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by fffernan 6mo ago
Live in a neighborhood that privately installed cameras. The city also installed cameras. Before the camera's cars used to come and raid houses and worker's trucks. It was quite common. The neighborhood has statistics and trac
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by fffernan 6mo ago
Can't imagine Boston or New York doing this. In Boston the'd end up giving the fan lifetime Dunkin Donuts or something on TV and just let him walk into the park since all of the ushers probably know him already. Dodgers are real
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by fffernan 10mo ago
Seems like a pretty good investment. Leading EV company and 1tn +. Lots of white collar jobs.
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by fffernan 1y ago
Don't worry they will offer you Rivermind Plus soon to solve all the problems
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by fffernan 2y ago
Last I checked Google is not buying or pirating books for Google Search they just grab free data that has been provided.
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by fffernan 2y ago
In China they went and built a ton of housing, but then people don't want to live in those cities and their population has peaked up. So forcing housing solutions doesn't necessarily end well either.
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by fffernan 2y ago
Even better is to wear a mask (not to prevent virus from coming in that's silly air gets around it) but to keep your nasal passages moist during a high altitude flight. Japanese have known this for years and why they wear masks so muc
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by fffernan 3y ago
Happens to me all the time in Kerbal
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by fffernan 3y ago
They should have responded 10 years ago and built a reliable charging network across the globe.
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by fffernan 4y ago
Considering Inflation its actually a reduction in spending.
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by fffernan 5y ago
not to mention you can use that as a way to spy and choke your competition out when they rely on you
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by fffernan 6y ago
I'm wondering if someone could file HIPAA complaint at them and get these things classified as Medical Devices and shut this sharing of bio data down. A simple opt-out doesn't fly with HIPAA. It requires a signature that you wil
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by fffernan 6y ago
For the most part this level of microservice solves the problem of: New engineering leader comes in. New engineering Leader wants to rewrite the entire thing cause "it sucks". Business doesn't have resources to rewrite (for
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by fffernan 7y ago
I never dictate process to my teams, but then when i see them floundering around. "Maybe you should have a daily?" Then 2 weeks later "We had this great idea! We are going to meet daily!". If a manager is involved in S
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by fffernan 7y ago
Why Nerds? Let's hire people who are technically capable to do the job. The future is here. The minimum level of knowledge to be functional in society has increased. Lazy folks who don't pick up a book or take a course like to
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by fffernan 7y ago
Disagree. Plenty of perverts in many countries. Do some googling about the guys in trench coats on trains in Japan.
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by fffernan 7y ago
It's even better you can get 200mi of range in 35 minutes now with a model 3. Soon 300 miles in 15 minutes will be possible...
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by fffernan 8y ago
I call it "early adopters". This proposition basically secures guaranteed profits over 5 years. Once I saw this I did whatever I could do to buy California property. It's like a pyramid scheme, as long as people keep hittin
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by fffernan 8y ago
Strange like the government in China is subsidizing it?
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by fffernan 8y ago
You would also have to factor the amount of time spent socializing at work versus actually doing work. In Japan most of your friends are at work, and relationships are in work. Lots of coffee breaks, chatting about non work related matter
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by fffernan 8y ago
Can we add "roads worse than 3rd world countries" to the list?
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by fffernan 9y ago
Bose BT headphones have two inputs. I usually have my phone and laptop connected. It has some priority sorting order which seems to work well.
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by fffernan 9y ago
There is a big difference from being paid in USD and being paid in the equivalent of USD in Yuan. Ever try to get 1 million USD equivalent of Yuan out of China before?
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by fffernan 9y ago
Until you find out it takes 30 days for UPS to rule on a lost delivery.
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by fffernan 9y ago
Although this may be true and effective. 80% of the folks reading this are just going to use it as an excuse to be more lazy.
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by fffernan 9y ago
How about correlation between the amount of marketing dollars spent compared to the price.
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by fffernan 9y ago
And that's exactly why the foreigners get away with it. Can't follow unwritten rules you don't know.
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by fffernan 9y ago
Etsy alternative: https://www.thegrommet.com/
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by fffernan 10y ago
Line is so dominant in Japan,Taiwan,Thailand, and HongKong and kept themselves independent and hugely profitable. Kakao Talk in Korea. WeChat in China. Even in the US its going to be all SnapChat soon. Whatsapp is way way behind in feat
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by fffernan 10y ago
I'd say the Research Universities, Medical Technology, Robotics, and Travel Technology that comes out of Boston is significantly ahead of Silicon Valley. Automotive and related tech is quite small even with Tesla in the bay area. The

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