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by gok 6y ago
Not sure if the author is here, but the table-of-contents links at the top are broken (all go to the first page)
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by gok 6y ago
> In 2018, Congress asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to report within 9 months on the cost of rail – transit infrastructure projects across the United States compared to similar projects worldwide. After 16 months in July
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by gok 6y ago
Chicago sold the rights to parking fees and meter operation. Enforcement is still done by the city, and fines go to the city budget.
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by gok 6y ago
Well Saab’s fighters are also probably net profitable through exports
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by gok 6y ago
> It promises the country’s largest military expansion for 70 years In the 1960s Sweden was months from an atomic bomb and had pretty solid plans for at least 2 legs of a nuclear triad. This may be the largest expansion by expenditure bu
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Metal Enhancements for A14 Bionic(developer.apple.com)
2 points by gok 6y ago|0 comments
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by gok 6y ago
> And yet, for some people the problem with software isn’t a lack of automation but a lack of discipline. Software would be better if only people knew the rules, honoured them, and slowed themselves down so that instead of cutting corner
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by gok 6y ago
No.
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by gok 6y ago
I kind of intended to submit Ken's opinion but I see your point.
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Section 230 Explained(arstechnica.com)
183 points by gok 6y ago|264 comments
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by gok 6y ago
Well, all the recent Apple chips...
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by gok 6y ago
Let us ignore the question of whether or the story is true. Twitter and Facebook clearly think it is false.
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by gok 6y ago
It's frustrating Twitter and Facebook won't just say the truth: "This is a blatant attempt at disinformation by politicians who have repeatedly attacked our employees, and we don't want it. It's our web site, stop t
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by gok 6y ago
Many aarch64 chips have no aarch32 support for reasons like this
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by gok 6y ago
So judging by that graph, the median Finn pays way less than 1 euro per month for cell service?
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by gok 6y ago
Seems like a lot of this must be that manufacturers have decided to use paint color as a way to milk you at buy time, where fun colors often cost $2000 on options sheet, which is like pure markup.
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by gok 6y ago
The laws around this are very complicated but generally airlines are not allowed to operate flights that operate between two non-home countries unless it's part of a larger route that originates in home country. This would be called a
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by gok 6y ago
Well Concorde couldn't make it to Seattle from London, so it would have had to do like London -> New York -> (subsonically) Seattle -> Tokyo which would have been a pretty hard sell I think. Plus the Seattle -> Tokyo route
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by gok 6y ago
Both because it did not have enough range and because it went out of production before airlines in Asia, Australia, or the Americas could buy it. Air France and British Airways can not legally fly routes like Seattle -> Tokyo or Sydney -
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by gok 6y ago
Primarily they are targeting transoceanic routes. Transoceanic demand has increased substantially in recent years. Transatlantic traffic has doubled since Concorde went out of service. Transpacific travel has grown even more, and Concorde w
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Unfavorable Views of China Reach Historic Highs in Many Countries(pewresearch.org)
7 points by gok 6y ago|0 comments
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by gok 6y ago
> Canada, a country 1/10th the size of the US, brings in 300,000 new immigrants each year. The US brings in 140,000. I don't know what definition of "brings in" you are using, but around 1.1 million people obtain perm
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by gok 6y ago
It remains utterly busted that we use "poach" to mean "pay market salary to"
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by gok 6y ago
How am I supposed to buy my drugs now?!
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by gok 6y ago
> We register your phone number in our name on your behalf and keep your personal and financial data private and out of the hands of companies who would sell it to others. Presumably they have the information and will respond to a warran
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by gok 6y ago
I heard a legend of someone who, through acquisitions and lax work-from-home auditing, actually held two positions at the same employer. By working for different international subsidiaries and using different spellings of his name, he got a
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by gok 6y ago
previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15249289
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by gok 6y ago
I guess it depends what you mean by similar. Denmark has reduced per capita CO2 emissions a lot (about 40%) from 1990 to 2018. Denmark 9.8 -> 5.8 tons/person But then so has the UK: 9.7 -> 5.6 Sweden only reduced emissions about
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by gok 6y ago
70% from 1990, when Denmark was in the middle of an oil boom and got almost all its energy from fossil fuels. Emissions are down tremendously already by 2020, so this isn't as dramatic as the headline suggests.
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Max Thread Room(itjungle.com)
2 points by gok 6y ago|0 comments

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