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601.
by ISL 4y ago
Not cashing out of town checks (especially in large amounts) is definitely a thing in the US. For larger transactions, it is also common to get a "cashier's check", drawn on the bank's own accounts to minimize the seller
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by ISL 4y ago
Have a look back at ~2014 or so. HN was extremely bullish on Bitcoin. It sometimes took up about a quarter of the articles at any given time. It promised a bright new decentralized world and offered fertile ground for innovation. It promi
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by ISL 4y ago
It's dropping dirt-bullets out of the sky with enough momentum to penetrate dirt -- probably enough to penetrate most flesh. Air-dropping pinecones and seeds, however, might be sufficient (and very fast). Cones and seeds are already d
604.
by ISL 4y ago
If GP is correct, then that signal would be, "Treat everyone who works here more-fairly and address their concerns in a timely manner. It is in everyone's best interest."
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by ISL 4y ago
About a year ago, I moved from an academic research group of ~7, embedded in a laboratory of ~60 into a company with several hundred employees. Many of the best-practices and philosophies implemented around management and process in the lar
606.
by ISL 4y ago
If the (important/compelling/disturbing) science content wasn't enough, definitely open the article for terms like "Splatometer" and "Splats-per-mile".
607.
by ISL 4y ago
> But if you don’t assume path dependency, you have a lot more options at your disposal. This is an important sentence that I haven't seen before in discussions about people-pipelines in the physical sciences. It deserves more visi
608.
by ISL 4y ago
Even if it only occasionally results in fewer deliveries, Amazon Day is still an efficiency win.
609.
by ISL 4y ago
To have a war chest/insurance in case you need it.
610.
by ISL 4y ago
Lists actually links at bearblog.
611.
by ISL 4y ago
It is a great teaching tool (and very usable if you need to get something simple done quickly).
612.
by ISL 4y ago
A possible next-step: Beginning to automate that spam-vetting.
613.
by ISL 4y ago
Third parties can build/operate open-source software.
614.
by ISL 4y ago
The WWII generation may have worked to fix the ozone hole, but they also unknowingly created it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorofluorocarbon#History
615.
by ISL 4y ago
The similar assignment of which I'm aware: "File a 1" cube" to defined tolerances.
616.
by ISL 4y ago
One should always have a BATNA, even if it is an unpleasant one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_alternative_to_a_negotiat...
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by ISL 4y ago
I have pushed back against contract clauses. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. The most important outcome is the communication itself. Done well, the discussion builds mutual respect. Both sides want to enter into an agreemen
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by ISL 4y ago
As the decision seems to be deliberate, I'm interested why Google has chosen not to implement such a feature. I'm a paying GSuite customer. I'd love to be able to NFS-mount portions of my home directory into Google Drive f
619.
by ISL 5y ago
Here's everywhere reachable within about an hour's drive from SF. https://app.traveltime.com/search/0-lng=-122.41991&0-tt=60&0...
620.
by ISL 5y ago
Power-line work on live transmission lines always seems incredibly bonkers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPNK7bc2qvM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YmFHAFYwmY Let's fly a massive chainsaw beside a
621.
by ISL 5y ago
Schrodinger's civilization :).
622.
by ISL 5y ago
Uber adds more value to the rider than a balkanized taxi environment. No matter where you are, it is likely to work and work in a familiar way.
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by ISL 5y ago
It has meaning primarily insofar as other people think that it might have meaning. Technical Analysis is madness, but there is method to it.
624.
by ISL 5y ago
This is the key observation that isn't obvious about fusion. The capture cross-section is smaller than the scattering cross-section, so essentially any beam design is doomed to fail. I'm an experimental physicist who recently look
625.
by ISL 5y ago
Beyond the fact that novel fusion technologies tend to fail badly: A fusion system you can hold in your hands is something that will generally expose you to a whole lot of neutrons.
626.
by ISL 5y ago
It definitely is. In this specific case, LHC will almost certainly yield improved mass measurements. Just as Fermilab published this result a decade after the Tevatron shut down, increasingly refined measurements like this will continue t
627.
by ISL 5y ago
That's why you build another instrument that is demonstrably a factor of two more sensitive -- it either detects the new thing with much higher precision or credibly disproves the old measurement and makes forward progress at the same
628.
by ISL 5y ago
I perpetually dream of systems like this where a process might be undertaken in locations that require HVAC systems that can make use of the waste heat. Whether with iron or some other energy-consumptive process, imagine if a municipal truc
629.
by ISL 5y ago
To a reasonable approximation, cats only fall in zero-g.
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by ISL 5y ago
> It's possible to get a great APS-C sensor size digital camera for ~300 euro. But as soon as you go up in sensor size you're up into 1000+ euro. The fair comparison is with used digital cameras. Great used full-frame camera

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