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by bb611 9y ago
Paypal was late, inconvenient, and (probably most damning) the brand became closely associated with scary things in the minds of many - freezing accounts, not giving funds to their perceived "rightful" owners, general legal troub
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The solution seems simple: "I can't, I'm busy right now." That's what people say when someone asks them to do something they don't want to, or where the cost outweighs the benefit.
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> You cannot have millions of people deciding on every issue. From a technical perspective, this is clearly untrue.
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> Any reasonably-well designed urban area is teeming with parks of all different shapes and types. In the suburbs, there may be one part per town, largely focused on ball fields, but in an urban area, there are parks all over the place.
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The scientific data on this is at best controversial, there are plenty of studies claiming the effect is real, and a bunch of counters that the data is fundamentally flawed in complex ways, and doesn't appropriately account for a lot o
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My brother-in-law works in pharma manufacturing, this stuff is really hard and it's basically impossible to create exactly identical pills, apparently in large part because the active ingredient is frequently <1% of the volume of th
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Most life insurance policies in the US do pay out for suicide, typically after 12-24 months.
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> 60M$ of _manual_ tuning before it's NOT useful Pedantic but important - the final product wasn't usable even after spending an obscene amount of money customizing it to the task
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> but I can bet no one is too happy about it when a breach of contract happens. It's very odd that you consider this a breach of contract, because these contracts are pretty heavily policed by regulators and the courts. Check every
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I think the current system actually meets your criteria for fairness quite well. First, at this point it's reasonable to expect passengers in the US to know that their booking is subject to availability in some limited number of edge c
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Yeah, I doubt the people paying $200 each way on a trans-US flight are going to hold out for $10,000. Once you're at 5-10x of your ticket price, people who actually have flexible schedules are going to be pretty interested. On most ove
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by bb611 9y ago
The offered price of the bump wasn't the only failure, or even the most important failure, in that chain of events. Note that this behavior is extremely, unbelievably rare. N=1 over hundreds of millions of flights rare. There is a lot
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There is plenty of research that holding kids back isn't actually an effective intervention, for example: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022440506... Retained students (the current te
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> Manufacturer specific computer diagnostic tools The tools themselves aren't the issue, the only thing specific to these tools is a complete mapping of proprietary error codes. If manufacturers were forced to release a list of all
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To me it appears the same group of kids is doing it, but now with college degrees. I have a friend who was a GC at 25, the main obstacle to his success was access to capital, which he achieved through a friend's father who was already
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by bb611 9y ago
> stability, no-bullshit, and good customer service I'm interning at a recently (12 months ago) acquired standout in the e-commerce provider field, and yesterday I was at a talk where the CTO/co-founder attributed their now mul
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This is common in many areas of suburban MA within 30 minutes of Boston.
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He had a clearance through a contractor to inspect welds: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/brussels-attacks... I don't know the specifics of this particular plant's security procedures, but it
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From the article in the top comment : > Elsewhere, they’ve been using cool ground water to cool some of the stations. An experiment at Victoria station was the first, as water from the River Tyburn was used to cool the air in the station
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Underground cars don't have AC/heat? At least in the US those are ubiquitous on subways
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> stifles innovation I'm really curious about this - what innovation does Arduino stifle? From my position with some school level dabbling in embedded, it seems like the industry is quite healthy and that there is a lot of innovatio
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In the US that's just statistically accurate: https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio... See pg 2
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On what planet would any company publicly release a document that creates a slam dunk civil case against them, unless required to do so by law? The goal was for Uber to get the value insight of outside counsel, not for all of us to do so. S
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Presumably she turned it down?
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A contract can already account for training costs if an employee leaves - simply have a clause indicating a charge to the employee for the company's cost of training them if they leave before [date when training is paid for by employme
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> I don't quite understand this statement. Tests are so valuable because a university degree is valuable. If there is cheating, it simply means it is too easy to cheat. The doesn't seem to be any larger issue. University degree
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The testing company used appears to be ProctorU, I've used them 4 times for my own online degree. The controls go well beyond simple camera use, they do a lot of checking for programs in the background (programatically, not manually).
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Some will, some won't. Since everyone basically agrees that Levandowski downloaded these files from google, Occam's Razor suggests that the guy who knowingly stole the files provided them along. Doesn't rule out a different s
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My reading is that all the homeland security officers can see is a flag that such a file exists - they had no way of knowing (and should have no way of knowing!) what is actually in OP's file.
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While they're punching a hole in the air, yes. Takeoff & landing in most modern commercial aircraft have some auto-throttle/auto-braking assistance, but those are still generally flown by hand on every flight. Note that the ca

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