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by doktorhladnjak 6y ago
Have you seen a typical American ballot? There are many races to vote in at the national, state, and local level. Besides President, every ballot would have included house rep and 2/3 of states had a Senate race. Then add state governo
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Typedefing with iota should let the complier catch this, but it is an extra wonky step
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So true. I was nervous about not having generics in Go but haven't missed them after primarily working in it for several years. You have to stop trying to write C++ or Java or C# in Go.
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Because it adds friction to what both drivers and riders want to be an easy, smooth transaction. Sidecar tried this approach and had their lunch eaten by Uber and Lyft.
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Selling stock you own and selling stock you borrowed from somebody else with the obligation to return it at some point are pretty different
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Unquestionably? How many of those "friends" that you keep tabs on have you talked to recently? And I don't mean leaving a comment or reading about their lives. One of the most dangerous negative effects of Facebook is that it
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by doktorhladnjak 6y ago
Must be state by state. I've ordered booze through Amazon before. The white wine even came chilled!
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by doktorhladnjak 6y ago
If I want to buy items where the origin or authenticity doesn't matter and pay rock bottom prices, I can go to eBay which makes no pretense about what they have to offer. Amazon continues to pay lip service to the fakes problem but it&
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by doktorhladnjak 6y ago
I'm convinced the slower delivery options are outright lies. After I dropped Prime, I'd see the same threat of a 5-7 day delivery time for an order using free shipping but most of the time it still arrives in 2 or 3 days.
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by doktorhladnjak 6y ago
The problem is a ton of items Amazon sells aren't Prime eligible. And that seems to include any lower prices items. Then you're back to getting a cart minimum, which at that point you might as well drop Prime entirely.
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by doktorhladnjak 6y ago
I canceled Prime recently for those same reasons. A lot of items still have free shipping. Amazon will give very pessimistic delivery date estimates and try to upsell Prime at every opportunity, but packages still get here fairly quickly. M
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by doktorhladnjak 6y ago
This overlooks that roads take up space and other resources. If you build or expand a road, that's something else you can't build or expand (housing, offices, parks, schools, etc.) there. Moreover, who wants to live next to a busy
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by doktorhladnjak 6y ago
People in this bubble overestimate the popularity of anything Apple. I once had a discussion with a coworker at a major company known for its app, where I was complaining about an Android bug and he genuinely asked "does anybody even u
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by doktorhladnjak 6y ago
When I took physics in community college, we joked that we were getting a Caltech education for $13 per credit hour because the instructor would just show videos of some famous physicist lecturing there.
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Only problem is American medical students take on massive student loans while those in other countries often have their tuition subsidized by their governments. Instead of paying for medical education via taxes, we pay via employers, insura
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by doktorhladnjak 6y ago
The Temporal founders worked on AWS SWF too before building Cadence at Uber. They have a lot of experience in this area and are making the product better with each iteration no doubt. I enjoyed using Cadence at Uber and definitely sad about
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by doktorhladnjak 6y ago
$3k is just the amount you can deduct from income each year. You can carry over the rest of the loss to future years until you die (not inherited by your heirs).
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As an American who previously lived outside the US for several years, I cannot emphasize enough how deeply ingrained American Exceptionalism is throughout every aspect of American life and politics, yet how oblivious most Americans are to i
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The US does recognize certain protected origin products, just like the EU does. The lists of items aren't the same though. "Parmesan" cheese is not protected in the US but "Parmigiano-Reggiano" is.
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The California producers do have to label it as "California champagne" by law. And only those already producing "champagne" before the treaty can use the label.
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Denver gets a lot more sun
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Interestingly, in places where Uber still has up front pricing for riders, drivers are paid on time and distance. Uber is taking the risk of the estimate being too high or too low.
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It's a company that has raised hundreds of millions of dollars, has a known name, known business model and has had articles written about it. Not sure how anyone can consider it "stealth".
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If you have no other deductions, you need to max SALT at $10k and owe about $450k on a 3% mortgage before itemizing is worth it