briankelly

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by briankelly 8y ago
There's Cargill and Louis Dreyfus, which control a large amount of the global agriculture trade (and 1/4 of the main cast of Seinfeld ;) - and there's not a whole lot of insight into at least Cargill.
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by briankelly 8y ago
There's a nice series of articles on this here: http://www.ilikebigbits.com/2014_04_21_myth_of_ram_1.html
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by briankelly 8y ago
I now read articles by skipping paragraphs 1 & 2, skimming 3, 4 & 5 for the scraps of necessary intro, reading 6 & 7 for the actual (hopefully) new information, and maybe skim the rest for the odd nugget that fell through. I can
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by briankelly 8y ago
I've been getting spam emails from MidwayUSA, a online gun retailer, despite that I never visited their website, or anything related to guns, and their unsubscribe process is completely non-functional. I was forwarding their emails to
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by briankelly 8y ago
Urban revival and gentrification are pretty recent compared to decades of white flight.
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by briankelly 8y ago
Anti-automobile policies need to be careful to accommodate the disabled but it's unfair to label them as "exclusionary" compared to the racist and classist history of automobile adoption and according public infrastructure s
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by briankelly 8y ago
You're right, there is this other side to the coin. I'm also not aware of research studying these high order effects. I wonder if you could apply the approach from the book Growing Artificial Societies, which is basically generati
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by briankelly 8y ago
Agreed, even from the costs we can easily calculate it's obviously a massive drag on our economy, let alone the negative (in my opinion) effects on our culture. I think future generations will look on this America like we look at Easte
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by briankelly 8y ago
I don't think you should get down voted. I spent $60 and listened a little under 600 hours on Spotify in 2018. I understand the reasoning, but time spent is not really a great measurement of value. I probably spent hundreds of hours on
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by briankelly 8y ago
Sorry to be inflammatory but in what world is Austin, TX considered East Coast?
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by briankelly 8y ago
Right, but both the title and the body of the article use the unambiguous "most massive" not "largest."
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by briankelly 8y ago
In this case, the title is exact in a subtle way: Pando is the largest known organism by mass, but there are only estimates on the mass of the fungal colony.
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by briankelly 8y ago
This looks like a worse version of a teardrop trailer. There are many DIY guides and templates available on how to build a them, like this one: https://www.instructables.com/id/Teardrop-Trailer/
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by briankelly 8y ago
Rumors? Just about every Google search I make brings back a carousel with exclusively AMP near or at the top. It's absolutely prioritized.
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by briankelly 8y ago
According to my friend from there, the DIY scene has migrated to the areas north of Seattle proper. I don't remember any specific places unfortunately.
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by briankelly 8y ago
I think a lot of it needs to be remastered for digital, she might mean that.
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by briankelly 8y ago
I've learned that storage is rarely the issue - they do this to reduce boarding time to stay on schedule. I often board later in the line and there is still plenty of space. Really they should just ban carry-on rollers for non-elderly,
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by briankelly 8y ago
But the parent said "bag of parts" which implies only the cost of materials, not the full per-car cost of production, and I can't tell if that also includes things like R&D, marketing, insurance, etc.
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by briankelly 8y ago
They were partnered with Sprint, clearly it just wasn't enough. I think they simply weren't different enough to convince people to leave the more trusted brands. Smart phones have reached that stage of maturity where the new gener
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by briankelly 9y ago
I don't think that is the consensus at all. Many were/are pulling for the corporate death penalty for Equifax on here.
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by briankelly 9y ago
Another equally valid title would be "Americans are less entitled to the wealth of others," and a better title would've pointed out "compared to Germans." This is article is just click-baity and the central point is
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by briankelly 9y ago
We bought in hard into this myth that the service-based economy is the next evolutionary step above the manufacturing economy. So we sold our industries to Asia for cheap cash and cheap consumables, completely kicking out our foundation fro
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by briankelly 9y ago
Does the relisting fit into that scheme (other than indicating that it failed)?
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by briankelly 9y ago
I thought about trying that; good to know that it can work, thank you.
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by briankelly 9y ago
I was searching for a copy of an out-of-print book that I wanted to read but all were $150+, which was more than I wanted to pay. Somehow I stumbled on an eBay link that had the book for ~$40, but the item was removed yet not sold. I clicke
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by briankelly 9y ago
> idea of a blockchain as a way for non-trusting parties to quickly and easily agree on truth Truth of what exactly? It would seem like many useful applications require off-chain oracles which completely subvert the point of the block ch
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by briankelly 9y ago
That seems backwards to me - AST-aware editing is basically embedding more of the compiler into the editor. It seems more valuable to me to be writing in a language that can express higher level concepts with lesser boilerplate, which would
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by briankelly 9y ago
Fair enough but I still think avoiding those libraries is very doable. Personally I used play-json without the rest of the play framework and it is robust and easy to grok.
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by briankelly 9y ago
I haven't tried Clojure yet, but compared to Common Lisp, Scala let's you ease into the advanced features but lisps demand an immediate shift in thinking. You can basically write Java with Scala without much friction.
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by briankelly 9y ago
Isn't that the whole point of the Erlang/Elixir/OTP actor model and BEAM VM? It seems like many systems with microservice architecture are reinventing that wheel only worse - except in the cases where the system needs to use

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