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by cc439 8y ago
Well I'm stupid, I'll delete the comment until I can find a good source.
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by cc439 8y ago
>In only his lifetime Sweden went from having an infant mortality rate similar to that of the poorest countries today, to being one of the world leaders. This simply isn't true. Between 1900 and 1905, Sweden's infant mortality
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by cc439 8y ago
While eminent domain is the overarching legal means through which all properties are seized, there is plenty of sketchiness to be found in the process of declaring a property "blight" so that it can be seized. My city has done a g
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by cc439 8y ago
>With 200/300 you could buy a modest graphic card that could last 3 years playing top titles. As someone who has fallen out of the arms race thanks to the perfectly serviceable GTX970 I bought just a hair over years ago for ~$300, I
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by cc439 8y ago
Machine shops are very loud (plus you'd be wearing ear protection) and a lathe/mill that vibrates noticeably is either broken or incapable of performing the very task its designed for.
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by cc439 8y ago
There are untold numbers of pipeline explosions that either stay confined to local reporting or are forgotten almost immediately after they happen. Here's a severe one that happened down the street from me several years ago that never
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by cc439 8y ago
Most TPM systems work by comparing the difference in wheel speed using the ABS sensors though (lower pressure = lower diameter = higher wheel speed than the other 3 wheels = low air pressure warning).
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by cc439 8y ago
This: "I've also noticed the quality of the places I've found on AirBnB has gone down." Is the direct result of people listening to your own own advice: "Don't rent out your home if you don't want the risk
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by cc439 8y ago
I'd argue that CL actually has a fantastic UI, it presents all the information you need, and nothing you don't, in a format that is quick to read. The only feature it's missing (or was missing the last time I needed it) is a
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by cc439 8y ago
Good call with Hamilton. Although I haven't seen it and have 0 interest in seeing it, I'm not only aware of it but relatively familiar with its premise as is practically everyone in the US. That definitely fits my definition of a
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by cc439 8y ago
Here's a question: what mass media hit has taken hold in anywhere near to the same form that GoT has in the past 5 years? From my perspective, new noteworthy cultural touchstones like GoT and the Marvel Universe have ceased to exist si
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by cc439 8y ago
You and I are on much the same page, I just omitted much of that from my post to make it a more universal rejection of this trend. Your analysis is correct in that it is rapidly accelerating this process but even if it was removed, the inhe
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by cc439 8y ago
You'd think there would be a breaking point somewhere around "we could pay 25% less and still attract top talent to relocate to literally anywhere in the Western world". The cost of living in the SF bubble has long since pass
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by cc439 8y ago
How do you even recruit someone living that far away for a (relatively) low paying, low skill job? 2 hours get's you almost the entire way across the state I live in, people living that far away have often never even visited my city on
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by cc439 8y ago
That sounds ridiculous until you realize that no one is going to pay ~$100 per head every time they go out to eat on a regular basis except for those who have become so wealthy that they have lost all touch with the value of a dollar. I mak
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by cc439 8y ago
I'm honestly surprised at how much investment tech giants are pouring into 1st party tv/movie production and also by the consensus that these ventures are virtually guaranteed to succeed. From what I've observed over the past
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by cc439 8y ago
>So who are the non-competes really for then? They're for assuaging the corporate leadership that they are actually effective at managing that pesky turnover problem they've been having in a manner that doesn't require the
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by cc439 8y ago
The larger the employer, the more bureacracy is involved in the hiring process. Any non-conformance to the standardized process comes with a risk of complete process failure once a corporation reaches a certain size and begins to silo off c
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by cc439 8y ago
Personally, I see the "Escape Room" boom as something akin to the "Fondue Party" craze in the 70's. It's a fun social outing... once. Eventually there won't be enough new customers to sustain the business
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by cc439 8y ago
>I'd love to return the glass to the brewery for cleaning and reuse This is one of the few cases where glass "recycling" makes sense. Unfortunately, glass is stupid cheap in terms of base material and production process so
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by cc439 8y ago
>Growth is driven by other factors, like when a brilliant but insufferable physicist moves back home to be close to his mother [2], and is a function of individual(.) This is true in the short term as the individuals already exist and th
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by cc439 8y ago
I wasn't aware that California eliminated the cash bail shstem last year but my cursory review of its replacement leaves me thinking its lacking in its ability to both accurately identify those who pose a risk to society or a general f
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by cc439 8y ago
Reason #1 sort of invalidates Reason #2. If Google is reasonably confident that they have an unmatchable (in the short term) advantage in interpreting and monetizing your data and can also generate additional revenue by selling it to firms
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by cc439 8y ago
The transience bit is going to become a huge problem over the next decade. I've personally had 3 phone numbers since college (an out-of-state # doesn't mesh well with my career and I've moved several times) and at least one o
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by cc439 8y ago
It's a scummy business but without it bail bonds wouldn't exist, or at least be as widely available as they are today. Maybe there are better systems for ensuring compliance with orders to appesr in court than that of Bail but as
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by cc439 8y ago
>Was Sears too 'friendly' with their suppliers? Funny enough, I've heard anecdotal evidence that the complete opposite was true. This comes from work I've done with a company that engineers, tests, and certifies tools
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by cc439 8y ago
Everyone is jumping over themselves to counter everyone else's memories and theories on "how Amazon became successful" so I hate to add to the ruckus but there is one factor everyone seems to be forgetting that is crucially i
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by cc439 8y ago
>Who financed the utopian bullshit? That's not a question you can answer on the mainstream open internet these days.
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by cc439 8y ago
FAA certified mechanics and inspectors are held personally liable regardless of who they are working for and what they are working on.
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by cc439 8y ago
That's a great article even if the results were a little inconclusive due to unanticipated uncontrolled factors (bullet length). I'm just happy to see someone showing how the worlds of firearms and hobbyist hacking can fit togethe

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