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by abtinf 8y ago
YouTube is inconsistent about how it reports the video name. IIRC I noticed that on Roku, it will show the name in a playlist or if you try to play the video.
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by abtinf 8y ago
Commenting only on the title here (I haven't RTFA yet or heard of Deliverr before)... Amazon is a logistics powerhouse. $7M probably wouldn't even cover the capital investment of a fraction of their equipment in just one of their
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by abtinf 8y ago
> Was there a time when politics wasn't full of poison? No. Reason made this short video about the political attacks from the election of 1800 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_zTN4BXvYI
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by abtinf 8y ago
My initial thought was this shows the anti-tracking measures aren’t working. But upon further consideration, I think you are correct. The amount of friction this inflicts on the site and users makes this strategy non-viable for site operato
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by abtinf 8y ago
> The things churchill said and did were no different than what hitler said and did. That is an obscene statement and likely the cause of your downvotes.
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by abtinf 8y ago
In my college phonetics class, we studied spectrograms of various human sounds. The spectrogram of whispers is very different from normal speech - it almost just looks like white noise. Forget computers, it is remarkable that even the human
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by abtinf 8y ago
I like having pepper in a shaker on the table because it improves every food I add it to. But it hasn’t occurred to me that might just be a weird bias. Instead of hiding pepper away on the spice rack, why not bring more spices to the table?
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by abtinf 8y ago
It is very expensive relative to other foods, and certain varieties of Persian saffron are extremely expensive. It is also extremely inefficiently used by most chefs. They often merely crumble it into the recipe. You can use a small amount
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by abtinf 8y ago
It’s interesting to think about how recent the massive increase in quality and variety of food really is. Imagine you were the wealthiest person living in New York City in the 19th or even early 20th century. Your diet would be unbelievably
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by abtinf 8y ago
Could you elaborate on your view that Google Domains is the most professional company for this kind of issue?
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by abtinf 8y ago
I think one of the things that makes Go library code so easy to read is the lack of generics. Everything you need to understand the code is right in front of you, without the barrier of having to learn new sets of complicated abstractions o
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by abtinf 8y ago
Having worked at a giant company, I know there are many competing motivations, teams, and personalities involved - companies are not uniform entities. Still... Google Reader did more to destroy my perception of Google's reputation than
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by abtinf 8y ago
This is like blaming the underground railroad for the civil war.
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by abtinf 8y ago
Setting aside the specifics of milk, there are situations where it is more economical to run a business at a loss than not at all. Let's say producing a product costs $5 in fixed costs (interest, depreciation, etc) and $1 in variable c
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by abtinf 8y ago
Could you expand on your point? I don't know what you are trying to say in the first sentence, how you arrive at your conclusion in the second, and why the two sentences are connected.
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by abtinf 8y ago
> For "some" reason I suggest that the correct word to put in quotes would have been "reason," since that is almost certainly emotion that drives it.
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by abtinf 8y ago
Short of launching a forensic investigation, subpoenaing records, and carefully watching you, how would the IRS know your net worth?
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by abtinf 8y ago
There is a joke here somewhere relating Apple's marketing speak and Trump's speech patterns...
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by abtinf 8y ago
True, but the GP specifically called out the difference between eps and share price of the two companies "interesting", which makes it looks like share price is an interesting number independent of the number of shares issued. It
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There are many different views here. Reasoned discussion is welcome.
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What do you think happened in Fukushima and why does it warrant calling these professors "idiots" without further explanation?
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by abtinf 8y ago
That’s a really good thing, assuming they are upfront with warnings and advice. I wish more service providers behaved similarly, especially amazon, google, and others.
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by abtinf 8y ago
I'm not an expert in this topic - I've just read a few books and shipping was covered in a few of my upper division classes. They are the most important factors in the context of reliably shipping goods from port to port. If there
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by abtinf 8y ago
Some years ago I read The Box by Marc Levinson, a history of containerized shipping. Highly recommend it. If you live in SF and have wondered about the numerous barely used piers, this book explains their history as well - and why the major
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by abtinf 8y ago
How will normal people be affected if you severely restrict the activities of those 100 companies?
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by abtinf 8y ago
Here is a good talk on how to think about three deeply connected topics that are under attack today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXiC4wqn7EU --- Free Trade, Immigration and Robots, Oh My! One of the biggest threats Amer
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by abtinf 8y ago
Is there a meaningful distinction between a browser built by an advertising company, and a browser built by another company that earns almost all of its revenue from the advertising company?
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Hadn't heard of it but it looks interesting. Send me an invite?
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> I held out the idea that the blockchain would be useful as a tool to let suppliers in Europe or China deal with large farms or groups of farms but it hasn't happened so far. This is an area of active work at IBM using the open sou
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by abtinf 8y ago
Right, but thats a manual process. The thing is, I care about a lot of the issues that come up here, and sometimes they end up really distracting me. I wish there was a feature to auto-hide everything from certain domains. That would go a r

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