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by karthikb 7y ago
Yes, but dampening demand by spreading disinformation is incredibly dangerous. This latest paper: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/196234/covid19-imperial-rese... Shows that the pandemic and associated social dista
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by karthikb 7y ago
The traffic break is usually used to scan the road for debris, or to create an opening for emergency services down the road to stage without having to completely shut the road down. Not typically used for flow management - having driven dai
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by karthikb 7y ago
Yesterday was also the first day. The real question is, will there be enforcement 6 months, 20 months, 90 months from now when it's no longer in the headlines.
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by karthikb 7y ago
With their transaction volume, Amazon should be able to detect and properly address these reviews. You're not going to change consumer behavior here, it's on Amazon to adapt.
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by karthikb 7y ago
> whether or not you chose to buy the item Only partially. Vendors will buy more to replace sold stock. If it never sells, the manufacturer will never get another order for production, and the total waste is capped at what's already
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by karthikb 7y ago
Take a look here: https://arxiv.org/search/?query=astronomy+machine+learning&s... Plenty of ML work being applied to astronomy. Much of the code is open source too so you can dive right in and contribute. Here&#x
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by karthikb 7y ago
Yes. Take the SF Bay Area. It would be a lot harder to convince smart engineers from around the world to move here if they had to take a ship whenever they wanted to go visit their parents and relatives back home. People certainly immigrate
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by karthikb 7y ago
There’s no advantage to a big stash, but it’s easy to overestimate the number of trick-or-treaters, have a ton of candy left on your hands, and just stick it in the closet for next year.
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by karthikb 7y ago
More likely they were actually stale, lots of people buy a big stash of candy and hand it out over several years until it runs out.
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by karthikb 7y ago
I work out of one. Not much has changed, but the coffee mugs are half the size (seriously) and what was regularly fruit water is now usually plain iced water. Not really important in the grand scheme of things. We still get billed monthly,
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by karthikb 7y ago
This particular fire grew to over 4,000 acres in under an hour. "Somewhere in the forest" very quickly becomes "right over the most critical parts of the fire." These fires are dynamic, spotting 1-2 miles ahead of themse
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by karthikb 7y ago
Luckily, they can look at AS post VX merger as a good example of how to integrate A320s into an all 737 fleet. So while they will absolutely have costs, they may be able to bring in folks who've done it before.
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by karthikb 7y ago
Walking speed is 15-20 minutes per mile...a 4.5 mile walk for most people would be closer to 90 minutes.
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by karthikb 7y ago
Just because one can't open the information by default doesn't mean the information doesn't exist - in this case, Flash content is exactly like your paywall and book examples. The searcher can decide if having access to the i
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by karthikb 7y ago
Airbus has a strong team working on this. https://www.airbusutm.com/ You can read more here: https://www.airbusutm.com/uam-resources-airbus-blueprint
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by karthikb 7y ago
Bring engineers in to solve problems you know need to get solved. As they learn the system, its debt, the business, etc., listen to their ideas. For ones that sound good, give them the resources to develop a POC. For the POCs that work, giv
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by karthikb 7y ago
In general, initiatives tend to be top down while tasks tend to be bottom up. Politics between the "managers" and the "doers" happens at the interface of those two. What actually gets done and delivered ends up being som
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by karthikb 7y ago
Oops you’re right - Amex, cash, or debit.
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by karthikb 7y ago
Until 2016, Costco and Amex had an exclusive partnership. You could pay either in cash or with Amex, usually the Costco Amex tied to your membership card. Now they take any Visa card, and have converted Costco Amex cards to Costco Citi VISA
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by karthikb 7y ago
If the output is frozen pizza quality, wouldn't it be cheaper to just buy frozen pizzas directly from the pizza factory, and then install ovens instead of a full pizza making machine?
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by karthikb 7y ago
Emeryville does as well, primarily during commute hours.
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by karthikb 7y ago
Per the FAA ( https://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/advisory_circulars/... ), the actual number for "Almost Certain to never happen" is no more than 1 loss of life per 10^9 flight hours. There's a
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by karthikb 7y ago
What’s new is that brewers now have legal teams to help them figure this out.
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by karthikb 7y ago
The biggest problem with, say, Santa Monica independently implementing a Zurich like system is that the LA region (and most other mega-regions like the SF Bay Area) are effectively a single housing and job market.
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by karthikb 7y ago
The land value appreciates over time regardless of use. Why worry about setting up a business and trying to make money when you could do nothing and make a lot of money 10 years down the line when you sell?
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by karthikb 7y ago
>You had lots of curiosity but still limited access to information so you deeply explored stuff. I was about to write this myself. Wikipedia has so much information that it’s easy to surf page to page, link out, etc, and end up having sk
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by karthikb 7y ago
>If you could move an entire country from being car dependent to being largely car free, by pushing rapid urbanisation and transit While these are the “right” solutions, they occur over decades. Planning for any rail line, then construct
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by karthikb 7y ago
https://www.mystrodriver.com/ Yes
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by karthikb 7y ago
Exactly. And if in 2-3 years the company is doing spectacularly well it’s now additional headroom to raise without losing control.
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by karthikb 7y ago
They can always sell the shares back for a dollar and do the write off whenever they want.

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