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by jbob2000 7y ago
Not just twitter, but Reuters. You'd be surprised how little actual journalism is done. Like 90% of what you hear and read comes from one or two organizations who operate as the primary sources.
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That sounds like a smart way to engineer homes in flood prone areas.
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Shoreline erosion is already concern for any waterfront property, and there are already devastating hurricanes and weather events they have to prepare for. From what I've seen, the owners of these properties are up to speed on the chal
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Well, that’s the end of .org. Private equity just wants to collect rent, they’ll raise prices year after year just because .
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by jbob2000 7y ago
There’s a limit on the number of books in a library, but the internet has allowed information to replicate as needed. I don’t need to wait a week for someone to return the Car Maintenance for Dummies book, the internet let’s me get the info
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Javascript is a functional programming language. Bash is a scripting language, perhaps you’re confused.
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Rust came out in 2010, of course it’s not going to have the same numbers as one released in 1985.
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Your argument works at small scales. My company is working with a vendor who quoted us $10mil for an e-commerce solution. Our execs are now toying with the idea of upgrading our existing solution with a few in-house additions, which might t
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by jbob2000 7y ago
Java was a one size fits all language. Nobody wants that anymore. I work for a bank, most of our applications are in Java, but like 90% of these programs are very rudimentary transactional applications: take this piece of data and send it o
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I call what you’re describing “information asymmetry”; a small amount of people holding all of the information. Much of our society’s modes of productivity depend on many people not having access to information. How can you repair your car
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by jbob2000 7y ago
It’s straightforward and quick to write a promise wrapper on callbacks. If one of the goals of the project is interoperability, then it makes sense to leave async/promise implementations to the user.
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IKEA, Bed Bath and Beyond, Winners, Homesense, Home Depot, Home Hardware, Best Buy, Leon’s, The Brick, The Bay, Jysk... I could go on and on and on. Sears has so much competition that there’s literally no reason to ever go there unless it’s
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> Sears said its owners have been “working hard to position... for success by focusing on our competitive strengths and pruning operations that have struggled due to increased competition and other factors.” Strengths? What strengths? Un
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Yeah she jumped out to me as the exception. I don’t really think she represents “fitness” in the eyes of the consumer though, she’s more of a “power and determination” person. Her sponsors are a bank, Gatorade, and a sporting goods company.
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by jbob2000 7y ago
She thought she was joining Nike to be an athlete, but she was really joining to sell shoes. Can’t have a thick muscular woman as a poster girl, that won’t sell shoes! Edit: It’s sarcasm. Clearly Nike doesn’t actually care about athletic ab
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by jbob2000 7y ago
Ok there’s Voter ID, as in a special card that you must get in order to vote, and voter ID, which is just a collection of various forms of identification that the government respects for the purposes of voting. I was referring to the latter
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It's not that voter ID is controversial, it's that the Republicans make it really difficult to get ID in their states. Canada makes it easy to get ID, we don't de-fund our government offices to make it difficult to get regist
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by jbob2000 7y ago
My comment was a bit wrong, I should have said that he found value in another market; krispy kreme was serving one market, where the donuts were valued at X. But this guy found the student market, where donuts were valued at x+n.
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by jbob2000 7y ago
Are you serious? Israel has the US Government by the balls. The first thing the Republicans did when Trump got elected was to move the US embassy to Jerusalem. They didn't even skip a beat, it was one of the first things they did (Spea
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by jbob2000 7y ago
The practice that this student engaged in is called “arbitrage” - taking a thing that is undervalued and finding its true value. Kristy Kreme undervalued their product, which made it ripe for arbitrage. If not this student, it would have be
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We gutted most of their plan: > restricting development to the 12-acre Quayside plot, acknowledging that an outside developer will have to be chosen to build the infrastructure, abandoning a transit line as a precondition and handing ove
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This is why we've turned Facebook and Twitter into political machines. You are blaming the social media companies for enabling slavery. Slavery existed long before the internet, removing it from the internet just means it goes back to
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How is git overkill? Perhaps you're conflating Git and Github? Or perhaps you're confusing git best practices or methodologies with git functionality? Git costs nothing to use, you add it to a project and then it sits there until
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Yup, that's fine. Those doctors have nowhere else to go, every other country has public healthcare, where their salaries are much less inflated. The over-payment of doctors in the US has caused huge healthcare brain drains in other dev
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> They do not think about which hypotheses are promising because their education has not taught them to do so. Yes! Thank you! Are the days of Rationalism behind us? Everyone these days seems focused on trying to prove if the sun will ri
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by jbob2000 7y ago
That’s what I’m saying! I must have really hit a sour nerve, my comment was apparently so bad that it got flagged and my post history was torn through to add tons of downvotes.
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Air travel. Depending on the route, it's down to about $1.30 per minute of flight time.
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His point is that none of those things actually tell you about the class, it’s just theater. If you want to know what it really does, you need to look at the source code, that’s where the truth lies.
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The autoclave won’t protect you from prion disease. Have fun with that next time you’re at the dentist, optometrist, walk-in, and yes, the barber.
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Unless you’re going to sketchy back alley barber shops where they’re regularly cutting you with infected blades, you’re probably fine. It’s not as easy to transmit as you may think. Did you know there’s only a 25% chance a pregnant woman wi

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