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by fblp 9y ago
The facts are scattered throughout the article but here's one of the more shocking: "In San Bernardino, Calif., Nestlé has long paid the U.S. Forest Service an annual rate of $524 to extract about 30 million gallons, even during d
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by fblp 9y ago
Fta: The FBI confiscated “an unusual amount of computer equipment” that Mr. Liu had brought with him, including the laptops and tablet and also two smartphones, a smartwatch, a computer thumb drive, two digital video cameras, several SIM c
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by fblp 9y ago
I wonder if Tunguz looked at B2B vs B2C trends. It seems that there's lots of B2C apps in SF that are crashing, yet many of the startups in outside SF in the valley are B2B.
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by fblp 9y ago
Zenbooth | Fulltime | Business Analyst | Berkley, CA (Bay Area) | www.zenbooth.co We're making phone booths, and we're one of the fastest growing manufacturing operations in the bay area. We're still running a lot of our ope
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by fblp 10y ago
Yes, the US does have an employer withholding system but there are so many more layers of taxes and complexity because the taxation system is less federalised. In Australia there is a single federal employment tax, and a single federal sale
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by fblp 10y ago
If you need a high limit but don't have strong credit I'd recommend the Amex gold charge card. I was getting $3-5k limits on other cards but got a 50k limit straight away with this card. It had the 3x rewards on certain categories
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by fblp 10y ago
What is it like raising kids in east bay? does anyone have experiences to share?
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by fblp 10y ago
Zenbooth | San Francisco | On-site part time or full time | Business development and Woodworkers. Zenbooth is the first company in the US that makes privacy phone booths for open offices. (See a video: https://www.youtube.com&#x2
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by fblp 10y ago
Steve - how do you feel about people taking photos or video of you?
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by fblp 10y ago
Where can I get more info on this t mobile plan?
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by fblp 10y ago
It sounds like Canada is metaphorically and literally playing with fire by turning down help because of the logistical problems. They got help fighting fires from Mexico, the US, Australia, NZ and south Africa last year [1] Here's some
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by fblp 10y ago
I'm suprised no one had mentioned instacart in this thread. Instacart has partnered with 12 grocery chains in SF. Many of them (including wholefoods) pay instacart commission and there prices are the same as in-store. With these partne
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by fblp 10y ago
I wonder if this could also be some smart accounting. The US and other countries have tax incentives that encourage R&D expenditure.
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Plane tracking system regularly failing at Sydney Airport(mobile.abc.net.au)
1 points by fblp 10y ago|0 comments
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by fblp 10y ago
I find it absurd that a central agency manages the hiring of tsa agents. In Canada and Australia the airports hire private security to do the checks. They are more competent and friendly than tsa agents. It's also not obvious how a go
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by fblp 10y ago
Driverless trucks have been operating in the mining industry in Australia for over four years. There are lots of long haul routes around the world that are almost entirely truck traffic where automation makes a lot of sense. Video showing h
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by fblp 10y ago
Hey there, the quoted sentence is not a precise interpretation of the law (albeit is is written by a regulator). You could read the law at s47 - 48 at http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/cac
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by fblp 10y ago
The numbers behind this project are quite amazing: http://www.crossrail.co.uk/news/crossrail-in-numbers
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by fblp 10y ago
Is is just me or was the authors transition from "How I got hacked by the Chinese" to "Here's some analysis of articles on Medium" kind of jolting? I would have liked to see some analysis on the prevalence of these
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by fblp 10y ago
This kind of misleading pattern is illegal in Australia and from reading other comments, probably the Europe. In Australia the full price for a product has to be displayed equally or more prominently than any other price. So that $6.93 has
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by fblp 10y ago
OP here. I live in San Francisco but am visiting Vancouver. It struck me how many of the food places I ate at were operated by a single owner. I feel this is rare in SF because of the permit requirements and high startup costs.
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Ask HN: What owner operated small businesses do you interact with frequently?
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by fblp 10y ago
After a long break from Uber I opened it up to price compare against Lyft. I switched between the two apps and then uber offered me two free rides. It seemed like it was detecting that I was hesitating to "come back" to Uber. I us
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Australia Post to trial drone delivery of online shopping(mobile.abc.net.au)
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by fblp 11y ago
Why does this line of investigation happen with British leaders but not in the US? Australia has also recently had a lot of media coverage of misuse of government benefits by political leaders. I feel that US media is awash with coverage on
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by fblp 11y ago
The Mac Pro has not been updated in 841 days (av 449) The Retina Macbook Pro has not been updated in 325 days (average 214). Although chipset cycles could be part of the delay, I wonder if virtual reality hardware and software support could
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by fblp 11y ago
I have ran connect side by side with rapportive during the beta and have not noticed any data gaps. There are other sources of data beyond linkedin.
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by fblp 11y ago
This is awesome. I hesitate to bring in a Silicon Valley cliché, but would anyone else want to subscribe to deliveries of this food?
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by fblp 11y ago
The wsj had been cranking put a lot of quality investigative journalism recently. I'm thinking of subscribing to them to support this.
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by fblp 11y ago
Zenbooth.co / San Francisco / ONSITE Looking for someone who wants to help build phone booths for companies that need more quiet spaces in their open offices. I'm building out first booths and you could help as a first emplo

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