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by froindt 9y ago
> But I see most people switching to white lists. Anyone not in your address book will get sent to voicemail right away. Imagine the future of mobile adware...where they get access to your contact list, generate generic names of similar
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> I don't see how any of that is relevant to whether one has salary or not? I suppose it's not specific to salary, more to the type of work. In the US with production workers, a salary would be quite unusual. I have friends w
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I'm all for simplification of taxes, though there will always be some degree of people evading taxes. Having no deterrent factor allows people to cut corners and not get caught. There's a good chance the waiter/waitress you
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I'm a industrial engineer and have worked at 4 factories and am familiar with far more. I don't know of a single company where production employees are paid salary. I talked with a production employee about it when starting my cu
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It's pretty typical for auto companies to shut down for ~2 weeks over the summer and in December. Ford does the same thing. It gives the companies two big windows for planned maintenance on their machinery which helps the plants run
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I have a buddy who is working on a sub. He couldn't really say what he was doing with much detail, but recommended this book. He says it contains a lot of secret info which was acquired by the author basically becoming friends with l
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There may be some other ways to link it up, at least with a degree of confidence. It really depends on what information is shared from the medical community and by the patient on Facebook. A couple points of speculation: * Facebook may poss
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Others have already talked about Blue Apron. The NPR podcast How I Build This released an episode on April 1 with the Stitch Fix founder, Katrina Lake which was quite interesting. Stitch Fix has quite a team of data scientists working on t
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Thanks. I don't follow IPO's too closely and was less than 10 for the .com bubble filled with IPO's. I'm still learning the general patterns.
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Snap is certainly fitting that pattern. Down 48% in the 13 months since IPO.
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Maybe my perception is off, but it seems like we're getting lots of tech IPO's in a relatively short time. Stitch Fix, Dropbox, Blue Apron, Snap, and Roku to name a few. For a long time we weren't seeing too many big tech IP
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>while I'm not quite a digital nomad and have never been homeless, I have moved quite a few times in the past 7 years. College is still inside my 7 year window, so I get to include 4 college addresses, 4 internship addresses, and a
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Block scheduling was absolutely amazing, and I'm so glad I had access to it. My school did "modified block" with skinny classes (40 minutes) and blocks (85 minute). The only skinny classes were math, music, and foreign langua
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Link #1 above has the breakdown by age group, by quarter, going back a number of years. It forms an interesting "fan" shape with the older generations watching more and the younger generations watching much less.
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My quick attempt. I'm sure there are better sources of this data. Let's say an average of 30 hours of consumption per week per person. [1] In a household of 4 people, that's 120 hours per week. "[Nielsen says the averag
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Google does a remarkably good job with pronunciation. I'm consistently impressed by it. I was messing around with the ancient VBA text to speech system. If most TTS systems sucked as much as that one, you could also make a SAAS busines
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I don't believe it's automatic. I had 2 512 mb servers and 1 GB server going and none had increased specs automatically.
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DO recently upped their specs. Now you get 1 GB ram for $5/month, which are the specs of their previous $10/month tier. I'm going through this weekend and switching my $10 instance to a $5.
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Hrm...yep...you're right. I read the first comment and could have sworn the quote from the article said milliliter. My eyes are playing tricks on me!
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They're measuring in a volumetric unit, and you switched it to a linear unit. They're using milli liters not millimeters. 1 milliliter = 1 cm^3 237 ml = 1 cup EDIT: Nevermind regarding the unit confusion. I'm still learnin
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Previously if compliance exports were turned off, then later turned on, users would receive a notification that all future DM's would be available for export by their employer. My understanding is that now the entire archive is readily
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No they don't, but I work at a large megacorp. At a small 10-20 person non-technology company startup, the admin on Slack is likely to be the owner or general manager. It could be another 5-10 people before a person is hired on as fu
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I think there's some middle ground, some grey area where whether it's alright is murky. It's kind of pulling the rug out from under people when the policy of a 3rd party provider abruptly changes and suddenly tons of message
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While I was in school from 2011-2015 I noticed the GPA requirements seemed to drop significantly! Cat, John Deere, and Boeing all had 3.5+ requirements when I started. Last I heard, John Deere was at 2.8, and the others dropped as well.
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To all the people I argued with online a couple months ago, looks like the executive compensation the board approved won't really matter. Everyone was up in arms about the money that the new executives could make, which was good money,
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Thank you for being so open about the operations at Backblaze. It's really refreshing to see some considerations that go into making decisions like this. It's very easy for people who have little to no expertise in a domain go on
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I've done some work cleaning up documents for use by a blind student. OCR starts to fail really badly when math is involved. Common errors like O versus 0, any accents or additions to characters, small formulas embedded in sentences, g
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> This would be great for blind people, as pdfed latex is extremely non-accessable, and I have to email authors of papers to get the original latex from them, which is often lost. Many years ago I "translated" course materials
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I'm admittedly not up on rebalancing policies. With a fund of highly volatile assets, would rebalancing more frequently be necessary? I'm not thinking daily, but perhaps every month or so?
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> Truck companies avoid this kind of thing because it's expensive to maintain pools of short-haul drivers at either end of the transport link. If you are willing to assume those costs/risks, you can already send freight by rail

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