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by jdminhbg 6y ago
> I hate to be so blunt, but 50% of the population has IQ below 100. Nothing to me has demonstrated this more than the reaction to the pandemic. When you are so uneducated that you think a mask won’t help prevent a disease that is spread
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by jdminhbg 6y ago
There is a very good book called "The First Fossil Hunters" that deals with discovery and interpretation of fossils in antiquity. Bones of large prehistoric mammals were frequently dug up and displayed as "giants." Some
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by jdminhbg 6y ago
They controlled for demographics.
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by jdminhbg 6y ago
Android was an acquisition but I believe it was completely rebuilt at Google. Pre-iPhone, it was a Blackberryish UI.
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They invested more, which is not the same as it costing more.
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by jdminhbg 6y ago
The American train system is also drastically more expensive than the Swiss train system.
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by jdminhbg 6y ago
> What if the virus causes substantial disease burden years to decades down the road? We can't know, and should take every precaution to prevent its spread. This is the precautionary principle selectively applied, and it’s what’s so
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by jdminhbg 6y ago
I think you misread the parent. They're saying the EU and China only have a handful of companies competitive with the SV giants.
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by jdminhbg 6y ago
So real they get themselves into obvious lying situations: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/19/business/media/buzzfeed-n... Buzzfeed News doesn’t have listicles, but it doesn’t have journalistic stan
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by jdminhbg 6y ago
Love the downvotes for this. Anyone who thinks for a second that Twitter and FB have some kind of set of principles that this story and only this story have crossed is deluded.
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by jdminhbg 6y ago
Substack would serve as a billing/subscription management platform for him, not discovery.
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by jdminhbg 6y ago
The market for Levine is certainly there. He could easily clear 7 figures on Substack.
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by jdminhbg 6y ago
You can also set reader mode automatically for just certain websites instead (i.e. whitelist vs blacklist); I do this for Bloomberg, Medium, WaPo, and others.
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by jdminhbg 6y ago
This is true, but note that for a self-driving vehicle, utilization is only bounded by demand and maintenance. An Uber driver can get tired or busy with other things, but a self-driving car can go 24 hours a day minus re-fueling/chargi
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by jdminhbg 6y ago
> It didn't seem to put a whole lot of people off: we had 3.7m tourist arrivals in 2017, without supersonic jets. Our population is only 5m. I think you might underestimate how many people would visit if the long-haul flights weren
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by jdminhbg 6y ago
You could do that, but most users don't.
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> even if you knkw someone on the app, chances are good that they use a personal address that you won't have I doubt that; I bet most users use whatever Gmail/etc personal address they use for other non-work accounts.
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Right, I think the counter here is that Ruby isn’t trendier than Python is.
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by jdminhbg 6y ago
I thought of that, but if you’re wealthy enough to watch YouTube and submit PRs on GitHub, is that really that much of a reward?
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by jdminhbg 6y ago
I don’t think it would help. All of the value in Reader was its integration with the wider Google ecosystem. Just the mechanics of its RSS interface are easily copied (and have been).
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by jdminhbg 6y ago
What I don’t get is... why do this for a t-shirt? Am I missing something?
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> And tax office might be very interested at the end of the year. As long as you didn’t do anything stupid about withholding (and even then, it’s just a $ penalty you pay April 15 if you way underpaid multiple years), I don’t see why the
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by jdminhbg 6y ago
I see 12:41 pm -> 3:20 pm from Lancaster to Penn Station, which is 2:39, and Apple Maps is giving me 2:40 for the same drive, so nearly exactly the same. Of course, this is under Covid, when Amtrak is reducing service and there's fa
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by jdminhbg 6y ago
> I've taken the train from central Pennsylvania to NYC several times. It's great, but it's also a hike and not something you want to do for anything shorter than a long weekend From where in Central PA? It's definite
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by jdminhbg 6y ago
Trying to redefine the political landscape according to your niche views is really pointless. Obviously the conversation is being conducted with the understanding that the US left/right/center are the reference points. There'
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by jdminhbg 6y ago
> The real reason that sports fans should remain with their traditional bundle is the UX. With cable, if I want to flip between a dozen college football games, no prob. What's most frustrating is being able to glimpse a better futur
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by jdminhbg 6y ago
Fish has lots of Vitamin D in it.
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by jdminhbg 6y ago
> That puts a ceiling on pre-existing immunity at somewhere around 40%. Only if pre-existing immunity and sailors/passengers are evenly distributed.
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"Extra" $1000 up front. So presumably for Fitness+ you still need to buy a normal exercise bike or treadmill. Peloton's are priced higher, but the alternative isn't $0 either.
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Four year old account, 3k karma, despite the name.

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