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by jonknee 8y ago
And ironically the OP was complaining that it didn't return him to the same WaWa: > Last time I asked for directions to a Wawa, it was to the one on Oak Lane, 5.9 miles away. Why doesn't it guess that I might be trying to go ba
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by jonknee 8y ago
Yes, and the list is sorted with the closest / most recent hits on top. It's way better than just seeing a bunch of pins on a map.
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by jonknee 8y ago
> Ok, then don't comply and shut down Which is what the site in question did...
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by jonknee 8y ago
At least we can drive pretty easily to dark skies, the East Coast is one big jumble of light pollution.
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by jonknee 8y ago
I don't think that's possible.
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by jonknee 8y ago
The irony that it was generically named web.com who did this. Why should they keep their name, they don't own the web?
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by jonknee 9y ago
It sounds like they literally took the brains from slaughtered pigs. I don't know why they wouldn't have processed the meat as normal. > Brains rescued from a slaughterhouse had their circulation restored with a system of pumps
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by jonknee 9y ago
> If we did that to a human without their consent there would be blood in the streets The same could be said for almost anything we do with pigs
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by jonknee 9y ago
> Whereas, the little one and two store local business takes money from local people, and its turned right around and reinvested in that very community. It's a common one, but I don't really buy this argument. Small local busin
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by jonknee 9y ago
> Jobs would not tolerate this. He's the guy who blamed a customer for holding the iPhone wrong instead of admitting the antenna design was poor, I could definitely see Jobs not accepting that people live with dust.
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by jonknee 9y ago
But they admit it's not just a matter of resources, the quality is changing: "Model 3 quality is rapidly getting better". That means Tesla itself is admitting there are some Model 3s out there better than others, pretty wild
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by jonknee 9y ago
That has nothing at all to do with the changing quality of a manufactured product.
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by jonknee 9y ago
It would be huge news if Apple said new iPhone X's are better than launch day iPhone X's...
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by jonknee 9y ago
This quote is brutal: > A Tesla spokesperson said the primary car evaluated by Munro was built in 2017, adding: "We have significantly refined our production processes since then, and while there’s always room for improvement, our d
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by jonknee 9y ago
If tons of high paying jobs suddenly open up in the Midwest it will not continue to be ridiculously affordable. Good jobs are trendy and will never go out of style.
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by jonknee 9y ago
Sure, I guess my issue was more with the headline. It sure sounds dramatic to say trading is suspended.
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by jonknee 9y ago
Price and quality are not strongly correlated because the variance is just enormous: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/01/21/a-kne... > The report, which analyzed three years
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by jonknee 9y ago
Sort of a non-issue as those are NASDAQ tickers and are trading as normal everywhere else.
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by jonknee 9y ago
Yield, an equity stake in WeWork doesn't pay anything. If WeWork stops paying its bonds you can assume shareholders aren't going to be doing any better.
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by jonknee 9y ago
No one wants a power plant next door (especially nuclear!) and transmission is an issue for everything other than solar panels on your own roof.
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by jonknee 9y ago
It's now a known quantity and if there is one thing Wall Street dislikes is surprises.
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by jonknee 9y ago
Assuming these minimum wage workers are the only source of income for a family of three.
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by jonknee 9y ago
There are car sharing services in Seattle that operate much like the scooters and bikes (park them in any city space, pay just for when you use, etc). The city charges a flat rate per car per month. Like dockless bike share it ends up being
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by jonknee 9y ago
> Why bother calling if you are not even going to attempt to scam me. I think it might be something silly like confirming the number has a person on the other end. For selling to other spammers. Not sure why they can't do both at on
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by jonknee 9y ago
I have to admit it's amusing seeing cryptocurrency true believers slowly start to realize why banks, regulation and the SEC are critical to a functioning system. "There oughta be a law!"
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by jonknee 9y ago
> Why aren't people pricing in an earthquake discount? Similarly why we continue to build in floodplains, it's usually fine and when it's not the Federal government steps in and makes sure people are bailed out. This has p
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by jonknee 9y ago
I'd rather be a tiny way close to new cures than a more pointless hashing for blockchains.
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by jonknee 9y ago
Depending on where you live it's a big pain to get to a store (rural people need to go far while in the city traffic makes going across town a huge pain). Not to mention not having to wait in a checkout line. I actually looked at my
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by jonknee 9y ago
But they bring the products to your door...
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by jonknee 9y ago
Retail positions are different than warehouse positions. It's like how UPS drivers make bank, but the guys who load the trucks break their backs for scratch (even with union representation!).

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