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by mason55 7y ago
Yeah, this happened to me when I did the 16-hour DWF-SYD route. I was on Qantas and ended up with a row of four or five seats to myself both ways. I also managed to time my sleep so that I slept for the middle 8 hours of the flight, which
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by mason55 7y ago
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21270861 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21279720 What I don't get is why this needs to be tied to making the home dir a LUKS container. Like why can&#
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by mason55 7y ago
> I put my vegetables and most fruits in the fridge too (bananas being my usual exception, since they're so underripe when I buy them) A few things will retain better quality being left out - Apples will get mealy in the fridge -
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by mason55 7y ago
Last time I was reading about this I also saw that refrigerating eggs that still had the cuticle could draw the cuticle through the shell which would also pull in the bacteria and other stuff that had been trapped. No idea if that part is t
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by mason55 7y ago
There are some differences. Number one, the US has basically declared economic war on Venezuela. The government is preventing anyone from coming to the US to do anything to control Citgo. Notice that the Citgo situation still depended on
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by mason55 7y ago
Curious what you recommend instead of Spark.
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by mason55 7y ago
It's funny to think about but the reality is that it's better than a lot of other options. - The page has automatic history & merge conflict resolution - There's built-in role-based security to control both visibility and
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by mason55 7y ago
Yeah, SFTP + CSV file is still the standard for enterprise software. The problem is that these kinds of things have to be built to the lowest common denominator, which is usually the customer anyway. The customer in enterprise software is
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by mason55 7y ago
> The only reason Uber was successful was because of that attitude. Where it failed was growing up. Which, by the way, is not a weird thing. Different stages of a company lifecycle require different types of leadership.
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by mason55 7y ago
I mean, it likely doesn't hurt anything. I'm sure the underwriters (JPM etc.) have spoken to their institutional clients and no one has said "getting rid of Adam will make my valuation go down." So you get rid of Adam (
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by mason55 7y ago
Spotify uses peoples manual playlists to drive some recommendations. If two songs are on a playlist together they’re probably similar. In the same way, if a song isn’t on any playlists, like you’d expect a skit not to be, then they don’t r
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by mason55 7y ago
> but for the length of journey they're good for, why not just walk? I use scooters occasionally and there is a sweet spot in the 30-60 minute walk range. A 30 minute walk turns into a ~6 minute scooter ride (assuming 3mph walkin
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by mason55 7y ago
Uber's argument is that the core of their business is the technology which allows them to act as a two-sided marketplace and logistics company, connecting and routing physical goods and people. Connecting riders and drivers is one thin
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by mason55 7y ago
If you make it attractive enough I can see people doing it. Use synergy/vertical integration/economies of scale to give people discounts and make their lives more convenient and they'll be willing to give up a lot in terms o
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by mason55 7y ago
Cool, thanks for being responsive!
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by mason55 7y ago
I wish levels.fyi did a better job with locations. You can filter individual salaries by location but it doesn't seem like you can do anything else by location (e.g. filtering the charts or the ranges or anything else). Even with th
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by mason55 7y ago
My guess is that initially they focused on a market that was underserved by tech (short-term real estate). That by itself is probably enough to get some initial funding. Then you show that you're actually executing, at least as far as
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by mason55 7y ago
Your case (LTV > COGS + CAC) is accounted for in a standard DCF model. If you're planning to be cash flow negative for 30 years because of R&D costs then that's fine but you better have a model where 30 years from now you&
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by mason55 7y ago
I think that your argument is with the part about a company being worth $0 if it's not cashflow positive? In theory that's the case but obviously it depends on a lot of factors, and if we're talking about software startups th
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by mason55 7y ago
You can always unmount and mount the SD card between writing and verifying. The unmount should force the kernel to truly flush everything and do the physical write.
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by mason55 7y ago
Really good article about countertenor (both history and a current star) from last month in the New Yorker[0] [0] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/22/a-millennial-c...
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by mason55 7y ago
The only thing it was missing was someone saying “can everyone please go on mute”
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by mason55 7y ago
I’m in the same boat. And also in the middle of a business trip with my laptop. Hopefully I don’t have any problems on the way home because I have no idea what I will do.
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by mason55 7y ago
You’ve created $3 in value and the person who sells it created $2 in value. Maybe they’re managing the logistics of shipping the Foo or the storefront where a customer finds it. If you can create it and sell it for $5 yourself then you’d d
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by mason55 7y ago
Well, for what it’s worth, if you purchase an exploit and use it to hack phones and then trade on the info you steal, I don’t think there would be any insider trading charges involved. Lots and lots of other charges but if no insider is giv
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by mason55 7y ago
MMT would suggest that the government prints money and then adjusts taxes to control inflation. So you have a bunch of new people move, they start collecting UBI, the government prints money to fund the new liabilities, the newly-immigrated
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by mason55 7y ago
The headline should say “Arduino-compatible boards” but otherwise it’s all applicable. There are plenty of Arduino-compatible Cortex M0 and M4 boards out there.
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by mason55 7y ago
As part of the settlement you can charge for your hourly time that you had to spend figuring out credit monitoring
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by mason55 7y ago
> That page that got pushed to swap might be better used for serving disk cache, for example. > If you don't have enough RAM (even for spikes), a preemptive push when things aren't busy might mean that when the do become
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by mason55 7y ago
Sure, I agree with that 100%. I guess if you had a scenario where you were operating near your limits and something happened that caused one or a few hosts to start swapping, and because they were up the LB kept sending them traffic instea

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