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by gbronner 7y ago
I've met him and his other daughter. They are/were wonderful people. There were a lot of "solutions" using nuclear weapons looking for a problem. There was a proposal to blow a new canal through nicaragua, to blast harb
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I had a lovely strategy of signing up with the stock promoters of Vancouver and South Florida and trying to short all of it. Worked nicely until someone published a paper on returns of spam stocks, at which point it died instantly.
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Hah... The guys on the scox message board automated this pretty well; there was a user named warmcat who even opened sourced some of it. The Reddit comments usually aren't long enough to be meaningful, and I think that there are now or
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I just attended one of these. Guess we won't be having the 'best bodies in tech' competition this year. A lot of people pay their kids to take the classes. Once you've seen it once it is extremely boring. There's a
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Typically grocery stores only have a 1-2% margin, and also have significant shrink and inventory spoilage losses. Curious to see what the actual operating costs/losses of the system will be -- will people fake AMZN credentials, fill a
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Homeless people will spend a lot of it on booze and drugs instead.
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It appears to take a fairly substantial press/vacuum sealer to squash these down, get them into their plastic bag so they don't explode, and roll them into a tight cylinder. https://sleepdelivered.com/bed-in-a-box-
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by gbronner 7y ago
I had a tenant who did this to a batch of furniture. Wound up in the front yard where it got nice and wet in the rain and then froze. Made it even harder to get rid of it.
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I've bought two white cars from the southewest and used them in the northeast. One had body panels that were mostly plastic, and lasted 18 years. The other is five years old. Neither shows any sign of rust.
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Not sure why this is on the front page. Remzi is a great teacher, and the papers cover the historic approaches used to get to where we are now, but most readers will probably find a summary and survey to be a more pertinent and efficient u
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Restrictive governments in coastal cities (Boston, NY, SF, LA, now Seattle) as well as a few places where people, often retirees, are asset rich but income light (N. Arizona, S. Florida, some parts of Colorado) are limiting nationwide growt
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Color palette leans too much towards purple, and the whites are far too bright -- those people would be lucky to own two outfits, and keeping the shirts that white on a daily basis without laundry facilities would have been impossible. Not
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The headline should be amended to emphasize that de minimus and economically insignificant transactions would be exempt. I doubt compliance is high now, and the reporting burden exceeds any likely amount of races collected, especially as it
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Fundamentally it is a different employment model. The 10k fee is to inspire commitment and weed out non-serious candidates. After that, the new manager is essentially on commission. This allows CFA to find people who are ambitious irrespect
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Or they could cross reference the voter file and exclude anyone who donated to her campaign.
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Did they cite age specific death rates? Population is up 20-30%, and the population of people likely to die of alcohol poisoning much more so due to changing age structure. Additionally, we lost a generation that had memories of prohibition
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Surprised that the companies haven't either merged or coordinated to limit competition in each city. I expect that cities can support a limited number of scooter companies, but every single vc backed startup.
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"I love pie" they said as they clinked their plates together https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/mince-pie-the-real-ame... Was unaware of that particular deception, but there were so many others... entire f
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by gbronner 7y ago
The ways around it were unbelievably ingenius: "medicinal" whiskey, boats 3 miles offshore, irish rabbis who distributed sacramental wine to their "congregations", the concentrated grape extract shipped (with a packet o
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I asked a millennial why she cared so much about the free coffee, and she told me that it symbolizes the employer's 'caring' about the staff.. Personally, I'd rather earn an extra $25k and buy a few cups of coffee with i
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by gbronner 7y ago
Expect google to start "optimizing" the cafeteria soon enough.
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Private colleges increasingly practice perfect price discrimination making it an incredibly high income tax on the middle class. A small few give breaks for academically better students, or don't attempt to fully maximize their price (
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In response to #1, Manhattan real estate costs over $1k per square foot, often more. Adding a third container/bag to everyone's trash area would eat up far more capital in real estate than it would produce in income. #2: Manhatt
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An undocumented but well known side effect of the combination of curbside recycling and bottle deposits is that once the cans and bottles are placed outdoors, homeless people cut the bags open to fish out the deposit containers. This makes
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There's a tension between solving the problem perfectly and burning your first customers to gather data, fund development, and iterate. The best product startups have a both curious perfectionist scientist and a commercial sales person
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I did the Princeton version, and studied math before CS, but same idea. I spent the two years after graduation filling in gaps in my philosophy and history background. It provides a very useful intellectual framework insofar as it shows th
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The Yale Directed Studies program is no joke -- it tends to attract the most motivated humanities students and to have incredible amounts of work and reading. Impressive that he's taking it, but he's also seeing a somewhat more se
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I assume that she was an at-will employee, and this does not fall under the rubric of 'protected activities', so they can fire her for any activity.
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Almost irrespective of the website that it was triggered on, it represents a huge waste of her time, as well as that of the hapless employees forced to click through her automatically-created popups. It also weaponizes the internal browser
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Most policies don't let you reuse the last N passords (N is often 5 or 10). So standard practice is to start or end the password with a digit and increment it when you are forced to. Better yet, digits are on the top row with the sym

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