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by briandear 1y ago
You will get your docs checked about 10 miles inland Mexico. There you will go through customs and immigration. The border zone is treated differently in Mexico. Mexican customs is very strict: two laptops and you’re taxed 25% on the second
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by briandear 1y ago
> What ad is relevant to a Taylor Swift song? How did radio handle this for 90+ years? > This is why so much TV advertising is cars, banks, medications… No, that’s because national TV advertising is super expensive. > Does displayi
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by briandear 1y ago
> 2. Makes the rest of the internet worse (e.g. people show MORE ads because they are less effective because they show me boats and I hate boats) Back in the olden days, if you read a boat magazine, you’ll see ads for boat stuff. This wa
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by briandear 1y ago
The Old Man and the Sea especially falls into this category.
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by briandear 1y ago
Do other countries not have tariffs? Is it only when the U.S. chooses to retaliate that it enrages certain people?
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by briandear 1y ago
Is that what the average user thinks? HN has nerd bias — I bet many people here would prefer a TUI for Uber. My 65 year old aunt who doesn’t speak English very well might well prefer a graphical display of where her driver is. Plus it’s fun
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by briandear 1y ago
For real. The UX matters. Reducing the surface area for errors is also valuable. If “overbuilt” means “putting a clear UX around an important business process” then I love overbuilt. It was like that one dude on HN that criticized Dropbox b
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by briandear 1y ago
A manual review then it’ll be rejected as well. Some HR person who doesn’t know the difference between Java and JavaScript isn’t going to result in better decisions. The problem is and has always been top of funnel screening.
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by briandear 1y ago
Free apps don’t cost any “tax.” > This should be zero if there was unlimited competition or web installation Is credit card processing, billing, storage, distribution, “free?” And the 30% figure is inaccurate. Most developers don’t pay t
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by briandear 1y ago
But public funded research isn’t “free to use.” In many cases, you can’t even read it without paying a scientific journal for a subscription. See the Bayh-Dole Act as well: universities can patent discoveries from federally funded research.
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by briandear 1y ago
Generally only useful within the Apple ecosystem is definitely inaccurate. An example: https://vapor.codes/ The problem is that people only think it’s generally useful in the Apple ecosystem.
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by briandear 1y ago
I had that on my Suburban in Texas. Not sure where it is illegal, but my car had that as a dealer option.
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by briandear 1y ago
“Looking” aggressive is irrelevant.
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by briandear 1y ago
The vast majority of motorcycle crashes are due to excessive speed and inexperience of the rider. Also a car turning into the lane and failing to see the oncoming bike causes many, many accidents. I ride in Spain, and I don’t know anything
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by briandear 1y ago
Neon is awesome. I hope Databricks doesn’t brick it.
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by briandear 1y ago
I'm in Barcelona (Sabadell specifically,) and the cellular networks were down. Luckily I have a generator and Starlink.
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by briandear 1y ago
A legacy of Franco and Hitler. (Franco wanted to be on Nazi Germany's time zone.) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-24294157
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by briandear 1y ago
Can we stop with the derisive “fanboy” nonsense? Most people don’t say “FOSS” fanboy or Linux “fanboy” — but plenty of people here are exactly that. It’s a bit insulting to people that like and appreciate Mac hardware; just because you migh
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by briandear 1y ago
Except when a company like Best Buy can fire a bunch of workers and replace them with Accenture who are paying workers $40/hour while holding them hostage with the H1B. At least 20% of workers in US construction (and even higher for re
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by briandear 1y ago
Japan’s trade barriers on foreign autos have been legendary. https://www.americanautomakers.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/...
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by briandear 1y ago
> no good government like China // good government means competent government As someone that lived in China for 5 years, competent is the last adjective I’d use. Sichuan Earthquake —> https://circa.art/ai-we
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by briandear 1y ago
If anyone was attempting to overthrow anything, they would have been well armed. Not strolling around as if on a guided tour. Nobody overthrows a government by carrying protest signs. And grandmas aren’t using hanging out on the “front line
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by briandear 1y ago
You can sue the credit bureaus for inaccurate information. I did using a contingency lawyer and it worked. Depending on your actual damages, you can win significant money. The FCRA and other laws can be very powerful.
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by briandear 1y ago
> However, even if a tipped worker provides excellent service, studies have shown that certain biases can affect tipping, especially against women and women of color. Tipping creates a dining system where people of color, elders, women,
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Nature Is Taking over Vietnam's Abandoned F1 Circuit(motorsport.com)
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by briandear 1y ago
Related: 2016 thread on Hillary Clinton’s internet connected printer and her unauthorized private server containing classified information: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11782383
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by briandear 1y ago
The other interesting thing about rafter strobes is the recharge rate: I could sometimes get two shots in a row, but more than that and the flashes could keep up. So the fast motor cameras weren’t that useful because you’d only get one or t
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by briandear 1y ago
This is absolutely correct. Can confirm because I did NBA photography for many years.
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> I'd also say that the flash comment was very uninformed. In any arena/stadium that the games/matches are broadcast, they will be lit properly in order for the cameras to have a proper exposure. Absolutely incorrect. The
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by briandear 1y ago
I photographed NBA and Final Four (among other sports for Reuters, and occasionally Sports Illustrated) in the late 1990s and don’t recall their ever being 60 photographers on the court, but back in those days, we’d have film runners that w

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