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by dwater 5y ago
> Honest question though - but what _should_ Apple do here? I'm moving away from Apple due to this decision so i'm no fan of it.. but i also don't think it's on some corporation to spend their money to defend my freed
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by dwater 5y ago
Following the links to Hubert Horan's reports, it looks like Lyft is even worse financial shape: "Uber’s continuing operations had a GAAP net margin of negative 38% while Lyft’s was negative 49%." https://www.naked
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by dwater 5y ago
Yeah, I'm not sure I understand the "I urge you to use R first" comment in the grandparent post, because I've used both and R's tidyverse was at least as difficult to approach as pandas for me. And what's the a
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by dwater 5y ago
I worked with someone who was working 2 full time 9-5 jobs simultaneously for a few months before being found out. When the company did realize what was going on, they quietly parted ways with him without any punishment, because they didn&#
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by dwater 5y ago
This is one of those movies that's guaranteed to amaze anyone you introduce it to, and it's so little known that you have plenty of opportunities to do so. This article doesn't even mention what I thought to be the most surre
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30 years ago, maybe 90% of the products in most dollar stores were exactly $1. The rest were usually $2, $3, maybe $5, and were clearly marked so that the default was if it wasn't marked, it was $1. That is no longer the case, now they
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by dwater 5y ago
When I worked at CompUSA, our door greeter did pursue a shoplifter who pushed him down on the way out, resulting in a sprained wrist. They ended up firing him because the explicit policy was not to pursue shoplifters for the very reason tha
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by dwater 5y ago
Just to make this point explicit: Your health care does not cost $300 a month. Your employer is paying for it as well, and as ceejayoz suggested it might be $1-2k a month. Add that in to your calculations.
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by dwater 5y ago
There was a coaster at King's Dominion in Virginia called Rebel Yell (since renamed Racer 75) that ran backwards on one of the 2 tracks from 1992 to 2008. I remember it being fun but I preferred the forward facing ride. https:/&#
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by dwater 5y ago
Yes, the thing that is most likely to bite them is not legality, it's liability as a result of them paying people to do things.
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The bank makes a loan based on what they think is likely to happen in the future, and you the borrow can influence that. You can say, I'm going to buy this commercial building in the highly desirable neighborhood, which has seen contin
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by dwater 5y ago
It is a very simplistic, low-effort idea with no supporting argument. It does not take much thought to come up with reasons why society would not permit every single individual complete unrestricted domain over their property. Like, what if
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by dwater 5y ago
That does not seem like a realistic problem for very many places. If a jurisdiction contains land with so little value that it won't support the taxes required for upkeep of the jurisdiction, then the jurisdiction could dissolve. Which
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by dwater 5y ago
It just depends on the difference between what you can get today, and what you expect to get in the future and when. If you discount it to 80% today and then rent it at that rate for 10 years, you'll lose 10% compared to if you leave i
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by dwater 5y ago
The media has presented it's evidence and reasoning for why they believe the list of 50k numbers is from NSO. In the original Washington Post article, they link to the methodology used by Amnesty to determine why they concluded it&#x27
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by dwater 5y ago
There are fuel resistant rubbers available, most commonly Viton/FKM. They are commonly used in automotive applications. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FKM
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by dwater 5y ago
The DoD probably wouldn't even have to get the FTC involved (directly), they have enough leverage in CFIUS to stop it there due to fabs being Critical Technology.
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by dwater 5y ago
I have a degree in math but the first thing this headline made me thing of was still the "24 is the highest number" sketch from Mr. Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkP_OGDCLY0 Theoretical mathematics is ofte
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by dwater 5y ago
Yes, the lack of reproducibility is really Excel’s biggest weakness in data analysis. Is this 5th workbook that is a 4th generation derivation from the original data statistically valid? Can you go back to each step and verify it was valid?
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by dwater 5y ago
Yes, but they've been making continuous improvements. Every year the build quality and material quality seem to get a little better. The pre-EFI 2013 and earlier bikes had a lot of rough edges and were known for questionable alloy qual
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by dwater 5y ago
I have a modern Ural, it is more expensive and less practical than a regular motorcycle, which means you get it almost exclusively because it's weird and you are weird.
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by dwater 5y ago
Many federal contracts require naming key personnel during the bidding phase to try to minimize this. Resumes for the key personnel become part of the proposal.
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by dwater 5y ago
Like unions or not, the contracts they have were arrived at over decades of negotiations between companies and employees. So while many will bemoan that unions make it impossible to fire bad employees, the purpose of those provisions is to
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by dwater 5y ago
Your experience is not the issue I was addressing and it's not really the subject of the original article. I, and in my interpretation the article, was talking about the problem of education not providing the opportunity of success for
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by dwater 5y ago
My claim is that more of the students that attend schools in impoverished areas need significant support beyond being presented instructional content than students in affluent areas, and that when students with those high needs are concentr
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by dwater 5y ago
Yes, the problem is not school funding but school segregation. It takes more than money to help high needs students, it takes attention and support. If your child needs attention and support and they go to a school where the majority of the
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by dwater 5y ago
I’m going to need a reference to support that claim. I did some searching and the closest I could find was a 2019 Georgetown study that said it was better to be affluent and in the bottom 25% of test scores than poor and in the top 25%.
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The point of the "mad dog" approach is not to win, but to let others know you will take them down with you, with the idea being that they will do what you want out of fear.
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No. Schools benefit from economies of scale like almost everything else. If you have a school building designed for 2000 students and you have 600 attending, do you think it will be cheaper, the same, or more expensive per student to operat
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Schools are controlled primarily by state and local governments, which are not universally controlled by Democrats but split along typical red state/blue state lines: https://www.ncsl.org/research/about-state-legis

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