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by jpollock 5y ago
How is this possible? "more than 80 percent of California jobs paid under the median income" I can see under the mean or average, but median? How can 80% be below the median when the definition of median is 50% are below this valu
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by jpollock 5y ago
ok, so previously Google Drive used hard link equivalents and now they're using soft-link equivalents? thanks!
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by jpollock 5y ago
What happens to a file if post-replacement the file is modified? Does it modify the link target, or is it copy-on-write? I might want to have different copies as "snapshot" and "working", de-duping them makes any version
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by jpollock 5y ago
Wouldn't that depend on the result of the various anti-trust suits against Amazon/Apple/Google that define the market as their marketplaces?
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by jpollock 5y ago
Not saying this is right or wrong, or if it even matches up with the case, but this is what I found on price fixing. Businesses are (from my training as an engineer) generally not allowed to coordinate any behavior related to pricing with a
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by jpollock 5y ago
Then they suckered GE spectacularly: "May 29, 2020" https://www.ge.com/news/reports/dig-this-ge-engineers-learne...
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by jpollock 5y ago
Another pass. We're looking for a substring with the largest number of unique values. If we have unique values, we can paint each value with a colour close enough to the expected value that humans will see them as the same. Maybe?
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by jpollock 5y ago
I am really curious about the search algorithm. I love the palette hack, how did you find candidates to then start searching through the possible palettes? I can sort of think of: 1) Collapse the colours in the palette to the minimum necess
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by jpollock 5y ago
That's not my experience. Work is done at a desk with a large display (or two) and a network port. The laptops come out for meetings, not coding. Some people prefer hiding with their laptop and coding, but I find the added latency of w
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by jpollock 5y ago
Cost to you is not necessarily the true cost. It depends on how the ER is being funded. Since you're in the EU, I assume you've got socialized health care. That means everyone has health insurance with a co-pay. A co-pay is intend
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by jpollock 5y ago
It's not just an x-ray machine. The ER must amortize all equipment required to support their peak usage. So that's MRI machines, doctors, nurses, radiologists, orderlies, everyone. Then that cost is spread across all patients, reg
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by jpollock 5y ago
It costs that much in an emergency room, where the price is based on having multiple x-ray machines + radiologists available, 24/7, 365 with a 5 minute wait. If you go to a clinic, which works 9-5 M-F, they're $40 (chest x-ray for
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by jpollock 5y ago
There is substantial exchange rate risk. If Valve didn't want to see any forex risk on the sale, they end up incurring it on refund. If people are using it as an easy way to store money in USD and then convert back to BTC when the rate
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by jpollock 5y ago
The answer is for the car to always drive according to the slowest speed allowed. So, it's always 25mph in that zone. Changing it based on "school hours" is a bad idea anyways.
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by jpollock 5y ago
Every developer makes a rollback-worthy mistake every x changes. This means your probability of having a clean release is (1-1/x)^NumDevs EDIT - Assuming everyone submits 1 change/release. Let's give it 1/100 bad code ch
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by jpollock 5y ago
Without getting into the validity of the rephrasing, the terms refer to different size groups. There might be better ways of defining the groups, but I assume the goal is to better reflect the target populations. If you don't define th
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by jpollock 5y ago
I'm not in the industry, but I am aware of this from various news articles. Quick googling... Typically, devices are banned from restricted areas (trading floors). Where BYOD is "allowed", apply a corporate profile which prev
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by jpollock 5y ago
There are industries where compliance requires all work-related communications be logged and monitored. This logging is typically done through proxy servers on the network, and avoiding them is a _bad_thing_. They will also track web traffi
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by jpollock 5y ago
We can compare fatality rates from fires between countries with dual exits and those without: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_building_or_structure_... We can also see if mass casualty fires in buildings stopped
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by jpollock 5y ago
The frontal area of two spheres of the same mass will be determined by the sphere's density, and that drives the air resistance. If frontal area didn't matter to drag, wouldn't all spheres would have the same drag coefficient
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by jpollock 5y ago
Density is important when comparing two spheres of the same mass. https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/VirtualAero/BottleRocket/a... Where frontal volume is determined by mass and density for a sphere. So,
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by jpollock 5y ago
The right to strike is federally protected: https://www.nlrb.gov/strikes Seems that if the employer can hire replacements quickly enough, the strikers don't get their jobs back. "Economic strikers defined. If the
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by jpollock 5y ago
The problem likely devolves into asking if the "human" is moral or not, convincing the "human" that the "AI" is intelligent/sentient/sapient, and then asking the human if it is moral to keep a slave.
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by jpollock 5y ago
That happened to a startup I was part of back in the late 90's. We gave out substantial stock grants to senior managers at customers.
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by jpollock 5y ago
Not authoritarian, but it does tend to run up against free trade agreements where offshore products and companies need to be given equivalent treatment. However, I don't think India has many FTAs, and probably few of them include agric
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by jpollock 5y ago
I'm wondering what kids historically said about glamour magazines.
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by jpollock 5y ago
Can't you go from starches to plastics? So, wouldn't this allow fossil fuel free plastic, without having to convert land from food to plastic production? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioplastic
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by jpollock 5y ago
Isn't the stated response from several countries that the response to something like that is nuclear?
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by jpollock 5y ago
Water isn't a fundamental necessity (as in required for life) for 70-80% of the water used. Water markets aren't typically (maybe there are some?) aimed at individuals, they're aimed at commercial users (farms, power plants,
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by jpollock 5y ago
he means losses > revenue, in other words costs > 2xrevenue.

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