers know when cars change hands? Sure, in the example in the article, it was a lease that was turned in to a Ford dealer. But I've sold cars by handing my keys and a title to an individual who handed me money. The
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
Any support for languages other than English? Does it do normalization as part of the typo search (in case of missed/incorrent accent marks, etc)? Does it do stemming at all? For English or other languages? (ie, I search for "ru
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
IANAL but the prominent (c) The Royal Collection Trust overlaid on each map caught my attention. Shouldn't these very old maps be in the public domain?
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
I feel like the problem is that it isn't a huge market opportunity (at least by Apple scale). Checking out these graphs about Apple's revenues, apparently Mac revenues are pretty flat, while iPhone revenues continue to skyrocket (
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
> Replacing an iMac also means getting rid of a perfectly good monitor. This is the thing that absolutely friggin kills me with the Mac lineup. As a developer I see monitors and computers as the perfect example of loose coupling. And I&
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
Proximity matters. If I have a basketball court in my house, I'm going to want to have a little locker-room/bathroom off of it so that I (and my guests) don't have to trek to the bathroom in the main hall. If I have a 10-ca
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
Not really though, right? I theoretically have the same commute every day, but there have been times when a moving truck has been stopped in my lane, or the period when a road was down to one lane as it was repaved, and then re-opened with
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
Feels almost like the minor league / major league situation in professional sports. Minor league baseball players are generally not paid a living wage, and major league players start around half a million dollars a year. Obviously ma
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
And according to one company, daycare as a benefit pays for itself by reducing turnover ... although Patagonia really stands out by offering such a benefit in the current environment. If such a benefit became the norm maybe people would go
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
Thanks for posting that link! I came across that presentation several years back and found it quite enlightening. Then I thought of it for some reason a few months ago and tried Googling for it but couldn't find it. Very glad to stu
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by ng7j5d9 7y ago
That's the opposite sentiment that I've heard recently (from an American perspective). My understanding is that our used cars are more expensive than ever due to: a) Certified pre-owned and similar programs making some used cars

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