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by jfim 4y ago
Until some PM says "why do we have both images, our data shows that 99.5% of users don't use the raw image, let's remove that feature."
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What's POD in this context?
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Do you mind elaborating on the "overcharging for games" part? Console games in the 80s were about $45, so games today are actually cheaper if inflation is taken into account.
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The ship has to return, empty or not. If the shipping company can recoup some of those costs (labor, fuel, insurance, etc.) by selling the otherwise empty space to someone who sells bottled island water, it's a net gain for both the sh
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Fiji imports more goods than it exports. As such, ships that bring goods to the islands come in full but leave without a full load. Carrying water, while it seems silly, is a use of that empty capacity.
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It's pretty unlikely, considering it's low calorie and high volume.
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The front page ideally would only have links to upvote, read the story, and read the comments for each story, at least on mobile. Having big targets for sausage fingers on small touch screens would be even better. It's too easy to tap
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> BTW, am I the only one who bought a Google Home speaker [...] and had it literally lose features a year after I bought it There are tons of other features that are rotting on Google home/assistant. It used to be that one could set
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by jfim 4y ago
> Argo AI ran out of money, no-one else was willing to put more money in so Argo AI had to shut down. For those interested, there are a few more details about that in this Bloomberg article: https://archive.ph/ipQqz
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by jfim 4y ago
An employee whose store closes goes from $n income to 0, while Starbucks goes from $x to (34999/35000)x.
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The finance industry does garden leave for example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_leave
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For those of us who never heard of "face aware liquify," it's apparently a tool in Photoshop that allows manipulating faces with some sliders. Here's a Photoshop tutorial with animations that show what it can do: https:
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by jfim 4y ago
Dance dance revolution is coming up on its 25th year.
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Menlo Park. The Sun Microsystems offices where the Facebook campus is at also used to be MPK1-MPK19.
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The US is more litigious than many countries. For example, on page 5 of this paper ( http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/olin_center/papers/pdf/R... ), one can see that the US has over 2x the number of law
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The second best thing after the scenery is the spotty cellphone reception, so the only thing to do is to look at the amazing scenery through the window instead of scrolling mindlessly on social media.
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Hopefully at some point they'll be desperate enough to install walls and doors so that we can focus on work instead of being stuck in an open plan developer ranch.
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Not knowing anything about vegan cheeses, are there options that would be something similar to say brie, camembert, emmental, fontina, gruyère, havarti, manchego, parmigiano reggiano, or roquefort?
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by jfim 4y ago
Part of the home ec curriculum (at least when I took it a long time ago) is personal finances; one thing that we learned in high school (before being able to get a credit card) was that carrying a balance on a credit card is really expensiv
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It's a way to avoid taxes. The company writes it off as a business expense, while it is considered a qualified fringe benefit (non taxable) for the employee. Furthermore, many of the tech campuses in the south bay don't have enoug
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Thought the same thing. I got the notification and deleted my account. It's pretty funny too, since someone asked me to Paypal them some money shortly after. As I didn't have an account anymore, we used Zelle instead. I guess some
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by jfim 4y ago
For general development not that much, but for cutting edge machine learning research, it would be a pretty significant hit.
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There's this app for Android that's similar to the idea you mentioned. When you want to focus, you plant a tree in the app, and if you leave the app (eg. to browse the internet or check social media), the tree dies. If you focus f
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by jfim 4y ago
That really depends on the industry. If your idea of tech is web apps and mobile apps, then yeah, most candidates would do the job. If you're working on cutting edge technology, then finding ten adequate candidates is actually pretty t
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It's almost as if the RATP doesn't want tourists to use it though. From their website on the pass ( https://www.ratp.fr/en/titres-et-tarifs/passe-navigo-easy ) > Do you want to take trips on the metro,
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Oddly, none of the floorplans offered have bathtubs.
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Double tapping the power button on Android has been the shortcut to open the camera for quite a long time. It should work on the Pixel 3.
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What does decentralized mean in the context of a sport? Does it mean having more than one governing body for the sport?
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That has happened already, although for human driven vehicles. Yandex taxi was hacked earlier this year and all taxis were made to go to a certain location, causing massive traffic jams. In practice, if companies have these kinds of issues
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I'd assume that the cars see significantly more utilization than a normal passenger vehicle. An autonomous vehicle doesn't have a driver that gets tired, so in theory it's possible to operate it 24x7, minus the downtime for r

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