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by a_c_s 6y ago
As someone who doesn't drink alcohol it drives me crazy when the only option is to subsidize other's alcohol (because alcohol is marked up so heavily). For people like me a paid-alcohol policy is a feature, not a bug.
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by a_c_s 6y ago
Agreed: it is amazing to just have these in 3D. However as someone who doesn't know much about ancient Egypt it would be spectacular to have some kind of annotations or guide to explain what we are seeing.
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by a_c_s 6y ago
Agree 100%: agile practices can be great. Hiring a consultant to teach 'Agile' is easy: the change of practices from something completely top-down to something that empowers the people at the bottom is the hard part and some orgs
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by a_c_s 7y ago
That's the theory, but that assumes all stakeholders aligned incentives (or it ignores employees as stakeholders). In the real world it is far easier to fire lots of employees than it is to stop paying the bank loan. So being only sort
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by a_c_s 7y ago
Many vaccines only use parts of the virus (such as proteins from the exterior of the virus). These vaccines can't cause infection because only certain parts of the virus are included, not whole viruses.
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by a_c_s 7y ago
That doesn't make sense: AA is not very effective at all. "Based on these data, he put AA’s actual success rate somewhere between 5 and 8 percent." https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015&#
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by a_c_s 7y ago
Or the courts should start taking graphic design into account: if there is any ambiguity, the large & legible print should be enforced and the difficult to read fine print disregarded.
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by a_c_s 7y ago
One problem with this is that most "local" honeys in the USA can be labeled as such even if they are 99%+ non-local honey. Just because it is sold in a farmer's market doesn't mean it is actually local :-(
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by a_c_s 7y ago
It depends on how toxic the rest of the organization is. I've worked at places with a healthy culture (very little shielding was necessary) and I had awesome, close interactions with end users and the business side of things. I've
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by a_c_s 7y ago
That spacer still activates the 'ESC' key
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by a_c_s 7y ago
> people do not need to profit from housing to build it People do need to profit from something to do it in a capitalist society.
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by a_c_s 7y ago
I think it is worth reading the whole essay (The Tyranny of Structurelessness), which does a great job of articulating how if there are no formal levers of power it becomes very difficult for people who don't have power to make changes
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by a_c_s 7y ago
Leaving toothpaste residue (containing fluoride) on your teeth is the main thing toothpaste is for. Fluoride changes the chemical properties of tooth enamel to make it stronger. So removing toothpaste immediately after applying it reduces t
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by a_c_s 7y ago
No, they are beholden to whomever can help them raise enough money for re-election. It is far easier to have 1-2 industries you make happy and can write you a big check every 2 or 6 years than reaching out to raise grassroots support from t
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by a_c_s 8y ago
In NYC (at least in Manhattan where congestion pricing is being implemented) food delivery is primarily done via bicycle, sometimes via subway or walking, very rarely by vehicle.
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by a_c_s 8y ago
Paying more attracts more applicants.
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by a_c_s 8y ago
According to whom? An authentic experience with locals is far more worldly in my book than dozens of nights spent in a 5-star hotel bubble of luxury.
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by a_c_s 8y ago
How about this example: a corporation buys a yacht that the CEO has exclusive use of and lives on. Now the CEO gets full food & board & luxury sea transportation provided. The CEO's salary is $1. The CEO is taking untaxed value
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by a_c_s 8y ago
The door close button is used when the elevator is in fire service mode (where all actions are manually activated)
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by a_c_s 8y ago
A strong dollar increases prices in non-US markets, which is most of Apple's revenue now.
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by a_c_s 8y ago
Agreed: if we supplemented & replaced some aspects of rent control with mechanisms like long leases (eg. 5 year lease with only inflationary price increases) and long notification periods for lease renewal denial (eg. 1 year notice that
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by a_c_s 8y ago
In the USA one won't be arrested nor go to jail for simply not paying taxes as it is merely a civil offense, not a criminal one. https://tax.findlaw.com/tax-problems-audits/can-you-go-to-ja...
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by a_c_s 8y ago
For better or worse the federal budget for 2019 is $3,422 billion: spending a mere 0.004% of the budget on tax collection seems like a pretty good deal!
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by a_c_s 8y ago
This was one thing COBOL got right: built in support for a DECIMAL data type.
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by a_c_s 8y ago
> My guess is that a 500$ base model that doesn't suck, would be quite popular. You mean like the iPhone 7, which retails for $449?
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by a_c_s 8y ago
The problem is the whole system is designed from the perspective of the lawyers rather than the customers. If a company overcharged me $10 for a product, then as part of the settlement I should get at least $10. The company should also have
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by a_c_s 8y ago
In Turkey many businesses were taking out loans denominated in USD or Euros instead of local Turkish Lira. "The lira sell-off has also meant Turkey's banks are seeing more loans go bad as borrowers struggle to pay off euro- and do
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by a_c_s 8y ago
Interesting to compare to the other Trillion dollar company: Apple (AAPL) earned $11.04/share last quarter and trades for ~$228 today Amazon (AMZN) earned $12.63/share last quarter and trades for ~$2,040 today edit: formatting
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by a_c_s 8y ago
I think you're vastly overestimating the power output of solar cells. Using 20% efficiency panels gives us 0.2KW/m^2/hr. According to this Quora answer [1] a small container ship uses 15,000kW: for one 24 hour day that means
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by a_c_s 8y ago
A curve distorts grades: they tell you how the person performed relative to their peers not relative to their mastery of the material.

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