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What’s Your Ideal Caffeine Fix? An Algorithm Can Tell You(wsj.com)
2 points by ddlatham 8y ago|0 comments
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by ddlatham 8y ago
That seems unfortunate for businesses like those grocery stores, and for their consumers.
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by ddlatham 8y ago
Many grocery stores offer memberships where they offer customers discounts in exchange for the customers using an ID to help the store track their purchases. Such arrangements appear to be voluntary and desirable for both consumers and sto
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People who live in small towns and rural areas are happier than everyone else(washingtonpost.com)
4 points by ddlatham 8y ago|0 comments
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by ddlatham 8y ago
Same here. I'm just thankful that the robocallers rarely leave voicemails to sort through.
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Unlocking the Business Secrets of Escape Rooms(wsj.com)
73 points by ddlatham 8y ago|61 comments
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A New Antidote for Noisy Airports: Slower Planes(wsj.com)
1 points by ddlatham 9y ago|0 comments
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by ddlatham 9y ago
It seems like this is now the middle class experiencing the same pain that gentrification inflicts on the lower class as the cost of housing continues to climb.
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by ddlatham 9y ago
Perhaps you should revise the law to just yes/no questions? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16288489 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16276911 On the other hand, even those aren't holding
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Apple Bans Net Neutrality Testing App(dslreports.com)
5 points by ddlatham 9y ago|0 comments
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In Sign of Resistance, Chinese Balk at Using Apps to Snitch on Neighbors(wsj.com)
4 points by ddlatham 9y ago|0 comments
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by ddlatham 9y ago
Many people don't care about the potential monetary value change, it's only about the character of their neighborhood that you mention. They just enjoy the way of life in a low density, single family home neighborhood - the garde
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by ddlatham 9y ago
I wish I could get a programmable e-ink display at a reasonable price, that I could mount on the wall or desk. To show quotes, photos, weather, calendar, anything that is nice to have passively updated in the environment, using low power,
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by ddlatham 9y ago
I doubt that it's that simple. For tax rules, it's likely more about the notion of when the employee has the effective right to it. If the employee has the right to it, via being able to write a letter requesting it, then it&#x2
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by ddlatham 9y ago
Besides the overall result, another fact that surprised me: The devices vary in price, but the biggest expense is the data-storage cost. In Washington, M.P.D. officers collect about a thousand hours of footage a day. About 40 percent of it
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A Test of Police Body Cameras Defies Expectations(nytimes.com)
207 points by ddlatham 9y ago|339 comments
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by ddlatham 9y ago
Indeed. Some exclusive airport lounges are overcrowded, so they are reducing the set of allowed users. Surprised to see this garner 22 votes in 30 minutes to take spot #4 on Hacker News.
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by ddlatham 9y ago
An incriminating number indeed.
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Bob Lord: What I Preached as Yahoo’s CISO(the-parallax.com)
2 points by ddlatham 9y ago|0 comments
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by ddlatham 9y ago
Great to see someone with those challenges find a way to be productive. But the article seems to disagree with the above label: "The boy didn’t show an interest at first, noted Mark, who stresses his son isn’t an 'autistic savant
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by ddlatham 9y ago
I think the point is that the answer is YES to both questions. There's enough food to be able to feed everyone, but people still die of starvation, because it's not well distributed. The other question links to http://d
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Open source licensing: What every technologist should know(opensource.com)
1 points by ddlatham 9y ago|0 comments
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by ddlatham 9y ago
However, this doesn't mean that the current courses that are being prescribed are in the sweet spot, and the article cites evidence showing that courses of certain shorter durations are just as effective as the currently prescribed l
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by ddlatham 9y ago
Gaming Services Workers
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There’s a Speeding Mass of Space Junk Orbiting Earth, Smashing into Things(wsj.com)
3 points by ddlatham 9y ago|1 comments
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by ddlatham 9y ago
Because it's not a simple problem. If you ask me for a loan, how do I know who I'm loaning the money to, who will be accountable for paying it back to me? If we have no prior relationship, then there's no pre-existing passw
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by ddlatham 9y ago
Getting married tends to increase the chance of divorce.
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by ddlatham 9y ago
Sounds like the balloons are actually not massive, but voluminous.
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by ddlatham 9y ago
Would love to see this in a single stacked chart. (Even though there can be some double counting when spending time with multiple categories).
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by ddlatham 9y ago
Is that: (hunt exclusively) for food? or hunt (exclusively for food)? I.e. do they get all of their food from hunting? (what GP asked) Or do they eat all that they hunt?

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