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by athenot 8y ago
I have mixed feelings about this, especially considering the US is the only first world country where direct-to-consumer marketing is allowed for medications. Bypassing the prescription requirement is of course of significant value to drug
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by athenot 8y ago
Conterfeit items are a problem. But even with legit items, I always check elsewhere: quite often, Amazon is not the cheapest. For items fulfilled by other vendors, I google that vendor's name, see if they have a site. Usually, even wit
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by athenot 8y ago
I wonder if this is in reaction to Europe investing €1B a few years ago. https://www.nature.com/news/europe-s-billion-euro-quantum-pr...
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by athenot 8y ago
That's an improvement from when I last checked. Though that's for the 310-mile model with premium interior, costing $49,000. That's the same price as a Lexus GS 350.
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by athenot 8y ago
As of now, yes. The 2019 Nissan LEAF is projected to have meet your range requirement. I've had the 2013 and the 2015 models, they are good cars in their own right. If they made them slightly larger (but not an SUV), I'd be gett
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by athenot 8y ago
That's an intersting point. Perhaps things would be more level if a conflict between an individual would be settled by selecting one RANDOM employee from that company (not the super ninja expert in the narrow field at hand), and have
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by athenot 8y ago
I think what's a terrible idea is pegging people to specific locations. That used to be necessary to find someone in the office but nowadays we have other tools to discover each other's locations. Instead of binding people to loca
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by athenot 8y ago
Here in the South, Kudzu is a vine that will grow about a foot a day, and engulf trees (and abandoned houses). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kudzu#/media/File:Kudzu_on_tre...
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by athenot 8y ago
The alternative from the US perspective: - About $20k/y to provide health for a family, regardless of income. Median wage is barely double that amount. So most people in that situation forego health coverage (or pick the cheapest catas
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by athenot 8y ago
Paiment in Europe is often late, from 30 to 90 days. So if relations between the contractor and the company go bad, there's quite a bit of money that can be caught up.
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by athenot 8y ago
It's not the same model. Presumably the €400 are forfeited when earing €500 as a salary. One of the premises of basic income is that working more doesn't cancel out any benefits.
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by athenot 8y ago
Agreed. Reading about their setup and comparing with some truly large scale services I work with, I'm left with the idea that Segment's service is roughly the size of one microservice on our end. Perhaps the takeaway is don't
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by athenot 8y ago
Is it really desireable to have the apogee of the sun be 12:00? Maybe yes maybe no: I don't know. Most businesses work ~3 hours in the morning and ~5 in the afternoon. From a thermal perspective, there's an inertia and an accumula
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by athenot 8y ago
A strong predictor for success I've noticed in others (and in myself) is: give a shit. I.e. deeply care about what you are working on. Some individuals care so much about the field they are in that they disregard the proxy metrics th
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by athenot 8y ago
Until the 90's the standard color for headlights in France was yellow, not white. That was so much easier on the eyes when driving at night (and also safer in foggy conditions).
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by athenot 8y ago
If I'm going to use cash, I'd rather keep loose change in the pocket and keep my wallet as thin as possible. $1 bills have a tendency of taking volume in my wallet.
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by athenot 8y ago
FWIW, the Euro is coins from €0.01 to €2, then paper from €5 to €500. I find dollar bills even more annoying than pennies.
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by athenot 8y ago
Not related. This time it's a backbone issue. We're seeing corporate users affected.
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by athenot 8y ago
Furthermore, Google insists on using the location of my VPN entrypoint onto the internet instead of my location (despite repeated attempts at telling it where I am). Apple Maps seems to get where I am regardless of the VPN.
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by athenot 8y ago
More like coerced in as—like you say—it's required to get a mortgage or for that matter buy any financial product.
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by athenot 8y ago
man pmset OK, so RTFM jokes aren't funny anymore. Specifically, what you're looking for is to change the hibernation mode. Old macos used to keep the RAM powered during sleep, so there's a slight drain on the batter
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by athenot 8y ago
There's a network of those in France, called "Day by Day". Most items are sold without packaging. Apparently they started in 2013. http://daybyday-shop.com
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by athenot 8y ago
Glass bottles can be made to be sturdy. In Germany there is a glass beverage reuse system, where the empty bottles get returned for credit, washed, refilled and relabeled. The bottles exhibit dull rings where they rub against each other in
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by athenot 8y ago
While CO₂ emission is important, this is not primary reason for banning plastic bags. It's plastic in various states of (un)decomposition all over the ecosystem. A cucumber is 100% biodegradable with no solid residue. The plastic that
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by athenot 8y ago
But how does the cost compare to a dozen hotel rooms per year?
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by athenot 8y ago
There are many different types of plastics. Some end up in nature as tiny pieces like you mention and are indeed very bad for the ecosystem. But it's also possible to set up a proper recycling & valorization system. Northern Europe
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by athenot 8y ago
If I'm not mistaken, that's how some herbicides work: by making certain parts of the plant grow faster than what the roots can deliver, thus killing the plant.
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by athenot 8y ago
There's also another sound that macs would make, in case the initial diagnostic tests came back negative, to go with the "Sad Mac" screen. My favorite is still the NuBus Power Mac one (car crash sound). https://www
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by athenot 8y ago
Yes! Technology has always been about increasing efficiency. But it's always been expensive as R&D requires wealth. It makes sense that the primary benefiters of tech are the asset class who fund them. The outcome is that there are
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by athenot 8y ago
This brings up a interesting point: cookies are not just for user/session identification. Yes that's how the majority of the apps work but instead, it's totally possible to use cookies to customize a site's experience, f

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