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by alach11 4y ago
AirCover just sounds like a rebrand of their existing policy. They've always offered an "swap for similar or refund" policy when hosts cancel.
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by alach11 4y ago
There are lots of people who advance agendas (whether in the office or in the government) that they think are best for their careers. Whether they believe the agenda is right or wrong is secondary.
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by alach11 5y ago
The argument is that this exists on a spectrum. The best way to get the artists true intention is to watch a film in a well-calibrated theater. Then a high-quality Blu-ray. Web streaming involves even more compromise. We tolerate Netflix re
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by alach11 5y ago
> you only become 'slower' due to avoiding challenges This is exactly what the study disproves. It breaks out "slowness" into the multiple components. Caution is one of these.
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by alach11 5y ago
Can you say where you were seeing those prices? That's wildly different from what I see in my metro area. At my local McDonalds a Big Mac meal is $6, not $11.
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by alach11 5y ago
You use far more than that. The vast majority of water you “consume” is in the production of the food you eat, especially meat.
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by alach11 5y ago
It's nice to hear not all contests will be limited to 1000 words. Some of the most well-known sci-fi short stories are much longer than that. The Last Question clocks in at 4442 words.
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by alach11 5y ago
Why not let athletes use steroids? It's unsafe. And people might consider risking their health if they feel it could make/break their career. Better to have a strong stigma against self-experimentation to avoid that.
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by alach11 5y ago
I first encountered scripting DDOSing, rainbow tables, and other sketchy content while playing (and cheating at) RuneScape.
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by alach11 5y ago
Double up classes. You could have a 60 person class taught by one teacher, with the other acting as support.
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by alach11 5y ago
A lot more information about the case is available here [0]. The ruling is about promoting Google Shopping results above other comparison shopping websites. The fine "has been calculated on the basis of the value of Google's reven
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by alach11 5y ago
I'm reading it and it seems ridiculous to me. > It was the final step in the method of claim one – “moving said tray cart to said proximate end of said scanning device” – that was added at the PTO to overcome the examiner’s initial
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by alach11 5y ago
Why oppose it at all? Why get so hung up on the term? If anything, "accelerated learning" seems like a better term for these programs than "gifted and talented". Gifted and talented are non-specific and poorly-defined te
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by alach11 5y ago
> The only reason this person was able to get this lease is that this area is uneconomic to produce from. This is an important point. This much acreage would have cost $28 million in the Permian Basin.
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by alach11 5y ago
That seems pretty cheap. That would mean designing the SAT would cost $0.6 million. Compare that to the $640,000 million we spend per year and it seems absolutely negligible.
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by alach11 5y ago
Indeed. There are several ice houses remaining in Houston where you can find cold beer and a casual crowd. My favorite, West Alabama Ice House, opened in 1928, a couple decades before air conditioning became common.
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by alach11 5y ago
I'd much rather have an employee who will refuse to do work that is stupid than one who will do whatever is asked of them. Especially if it's something as bad as the GP example of six months of dev work to save one person-hour per
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by alach11 5y ago
Plotly exists somewhere between BI tools and full blown internal software on the continuum between Easy/Limited and Hard/Customizable. If you and I sit in a room and race to analyze a few CSVs of data, I bet I can find compelling
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by alach11 5y ago
Murder rate is arguably the most useful crime metric because it's the hardest one for politicians/police to game. Changes in enforcement can change trends for assaults and property crime, but you can't really hide bodies.
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by alach11 5y ago
Interesting. Is this also in Texas or do you live somewhere else?
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by alach11 5y ago
This is so cool! I live in Houston and make a dashboard every year to help friends/family/colleagues find comps and negotiate their property tax rates. I had thought about direct mailing out drafts of info packets to people as a s
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by alach11 5y ago
It's kind of disappointing that this looks for people drowning at the bottom of the pool. That's a much later intervention than spotting the problem while they're still struggling at the surface. Maybe that problem space wa
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by alach11 5y ago
I also think in terms of effort vs. reward, swimming is a tremendously worthwhile skill to learn. You can become reasonably competent at swimming in 40 hours. Compare that to learning a language, which can take 1000s of hours.
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by alach11 5y ago
There's a difference between research on explosives (where the scientist risks their own health) and contagious diseases (where the scientist risks everyone's health).
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by alach11 5y ago
In many communities (HN, Reddit, etc.) downvotes are ostensibly not to be used for disagreement. Forcing users to supply a reason could introduce enough friction to encourage more thoughtful usage of the downvote.
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by alach11 5y ago
> JR will make up the difference renting space at the new rail stations This is something I just don't understand about transit design in the US. Why don't we take advantage of the property value increases next to transit?
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by alach11 5y ago
The determination of whether to buy the house is based on the calculated rate of return. So even if you make a profit, if the time horizon is large you’d be better off investing that money in stocks. The UI doesn’t make that clear enough.
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by alach11 5y ago
Buying a house can have an advantage over stocks in the leverage you get with a mortgage, and in certain cases tax incentives. Whether that’s enough to compensate for the better returns of stocks is the hundred thousand dollar question.
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by alach11 5y ago
Nah this is just bad terminology on the site. I’ll fix it. In my personal situation I’m deciding between continuing to rent my apartment vs. buying a house.
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by alach11 5y ago
Would it make more sense to invert it and plot cumulative cost? Rate of return in the results is basically the opportunity cost of your increased spend on the house. That can be compared to other possible investments.

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