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by biot 11y ago
Thanks for looking this up. I did some research many years ago when I was in an unpleasant on-call situation (unreliable third-party dependency) and negotiated pay for it as a result. I recall seeing a $3500 daily rate figure at the time fo
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by biot 11y ago
Running background checks for a date is a thing these days? How times change...
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by biot 11y ago
That's why it's an abuse of the "number close to 50" trick. It really is meant for single digit differences from 50. The only reason it works for 75 is because hopefully 25^2 comes up often enough that people have it mem
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by biot 11y ago
You can also do this by (ab)using the "square of a number close to 50" trick. Take 57^2 for example: this is the square of 50 plus 100 times the difference of the number from 50 plus the square of the difference of the number from
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by biot 11y ago
As long as the 10-15 minute response time is within work hours, all good. For a well funded company to require that level of responsiveness outside of work hours for no additional pay is simply them taking advantage of you.
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by biot 11y ago
For those doing on-call and required to be responsive to alerts at all times during your shift, one thing to think about is your pay for this burden. Some cardiologists get over $3K/day to just be on-call (whether or not anything comes
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by biot 11y ago
How well does the voxel rendering parallelize based on number of cores? Related question: how much of the rendering is handled within the GPU?
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by biot 11y ago
The relationships (tofu, plastics) are often fairly weak, but measurable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol_A#Health_effects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytoestrogens#Effects_on_Huma...
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by biot 11y ago
It's "one fell swoop", unless you're swooping down on a billiards table, which is covered in felt.
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by biot 11y ago
I've seen various apps for that, including an enumeration of your rights by jurisdiction as to whether you're required to show an officer ID, stop & frisk laws, etc.
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by biot 11y ago
Hans island did shots first.
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by biot 11y ago
While making it to the next day may be binary, the odds of 0 coming up for the average healthy person is not 50%. Otherwise only 2% of children would live more than one week after being born.
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by biot 11y ago
Unless you need to support ancient devices, SNI SSL on Azure is $9/month.
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by biot 11y ago
Have you considered an "Ask HN" where you solicit someone who is passionate about it to take over running it?
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by biot 11y ago
You're an adult when you no longer give a shit about doing or saying things that others may think are childish. At some point you come to realize that nobody else can dictate what should or shouldn't make you happy.
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by biot 11y ago
Stating that after asking "Why would I want hunter-gatherer fitness?" (presumably a rhetorical question) implies that their understanding of hunter-gatherer fitness involved running slowly for long distances. I may be wrong but I
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by biot 11y ago
From the fine article: "Prolonged and excessive aerobic exercise efforts such as marathons, ultra-marathons, full-distance triathlons, and very-long-distance bicycle rides are inconsistent with our genetic heritage. The pa
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by biot 11y ago
By merely accessing a country-specific DNS server, Netflix will serve up the country-appropriate selection. You don't need to proxy your traffic through a VPN for this to work. There are DNS services which let you pick which country yo
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by biot 11y ago
Boston only started to unionize in 2007, for example. Prior to the labor union being formed, the taxi cartel has long had an artificially restricted monopoly on medallions, which ensures a lack of competition and discourages innovation, cau
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by biot 11y ago
Thanks for that. I knew Google has scary, massive bandwidth but didn't realize it was shared between their internal operations and their cloud platform.
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by biot 11y ago
It might even cause a news organization to write the first two sentences of its article about that.
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by biot 11y ago
Amazon AWS is 10 times bigger than the next 14 competitors combined. [0] Amazon's unused network capacity is likely far larger than any other single provider's total available capacity, possibly with the exception of Azure. If it&
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by biot 11y ago
Show HN: I asked Magic+ to build me a Magic+ clone (getyourmagic.io) With their promise of "Anything you want. Seriously." how long before we see that? :)
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by biot 11y ago
Assuming they have a +1 ... internationally available SMS number. 5 digit shortcodes aren't guaranteed to work globally.
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by biot 11y ago
Clickable: http://blog.fogus.me/2012/02/22/reading/ http://blog.fogus.me/2012/05/23/extreme-reading/
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by biot 11y ago
I'm sure people who drive after a night of heavy drinking don't like having their vehicle impounded, their license taken away, and being thrown in jail. But what do percentages or likability have to do with the application of law?
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by biot 11y ago
Years ago at work, I noticed Dell's emails had an unsubscribe link that went to a "manage account" kind of interface. The idea was you enter your email address, go to some kind of "Manage Subscriptions" page, and yo
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by biot 11y ago
Coordinating this is a hassle. With driverless cars, you could say "I need a vehicle to take me from A to B" and a vehicle just shows up, possibly with one or more passengers who were already enroute to B. It wouldn't surpris
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by biot 11y ago
Is Signal a good, generic conference? I keep getting Twilio's emails about it but have never considered going as it seems about as interesting as a Google Maps API conference, ie: only focusing on using one company's very specific
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by biot 11y ago
That of course depends on whether you consider a magnesium supplement to be "meds". If one is legitimately deficient in some micronutrient, then I hardly think ensuring one gets sufficient amount of that micronutrient to be consid

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