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by ethbro 7y ago
Bizarre how that changes around the world. Here in the US (let's say average suburb around a moderately-sized city): Chinese: $-$$ Tex/Mex: $-$$ Indian: $-$$$ Thai: $$ Japanese: $$-$$$ Italian: $-$$$$ French: $$-$$$$ Note: Tex&#x2
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by ethbro 7y ago
Friend of a friend stumbled across a more effective method. Ask antivaxxers "What if anti-vaccine information is fake news planted by Russia to weaken our country?" (Not sure if the geopolitics play in your locale, salt to taste)
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by ethbro 7y ago
Seriously. 180 people crashed in an airliner. Even for HN, have a little compassion.
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Economies of scale will take care of price pretty quickly when there's that huge of a difference in raw material cost. Beef will never be able to optimize past feed conversion ratio. Plant-based meat still has a large chunk of the pric
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by ethbro 7y ago
I'm curious how custom-tailored the {non-meat brand} meat formulations are. I assume if you're White Castle or Burger King, you're not buying the same product that lands in grocery stores. Or maybe you are?
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by ethbro 7y ago
> This case isn't about Google making or loosing some money, Google being open or not. None of the amici care about that, the supreme court doesn't care about that. Only Google and Oracle care about that. ... I don't thi
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by ethbro 7y ago
Stopped updating it for a reason -- http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20130818120421175
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by ethbro 7y ago
IMHO, one of the biggest benefits of Microsoft's recent friendliness towards open source has been providing Google competition for mindshare. Both do amazing things with and for the open source community, but Google definitely got the
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by ethbro 7y ago
Do you have any idea how the Global Village Construction Set folks are doing? Or any other similar projects in the space? I stumbled across open source ag / construction efforts years ago, but haven't kept tabs on them since. And
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> Monotonic version numbering is the way to go, and years are the most consistent and best understood mechanism [...]. We should adopt this as an industry. Absolutely agreed. In the interest of efficiency, we should probably also trunc
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by ethbro 7y ago
If someone has worked on 20 projects, they have encountered edge cases, undocumented behavior, or incomplete implementation few enough times to believe 'it's just this framework / library / language.' When you'
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by ethbro 7y ago
NStD is something everyone in the business world (or who aspires to be) should read. The fact that much of what we say, especially in times of stress, isn't what we really care about is easy to miss in actual practice.
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by ethbro 7y ago
I guess the sole redeeming thermodynamic property of the operation would be that most seals would expand as they heated? Still, I imagine that was a "light fire, move away" procedure!
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Because some people will always want to be the best. And one of the more difficult things when you're that sort of person is finding a rewarding challenge up to your skills. Or as a president once quipped, "Why does Rice play Texa
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by ethbro 7y ago
The How I Built This podcast on Southwest [0] with Kelleher (since deceased) is an amazing episode. Both for trivia and giving context to what it takes to be successful behind the scenes. Kelleher (a lawyer by training) ran a private prac
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by ethbro 7y ago
Well, expected revenue looks a bit difference when you're leveraged to the hilt and have interest payments scheduled. My understanding is that very few airlines outright own their planes.
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by ethbro 7y ago
Point. It'd be a bit aggressive to fly trained German Shepherds in with the engineers.
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by ethbro 7y ago
I don't deal with PCI personally, so $0.02, but we're talking retail or unattended devices here. I.e. low wage, minimal training, not technically proficient users with unsupervised physical access to the machine A machine through
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by ethbro 7y ago
I would love to hear what bizarre encoding they used that resulted in 2020 being an issue. (I'm assuming these machines aren't all < year old and just break on any new year)
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by ethbro 7y ago
I searched through a few Impossible patents as a result of this thread. They've certainly got a number. As near as I can tell (not chemist), they're focusing their patents on (a) extractive methods (e.g. how to produce raw startin
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by ethbro 7y ago
Depends on the index fund. Weighting seems surprisingly important, yet almost never mentioned by index proponents. Especially as their total cap comes to represent a broader proportion of the total market.
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by ethbro 7y ago
Really? I'm not sure that narrow of a definition is the commonly used one. Wikipedia has it as even broader than my use: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color I've generally heard it as either &quot
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by ethbro 7y ago
Would love to hear an informed opinion on why meat alternatives aren't commodities. Is what the first mover brands are doing that unreproducible?
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by ethbro 7y ago
The intent was probably to expose people to prejudices they don't usually experience with their cis/white/male/wealthy selves. In which case one would have wanted to have those people roleplay as minority identities. The
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by ethbro 7y ago
That doesn't seem very related: they're parallel structures. The existence of other, non-hierarchical structures participated in by the military does not negate their efficacy in the military.
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by ethbro 7y ago
As a Linux / Windows guy, some of the metaphors are weird. But at least it's mostly consistent.
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by ethbro 7y ago
The problem of Linux DEs seems to be that they're run by UX geeks. Which makes sense. Who else would be willing to dedicate the amount of time to get them working? The downside is that utility comes in absolutely last place with UX gee
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by ethbro 7y ago
That they have many flaws does not mean that they don't have strengths. For some use cases the strengths outweigh the flaws. Combat operations are certainly such a use case.
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I guess one alternative explanation would be that it's a hard problem, and Facebook doesn't know how to solve it. Or that current efforts aren't having good results. In either case, Facebook has a financial incentive to say n
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by ethbro 7y ago
That's kind of like asking how Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn feel about intelligence services tapping internet traffic. Not very useful. A more cogent question would be "For anyone in Facebook working on this problem, do you feel like su

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