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by jzwinck 11y ago
Actually no--the Shimano and Campagnolo systems (the first two to market, and the only ones anyone really has yet except some pros) are wired. Look up "Shimano Di2." The battery lasts about 1000 miles before it needs to be recha
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> It's a total dick move on Philips's part to "update" incompatibility into existing products that people already own Last year, Shimano (the bikes-and-fishing people) released a firmware update for their electronic s
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by jzwinck 11y ago
My experience is on high-performance sailboats rather than acrobatics, but single-rope seems to be the standard. You could imagine having two ropes for redundancy, but then not only would swiveling become more complex (at the sheaves, not
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by jzwinck 11y ago
Simple material strength is not the only consideration. I'm not saying ULT4 rope would have been better in this case, but it is worth noting that ULT4 comprises strands which are not round and are arranged in a special pattern which a
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In some scenarios you're right, for people who live in countries with higher income tax than the US. But there are several first-world countries which do not fit that description, which if you make 200K USD in 2015 probably includes S
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I also think your parent overplayed that one, but you are conflating the basic tax schedule with the actual taxes paid. There is a big difference, which is the point of the article.
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There is a parallel for US persons living abroad. The US is one of the few countries in the world which expects to collect income tax from its nonresident citizens. As in the corporate world, this makes Americans less competitive in the glo
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Ah, the tried and true "We are out of time, so let's slowly kill our employees to make up for it!" If I see one more "kitchen" where everything is either fried, made of corn, or both....
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Life and Death at Cirque Du Soleil(vanityfair.com)
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The levels of fraud must not be that terrible compared with the profits made from legitimate gift card sales. Otherwise retailers would fix obvious stuff like this: > The only items he was trying to buy were several $200 gift cards. When
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The universe of Unix filters never ceases to turn up things I haven't seen before. Other examples for those inclined: tac, sponge, pv, join, paste.
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I was given this exact problem at a Google interview. In fact it was virtually the only high level, real code programming exercise I was asked to do in many hours of interviews.
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There are many more concerns to address than just compression ratio. Even the ratio one is questionable, because some people have really fast networks but we all have basically the same speed of computers. So a 4x CPU time and memory pressu
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You're right that people should not send coins in regular envelopes. But of course people mail coins, keys, and binder clips pretty frequently. Do you think USPS employees stand around an open sorting machine just waiting to get hit in
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Let me clarify then: I am not in favor of a brutal approach to policing, but I am in favor of positive action. If it is 3 AM and residents have complained and there is a very loud scene outside, that is what the British call "anti-soc
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by jzwinck 11y ago
What you're describing is often called "capacity." I found this to be an accessible primer: http://qwafafew.org/images/uploads/san_francisco/sf-20041018...
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by jzwinck 11y ago
I lived in London. Across the street lived a guy dealing drugs from his window. Like a drive through. This was in a nice area in Zone 1. Due to the noise created two or three times a week by junkies who sat down there and got high, I called
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by jzwinck 11y ago
It's not that modern receivers are more sensitive , but that they are more selective . Harmonic or "image" rejection can achieve 20 to 60 dB in commercial applications today. The first and last sections of this paper may
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In America they would absolutely not disclose the reason for not hiring someone. Commonly accepted HR wisdom in the US is that it would open the company up to lawsuits.
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Now that he's in the NYT he will probably be OK. The question is what to do about other people in similar situations. I once received an application from someone quite famous. But he was famous because of a criminal case against him wh
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by jzwinck 11y ago
There are two kinds of background checks. The official kind done by a dedicated team with access and knowledge to retrieve city, state and federal data. And the HR kind, where someone without an investigative background and education spends
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by jzwinck 11y ago
If it's easy to create new accounts, then closing old ones is a losing battle for law enforcement. If it's hard to create new accounts, Twitter's business might just fall apart.
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by jzwinck 11y ago
Normal people would be better off ignoring this super-detailed stuff and simply calibrating their monitors, ideally using a calibration device. You don't need to calibrate often, so one group of friends could buy one calibrator for $1
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by jzwinck 11y ago
Hasma is very expensive and reserved for special occasions. It's like saying that American desserts incorporate gold leaf and Tahitian vanilla beans. Source: I ate hasma. It was sort of like tapioca but harder to justify.
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The shared libraries for it on my system are less than 700 KiB.
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> The better exchanges do have passwords on their FIX gateways. But the performance of a FIX login is especially important (there's often a race to start trading at the beginning of a session) Better exchanges enable their FIX gat
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That prevents people from loading it with a plain-vanilla web browser. "GET /help" is more accessible, therefore more likely to be used. By humans, I mean.
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Paying more to people with more dependents effectively discriminates against several classes which are protected in the US: - Those who for medical reasons cannot have children. - Those who for (lack of) religious reasons do not have lots o
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Regardless of CGI, I do advocate writing web services that respond to "GET /help" with a developer-facing synopsis of available routes. Pretty much the same thing.
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Whether legal in the US or not, it is offensive that having four children gives more of a salary bump than increasing one's competency from "Advanced" to "Master." Seriously, you get an extra $10k for moving up the

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