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by jfim 6y ago
There's is actually relatively inexpensive flavored textured vegetable protein available in the stores though; soy chorizo (or soyrizo) is about the same price as meat, even though it probably has much lower sales.
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by jfim 6y ago
Some of the ballot initiatives have had deleterious effects on California. Proposition 13 putting a yearly property tax increase cap means that people who have owned property for a long time are basically not paying their fair share of loca
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by jfim 6y ago
> a FAANG as it scaled from 5k to 30k people It might be a different experience joining when the FAANG is already at 30k people though. More protobuf engineering and less "hey let's try this completely new thing."
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by jfim 6y ago
> using yesterdays soup as a base for today's soup That's not necessarily a bad thing. There is such a thing as a perpetual stew [0] in which a stew is replenished with ingredients over months or even years. [0] https:/&#
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by jfim 6y ago
Drive AI (now acquired by Apple I believe) used to have LED matrix displays that communicated that way with other road users. I recall seeing them say things like "waiting for you to cross" or "driving autonomously" with
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by jfim 6y ago
> Since Google found advertising to be a huge hose where money pours out like crazy, they're trying to find another such hose. Other than advertising, which scales like crazy and has negligible unit costs, there isn't much that
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by jfim 6y ago
A long term contract pretty much guarantees that the company will lose the institutional knowledge to run things on premises. Think about it, if the company has sysadmins that have been with the company for some years, have racked and are r
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by jfim 6y ago
You can actually buy USB number pads, and put them wherever is comfortable if you need to do lots of data entry.
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by jfim 6y ago
Interestingly enough, that's one thing that actually works well for left handed people, the numeric keypad isn't in the way using full sized keyboards. But you should've seen the incredulous look I got when I gave a USB numbe
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by jfim 6y ago
> It is hard to beat the economies of scale of a restaurant, as much as the "you only need to factor the cost of raw food" camp like to tell otherwise. From a purely economic perspective, a kitchen at home, when other sources o
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by jfim 6y ago
I'm not sure I follow you here, can you elaborate on what you mean? The New Yorker has long form articles that take longer to read than the typical daily newspaper article, sure, but I'm not sure how that makes it non finite or mo
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It's still a frustrating experience for candidates though. If you were to split the candidates into three buckets, with the first bucket being people who would never pass a FAANG interview (can't code their way out of a wet paper
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by jfim 6y ago
The difference between newspapers and internet news is that the newspaper for a given day is finite. Once one has read whatever articles they were interested in for that day, that's it. No refreshing multiple times per day, no reading
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by jfim 6y ago
Many games had special peripherals or were impractically expensive for home usage though. For example, the Neo Geo AES launched at a cost of $650 (~$1300 in today's dollars), with games costing $200 or more back then. Some versions of
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by jfim 6y ago
Just as a thing to keep in mind, if you're using Algo (or any other vpn software) with a commercial cloud provider, you'll hit more captchas and blocks than usual. For example, going to walmart.com will give a captcha page before
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by jfim 6y ago
That's how one gets year over year ad revenue growth from an audience size that grows at a smaller rate. Expect the trend to continue. They haven't started to monetize the Google assistant yet, at least from the consumer side. But
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Can it be fully run on premises? I looked at it and it seems dependent on their cloud for orchestration.
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> It really isn’t Apple’s fault if someone else is producing bad files that they happened to previously tolerate, especially if that somebody isn’t maintaining their software. It's not clear if the issue is caused by the PDF files p
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by jfim 6y ago
A large investment is quite an understatement. At say, ten million USD per kilometre (a low estimate compared to actual costs borne by France for building the TGV [0]), and a bird's eye distance of 3966 kilometres between LA and NYC [1
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by jfim 6y ago
> Air travel is easily replaceable by low-carbon alternatives that exist today. Intercontinental and cross continental travel are a bit harder to replace with low carbon alternatives. Europe has a functional high speed rail system due to
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by jfim 6y ago
Yeah there's a shower in some of the sleeper cars. It's pretty funny to use, the drain hole actually just drains on the tracks so you can see the gravel and rails pass by while taking a shower.
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It's probably easier to keep the audio and video in sync with a simple implementation. They can't really drift out of sync if all that's being one is handling one frame at a time.
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Out of curiosity, are the audio APIs any better on iOS? Core audio seemed to work pretty well the last time I used it on OS X, so I assume it does, but I'd be curious to hear your take on it.
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by jfim 6y ago
> that's exactly what the EITC does The EITC is for individuals that have low incomes, AFAIK. Can you elaborate on how the EITC would increase the amount of US manufacturing? > It's also the de facto result when a company ta
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by jfim 6y ago
It still causes confusion in areas where there is no such sign though. Can cyclists use the full lane where there is no such sign? They can, but it's not necessarily obvious.
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> Tax cuts and subsidies are equivalent. They're not. One can't cut taxes below zero, for starters. Some industries need more than just having negligible taxes to get started, especially in capital intensive businesses. Further
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> It's hard to argue that tariffs on goods from China don't make it less attractive to buy goods from China. It's true that tariffs will make buying goods from China less appealing, but if you look at the outcome, it'
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by jfim 6y ago
Pretty much all the large players in the ad industry have done shady stuff. Even big G had to settle with the DoJ a decade ago for half a billion after advertising Canadian pharmacies that sold controlled drugs to Americans.
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It's even funnier considering the machine actually has a camera built in (eg. https://youtu.be/ya_zzEMHCoc ). I believe it also has YouTube upload built it but I could be wrong on that.
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by jfim 6y ago
There are some newer cars with AEB that have pedestrian detection, though. You can watch videos of IIHS testing those features [0]. It's not a perfect solution but will automatically brake if a collision with a pedestrian (or other VRU

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