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by jogjayr 10y ago
> They are heavy because they need to be extremely sturdy. That makes sense. > That said, weight isn't too much of a problem. This I would dispute. The way I see it there are two main consumers of bikeshares in the beginning (bef
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by jogjayr 10y ago
They used to have these on the Georgia Tech campus. The company was called viaCycle[1]; IIRC they have now shut down. I borrowed one of the bikes once. Because all the tracking infrastructure and battery for the electronics were all on the
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by jogjayr 10y ago
Charge the laptop at the coffee shop. Or charge it up to full before leaving home for work; you're unlikely to run out working for an hour-long lunch.
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by jogjayr 10y ago
Drive to a coffee shop for lunch and work there?
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by jogjayr 10y ago
> It is up for debate how much the rocket sent to Mars has given back on the investment ISRO actually has a commercial satellite launching arm that does make money. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antrix_Corporation
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by jogjayr 10y ago
I once froze on a warm-up Fizzbuzz. Actually it was even simpler than a Fizzbuzz: print all the elements in a list. Freezing can happen to anyone on any problem.
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by jogjayr 10y ago
> The government needs to change education to a protected status, like gender, religion, etc Protected classes are usually characteristics that people cannot change (eg. race, ethnicity, disability) or that it would be unconstitutional t
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by jogjayr 10y ago
There's an argument to be made that people who are healthier throughout their lives will be able to have a higher quality of life, and need less care, well into old age. So even if they live longer it might not cost as much in old age
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by jogjayr 10y ago
Not to mention that all the additional biking will improve people's health, thereby reducing the costs (and emissions) of healthcare and medication.
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by jogjayr 10y ago
That would be justified and consistent if they blocked visitors with adblockers, which they do not.
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by jogjayr 10y ago
Why can't they just turn off ads for UK visitors?
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by jogjayr 10y ago
Thanks. I guess that's a no for me then. Point 1 is never an issue for me: turn the heat up to medium (or full, if you're in a hurry) until the pressure release "whistle" blows a couple of times, then turn it off. And wh
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by jogjayr 10y ago
> While it's may be good politics not to question the $138k a year salary paid to a Facebook employee, I hope that here on HN we can agree that $138k isn't a remarkable salary for highly skilled, critical technology worker in S
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by jogjayr 10y ago
If you already have a pressure cooker which you are happy to use, and are content with making soups in a soup pot, are there any advantages to buying an Instant Pot?
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by jogjayr 10y ago
Stock options and private stock are taken in the hope that they'll be worth something someday, not because they're necessarily worth anything at present. It's all well and good to say "X is the fair market value of this
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by jogjayr 10y ago
Serious question: why does the IRS insist on valuing private company stock on the basis of a 409a valuation without taking into account whether a market for it even exists? The 409a is paid for by the company which (as the article mentioned
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by jogjayr 10y ago
> but if I was to move there I would actually not prefer one of the mega cities like Delhi or Mumbai just because of how polluted they are I feel you. I grew up in Mumbai but I don't live there at present. The pollution seems to be
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by jogjayr 10y ago
> It can be $50k in India Errm...no. Using the 4% rule, that works out to living on $2k/yr. It's not going to be a comfortable life and definitely not in any of the larger cities or towns. Which is where you'd want to be i
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by jogjayr 10y ago
It's a bit illogical though. All of us owe our current prosperity and standard of living due to people in the past finding cheaper ways to do things.
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by jogjayr 10y ago
> Science is never cheap I mean we got penicillin from moldy bread. "Never" is a strong word. EDIT: It was from a moldy petri dish. The basic point still stands.
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by jogjayr 10y ago
Thanks again!
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by jogjayr 10y ago
Thanks, that video was pretty good and helped me understand buffers. If you'll indulge me a bit more though, why does Vim warn you while switching out of an unsaved buffer (and make you use !) if it's still going to keep your chan
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by jogjayr 10y ago
> vim mode in emacs My reply was in context of that; since I have never used emacs, it wasn't immediately apparent to me what spacemacs might be like. I will, of course, Google spacemacs. :-) thanks for the tip
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by jogjayr 10y ago
I've never used emacs, so it's not immediately obvious to me how that's better. I'll give it a shot though, thanks for the recommendation.
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by jogjayr 10y ago
> I have been using pathogen since I started using vim Thanks for the recommendation. The trouble (and again, maybe this is down to my lack of research) is that other commenters will recommend Vundle with links to similar resources (and
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by jogjayr 10y ago
I can't claim to have ever "tried" to get into vim - in the sense of ditching my daily driver (Sublime/VS Code) and going 100% vim. I've done the vimtutor, I even know how to do basic text editing (cut, copy, paste,
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by jogjayr 10y ago
Like other replies said, VS Code is nothing like VS. I've been a dedicated Sublime Text user for years (wary of IDEs like you) but VS code kicks ST2/3's butt for Typescript development.
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by jogjayr 10y ago
You're right, native allies were important for the eventual conquest of the Incas. I was referencing the key Battle of Cajamarca where ~160 Spaniards slaughtered thousands of Incas ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba
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by jogjayr 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Menzies#1421:_The_Year_C... I'd never heard of this book (or theory before) but its Wikipedia page has lots of criticisms and claims that the book is basically nonsense (having
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by jogjayr 10y ago
> This overlooks why Europeans were able to achieve colonisation. Columbus stumbled upon the New World while looking for a new sea route to Asia. There were no Chinese or Indian traders looking for sea routes to Europe. Before industrial

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