joncrane

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by joncrane 6y ago
I think it's interesting that the community which supports and follows the Cannonball Run appeared to be mostly against the first 26 hour run (the Audi pictured in the article). At least the most vocal part. My question is, do you act
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by joncrane 6y ago
This is about how delivery services screw over the restaurants. My advice is: to avoid screwing over restaurants, don't use delivery services.
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by joncrane 6y ago
The simplest way to support the restaurant is to pick up the food yourself. Get some fresh air and get out of the house, and cut out the middleman! It's a win-win-win.
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by joncrane 6y ago
This looks like it's paywalled, does someone need to provide a non-paywalled version for it to stay?
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by joncrane 6y ago
Fair enough. I failed to apply Hanlon's razor.
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by joncrane 6y ago
This is intentional. It's because the people who own the site know the gmail <realemail>+thisisspam@gmail.com trick and they prevent people using that trick.
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by joncrane 6y ago
I don't know what it is, but college football fandom is one of the most fun, entertaining fandoms out there. So many memes (not an image macro, but shared consciousness ideas). I'm only a casual cfb fan, but during my forays into
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by joncrane 6y ago
Not only that, but in the 50s through the 70s, it was very common for grocery stores to deliver groceries. This is not a new idea by any stretch of the imagination.
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by joncrane 6y ago
> disrespect of focus This right here is my beef in a nutshell. My attention should be under my control. For example, I can't believe that leaving audible cell phone notifications on is becoming normalized.
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by joncrane 6y ago
Because competent IT engineering talent is a very limited resource?
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by joncrane 6y ago
A different test from a different company or whatever.
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by joncrane 6y ago
The CEO's comments seemed to indicate that the pricing was only to "build in some margin" for unexpected events, as opposed to "squeezing as much juice out as possible." Having said that, publicly traded companies e
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by joncrane 6y ago
This is a really interesting failure pattern and has led to the development of so-called "circuit breakers" to avoid the cascade. (Many of the recent (last ~5 years) AWS failures have been due to cascading failures and it's n
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by joncrane 6y ago
My, how the pendulum swings! I'm firmly in the camp of hating open office plans. My first job out of college making $50k per year in Washington DC, I had my own office. It was all downhill from there. In my career (I'm 45 now), t
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by joncrane 6y ago
Traditionally, the two tools were rate adjustments and setting the reserve ratio. Traditionally, the RR was never touched. The last adjustment was in in 1992, when it was lowered from 12 to 10%. Nowadays, QE has become an even more importa
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by joncrane 6y ago
Our biggest rockstar on the team is 60. He's incredible. I have worked with workhorses before. Careful, eager to learn, and prodigious. This guy blows those "workhorses" out of the water. He's a Clydesdale. He liter
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by joncrane 6y ago
The article specifically says: >Intriguingly, 2014 is also when Cairo International Airport and Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv began displaying the Air Sinai flight on their public check-in boards
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by joncrane 6y ago
I don't think masks filter the kind of pollution that is really harmful (fumes, not particles).
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by joncrane 6y ago
Are physical banks closed? Wouldn't banks be an essential service?
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by joncrane 6y ago
I remember when they banned 23andme in MD, I researched it and it turns out the health insurance companies successfully lobbied against it with the argument that information asymmetry may lead to loss of profits. I'm still salty and I
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by joncrane 6y ago
Doesn't this defeat the purpose?
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by joncrane 6y ago
No one HAS to build those services. The services Google and FB provide are 100% nonessential to successful society. Correct me if I'm wrong, but alternatives already exist for both.
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by joncrane 7y ago
Isn't this bad design? Surely if plugged in, you should be able to use everything on your laptop at 100% utilization (screen, CPU, disks, fans, etc) without having to worry about it. Otherwise, what's the point of having those th
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by joncrane 7y ago
Emailing your commander's commander with a groundbreaking complaint is extremely dangerous to your career, yes. (And not just in the Navy)
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by joncrane 7y ago
This is fascinating. I don't know all the terminology perfectly, but I get the gist. I love how transparent and ingenious they are. (BTW did anyone else think of the Rick and Morty episode where Rick builds a "perfectly flat&quo
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by joncrane 7y ago
Won't this cause false positives from people, for example, walking in front of my house while I'm inside, and also while for example, stopped at a stoplight next to other cars?
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by joncrane 7y ago
This is actually fine as long as they pee 10 feet apart.
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by joncrane 7y ago
In many forest fires, the underbrush burns but the canopy remains intact.
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by joncrane 7y ago
Honestly at this point if you could get FOX News to pick up the story, the White House will know about it immediately.
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by joncrane 7y ago
Not to mention relying on each person's account of the severity of the symptoms, and coding that into a dataset that corresponds to the sequencing results. You need a LOT of asymptomatic people with the strain in order to draw any str

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