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by giarc 6y ago
This reminds me of the story in China and their social credit score. Apparently they will show your face on a billboard if you are deliquent (one example was if you weren't paying child support). And since they can track you using yo
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by giarc 6y ago
My father worked for GM as a tool and die maker. They had a program once where employees could submit ideas for efficieny improvements and would get a reward of 10% of the savings (or something along those lines). There was some process w
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by giarc 6y ago
Becoming a verb can be hit or miss. Take for example Kleenex. If I say to you, "can you grab me a box of Kleenex at the store" you don't instinctively buy Kleenex brand, you buy whatever is on sale/stands out/is y
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by giarc 6y ago
Brian has talked about getting into flights in some capacity. I wonder if dealing with bookings is not their goal but imagine if they had Airbnb louges in major airports. Those traveling with an Airbnb stay booked could access the lounge
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by giarc 6y ago
I find many properties are posted on both sites, then it comes down to fees, for which I feel Airbnb's are much higher.
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by giarc 6y ago
Relying on tourism tax is an "eggs all in one basket" problem, as I'm sure will be seen this year. Income tax is collecting income from a wide variety of sources (people with different jobs, even if the tourism industry is a
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by giarc 6y ago
>pay 0 state income tax Do you see this as a good thing? How does your state fund itself?
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by giarc 6y ago
In a CBC article, they added the following comparable. "Four years ago, when Michael Jackson's estate sold the remaining half-share that it owned in the artist's catalogue, it fetched $750 million US." Important to note
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by giarc 6y ago
Interesting, thanks for sharing those figures.
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by giarc 6y ago
That would be the least of my concern while riding a city bus.
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by giarc 6y ago
Care to share how much it cost? I'm also surprised the players didn't just get to bring the pets on the charter plane they travel around the country on, if only for that initial move.
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by giarc 6y ago
It's crazy how much the original machines still resemble the latest models. Other than a little styling here and there, they pretty much still look like the original models.
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by giarc 6y ago
It's mentioned in the article. Mr Hutchings speculated that the monolith may have been installed by "some new wave artist", or a fan of 2001: A Space Odyssey, the 1968 film directed by Stanley Kubrick.
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by giarc 6y ago
But if subsequent plants are built with same drawings, you don't have a design engineering firm having to create that work from scratch. Should that alone not save money?
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by giarc 6y ago
Regardless of the study and how well it was conducted etc, masks have never been the panacea. Taking the phrase from the airline industry, masks are part of the 'swiss cheese' model of protection. When you stack a bunch of prote
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by giarc 6y ago
Depending on where you live or work, you might be wearing a mask and other PPE during your working hours. You wouldn't be wearing a mask or PPE during dinner (and likely any other time during the visit).
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by giarc 6y ago
I wonder if there would be any implications for travel insurance? I know you aren't covered if you travel to a country against the advice of your country (ie. travel to a place with ongoing war or conflict), would that extend to trave
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by giarc 6y ago
It's bigger than supporting her hobby. She's addicted to the phone, it's very clear, it drives her every action during the day. If her addiction was painting, and she had meltdowns from not finding her brush, or fighting wi
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by giarc 6y ago
I agree with you - when a book is down, a TV is off or a console is off, it doesn't ping you and light up to gain your attention. Sure, as kids we watched a lot of TV, but when it was time to turn it off we didn't get a sound to
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by giarc 6y ago
I suspect that partially motivated their post. Nothing wrong with that, but I'm sure they realize HN readers are likely early adopters and many may have the capital to invest.
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by giarc 6y ago
I haven't used, but I've been wanting to hear more about Spotify's new ad model. You provide the copy, they provide the voice acting and production. I figure rates are cheap as the product is new.
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by giarc 6y ago
The "wanted poster" for lack of a better term has about 6-8 pictures of him from various people. He didn't seem overly shy.
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by giarc 6y ago
This one doesn't look operational, however I could be wrong.
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by giarc 6y ago
Was that the UCP or NDP that sabotaged your company?
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by giarc 6y ago
90% of the ads I click on are when I Google a brand name and the top ad result is their page. I try to scroll down and click on the top result to avoid them having to pay but I often forget or move too fast.
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by giarc 6y ago
Likely affiliate commission for products. Many of the products are available on Amazon (or other platforms) that will share a piece of the profit if you send them customers.
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by giarc 6y ago
I stand, incredibly, corrected.
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by giarc 6y ago
I've had some start to twitch and it's usually a bad connector. When I first installed my LED lights the connectors were actually a destructive type. They would pierce the strip to make the connection. The resulted in shaky con
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by giarc 6y ago
I don't think Flappy Bird went viral as a result of a single or even multiple influencers. It seemed to spread by word-of-mouth and blew up that way.
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by giarc 6y ago
Not a text, but I highly recommend the Bland and Altman Statistics Notes in the BMJ. They are usually 1 page, easy to read explanation on a single statistic topic. Here is one on the Odds Ratio for example https://www.bmj.com&#x

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