bostonpete

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by bostonpete 6y ago
If that's the reason, it seems strange that they kept off of Google Play for just as long
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by bostonpete 6y ago
I didn't notice it as odd either but I think that's b/c I misread it as trembler...
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by bostonpete 6y ago
Other than the Pixel line I don't know why we'd expect Google to block this. There's already alternative app stores preloaded on many Android phones. To my mind this will be a fight against Apple
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by bostonpete 6y ago
Isn't fining a company for misleading investors a kind of strange remedy anyways? Ultimately, a big fine would end up hurting the company's investors anyways...
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by bostonpete 6y ago
So we should down-weight WSJ, NYT, and all the other sites that have paywalls?
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by bostonpete 6y ago
Like many people, I just wouldn't spend the money at $400. At $300 I'm more likely to.
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by bostonpete 6y ago
Most air travel is for a good reason, and most of it is avoidable in the current environment. There are other ways to see a grandchild or pay respects to the deceased. It sucks, but we're all in the same boat
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by bostonpete 6y ago
Where in Europe is this? We haven't seen 10% mortgage rates in the US since the 80s...
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by bostonpete 6y ago
What's the harm?
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by bostonpete 6y ago
This comment would've made more sense a decade or so ago. You say you can "never suggest we've gone too far" or "it's impossible to have this discussion with a U.S. audience" but the topics you raise have
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by bostonpete 6y ago
That's pretty cynical. Giving away your entire fortune to charity and convincing others to do the same isn't just PR, it's a genuine effort to make the world a better place. He was a cutthroat businessman and made millions at
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by bostonpete 6y ago
Perceptive Automata | Boston, MA | ONSITE + VISA Perceptive Automata is a Boston-based startup that's building models to help robots understand humans. Currently we're working with OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers, and self-driving technolo
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by bostonpete 6y ago
Given the choice between EST all the time or AST all the time I'd choose the latter, but it's still not ideal b/c it require school-kids to go to school in the dark, which is potentially more dangerous than the problem we&#x2
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by bostonpete 6y ago
What if the bank owed you $3 million to begin with?
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by bostonpete 6y ago
Why isn't it easy on Android? If you long press on any notification it gives you the option to turn off all notifications from that app...
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by bostonpete 6y ago
BMI is linearly related to weight, so for a given person, whose height is fixed, it's appropriate to think of this as the impact of weight....
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by bostonpete 6y ago
I read the comment to mean that Intel isn't worth the higher price compared to AMD these days. How does someone saying they won't buy Intel CPUs translate to a complaint that the company is setting up prices for their benefit?
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by bostonpete 6y ago
All two-stroke engines require a gasoline/oil mix, AFAIK? I've used a dozen or so lawnmowers going back 40 years and don't think I've ever used one that required a mix...
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by bostonpete 6y ago
Wait, this isn't how internet arguments work...
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by bostonpete 6y ago
Is it possible that some of that difference is due to amortization of hardware and other assets? I'm not a finance person, but I thought that those sorts of expenses show up incrementally on the books over the course of the amortizatio
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by bostonpete 6y ago
Wait, archive.org has scanned books?? I guess I'm only familiar with the archive's "Wayback Machine" -- I wasn't aware of their other offerings. This is interesting and has a pretty good interface for browsing. Even
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by bostonpete 6y ago
DMV lines were at least as bad, probably worse before the days of digital photography....
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by bostonpete 6y ago
Why not? Seems unreasonable to expect that every city can manage their own secure data store...
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by bostonpete 6y ago
Nobody said it was necessarily a good decision. They said it wasn't just the whim of some executive who thought it sounded cool.
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by bostonpete 6y ago
That seems unnecessarily contemptuous. Presumably they had some reason to use Excel? If they had Excel, they most certainly were aware of Word...
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by bostonpete 6y ago
> Advising others on surge protectors vs elevators. What does this mean...?
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by bostonpete 6y ago
Yeah, this is the issue. They're not going to catch every dirty thing extensions (perhaps unwittingly) do. If they are able to detect one or more problems with an extension, there's a good chance that there are other problems that
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by bostonpete 6y ago
Printing new money is generally understood to devalue existing money, why wouldn't the opposite be true? I don't understand your El Chapo point or know what sort of assets were confiscated. Even if it was all cash, I'm guessi
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by bostonpete 6y ago
The question was asking why some people are better at working at home than others. You seemed to answer the question "how awesome is working at home?". ;-)
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by bostonpete 6y ago
How is that operator precedence? Putting the parens around "False is False" also makes the expression True. The reason (chained comparison) is explained in the link and I don't think it amounts to operator precedence....(?)

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