Litmus2336

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by Litmus2336 5y ago
I'm also curious what percentage of people married to people in their career field is due to meeting on the job. Are you more likely to marry someone in your profession? Or is "working together" just a very common way to meet
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by Litmus2336 6y ago
Although if one side in the cold war had good anti-ballistic missile tech they would be incentivised to first strike. That's the reason for the ABM limitation treaties https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Ballistic
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by Litmus2336 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushmeat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife_trafficking_and_emerg... I have no doubt that there are cases of wealthy people consuming exotic meat as a delicacy, b
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by Litmus2336 7y ago
Yeah, people don't eat bushmeat and from the garbage can because they choose to - they have (or feel they have) no other choice.
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by Litmus2336 7y ago
For a person to get both bottom and peak right. But hey, I'm less picky
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by Litmus2336 7y ago
All you need to correctly pick the bottom and peak of a year is 365 people. 366 in leap years.
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by Litmus2336 7y ago
Yeah, that'd theoretically work. But I wonder how it would go in practice with the limited information of each driver. Perhaps if they provided drivers with statistics (average offering price, bottom 10% offering price, ride volume ove
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by Litmus2336 7y ago
It seems to me that the option to refuse drives is the bigger change. But regarding pricing, Uber is no longer "mandating" the drivers accept a price, instead Uber drives agree to the rates Uber sets. Maybe that has some bearing?
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by Litmus2336 7y ago
Hacker News without cynicism would be like Disneyland without Mickey Mouse :)
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by Litmus2336 7y ago
>Many argued at the time that J&J was at fault because their packaging wasn't sealed or tamper-evident. Do you have a citation for that? I don't doubt it's possible but I've never heard it. As far as I know no maj
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by Litmus2336 7y ago
In this case, they use "foreign keys" in the sense that there are keys which correspond to keys in other tables. There are no foreign key constraints, the keyword is never used.
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by Litmus2336 7y ago
Seriously. "As a C developer, I never check exit codes of child processes. We can just enforce it by ensuring child processes don't have bugs"
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by Litmus2336 7y ago
Because, theoretically, these companies would not be profitable if their interest rates were regulated, and therefore nobody would offer loans. But I don't have statistics on default rate or anything of that sort.
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by Litmus2336 7y ago
It went great, expect where they totally missed sales targets and shuttered the program. The TriStar was a great plane. It should've done better.
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by Litmus2336 7y ago
While I 100% agree with you, as a Java dev who is very interested in optimization (particularly register coloring) at a certain point I think you have to realize that any "compiler type" optimizations you do (Ooh, I'll optimi
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by Litmus2336 7y ago
How will an AI decide what the optimal allocation of food for the hungry is, how many computers everyone needs, and whether we should build basketball courts or if it's just a waste of time? Those are all value judgements, and capital
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by Litmus2336 7y ago
The negative interest rates discourages holding money and encourages spending (and investment), which drives inflation. I do not believe negative interest rates destroy money, but I am not an expert. I cannot find any literature to prove or
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by Litmus2336 7y ago
Theoretically, if he has fiduciary duty, he has to act in the best interest of his clients. I'm not sure if he has that duty (I've googled but can't find anything) but if he did they could argue leaving money in cash is clear
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by Litmus2336 7y ago
Technically, you can have a lease of any length. I've seen 3 and 6 month leases. I'm sure it's possible to have a 24+ month lease.
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by Litmus2336 7y ago
>And yet, proposition 13 is rarely cited as a significant contributor to California's housing issues, especially by the "this is simple supply and demand" crowd. Personally, while I suspect proposition 13 has contributed,
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by Litmus2336 7y ago
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/... I believe you might be thinking of month-to-month, which is not a traditional lease. On all fixed term leases over a month rent cannot be chan
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by Litmus2336 7y ago
I think you're intentionally misrepresenting the opposing viewpoint. If rent control artificially reduces the price of housing, more people will want to live in CA. Less houses will be built, as less profit is being made. Therefore, pr
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by Litmus2336 7y ago
All you need to do is fill it with ads, then it will be really cyberpunk! Although I heard recently that might be against NPM's TOS...
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by Litmus2336 7y ago
This is hilarious, and I love it. It makes me really, really nostalgic.
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by Litmus2336 7y ago
There are valid reasons to invest in a company that doesn't make profit now, but will in the future. Almost every business has this phase - it could be short (a lawnmower company that goes 5k in the hole for equipment) or big (a compan
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by Litmus2336 7y ago
> A cross-platform filesystem that you could read/write from Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android etc. Imagine having a single disk that could boot any computer operating system without having to manage partitions and boot records! F
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by Litmus2336 7y ago
You're totally correct that the properties in the article were granted after abdication, but I'm not in favor of the large amount of property returned to them after WW1. And in regards to Soviet confiscation in Czechoslovakia, I w
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by Litmus2336 7y ago
I'm not exactly super sympathetic to monarchs though. I don't think it's unreasonable that, after the fall of the monarchy, they lose most of their assets.
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by Litmus2336 7y ago
I wish I could get issued a Linux Thinkpad, but still no support from the IT org :(
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by Litmus2336 7y ago
Google really needs to release a dedicated "Crime Mode" so we don't need to keep using this airplane mode workaround.

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