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> Then, there's the Houston bus system ca. mid 2000's, where the bus might leave several minutes early or several minutes late. Yes, only Houston has this problem, not almost every single bus system in the world.
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Not sure where you are, but people line up here. For buses, people will often form one orderly line, because there is only one entry. On trams and trains, people will stand next to the doors and move to the side to let people off. I have se
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Of course not. Most people would not. I wouldn't spend that much no matter how much I had.
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> This says a lot about our hero worship tendencies. Does it? Or does it say more about its value as being incredibly rare, and one of only a few Leonardi paintings. You understanding the value of scarcity right?
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He has the original $1m to buy a house.
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I have no idea how what you are saying related to compressing images before they are sent?
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> People die in huge numbers in very violent automobile accidents. For young people in the US (15–35), the leading causes of death are car accidents and gunshots (homicide, suicide, accidents). Right. But nobody is talking about reducing
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Are you serious? It is the same reason people fear terrorist attacks when a million people are killed by cars every single year but everyone still drives.
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> That's bad for developers, but good for consumers. It is bad for consumers as well, since you only have so much time.
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That is a bit ridiculous. It shows everyone who the project is tracking, and how inline with reality estimates are. I am not sure why you guys find it so hard to comprehend why that is useful?
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> This is one reason why most interviewing is a subjective clusterfuck (not just software, I suspect). This is the thing, all OTHER interviewing doesn't do this, they do it by talking to the candidates. Damn, I am going to get out o
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Unless it goes down, and even then they may never know. A lot of people don't get hourly updates on their traffic, or even ever check their logs, or know they have logs.
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Except they didn't back up, the bus hit the truck on its side. So the truck may have pulled out too quickly without care, but the bus should have picked it up. https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/8/16626224&
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> so I doled out $3,000 to hire a lawyer to oversee my incorporation. He later told me that I could have done it myself online for a couple hundred bucks. This guy is so raw that he is even missing basic stuff. > We can barely afford
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> There's limited evidence available that it's foreign buyers primarily responsible for our high house prices :/ It doesn't matter if it is the primary cause, it is one of the causes. And it is the one to change that
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Later it does talk about credit card transations. I am not sure why they are so complicated, but there you go.
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So you are admitting you are bad about making decisions about people? Luckily you have something empirical because you are no good at judging someone. Thanks for admitting that, the first step is accepting you are no good at evaluating peop
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> it has never prevented me from distinguishing between right and wrong. You saying that is meaningless.
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Well sure, if you mean that by antitrust Microsoft wasn't able to force their tech on everyone. Microsoft wanted everyone running windows, programming in .net, using IE and activex. And they would do anything to get that to happen, inc
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Do you not have a modern car, with their many buttons on the steering wheel?
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Hopefully there isn't so many damn roads and highway, something that Toronto doesn't need more of.
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I used Microsoft OS from MS-Dos v3.3 right up until they launched Vista. I have to go back every now and again for work, and it is still horrible for me. The current work machine I have requires a reboot sometimes 3 times a day for updates.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-41635906
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You hire business people, project managers, scrum masters, this is what you get. No matter how much work there is, how many of them there is, they will always manage to fill up there time with meetings. I am pretty sure it there metric for
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Exactly, a company should only do one thing, and just stick to it. Never try to expand. That worked for Apple and Microsoft and Google and Amazon.
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The fact that almost no one wants it?
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Yes, you end up attracting different sorts of people. What does that prove?
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At least trucks are carrying something we all need, unlike cars.
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What is the deal with that camera work, hey guys, try focusing on the person talking.
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And other people also said that it has to be as good as google maps now. And it has gotten better. Still not google maps good.
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