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by et-al 6y ago
Turkey is a secular country. Atatürk did much to westernise his country. I find religious conservatism in many countries to coincide more with a family's economic status.
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by et-al 6y ago
> If a user provides a time of 11/7/2021 1:50 AM America/New_York, how does the library determine if it's a -5 or -4 offset given that's when daylight savings time ends? Edit: I originally misunderstood your qu
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by et-al 6y ago
When doing the right thing takes more work than the current situation, people are probably going to do nothing as long as it's not too uncomfortable. It's akin to canceling subscriptions. I lazily left my 401k at my previous job &
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by et-al 6y ago
There's 18F for the US government, but unfortunately they're limited by government salary caps and other policies.
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by et-al 6y ago
Usually government agencies write the contracts in a way that prevents other parties from bidding to streamline the procurement process. Now what I don't understand, is why wasn't the contract written so the state could refuse bro
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by et-al 6y ago
Repressive authorities probably don't view Better Call Saul as a threat to their authority as much as citizens actively sharing difficult truths, organizing protests, and communicating with the outside world. (I'm aware of Radio
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by et-al 6y ago
And keep in mind last week Mike Pompous of the State Department released a memo on forming a closer relationship with Taiwan [0]. The Trump administration is stoking the flames against the mainland China on their way out. [0] - https:&#x2F
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by et-al 6y ago
I know you're being facetious, but any SOC2 audit would overlook this because they're just going down a checklist making sure specific controls are in place and not actually probing for the various possibilities to bypass these co
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by et-al 6y ago
Thanks. I had briefly thought "what if we just tax second homes at market rate?" But quickly realized the loophole of creating a company/trust per property. Have you come across any good articles showing the breakdown of land
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by et-al 6y ago
> The idea that Prop 13 protects people from being taxed out of their hugely inflating financial asset is somewhat preposterous on its face. It mostly protects large landholders, and gives a tiny tiny benefit to the people that we are c
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by et-al 6y ago
Unfortunately, it's packaged as part of an omnibus bill. Basically some congresspeople wanted to pass the $600 stimulus check, and others bundled on the CASE Act with it. And this will pass because anyone opposing it "doesn't
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by et-al 6y ago
It begs the question why. This may lead to a huge side debate, but for a lot of mechanics, the frame is actually the boring part of a bicycle build. Sure it's the centerpiece. Sure does it plane? But there's already a plethora of
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by et-al 6y ago
RIP Harold Budd, one of Eno's contemporaries. https://www.npr.org/2020/12/10/944962303/harold-budds-music-...
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by et-al 6y ago
Bike commuter here. The reason why I sometimes treat traffic lights as stop signs is because I'm worried the driver coming up to the red light might be distracted by their phone and run right into me. This has happened to two of my fri
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by et-al 6y ago
To spell it out for those in the back: reducing tax rates reduces the government's ability to fund public projects. i.e. roads, schools, and safety nets like food banks. Also, the responsibility of feeding children has fallen upon sc
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by et-al 6y ago
You're right, Mapbox does claim to search for businesses. If you're sticking with Mapbox, you'd probably need to a two-step lookup to obtain some useful results. 1. If there's no street address, check the search string t
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by et-al 6y ago
afaik, Mapbox's geocoding service was never meant to provide the lng,lat of retail entities. Looking over their API docs, you can search for points of interest (POI), but that's it: https://docs.mapbox.com/api&#x2F
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by et-al 6y ago
Since GDPR came out, the two companies I worked at have been more cognisant about how we stored user data for EU customers (e.g. making more fields optional, giving user deletion options). And we also undertook a review of how we stored dat
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by et-al 6y ago
It's official today, but the rumor of Uber selling ATG was already known: https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/13/uber-in-talks-to-sell-atg-...
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by et-al 6y ago
Don't know if you've heard of Paul Piff, but he did a study about the empathy gap caused by wealth: https://www.npr.org/2014/04/04/295360962/does-money-make-you... https://www.youtub
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by et-al 6y ago
I'm curious what you think is the difference between Japan's response to growth versus other places. Given the fact that Japan zones on a federal vs local level, this already reduces the potential of NIMBYists blocking new develop
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by et-al 6y ago
Places like Japan have negative birthrates and restrictive immigration policies. NIMBYism is a reaction to a sudden influx of newcomers to an area. As such, hot remote work spots like Bend, OR are very likely experiencing a similar NIMBYist
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by et-al 6y ago
I wonder how many management consultants HP has hired versus Brother to increase their quarterly revenues, etc.
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by et-al 6y ago
As rkv said, that's a list built in React. The elements (store locations) in the list are filtered by what's in the map's viewport. There are also mouse event handlers on the list and on the map which trigger interactions bet
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by et-al 6y ago
The most basic version of this would be an Google Maps embed, but you'll quickly run into styling and interaction limitations. Not the author, but McBroken looks to be built with Mapbox's Javascript library, so you'll need to
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by et-al 6y ago
And probably something like 90% of people who die in automobile crashes always wear seatbelts.
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by et-al 6y ago
Ventile, long staple cotton, works by absorbing and swelling with water; "closing" the weave and preventing further water from getting in. However, the inner surface of the fabric is still wet, so your clothes underneath the jacke
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by et-al 6y ago
Gore-Tex is not meant to insulate unless you're talking about just the bare skin feel against the inside of the jacket. Some Gore-Tex jackets had a mesh liner which helps alleviate that cold surface feeling (and protect the teflon laye
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by et-al 6y ago
They did not know for certain that the route out with the RAV4 was a dead end. And the folks who were going in the opposite direction, with arguably better local information, ended up not having to shelter in a "freaking lake".
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by et-al 6y ago
Leaving a perfectly fine RAV4 and attempting to hoof 13 miles to another car is a really poor decision.

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