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by likpok 8y ago
I have frequently brought a full meal through. For my last trip I had a to-go box in my hand as I walked through security (so it wasn't hidden in my bag). The only time I ever had a problem was when my meal was a burrito wrapped in alu
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by likpok 8y ago
It wouldn't be the first time apple changed processor architecture. They implemented a dynamic binary translator to ease the transition (which they discontinued a couple versions later -- initially released in Tiger, and was removed in
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by likpok 9y ago
Ticketmaster doesn't get 100% of the fee. One of the services that Ticketmaster offers is to charge a large fee, which is then split between everybody (i.e. the artist, the promoter, the venue). They act as the bad guy so that the even
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by likpok 9y ago
Quality distinctions are a bit hard to talk about, being qualitative. How do you differentiate between changing tastes/moods or inconsistent wineries? The competition the economist article was about was judged (by them) purely in corre
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by likpok 9y ago
https://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/05/daily-... It's a competition rather than research, but is consistent with both some people being better than others and some wines being more di
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by likpok 9y ago
Bodybuilders often have BMIs that wrongly predict their health outcomes. They know this, though, and it's pretty obvious that they're not actually overweight. The problem is the average person, because BMI will list them as incorr
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by likpok 9y ago
BMI's predictive usefulness is based on people looking like when it was developed (it's an index, so you have to choose values for "normal", "overweight", etc). Back then, people in the "normal" band
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by likpok 9y ago
Interestingly enough, I've heard that BMI mostly under-predicts problems. There are a lot more people at a higher body-fat percentage now than when BMI was developed, meaning that BMI assumes that the average person is leaner than they
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by likpok 9y ago
Those are sponsored links a la Taboola. If you reload without a content blocker you'll see them.
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by likpok 9y ago
Mineral oil is literally sold as a laxative. It does this mechanically, ie by being indigestible and lubricating things along. That suggests that it’s pretty safe to ingest.
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by likpok 9y ago
> and it's obvious why. Because most countries don't have crypto-secure identity verification, which means Facebook would still need something like this? I suppose they could contract out to Experian (or other local providers)
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by likpok 9y ago
There was a study a while back that suggested that reddit's banning of hate groups really did reduce the amount of hate on reddit. That is: GreatApes didn't go and infect other subreddits, and there was a real reduction in the hat
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by likpok 9y ago
Popehat on 18 U.S.C. 1001: https://www.popehat.com/2011/12/01/reminder-oh-wont-you-plea... Although it's a pretty general overview on how it can be used to beef up a conviction.
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by likpok 9y ago
If influence is so valuable, why haven't the rates been bid up? Are companies price-fixing to keep lobbying costs low? Given that a number of industries are diametrically opposed, why would they collude? If the price is so low, why are
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by likpok 9y ago
Taxi companies didn't have a great reputation before uber, though. Stories abound of long and circuitous routes, "broken" credit card readers and surly drivers. I'm not sure I've heard of too many cases of great cus
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by likpok 9y ago
Stipulate that men and women like things and people respectively, and this is a fundamental biological truth. With this, tech is more biased than it should be. Engineering as a whole is pretty people-oriented: projects are team efforts and
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by likpok 9y ago
> That conflates two different things: what gender roles a society imposes on adults, and how the society socializes children. Those two things are not necessarily linked. Take India for example: it's not very egalitarian; women are
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by likpok 9y ago
NB that handling cash isn't free either. You have to pay someone to count it, secure it, and steal it (you are arguably not intentionally paying people to steal cash, but shrinkage is certainly a cost of doing business in cash). I&#x27
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by likpok 9y ago
The people you need to convince is Google management, so that they prioritize this over everything else on the roadmap. One easy way to do that from outside is to make it actually a priority, by making it a PR issue. Otherwise it turns into
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by likpok 9y ago
There's a real engineering cost to federation. Your email example is a good one, I think. But digging a little deeper, what's the last major feature that got added to email? For example, we've been trying to get encryption in
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by likpok 9y ago
I've heard that restaurants will spoil food at the end of the day rather than give it to employees to prevent employees from deliberately over-making or mis-making food so they can take it home.
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by likpok 9y ago
AIUI though this can be something of a false economy. Cash has processing fees too: you need to pay someone to count it, secure it, take it to the bank. Plus you need to deal with shrinkage. I can't find numbers now, but I remember see
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by likpok 9y ago
Facebook was profitable before it went public, and faced serious strategic challenges immediately post IPO (specifically, mobile was exploding and Facebook's mobile story was not good -- it didn't even have advertising). I guess t
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by likpok 9y ago
I think you're assuming that the restaurants intend to be selling below cost. Running a restaurant is one of those businesses that everyone seems to think they can do. A somewhat common problem on Kitchen Nightmares was owners who didn
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by likpok 9y ago
There are similar popups for Safari on iOS, and for Chrome when you use gmail on iOS. There used to be Chrome adds on the google homepage when you hit it with a non-chrome browser, but they didn't load for me when I tried it today.
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by likpok 9y ago
From my experience with Java-style hard module dependencies, this makes it extremely difficult to refactor anything touching external interfaces. You say this forces you to think ahead, but predicting the future is quite difficult. The resu
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by likpok 9y ago
If you notice, the nav system comes back at -300 MSL, so it's not as simple as "negative numbers don't work". They're inconsistent about negative signs, but I think the nav system fails at -400 MSL. I don't kno
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by likpok 10y ago
http://money.cnn.com/2015/06/25/news/companies/whole-foods-o... In short: the packaging might say there was say 1lb of chicken tenders. In fact, there was only .8 lb. It looks like this applied to d
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by likpok 10y ago
Why do you think so?
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by likpok 10y ago
The average engineer at google with 5 years of experience makes at least 250K. To put it bluntly: I'm pretty sure the average cash compensation (that is, disregarding RSUs entirely, which is likely at least another 100k/yr) is g

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