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by abakker 7y ago
The metric you are looking for is Purchasing Power Parity - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchasing_power_parity
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by abakker 7y ago
FWIW, I find these good for playing guitar, too. Downside in that case is you can't always tap your foot, but it lets you play with the instrument hanging from the strap which is good for when you play standing up.
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by abakker 7y ago
This is really cool, but on mobile I wast able to see the conclusion - does your top plane design actually self sustain?
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by abakker 7y ago
The trouble is, the government gets constant complaints about services not working, or not being up to par with the public. The government should probably not be a proving ground for manufacturers that have not successfully delivered before
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by abakker 7y ago
I am just now realizing that HN comments are collapsible...I wonder if anyone has ever looked at upvote/scroll behavior when the collapse button is used vs not? There are a ton of threads where the top comment is also a non-sequitur, b
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by abakker 7y ago
I tend to agree with you - at some point the whole "take everything away that you can do without" became "do without". my MacBook pro is great, but I would love more ports. I don't care as much about weight, I'
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by abakker 7y ago
Genuine question: Who cares? I love design, and I love the engineering Apple has done, but, I've got to believe that Apple keep their aesthetic without keeping the same exact people. I think I would count this as a win for Apple - an o
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by abakker 7y ago
The moment when a Wight burst in your cluster of archers in Myth, and the game voice just said “casualties”. The butcher in Diablo 1, filled with a room of dismembered corpses.
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by abakker 7y ago
Interesting to note that Frog got a new owner yesterday - they are now part of CapGemini, through the acquisition of Altran.
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by abakker 7y ago
I really like my QuickMill QM67 - I use it every day, and have for 6 years. I figure I have close to 5000 shots on it and it has had only about $20 of parts replaced (group gasket, some locktite on the steam nut).
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by abakker 7y ago
As the owner of an older europiccola and a quick mill qm67, I've been eying this: https://www.flairespresso.com which seems really need. the europiccola always struggled with managing steaming/overheating issues when d
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by abakker 7y ago
What is actually produced when we burn a plastic water bottle at high temperature? I've always wondered this but never seen a great answer - are we just releasing gasses, or is the resultant ash toxic?
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by abakker 7y ago
Agree. Major difference between already having budget and getting budget allocated.
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by abakker 7y ago
== Higher taxes, more research to prove not "where" to spend the money, but "on what, specifically?". Ever the problem with government and social science - government is dependent on social science to conduct studies tha
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by abakker 7y ago
I HATE that always on electric assist. It is both expensive and annoying. Gas springs cost $20. IMO, only pickup trucks really know how to get this stuff right now, and that's mostly because there's so much space that the buttons
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by abakker 7y ago
The audiobook thing! Yes! I hike or mountain bike with books, too, and when I bike those routes now, sometimes I get almost total word recall of a moment in a book I heard years ago. It’s a great sensation.
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by abakker 7y ago
SPSS and it’s native format .sav are the industry standard for survey data. If anyone is in that field and hasn’t used Q (q research software) I highly recommend it. I used to do a lot of crosstabs and banner reports in SPSS and wincross an
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by abakker 7y ago
He owns the properties that we work leases!
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by abakker 7y ago
There is a connection in his last paragraph to entrepreneurship - I can't place a finger on the exact phasing but I've seen before on HN an essay about the need for an entrepreneur to be "all in" and genuinely swayed by
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by abakker 7y ago
Do you get toilet paper ads when browsing in the restroom?
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by abakker 7y ago
Precision Agriculture. There is a lot of non-glyphosphate work going on there to improve farm-specific and soil specific fertilization and yield optimization. They both make chemicals, they have common inputs, it seems like the expectation
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by abakker 7y ago
It also changes the color, which in many cases is inappropriate for the project. However, if it were being painted I would definitely consider it. I bought some Torrefied ash recently - it's weird stuff. Kind of like working with toast
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by abakker 7y ago
FWIW, I've done some pretty complex part simulations in F360, and it's not that slow, on my Vega MacBook pro 2018. But, if it is, Fusion has online-sim calculator or renderers that are pretty affordable.
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by abakker 7y ago
FWIW, Airtable has sensible defaults for this. you can share a table for free (password protected) with non-airtable users. (I do use that for specific team projects)
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by abakker 7y ago
I don't know why nobody mentions this, but if you DO unbundle a feature from excel, it is exceptionally hard to compete on ubiquity. Excel is cheap, and even if you replace part of the functionality, nobody will ever actually beat the
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by abakker 7y ago
Network effect for Uber is having the app installed. It is more comparable to a central market for a single, homogenous good.
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by abakker 7y ago
for when you get drunk and barf in their car.
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by abakker 7y ago
I can't verify 100%, but I think Orange Bank (subsidiary of the telco provider) is entirely built on the cloud. I believe they built all their systems ground-up 2 years ago, but I could be wrong. When they acquired Groupama Banque, I t
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by abakker 7y ago
That’s a good point. Those can actually put out up to 30A current at 3.6v. Doing so, they sure won’t last long. They are only 2000mAh batteries. My battery test was wrong, still, there are no 50W laser diodes out there. We’re doing well to
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by abakker 7y ago
Market rate for good ones seems to be US$.20/word. source: have paid a lot for good quality translations in the last few years.

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