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Tipping Points: When to Bet on New Technologies(bain.com)
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by kirykl 7y ago
iOS should let you put value limits on in-app purchases. Even just a setting or prompt when first opening an app: "Dont allow in app purchases for this app to exceed $XXX (per day, per week, lifetime)"
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by kirykl 7y ago
Removal of the function keys actually dates back to Jobs "When I invited Jobs to take some time away from NeXT to speak to a group of students, he sat in the lotus position in front of my fireplace and wowed us for three hours, as if l
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by kirykl 7y ago
No one said cars don’t share engines. OP is asking about why they make two models out of same engine. This is an extreme example of it.
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by kirykl 7y ago
The IS350 used to share the same engine as a Toyota Sienna minivan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_GR_engine#2GR-FKS
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I wonder if this is technically a type of defamation. I'd think the tracking company would need to have some degree of proof as to the "bad behavior" they're sharing with it's member bars to hold up in court.
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So is that text warning always available and just software enabled if the packaged is purchased, or is there extra hardware involved?
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There's certainly precedent of US intelligence missing a potential device https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)
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by kirykl 8y ago
On a related note, appearing in front of a judge by video is becomming more common. Personally I think this is a violation of the 6th amendment.
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by kirykl 8y ago
Amusingly, the overhead view of their structure looks vaguely like an overhead view of the brain
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And their compare tool only lets you see 3 at a time [0]. Its too much work/thinking needed to tell the models apart. [0] https://www.apple.com/ipad/compare/
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It's 2.5 degrees every 15 seconds. There's time to recover "MCAS will trim the Stabilizer down for 10 seconds (2.5 deg nose down) and pause for 5 seconds and repeat if the conditions (high angle of attack, flaps up and autopi
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by kirykl 8y ago
The source article linked to in the op says different “One anonymous source close to management stated: “Circleville, Lancaster, and Grove City crews have all walked out and quit after the franchise was bought out by corporate. The regional
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A non technical manager of mine once posted a job calling for a "COBALT developer".
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Weird still is "Oumuamua's velocity (being) within 5 km/s of the median Galactic velocity of the stars in the solar neighborhood" ( https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.11364 ) That means the system it originat
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That’d be a great smart appliance for homes with tank water heaters.
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There wasn't a "sensors disagree" alert in the Lion Air plane because they didn't have installed the optional AOA Disagree indicator. As comparison, Southwest had the indicator but has now also installed an enhanced AOA
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Southwest has added enhanced AOA indicators to its Max fleet as a result [0]. Lion Air didn't even have the basic (optional) AOA Disagree alert[1] [0] https://theaircurrent.com/aviation-safety/southwest-airlines...
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>Is there a way for people to learn to be good negotiators? There’s some great channels on YouTube showing real negotiations, not just theory. Check out https://www.youtube.com/user/CollinRocka
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Why not just do a “Describe a time...” behavioral question ? In an interview both sides should put their best foot forward, assuming positive intent and trust. Purposefully asking “dumb questions” on the hopes someone picks up on the game,
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Branding textiles either visibly on the outside or on small tags inside is where most of all high fashion textiles derive value. How is that not relevant? In fact when sold to “last season” liquidators many high fashion labels are cut or re
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by kirykl 8y ago
Corel still maintains WordPerfect too, last release was 7 months ago
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Train them with a small post it note + incentive small candy "Carrier Service - Place package in box, take a candy, and remove this note."
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The goal of creating processes is to improve. Ideally workers would be skilled, educated, and empowered at improving their own processes
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The car manufacturers. Maybe the best long term play is targeted aquisition.
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Feynman summed this up as "Disregard" https://stepsandleaps.wordpress.com/2017/10/17/feynmans-brea...
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They’ll equip the drones with military grade defensive avoidance and ground object tracking of course
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True many car ads are actually cgi
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This was enormous for Apple during the iPhone 3G launch. Nearly every retail purchase was 5 iPhones, the max per customer. It was profitable enough that these were all bought on contract then cancelled, which I think was the only way at the
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>“Blockchain makes it possible to build applications where multiple parties can execute transactions without the need for a trusted, central authority.“ Except in this case when it’s run by a central authority

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