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Amazon Revises Corporate Values Days Before Bezos Steps Down(bloomberg.com)
7 points by J253 5y ago|0 comments
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by J253 5y ago
Would an idea like this but applied at increasingly higher rates as you own more homes work? For example, owning a single home, you pay a certain amount, if any. Want to buy a vacation house? Start paying n% LVT. A third vacation house? n*1
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by J253 5y ago
I’ve never subscribed to the cult of overwork. In fact, I subscribe to the cult of maximizing my hourly rate. If I receive an salaried offer, the first thing I do is take into account company culture and the amount of guaranteed PTO (can’t
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by J253 5y ago
I know that CA (LA, SF, SD) housing has always been expensive but it seems like in the past 20 years or so it’s become cumbersomely so. Unless you rode up on the wave of raising house prices through those years (presumably, mostly boomers,
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by J253 5y ago
> on a sonogram, they appear as a single line. Which is akin to dragging a single finger across different piano keys. Only a single frequency, or note, played at a time. This is common among songbirds. Contrast that with the sound of a c
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by J253 5y ago
I have a (perhaps unpopular) pet theory that college as we know it going to cease to exist sometime in the next several decades. In its current direction it feels like it’s becoming more about gaming the system. Those who do the “best” are
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by J253 5y ago
> The sad part of online ads is that the internet allows an advertiser, with Google's help, to potentially annoy hundreds of millions of people in order to make some small number of sales. This sentence suddenly made me see all onli
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by J253 6y ago
Ugh...I have a HN Twitter bot that just tried to post this and it got locked. https://www.twitter.com/hackernewstop10
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Haven (joint healthcare venture by Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan) is shutting down(cnn.com)
2 points by J253 6y ago|0 comments
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by J253 6y ago
A great example of Idyll recently featured on HN[0] and the direct link[1]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23722275 [1] https://rreusser.github.io/explorations/sphere-eversion/
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by J253 6y ago
The San Mateo County Health Officer recently published a statement that rhetorically asked this and other similar questions about CA, and I suppose human behavior and response to various types of SAH orders and the like. It was a very well-
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by J253 6y ago
Just last week, a song from this album popped on my Spotify discover weekly and I really liked it. Until I read your comment right now, I didn’t understand the context of the album. When I checked the screen to see what I was listening to I
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by J253 6y ago
In my experience I’ve seen R used in more exploratory/ad hoc type analysis and algorithm development by “non-developers”—-statisticians, scientists, etc. usually without performance consideration—-and that code is then turned into prod
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by J253 6y ago
The full blown 3D CAD programs _do_ have easily definable dimensions and a constraint solver for drawing sketches. The problem is that in these softwares, it’s typically assumed those sketches are going to be used to make a 3D part. So you’
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by J253 6y ago
I completely agree with this! I used Solidworks heavily for years and am so accustomed to drawing some lines, adding some constraints and dimensions with custom hot keys and boom I have my drawing nice neat and tidy exactly as I need it in
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Goodreads’ reign over the world of book talk might be coming to an end(newstatesman.com)
123 points by J253 6y ago|77 comments
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US govt exposes new North Korean BLINDINGCAN backdoor malware(bleepingcomputer.com)
1 points by J253 6y ago|0 comments
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by J253 6y ago
I love the fact that a field like topology, with all its underlying mathematical complexity, also has a such a beautiful visual aspect to it. Does anyone know if people try to tackle topology problems from the visual side? Before computers
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Mapping Thanksgiving (2017)(googletrends.github.io)
1 points by J253 7y ago|0 comments
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Pre-Saving Albums Can Allow Labels to Track Users on Spotify(billboard.com)
1 points by J253 7y ago|0 comments
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Wind-Powered Car Travels Downwind Faster Than the Wind(wired.com)
5 points by J253 7y ago|3 comments
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‘Mona Lisa’ Comes to Life in Computer-Generated ‘Living Portrait’(smithsonianmag.com)
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Starz Doesn’t Like News About Leaked TV-Shows, Takes Down TorrentFreak Tweet(torrentfreak.com)
124 points by J253 7y ago|35 comments
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Netflix app for iOS no longer supports AirPlay(macrumors.com)
1 points by J253 8y ago|0 comments
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Apple cuts price of HomePod worldwide, now $299 at US Apple store(9to5mac.com)
1 points by J253 8y ago|0 comments
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Elizabeth Warren: Corporate executives must face jail time for overseeing scams(washingtonpost.com)
45 points by J253 8y ago|7 comments
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Never Save Passwords on Chrome or Firefox(hackernoon.com)
25 points by J253 8y ago|14 comments
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Humans–like other animals–may sense Earth’s magnetic field(sciencemag.org)
1 points by J253 8y ago|0 comments
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Apple responds to Spotify with words, but no real answers(char.gd)
70 points by J253 8y ago|36 comments
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by J253 8y ago
Love the idea. I assume the prediction about when to reorder is more sophisticated than just coffee_weight < X, so how well does it deal with highly variable coffee usage? For example, randomly throughout the week my wife wants coffee as

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