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by beisner 7y ago
Not unusual for nyc
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by beisner 7y ago
Typically when you buy a large fraction of a cow, the butcher will process it into a bunch of different cuts, I.e. ribeye, flank, chuck, tenderloin, etc. the cuts are usually single-serving, except if you want to keep the tenderloin whole o
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by beisner 7y ago
Java is a fine language, and the JVM is a powerful environment that enables some really cool things - Kotlin and Scala prime among them. That said, I wouldn’t be surprised if we are past peak Java/JVM in terms of new projects and devel
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Ask HN: How do you control your diet while working at a tech company?
48 points by beisner 8y ago|64 comments
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by beisner 8y ago
1500 (out of 1600) on the SAT, 4.0 out of 4.0 grade point average (GPA), took 12 Advanced Placement (AP) courses, akin to foundational college-level courses, while in high school. Generally just getting the highest possible marks on every t
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by beisner 8y ago
From my (admittedly limited) experience with Qt, it’s an extremely powerful framework with a somewhat-steep learning curve. Dead-simple apps are dead-simple, but there’s a lot of Qt-specific stuff (I.e. QML, control paradigm, extensive libr
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by beisner 8y ago
For trips over a certain length (maybe 45min) they get more information about that kind of length
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by beisner 8y ago
I don’t think anyone is really claiming that people make all their purchases impulsively; most people probably make most of their purchases in an educated way - unless you are very wealthy, you basically have no other choice. That said, e
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by beisner 8y ago
Letting a large number of attacks slide is probably worth a piece of the ~$1 trillion private and industrial transport market.
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by beisner 8y ago
I think the distinction is that it won’t just be typical customer service, where the customer speaks with a representative who can perform sophisticated actions on a user’s account. It’ll be much more self-serve, so the set of actions a pas
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by beisner 8y ago
One major issue in electronic voting is the notion that it might enable an adversary to compromise a much larger number of votes than they would in a paper ballot system. If every state contracts a handful (some may even contract a single o
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by beisner 8y ago
In my mind, the root of the problem is that companies haven’t figured out a way (or refuse to figure out a way) to buck the 9-5pm, 5-day, butt-in-seat workday policy. At the extreme case, if people could choose exactly which hours in a week
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by beisner 8y ago
I feel a bit foolish having bought a yearly subscription in March...... But then again I have seen more than enough movies to break even on that yearly price so perhaps I was not so foolish after all!
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by beisner 8y ago
Best strategy is to shop around, many of these companies will match or exceed offers from the others, so you can get them to bid up significantly.
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by beisner 8y ago
Any given political systems works well in some cases, and poorly in others. American representative democracy works when the country is relatively unified on issues, but falls apart when the population is polarized (hence the lack of meanin
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by beisner 8y ago
One of the better ways I’ve heard is multi-member districting, where you have a slightly larger district with multiple reps (maybe 3-5 representatives) where seats are partitioned proportionately for that district. Voters vote for a party,
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by beisner 8y ago
Ephemerality is liberating. A large portion of social media use is not about exchanging information (which would be useful to persist) but about socializing. Just as you probably wouldn’t feel comfortable if every conversation you had with
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by beisner 8y ago
I'm not sure about the scooters in question, but there's a similar dockless model for bicycles in many cities in China (ofo, Mobike, etc.) and as far as I can tell the bikes there are made of components that are pretty unique to t
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by beisner 8y ago
The test is probably a routine part of an autopsy, whereas it likely wasn’t a routine part of the police response (which use visual and verbal cues to preliminarily assess inebriation).
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by beisner 8y ago
Unfortunately I think this only goes so far. You are correct that adding supply via changing zoning would definitely mitigate the effect that high-demand has on prices in the aggregate, but there are a couple issues that aren't resolve
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by beisner 8y ago
I'm curious, and maybe this is not the right forum for this kind of discussion, but it seems to me at some level there's going to be a tradeoff between the ability of current tenants to afford their current housing and newcomers t
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by beisner 8y ago
It’s a major payoff of a lot of small research advances made by Google over the last few years. In and of itself it’s not a terribly groundbreaking research result, but a bunch of parallel AI, NLP, and systems research had to go into this
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by beisner 8y ago
For a global standard, unfortunately this is a nonstarter. I personally agree that e2e encryption is the only communications policy I'll be satisfied with, but unfortunately there are MANY countries where text messaging globally is a p
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by beisner 9y ago
I mean, there's a long precedent of restricting free speech in the public interest. The classic example of shouting fire in a public theater comes to mind: the speech causes imminent danger to the theater occupants, and the courts have
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by beisner 9y ago
The first round of Chinese tariffs are a signal of intent, not really a retaliation.
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by beisner 9y ago
Facebook’s downfall as a service won’t be another social service that has the same features but is distributed/blockchain/FOSS/quantum/whatever. Facebook has an enormous amount of resources and talent that will allow the
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by beisner 9y ago
Contrary to the downvotes, I agree with this sentiment. Technically you don't even need to give 2 weeks notice at most tech firms, it's completely at-will, so you can quit any time you like. Very few people do that though, and for
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by beisner 9y ago
Of course, it was a reference to a viral video a few years back with the same title. A joke, if you will.
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by beisner 9y ago
One of the most devastating aspects of colonialism in Africa was the soil depletion caused by short-sighted colonial planters who planted resource-hungry cash crops. There are large tracts of land in various parts of Africa that once were e
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by beisner 9y ago
Solar. Freakin. Roadways.

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