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by jpatokal 8y ago
Are you telling me there are startups that want to run like F500 multinationals? No company has SOX compliance departments, mandatory HR trainings or audited travel expense policies because they want to, they're just there because be
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The "pot" was just a segment ("cell"?) of bamboo with the top lopped off. I was surprised to see this as well, but I presume the water within kept the bamboo from catching fire.
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And those only for private repos; they're still available for public repos. I've been happily paying Github $7/mo for years now for Pro, but there's now literally no reason to keep doing so, so back to Free it is. Thank
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Bamboo isn't going to replace lumber for most permanent uses, but it sure is handy when you need to put something together in a pinch. I was once trekking in northern Thailand with some Akha hill tribe guides. When it was time for din
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Those are all incremental improvements. Nobody's saying Apple's phones are bad, just that they lack compelling differentiators to other phones, including older iPhones.
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It's a fair amount of money compared to a hosted Wordpress.com site that costs $0/yr (foo.wordpress.com), $13/yr (custom domain) or $50/yr (custom domain, no ads), and has the safety valve of being able to export and mov
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...but only in Guangzhou, which is in subtropical southern China and also has very noisy crickets.
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I'm a regular HN reader, yet I've never heard of half of these. This doesn't sound like the kind of stack you'd want to adopt if you ever want anybody else to work on the code.
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Your palate has also changed: kids are generally much more sensitive to bitterness than adults.
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Sandwiches in Scandinavia default to open-faced. Unlike the US, there's no second piece of bread on top, so you need something to stop them from getting smashed together.
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On the other hand, next time you find yourself in a regional jet in the US, odds are pretty high it was built by a scrappy manufacturer of Brazilian bush taxis, namely Embraer. So it's not impossible to break the Boeing/Airbus du
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There's nothing "impossible" about Boom's plans, commercial hypersonic flight has been done before decades ago and -- like with SpaceX -- tech advances since then have made the job easier, not harder. It will still be ex
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I hire at a FAANG for two roles where we specifically target generalists: Solutions Architect (design solutions for complex real-world problems) and Technical Solutions Engineer (last line of support for really gnarly cases). Both need peo
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> Last April, a Chinese space station, the Tiangong-1, fell to earth after officials lost communication with it. As discussed previously on HN, this was not an accident, but a planned deorbiting of an obsolete testbed. The loss of comms
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Hypersonic weapons: in the blink of an eye, modern warfare has changed forever(adelaidenow.com.au)
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Have you driven or been in a Tesla? These are manifestly not the same cars as anyone else's.
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The Crenshaw/LAX line that does just that is scheduled to open in 2020: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crenshaw/LAX_Line ...although its utility will be limited until they connect it to the Red/Purple lin
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Cantonese is still dominant in Hong Kong, but Mandarin has long since taken over in Singapore in all official contexts and, increasingly, in the private sphere as well. Unlike comparatively homogenous HK, Singaporeans speak a whole slew of
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Is there a comprehensive map of the Shinjuku station in Tokyo?(travel.stackexchange.com)
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This was my reaction as well. What exactly do you get for the $95,000 price premium and the massive amount of added risk? Not even bragging rights, since even the most generous definition of "space" is 50 mi, not the 37 mi Xcor
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Promos at Google get exponentially harder at each level, which also means the mean time between promos increases as you go up. L9 is Senior Director, meaning you're managing hundreds of people, and hitting that in 10 years is highly u
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Food regulation in Singapore is the opposite of "crazy-lax". Every hawker stall is regularly inspected and has the inspection results prominently posted, and despite being outside, the hawker centres are clean and sterilized to wi
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Non-American here: what happens if the teacher just flatly says no/doesn't answer the emails/calls etc? Are lawsuits against teachers over grades an actual thing in the US now? (In Europe or Australia you'd be laughed
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Online drug dealers are similarly incentivized to sell oregano and baking soda, yet apparently there are plenty of real drugs being transacted as well, including quantities well beyond personal use. And it does depend on the jurisdiction:
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Hitmen are an actual thing that exists, it's not crazy to expect them to be available for hire via the dark web. In terms of legality and the consequences of being caught, ordering a hit on someone is not that different from orderin
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A lot of the comments here seem to be based on speculation, not the actual content of the video. A few key points: * There is no one system (which is why the title is "The" Social Credit System, the scare quotes are there on purp
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I'd agree but if you were talking about going to Mars or something, but for this particular quest, that seems a bit much. Just look at this list of "first person ever to do X from Y to Z" since 2000: https://en.
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And northern Italy is the "good bit": by and large, the further down south into the mezzogiorno you go, the worse it gets. I was once in Palermo, the largest city in Sicily, which has buildings that were bombed in WW2 and have n
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> Tokyo’s population has tripled over the last twenty years No, it hasn't? Tokyo's already an anomaly in shrinking Japan by staying roughly the same size, and last I checked it was also forecast to start losing people around 2
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> Are Your Frequent-Flier Miles About to Lose Value? The answer to this question is always "yes". Quite some time ago, the Economist estimated that the "money supply" of miles expands by 20% every year, which means t

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