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by EMM_386 5y ago
Wow. People were speculating that this was a ruse by Qatar to get out of contracts with Airbus. After seeing the images, that's no ruse. And that appears to be a bit more than "cosmetic".
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by EMM_386 5y ago
> There's already Disneyland and Disneyworld and also Disneywhatever in France. There are 23 Six Flags in the US and two Disney parks. If you've been to a Six Flags recently you can see they are no Disney, nor do they try to be
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by EMM_386 5y ago
> Well, sort of. Your yield isn't in dollars, it's in number of tokens. Perhaps they should be more transparent about this, because I can end homelessness in the United States right now with $100 based on their reported APY. Th
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by EMM_386 5y ago
> Why aren’t there parks outside of every major city? Brand dilution. You can have your local Six Flags but that isn't Disney.
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by EMM_386 5y ago
> Despite allegedly being at a fraction of capacity, the place is still uncomfortably jam-packed, with obscene waiting times at most rides. That's indicative of a venue that hasn't reached price equilibrium. This is exactly how
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by EMM_386 5y ago
This sort of stuff would have to be done ahead of some particular focused activity you want to optimize, no? Breathing is autonomic. You obviously can't try to "improve" it all day.
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by EMM_386 5y ago
> I tend to solve that by wrapping inane APIs. That is just another layer of abstraction which leads to even more confusion. These abstractions can be taken to the extreme in things like Java, that's how you end up with a class name
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by EMM_386 5y ago
> This seems like... obviously a security? Or obviously an ETF, or obviously a mutual fund, or obviously a market maker, or obviously The Fed. There is literally a 1-1 attempt at mimicking the current financial system under the label &qu
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by EMM_386 5y ago
> If you have properties with ridiculous names, that's a bigger problem. I have no control over third-party dependencies and how they name things.
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by EMM_386 5y ago
> Natural immunity targets the whole virus, so whatever immune-escape such a virus evolves, it would have to be far more comprehensive to have a significant effect. I never thought about it that way. That would mean, if the virus evolve
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by EMM_386 5y ago
> If I can't recall "x.somePropertyThatHasARidiculousNameIAlwaysForget" then there are other more serious problems. I just prefer to press less keys. It shouldn't obscure anything in a decent IDE. Often you are worki
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by EMM_386 5y ago
> I turn off intellisense Unless you are doing this for performance reasons, this one I'll never understand. I'd much rather type "x.someP" and hit tab then type in "x.somePropertyThatHasARidiculousNameIAlwaysFor
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by EMM_386 5y ago
I find it interesting that I am using semicolons more these days because clients like my work Outlook recommend it in places I wouldn't use it but are correct; as a result, I use it more often.
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by EMM_386 5y ago
> I.e. the price per square foot might make a property look like a steal, while something like a sewer main nearby, or problematic neighbor This is the real problem. Even if they have the historical data for that exact house/unit,
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by EMM_386 5y ago
I have a strong feeling that Covid-19 is going to be with us for a long time. The problem with that is with a lot of the vulnerable population. This isn't "the flu".
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by EMM_386 5y ago
>So in 30 days I should be able to get $200 back out, and in 1 year I should be able to get out ~$725000. 2 years and I can take out over 3 billion. Yeah okay. That's why these APYs make zero sense, I don't understand how anyo
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by EMM_386 5y ago
Samsung T5 SSD.
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by EMM_386 5y ago
Just looking at that home page, they are saying the APY is 725,002.4%. If that isn't an insane red flag, I don't know what is.
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by EMM_386 5y ago
More information about FASER here: https://faser.web.cern.ch/about-the-experiment/detector-desi...
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by EMM_386 5y ago
I bailed on it also, with the same experience. A barrage of obtrusive prompts. When it wanted me to enter a phrase I typed "sunset over a field" and got a picture of the Milky Way galaxy also, followed by more prompts. I then clo
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by EMM_386 5y ago
This all has to do with the post-COVID crashes that many countries experienced. Their central banks literally flooded the economy with cash. Buying bonds, stocks, real estate, whatever it took to stabilize markets. This is their "rol
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by EMM_386 5y ago
> Put another way, if I'm worth $Y to you sitting in an office, and I can accomplish the same work at home, from anywhere, just as effectively, why should I get paid any less? The problem is there are likely very competent engineers
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by EMM_386 5y ago
> These YT pages rely on automation. The browser runs Javascript to format the page and to make HTTP requests that send data back to Google (privacy violation, no user benefit). The browser loads thumbnail images, automatically. There ar
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by EMM_386 5y ago
Very impressive stuff. Even after 20 years of developing, I still have trouble wrapping my mind about the complexities involved here. If anyone hasn't read the blog post about this, it's a great read: https://medium.co
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by EMM_386 5y ago
Pretty neat. I wonder how many hours were spent by how many people to hand-create 15,000 custom emoji mash-ups? The ROI calculations on this feature must have been interesting.
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by EMM_386 5y ago
It says that in article? > For many years, they held the patent on Topre switches. However, in the mid-2000s, that patent expired. Despite other companies now being able to make Topre-clones, the Topre name was exclusive for many years a
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by EMM_386 5y ago
> When I need to write JavaScript, I just want to write JavaScript The beauty of compilers/transpilers is that you can write in the latest JavaScript and not have to worry about browser compatibility, it will automatically transpi
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by EMM_386 5y ago
> We intend to put The Constitution in the hands of The People. Additionally, the community has expressed strong preferences for institutions that are free to the public and willing to cover the costs associated with housing the documen
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by EMM_386 5y ago
> Berenstain Bears Now that's a weird one, never saw that example before. I'm familiar with the subject ... yet, if you asked me to spell it, it would have been -stein. Very interesting.
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by EMM_386 5y ago
This sounds interesting, and I'd pay for it, but it seems to be dependent on a Firefox extension. Sadly, after literally 20+ years of using Firefox, I recently switched to Brave. The performance of FF was wearing on me. I realize it w

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