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by lph 9y ago
If Amazon ran the store, they would have the same retail overhead costs as all the places they're undercutting...
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by lph 9y ago
They will price match with other stores. I was in there last weekend to spend a gift card and knocked about 20% off the prices by price matching Amazon.
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by lph 9y ago
As a parent of young kids, I've been in to Toys R Us twice in the past few years. The first time it was really depressing: prime-time hours for retail and the store was practically empty. The second time was last weekend, and it was bu
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by lph 9y ago
$10B is the sum of health care and pension liabilities. This is the hole referred to by the title.
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by lph 9y ago
The same thing happened to me: doing a remodel, spent thousands of dollars at Home Depot, returned a small fraction of it, banned. The ban seems to have expired, but for three years I had to get my wife to go return things for me.
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by lph 9y ago
It's only enforced when police receive a complaint. File a complaint if you want them to do something about your local nuisance vehicles.
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by lph 9y ago
"WeWork, a startup that rents out shared workspaces, branched into co-living in 2016. Their "dorms for grown-ups" are intended for people moving to a city and looking for fast friends.The company, which has a $20 billion valu
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by lph 9y ago
Alright, but let's revisit the polled people when they're 80 and see who's happy... those who were able to save for retirement, or those who weren't. "Are you happy?" is such a first-world-problems question. I&
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by lph 9y ago
Saying that developers "don't use" state machines just because code isn't littered with things like instantiations of machine and state classes is an interesting point, but kind of glib. I use state machines all the time
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by lph 9y ago
Yeah, but the lighthouse looks great!
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by lph 9y ago
I can't speak to your finances, but the average worker absolutely has less as a direct result of the wealth flow shifting ever more to the rich. Wages have been stagnant for decades, despite steadily increasing productivity.
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by lph 9y ago
These researchers are building weapons. I hope they understand that.
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by lph 9y ago
I have a couple of devices that need to connect to the mothership, as a matchmaker between the device and its client app. NAT and firewalls are a big part of the reason, as is the need to have a way to locate the device in the absence of a
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by lph 9y ago
RISC: "If this was a Maybe in 1999 it’s certainly a No now." My cell phone begs to differ.
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by lph 9y ago
I've switched to Bing, which was a step I wouldn't have even entertained five years ago. Google needs to get back to its minimalist beginnings. It's really apparent that the advertising department has taken over while the sea
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by lph 9y ago
Get-off-my-lawn sentiment aside, it seems strange that the author doesn't even acknowledge the vast field of text-based games that already exist, and that predate the modern retro fascination with interactive fiction. I'd love to
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by lph 9y ago
Mind boggling. What could possibly be so complicated about a payroll system? Does anyone here have insight into this problem space?
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by lph 9y ago
Agreed. I think maybe the value of the paper is that non-computer scientist biologists will read it and gain awareness. To computer scientists, it's pretty obvious that DNA used as input to a program could be maliciously crafted.
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by lph 9y ago
I like this thread. My people are here.
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by lph 9y ago
I loved that that article about Japan's rail workers. I'm a huge fan of this stuff. Pre-flight checklists, rock-climbing belay call-and-response, operating room instrument counts (to make sure nothing was left in the patient!), et
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by lph 9y ago
Thinking about it further, here's an easy protocol, if you happen to have a push-button ignition vehicle: Toss the key fob into the back seat as soon as you get in. The car will still start. Now, when you leave the car, you have to go
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by lph 9y ago
Reading this article was heartbreaking. Becoming a parent changes you, or at least it changed me. I can no longer imagine harm to a child---as conjured in a written article, on a television show, or in a discussion---in an abstract way as I
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by lph 9y ago
Yeah, no kidding. It was distracting and a low-grade insult to those who endured the real Vietnam war. Maybe it sounded better in 2006... Trump fatigue has really dampened my sense of humor.
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by lph 9y ago
Not following the demo scene, and not being current on the capabilities of graphics cards these days, I have no idea if this is impressive. Wish it came with some explanation.
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by lph 9y ago
Good. Maybe they can finally afford to make their "Submit" button idempotent.
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by lph 9y ago
Oh, bullshit. We've been hearing about how Trump is playing n-dimensional chess since before the election, but I think it has to be crystal clear by now that he's just a confused old racist with the attention span of a wolverine
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by lph 9y ago
Good catch! I misremembered. Still the same reasoning from management, unfortunately.
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by lph 9y ago
Absolutely. And it's not just on WaPo stories; it's on almost any kind of post that can be tangentially tied to Trump populism. One of the subreddits I frequent is for a liberal major city. The the_donald shills are vastly outnumb
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by lph 9y ago
My understanding is that works created with Jupyter wouldn't have a problem, but that the admins are just trying to minimize the footprint of GPL 3 libraries on our systems. It seems pretty knee-jerk to me, but then I'm not an exp
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by lph 9y ago
> Yeah, it's kind of become the Breitbart of the left Well, except for the part about the Washington Post actually having journalistic standards and ethics.

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