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by likpok 7y ago
In Fahrenheit, hot is 100 and cold is 0. In Celsius, hot is 30 and cold is -10. When talking about it for what you're wearing and subjective experience, Celsius is a little more awkward and compressed. Sure, scientifically celsius is m
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by likpok 7y ago
Because GP is suggesting that they created -$22M of value. So walking away with 0 means that they're collecting much more value than they created.
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by likpok 7y ago
It seems to be a stylistic choice amongst some major publications. The first time they say "President Foo", the second time Mr. Foo. From the Times directly: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/08/reader
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by likpok 7y ago
One possibility: he didn’t care about buying the stock, but instead wanted to get paid for making the transaction happen. So he buys at 60 knowing he’s already sold at 70. Whereas Icahn sells at 60 because he can sell today rather than at
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by likpok 7y ago
IIRC that measures time more than spoilage. In the sense that it takes time for eggs to spoil, it works well. You'll be tossing safe-but-old eggs, but eggs aren't that expensive.
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by likpok 7y ago
The group chat is also encrypted, but anyone in the group chat can share the messages.
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by likpok 7y ago
The UK has substantially better extradition laws for the government. His choice to flee Sweden to go to the UK is certainly an odd one if his concern was avoiding extradition to the US.
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by likpok 8y ago
How porky is homemade lard? One challenge I heard of for lard crusts for pie is that sweet pies don’t do well with a strong savory pork flavor. (They recommended leaf lard, which is made from specific pork fat and pretty tricky to find).
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by likpok 8y ago
Because they perform well up until the point that they don't. By working at $Company, you're already invested heavily in their success. If a substantial portion of your net worth is also tied up in their stock, the company having
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by likpok 8y ago
The relevant privacy issues (Cambridge Analytica) did almost nothing for facebook. The core product, sharing information with apps so they could be social, was a bad idea and never took off. It was shuttered in 2014 (a little bit after Koga
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by likpok 8y ago
Does rust have a structure to handle something like a stringview?
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by likpok 8y ago
It depends what you build for. San Francisco, the dystopia as described in the article, has under a million residents. Its wounds, and that of the bay area in general, are entirely self-inflicted.
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by likpok 8y ago
Facebook and Google were both profitable when they went public, which is a big difference between Uber and Lyft today. They were merely not as profitable as today.
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by likpok 8y ago
There is indeed no organic analog for glyphosate. But there are other pesticides that are routinely applied to organic crops, such as copper sulfate, pyrethrin or rotenone. Both copper sulfate and rotenone are moderately toxic to people, an
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by likpok 8y ago
Realistically, the only plants which rely on honeybee pollination are from eastern europe, since that's where honeybees lived before the indo-european expansion. So any plant that's say native to the new world (corn, beans, squash
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by likpok 8y ago
> honeybees perform some level of pollination of nearly 75% of all plant species directly used for human food worldwide. Bees pollinate 75% of species, but not 75% of calories. The major cereals (wheat, corn, rice) are all self or wind p
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by likpok 8y ago
Saying "there's less glyphosate therefore less pesticide" is poor reasoning, because glyphosate is replaced with other, generally more toxic, pesticides in organic crops. It's interesting that organic crops have glyphosa
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by likpok 8y ago
Flax seeds are a bad source of omega 3s, because the oil they have, ALA, isn't used in the body and the conversion into DHA/EPA (which are) is poor [0]. [0]: https://examine.com/nutrition/can-i-eat-flax-seeds-
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by likpok 8y ago
A better (but less emotionally evocative) example might be Linux Pauling, who made large contributions to chemistry (eventually winning the nobel prize), but who in later life became a proponent of pseudoscience (megavitamin therapy). I can
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by likpok 8y ago
There is a difference here because you need to draw on your funds. The math works out well for someone willing to buy and hold for a long time, because if there's a crash you wait to sell until the market has recovered. However, if you
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by likpok 8y ago
Python did have some scheme to do something like this. If you were using gevent, you needed to call gevent.monkey_patch() to override all the network calls that you were making under the hood, so that they would happen on the event loop. Ye
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by likpok 8y ago
The number you’re quoting as the US is actually the average across the oecd. The US is 50% higher “In the United States, the average household net-adjusted disposable income per capita is USD 44 049 a year” In addition the website says aver
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by likpok 8y ago
Income taxes are more like 30% of that. It’s expensive, but not that expensive. Unless you’re counting rent in that, but even then I think half is pushing it.
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by likpok 8y ago
I wonder how much of this can be explained by wealth. The US has more expensive labor than the rest of the world (by a surprising margin), which makes everything in the supply chain more expensive. Infrastructure is pretty labor intensive i
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by likpok 8y ago
The problem in Java is checked exceptions, which can be frustrating -- either leading to try {} catch{ /* ignored */} or bubbling up the exception (probably preferable, but more work). IDE support makes this nicer, and Java's
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by likpok 8y ago
That doesn’t mean there’s no room for improving the industry. If I recall, Colorado recently (within 5-10 years) reformed payday lending towards something a little more lendee friendly. This lead to consolidation in the industry, but not a
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by likpok 8y ago
The Puritans were weird and deeply religious, but describing them as the "christian taliban" is not accurate. To start, they were kicked out of England for being protestant , not "too fundamentalist". The schism between
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by likpok 8y ago
Facebook now has the concept of both private (i.e. e2e encrypted) and temporary conversations. The UI to access them is a big awkward to be sure. That doesn't help the problem of old messages from before these existed. It's also n
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by likpok 8y ago
Could the SEC use as evidence the fact that the price went up post-tweet, and down after Tesla recanted? That is arguably objective evidence of reasonable investors taking his tweet as a material fact to their trading strategies (i.e. by bu
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by likpok 8y ago
Ordered maps require other tradeoffs. For example, c++ has both: std::map and std::unordered_map. std::map is a treemap, and so has logn access/insertion times. It also does a ton of small allocations, and scatters your data across mem

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