joncrane

60 ms·

661.
by joncrane 7y ago
Jail is for both pre-trial and for inmates serving sentences of 1 year or less (give or take; that's decided at the county level so it's just a rough rule of thumb; for some it's 18 months). Also, the vast majority of "e
662.
by joncrane 7y ago
>I'm the manager of one of Uber's OSS projects Do you expect to still be doing this same job (or one step higher) in 6 months?
663.
by joncrane 7y ago
Is there an AWS region in the District governed by this case, so you can just do all your web scraping from instances in that region?
664.
by joncrane 7y ago
>If anyone reading this is interested in helping us figure things out, please do apply. Do you have a link? Thanks.
665.
by joncrane 7y ago
Aren't REIT mutual funds the most likely vehicle for a retail investor to invest in REITs?
666.
by joncrane 7y ago
Does Regus/IWG have the capacity to absorb the demand?
667.
by joncrane 7y ago
While the article is interesting, I don't see anything "baffling" about it. All the rules seem internally consistent to me.
668.
by joncrane 7y ago
But the guy's tweet specifically mentions Reston (Virginia). This is in the vicinity of us-east-1. By the way, I'm pretty sure none of the actual AWS datacenters are in Reston proper. They are in Ashburn and other more sparse su
669.
by joncrane 7y ago
Is there a source for this other than an angry Twitter user?
670.
by joncrane 7y ago
This, exactly. This is a modern day parable.
671.
by joncrane 7y ago
I want to make it clear I'm not advocating for any action with this post, but it did make me curious. Given the parenthetical of this article >After costs, the Jockey Club’s take goes to charity and the state, providing as much as
672.
by joncrane 7y ago
I notice that the flight instructor disobeys the captain, who says to says to remove power from the engines, and does the opposite right as they're touching down. Was there ever any thought as to whether that contributed to the loss of
673.
by joncrane 7y ago
Capital One definitely does this (I used to work there and when we rolled it out it was considered quite innovative).
674.
by joncrane 7y ago
It certainly was the narrative then. I was in college at the time and there were weeks where Linda Tripp was mentioned more than Monica. I got the direct impression from the news that Monica Lewinsky was this pretty young thing, very innoc
675.
by joncrane 7y ago
One method would be to buy Starbucks gift cards with the dirty money, then sell the gift cards for "clean" money at a discount from face value. There are no AML, KYC, etc regulations on Starbucks gift card balances.
676.
by joncrane 7y ago
They have a captive audience. They literally only have to provide a rate that's roughly equivalent to the usurious "last chance currency exchange" counters at the airports. Heck, since probably no one is paying attention tha
677.
by joncrane 7y ago
So they don't charge any explicit foreign exchange fees, but "Currency conversions are based on currency exchange rates applicable on the date of the Transaction." Well can't they just use a super advantageous measure t
678.
by joncrane 7y ago
Interesting, mine is a Toyota 86 (which I guess is really a Subaru BRZ so I guess it's Subaru's Bluetooth stuff).
679.
by joncrane 7y ago
I just bought a new car with BlueTooth integration, my first such car. I listen to Pandora when I drive. I notice that the connection is not reliable, even when the phone is in a holder on the dash. I end up using the AUX input through th
680.
by joncrane 7y ago
What is the huge red blot off the coast of NYC?
681.
by joncrane 7y ago
Probably because opportunity for advancement becomes nil when you're not "all in."
682.
by joncrane 7y ago
Did you post about that incident when it happened?
683.
by joncrane 7y ago
The fact that they can serve their entire user base with so little hardware.
684.
by joncrane 7y ago
Their tech stack is incredible. They run an extremely lean operation. I'm an AWS and Linux fanboy and in fact have essentially staked 5-10 years of my career on AWS being the "go-to" technology. But if you have talent like
685.
by joncrane 7y ago
and this is exactly why there is a market for negative yield bonds. The true decision point isn't 0%. It's the rate for the risk/cost of holding cash. BTW has there been any research toward what this rate actually is?
686.
by joncrane 7y ago
Men can take the same testosterone supplements as women, so men will continue to win this arms race. It would be interesting to see what the androgen receptor density is between males and females; if by some weird quirk, the receptor densit
687.
by joncrane 7y ago
Testosterone, among many other things, increases expression of Hemoglobin and red blood cells. So it definitely helps with endurance.
688.
by joncrane 7y ago
By the same token, people who buy the stock before engaging in "pump and dump" have skin in the game before making their statements.
689.
by joncrane 7y ago
So let's say I'm falling at terminal velocity and I'm falling to a point roughly at the shore of a deep body of water. I have just enough control to deviate so I'm landing completely on (hard, dry) land, or completely i
690.
by joncrane 7y ago
Yeah, seems about right for a tutorial. In real life things are never as simple or well suited to the underlying technology so it's lots of painful little missteps until you get it "just right" for your use case and the stra

More ›